Is Your Overhead Commercial Door for Industry Up to the Required Speed?

Managing an industrial unit will soon make you realize the significance of saving time, money and energy in your facility. The commercial overhead doors, which you use on a daily basis gives you the opportunity to improve both the work quality and productivity in your unit.

An often-unheeded aspect of overhead door functioning is its SPEED at which the door opens and shut. Looking at improving this performance aspect? The first and foremost thing to eye on should be – whether your facility has a standard commercial overhead door or a high speed commercial overhead door. On an average, a standard commercial overhead door closes at 6” per second, while the high-speed overhead doors can offer an average opening or closing speed of 18” per second. Then there are many other high-speed overhead doors that offer the speed of up to 96” per second, which obviously saves time during every open and close cycle, providing substantial benefits to managers and to their industrial operations.

Let’s compare the speed of various overhead doors available in the market place:

			Time Saved Per Day		Time Saved Per Month		Time Saved Per Year
Door Types	Standard Speed	Time Taken to Complete One open/close Cycle	Low Cycle	High Cycle	Low Cycle	High Cycle	Low Cycle	High Cycle
Standard Commercial Doors	6 inches per second	40 secs	-	-	-	-	-	-
High-Speed Commercial Overhead Doors	18 inches per second	13.3 sec	1 min 47 sec	3 min 33 sec	35 min 33 sec	1 hr 11 min 7 sec	7 hr 6 min 40 sec	14 hr 13 min 20 sec
High-Performance, High-Speed Overhead Doors	96 inches per second	2.5 sec	2 min 30 sec	5 min	50 min	1 hr 40 min	10 hr	20 hr

• The comparison here assumes that a door undergoes 4-8 operation cycles (open/close) per week, 8—160 cycles every month and about 960-1920 cycles per year.

• The comparison assumes a door height of 10 feet.

Why does speed matter in an Overhead door?

Many people do not realize the importance of speed in an overhead door, to them, a matter of few seconds (more or less) in one-time open/close cycle seems unimportant. However, these few seconds becomes minutes and hours when added in a work day, week and finally in a year, then the difference turns out to be significant.

Having a commercial door with low open/close speed wastes energy (allowing cooled or heated air to outflow), wastes time (that can be utilized to increase productivity) and finally, wastes money (result of other two factors). So, it’s better to invest upfront in a commercial door for industry with high open/close speed, which will save on facility resources over time.

 Features of High-Speed Commercial Overhead Doors:

a) Huge range available for open/close speed (96” per second).

b) The Direct drive motor leads to the smooth operation and require minimal maintenance.

c) Self-repairs can be made upon impact from machines or goods .

Saving Is Earning

Who-so-ever said ‘slow and steady wins the race’ didn’t own an industrial unit. So, its time you choose a high-speed overhead commercial door for industry and win savings, win productivity and win time back.