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Industrial Estimation
Industrial Estimation
2025 Warehouse Equipment Pricing Guide - Your Free Budget Planning Tool
Finally, real numbers for warehouse equipment budgeting. No more calling 10 vendors for ballpark quotes or getting surprised by project costs 6 months in.
This guide gives you instant pricing for:
Pallet racking ($50-500 per position based on type)
Forklifts ($15,000-55,000 new, by capacity and fuel type)
Conveyor systems (per foot pricing)
Complete warehouse equipment from A-Z
Why manufacturers and warehouse managers use this guide:
Build accurate project budgets before calling vendors
Compare equipment options with actual price ranges
Avoid the "sticker shock" meeting with suppliers
Know when a quote is reasonable vs. inflated
Updated for 2025 with post-inflation pricing. Includes both low and high ranges so you can estimate based on your specific needs - small quantity custom work vs. large standard installations.
Perfect for:
CapEx budget planning
Project feasibility studies
Comparing vendor quotes
Expansion cost estimates
No email required. No sales pitch. Just the numbers you need to plan your warehouse projects.
Facilities Rules of Thumb and Estimating Benchmarks
Facilities Rules of Thumb and Estimating Benchmarks
Cost Estimating and Tricks of the Trade - A Practical Approach - PDF
Kolmetz Handbook of Process Equipment Design - General Process Plant Cost Estimating - PDF
rules-of-thumb-werc.pdfThe Gross & Associates Rules of Thumb brochure was a handy wealth of information long before the Googles and the Chats and the GPT's took over everything.
This Rules of Thumb brochure was published in 2010 after TranSystems acquired Gross & Associates in 2008. At the time they were proud to continue the tradition, possibly because it was already written and still fairly up-to-date. I don't know that they've published another in the past 15 years. If you find a more recent version, send it to me! I tried my hand at a new one. Industrial Rules of Thumb 2025The costing estimates are no longer quite applicable except as a frame of reference and order of magnitude, but the handbook provides a relevant glimpse into production layout & lighting recommendations, square footage norms, forklift aisles, pallet & racking calculations, and a ton of still-relevant and useful industrial insights.
*Update:
NEW!
2025-2026 Rules of Thumb with updated pricing estimates and project scope considerations. Industrial Equipment and Factory Process Rules of Thumb for estimating. Useful for facility upgrades and new production areas. Includes handling equipment, shelving, pick to light, put to light, dock leveling, and so much more.
2025-2026 Rules of Thumb with updated pricing estimates and project scope considerations. Industrial Equipment and Factory Process Rules of Thumb for estimating. Useful for facility upgrades and new production areas. Includes handling equipment, shelving, pick to light, put to light, dock leveling, and so much more.
37 pages, a wealth of knowledge and time savings for rough planning and ideation.
37 pages, a wealth of knowledge and time savings for rough planning and ideation.
Print yourself a copy and use it to fact check your research assistant.. AI or not.
Standing Workstation Height
Standing Workstation Height
Optimal height varies based on task type
Height SHOULD be adjustable to accommodate stature differences and to prevent Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD).
UWAT-2022-05 Standing Work Height Poster FINAL updated 16apr24.pdfProcess Control Charts
Process Control Charts
SPC (Stastical Process Control) isn't as nerdy or "in the weeds" as it sounds. And it's pretty simple to begin.
Related blog post:
This quote from a $5 book might have just changed your life.
It's only $5 on AbeBooks, the best place to buy used books online.If nothing else check out the mind-bending examples of how well-meaning managers inadvertently manipulated their actions to satisfy metrics, usually to show progress or improvement, much to the detriment of their businesses.
I'll take the OVER if we're betting:
"This still happens in 95% of companies and almost everybody is blind to the underlying facts."
They Wrote the Book on Throughput
They Wrote the Book on Throughput
Your principal business concern should not be with costs or labor.
The battle is Throughput.
Add the value and put it on a truck.
Practically there is no reason why something should be on your floor for 8 weeks, let alone 8 months. Quoting 50 weeks lead time and missing by 2.5 months weeks isn't a sign that you're a great salesman with a healthy backlog; it's a sign that you have a momentary monopoly in your sector, a choke point instead of a factory, and hey, everybody's just used to drowning in WIP because that's the way it's been ever since ___________ . Whatever!
If you're a high-mix, low-volume shop, Rajan Suri explains: "It's About Time"
Honorable mention to Goldratt and The Goal, since it's pertinent to at least half of the environments I've come across.
The Goal: Another $5 book that could fix your factory.
It's only $5 on AbeBooks, the best place to buy used books online.Google Sites
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