Yale® offers a wide range of aftermarket solutions options for its lift trucks, allowing you to tailor your fleet to your specific requirements. Whether you need spare parts, cabin options, operator assist features, telemetry and battery management systems or even convert your trucks from Lead-Acid to Lithium-Ion batteries, Yale has you covered.
Here are some examples of how Yale aftermarket parts and solutions can help you achieve flexibility in your warehouse or distribution centre.
1. Reliable Spare Parts supply
One of the most important aspects of maintaining your reliable fleet is having access to high-quality spare parts. Yale has a global network of authorised dealers who can provide you with genuine Yale parts that are designed and tested to meet the highest standards of performance.
Yale also offers fast and efficient delivery of spare parts, helping you to minimise downtime and maximise productivity. With Yale parts, you can feel confident that your lift trucks will operate at an optimal level for longer.
2. Periodic Maintenance Kits & Maintenance Plans
In the rapidly evolving landscape of warehouse operations, the significance of adaptable aftermarket solutions cannot be understated. Periodic Maintenance (PM) kits are part of our core offerings. These are compiled strictly according to the periodic maintenance schedule in the Service Manuals and may include some additional small hardware that is commonly replaced with the PM parts. PM Kits are an efficient way to supply the parts required to conduct the appropriate service, to minimise cost of ownership and to avoid costly breakdowns.
While we provide these comprehensive kits, our dealers take it a step further by offering customizable maintenance plans, ensuring equipment longevity and peak performance.
3. Special features and Operator Assist options
Operator assist options can help warehouse and lift truck operators perform their tasks in specific applications. Yale offers operator assist options for its equipment as an aftermarket solution through pedestrian detection camera systems and through a range of cameras, sensors and monitoring systems. You’ll also find available a range of pedestrian awareness lights such as the Red/Blue Line, the Red/Blue Spotlights and the Dynamic Pedestrian Awareness Light, which can project a moving shape onto the floor behind the lift truck, alerting pedestrians to its presence and direction. These options support operator control, accuracy, awareness, and efficiency, helping to avoid collisions and damage.
Yale lift trucks and warehouse equipment also offer options such as fork-mounted cameras, load overload detection systems, sound and white noise reverse alarm options, beacon lights, backup alarms, horns and more. This enables warehouses to choose the solutions that best support their operators and operations.
4. Telemetry systems
Yale Vision is a telemetry system which captures and reports data about the status and usage of your warehouse fleet. It provides real-time information on key performance indicators, such as location, utilisation, maintenance, costs, and operator behaviour.
Telemetry systems can help you optimise your fleet management, equipment maintenance, and operator training. For example, Yale Vision can alert you of faults or service needs of your lift trucks, allowing you to schedule preventative maintenance and avoid breakdowns.
5. Attachments: Tailoring Your Forklift for Every Task
In the dynamic world of material handling, customising your forklifts with the right attachments is key to efficiency and versatility. Our range extends beyond the readily available side-shifters and fork-positioners on our online platform, encompassing a diverse array of options. Whether it's multi-pallet handlers for the beverage industry, heavy-duty fork positioners for the automotive parts distribution industry, or carton and appliance clamps and multiple pallet handlers for the retail and warehousing industries, we have the attachments to suit your aftersales-specific requirements. Whatever your industry, attachment solutions are designed to enhance the functionality and productivity of your fleet.
Alongside these, we offer a wide range of forks, including those designed for specialized applications such as reach-forks, weighing fork scales and camera fork systems ensuring that your forklifts are always equipped to handle the task at hand efficiently.
6. Battery Solutions: Lead Acid & Lithium-Ion Options
Recognising the global shift towards sustainable energy solutions, we have expanded our battery offerings. Whether it's the tried-and-tested lead acid batteries or the more advanced lithium-ion options, we've got you covered. Moreover, our chargers come with a variety of AC plug options to cater to different regional requirements. For those looking to make a green switch, we provide retrofit kits to convert from lead acid to lithium-ion technology seamlessly.
7. Cabin options
Depending on your work environment, you may need different cabin options to protect your operators from harsh weather conditions, noise, dust, or other hazards. Yale offers a range of cab individual kits for its lift trucks and warehouse equipment aiming to cover your different needs and scenarios. Our weather-proof cab options include PVC and steel doors, top panels with clear view overhead guards, front and rear glass panels with wipers and heaters and more.
These options may help to improve operator comfort and visibility, which may have a positive impact on efficiency. For example, a heated cabin may reduce operator fatigue in cold temperatures, while a clear view guard may enhance upward visibility in high lift applications.
8. Enhance the operator experience
Operator comfort can influence efficiency, which is why it’s vital that warehouses consider the overall operator experience. Yale offers solutions to support operators for its lift trucks and warehouse equipment. These include options like operator fans, cabin heating options, air-ride suspension seats, seat heating, armrests and adjustable lumber support, mountings, scanner gun holders, tablet and smartphone cradles, cup and bottle holders, USB adapters, tool cases and more.
9. Tyre options
Tyre options are important for matching your trucks to the specific floor or ground conditions in your application. Yale offers various tyre options on different equipment series, such as pneumatic tyres, cushion tyres, solid tyres, and non-marking tyres.
Tyre options can influence the traction, stability, and durability of your lift trucks. For example, pneumatic tyres offer good grip and shock absorption for rough terrain, while cushion tyres offer lower rolling resistance and higher load capacity for smooth surfaces.
10. Refurbishment Programmes: Breathing New Life into Equipment
In our constant pursuit of sustainability and maximizing the value of equipment, our refurbishment programmes stand out as a testament to our commitment. Warehouses and distribution centres often see machinery retire before its potential is fully realised. Our programmes aim to rejuvenate this equipment, offering a cost-effective solution to both enhance performance and extend its life span. This not only impacts the bottom line positively but also supports environmentally conscious operations by reducing waste and promoting asset reuse. If this sounds like an avenue you'd like to explore, we highly recommend reaching out to your local dealer. They're equipped with all the details and can guide you on how best to benefit from our refurbishment options.
11. Fleet Services for Key Accounts
Fleet Management is the total management of a client’s material handling fleet, tailored to meet their goals and potentially resulting in cost reduction and continuous improvement in the areas of acquisition, service, & use.
This is accomplished using established processes combined with technologies that identify short & long-term tangible cost savings opportunities through industry expertise, delivered through frequent reviews and regular recommendations.
12. Exclusive Warehouse Planning Tools
While the aftermarket might not directly offer warehousing layout tools, our dealers have exclusive access to state-of-the-art warehouse planning tools through our portal. These tools assist in devising the most efficient warehouse layouts, ensuring that our equipment and your operations work hand in hand for maximum productivity.
Talk to your local dealer
As you can see, Yale offers several aftermarket solutions and options to help support your dynamic warehouse or distribution centre and evolve your fleet as your business changes.
By choosing the right options for your lift trucks, you can adapt to different tasks, environments, and loads, while also providing comfort and efficiency for your operators.
If you want to learn more about the aftermarket options available, use our Yale dealer finder to locate and contact your local authorised dealer.
