Half a second It is the last hour of a long shift. A forklift driver is running late with a pallet, the high-speed door ahead is already closing, and he decides he can make it. He has done this route a thousand times. Today he misjudges it by half a second. Every safety manager knows a version of this story. We respond to it the way industry always has: more training, more signs, stricter rules. All of those matter. None of it removes the half second. People get tired. They get distracted,...

In any busy warehouse or production hall, a forklift will eventually hit a door. The question is not whether it happens, but what it costs you when it does. Most facility managers know the repair invoice. Far fewer have counted everything that follows it: the hours a doorway stands open, the heat that escapes, the workarounds on the shop floor and the engineer you wait for. This article looks at that full bill, and at how Luciddoor's two self-repairing doors, the SR120 and the SR140, are...

Walk into many logistics centres, food plants and production halls and you'll see the same setup at the loading openings: an insulated roller shutter or sectional door on the outside, and a high-speed door just behind it. The logic seems simple. The roller shutter provides insulation and security at night, while the high-speed door handles the busy daytime traffic. It works, but it is a compromise. Two doors are doing the job of one, and the facility pays for it every day in cost, space,...