Type

Suspension

Sleeves

Toast Rack

/Steel Dividers

File Boxes

T-Glide

Working space between dividers.

900mm

85-95mm

95mm or 125mm

Shelf length

900mm to 5000mm

Reorganisation  when shelf or box is full

Add new sleeve and then do wave movement shift.

Files must be removed in a wave action.  To replace a file in the middle you must work from the end backwards.

Insert or delete a new box and slide boxes along shelves in wave motion.

Insert a new rail and slide files along the length of the rail

Degree of Difficulty

Extremely high

High

Medium-Low

Low

Advantages

The sleeve tab can act as a index.  You know the file exists if it is out being used.  Expensive

Stops files completely falling over.

Inexpensive.

Has the advantage over the toast rack in that discrete boxes can be removed from the shelf.

Holds files independently from a central rail. Available as files, pockets, bulk file boxes

Colour coding   effectiveness

Nil

Only when full, and the files are standing upright.

Always

Disadvantages

The suspension sleeves takes up 20-30% of the shelf space by itself.  Suspension sleeve must be parallel to work.

File sagging and eventually the colour-coding labels fail to give a colour bar that highlights misfiling.

When to use 

Never

Inactive uniform thickness files and  little file movement.

Low to medium activity filing.

Inactive through to very active..

Haxton Rating