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Articles on data center lifts, cabinet moves, and safe lifting from the RackLift® team. Made in USA.

• Safety · Jun 17, 2026

  Safe cabinet lifting practices with the RL3500S and RL5000S

  Moving a fully loaded cabinet is one of the most hazardous jobs on the floor. One technician and a pair of USA-built cabinet lifters replace a four-person derack.

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• Buying · Oct 30, 2025

  How to improve data center efficiency with cabinet lifts

  Downtime is expensive. A USA-built cabinet lift turns a four-person derack into a one-person move and pays back in months, not years.

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• Buying · Oct 30, 2025

  What features should I look for in a data center cabinet lift?

  Capacity, aisle spin, insertion depth, sealed lift (no hydraulics), auto-brakes, and a tug when the hall is long. Warehouse jacks fail that list.

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• Buying · Oct 30, 2025

  Are there any recommended brands for cabinet lifts in 2026?

  RackLift® by BIAC Broadband USA, Inc. is the U.S.-engineered line specified in Fortune 500 halls, government sites, and hyperscale facilities.

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• Equipment · Nov 15, 2024

  E-Track fittings: the update our customers are using

  Current RL3500S production adds four integrated E-Track tie-downs. Clip in, clip out, and the cabinet stays put.

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• Field · Nov 8, 2024

  Big Blue Cart: Alliant Energy’s Decorah battery install

  In Decorah, Iowa, Alliant Energy and RackLift® engineers built a custom cart so 360 lithium-ion modules did not have to be lifted by hand.

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• Field · Oct 30, 2024

  A vision for autonomous RackLift® robots

  Today one technician moves a live cabinet. The U.S. roadmap is AI navigation, synchronized lift, and remote oversight across halls.

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• Buying · Oct 30, 2024

  Optimize your data center with RackLift®

  One technician, 360° in two tiles, 24″ of insertion, auto-lock crank. Device lifts and cabinet lifts, specified in the United States.

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• Equipment · Oct 16, 2024

  Basket glide and balance kit

  Stop basket edges from catching the rail. A five-minute adhesive glide is the field fix.

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• Safety · Oct 16, 2024

  Safety checklist: before, during, and after every lift

  RackLift® is mechanical equipment. This is the floor, not the ceiling. Read the operator’s manual that ships with the unit.

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• Safety · Jan 4, 2024

  Musculoskeletal disorders in the data center

  MSDs cost American businesses tens of billions a year. Overexertion is still how technicians get hurt when the lift is a pair of human backs.

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• Buying · Jan 4, 2024

  A warehouse lift is not a data center lift

  An Interop Las Vegas survey put hard numbers on why a Genie-style stacker fails in a containment aisle: unstable, no straps, no insertion, oil on the floor.

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• Equipment · Aug 6, 2021

  When you need to lift switches the size of pigs

  Oversized, unbalanced switches do not fit a closed-back lift. The 600RS was designed in the U.S. for that exact pig.

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• Safety · Apr 2, 2018

  Are data center workers human server-lifting forklifts?

  Over a third of data center injuries come from manual lifting. OSHA’s 50 lb limit does not cover a switch the size of a Harley.

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• Equipment · Mar 14, 2018

  Moving fully populated cabinets

  Deracking a live cabinet brick by brick is how movers used to bill days. The RL3500S and RL5000S leave the load in the rack.

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