Find layouts with less forklift travel

Load your machines and flows, press one button, and compare up to five layouts: a full re-layout, an alternative, and quick wins that move only 10, 5 or 2 machines.

1. Your hall

Start with an example, import a DXF drawing, or type your machines into the table below.

“Save project” stores everything in one .hallroute.json file: machines, flows, zones, settings and the layouts you found. “Open project” loads it back.

Hall plan

Drag machines on the plan to place them. To take a machine off the plan, drop it below the hall.

Tip: copy rows from Excel (name, x, y, width, depth) and paste them into the table. Positions are machine centres, measured from the bottom-left corner of the hall. Leave them empty to plan a new hall.

Units

Hall width (m)

Hall length (m)

Gap between machines (m)

Default size (m)

Operator area depth (m)

Minimum passage for transport (m)

Plan a main aisle

Main aisle width (m)

Escape route limit (ASR A2.3)

Pallet space at the pick-up side (m)

Grid

Allow 90° rotation

Aisle widths from the vehicle and traffic (ASR A1.8)

Vehicle

Width with load (m)

Pedestrians use the same routes

Widths follow ASR A1.8: the vehicle or load width plus 0.5 m on each side, or 0.75 m where people walk the same route. Two-way routes need room for a second vehicle plus 0.4 m between them. Allow extra width at bends and crossings.

Time and money (optional): forklift hours, savings and payback

Cost per km driven

Cost to move one machine

Working weeks per year

Currency

Cost per forklift hour

Average travel speed (km/h)

Pick-up and set-down per move (min)

Count the empty trip back

Forklift hours are the distance driven (doubled if the forklift returns empty) divided by the speed, plus the time to pick up and set down each load. With a cost per forklift hour, savings come from the hours saved. Without it, they come from the cost per km. The cost to move a machine covers dismantling, transport, reconnection and downtime.

Usually 5–40 seconds. Halls with over 100 machines take 1–2 minutes.

2. Compare layouts

Transport effort = moves per week × travel distance, in kilometres per week. Click a layout to see what changes.

Machine Moved Fixed Flow, width = moves Pick-up and drop-off side Operator area Pallet space Flows Movement arrows

Drag a machine on the map to adjust the layout by hand, or double-click it to rotate. The numbers update immediately.

What moves

Machine	From x	From y	To x	To y

How we count: distances follow real forklift routes around machines, only through passages at least as wide as set above. Machines keep the set gap from each other and from the walls.