These are the pages we send people when a storage project is still at the question stage: what kind of cart, which shelving material, how big the supply room needs to be, how to lay out a sterile storage room. Each guide is written to be useful on its own, without a sales call, and each one ends in the same place — a short list of decisions to make with your own clinical and facilities leads. When you are ready to turn answers into a layout, the Healthcare Storage Design Center holds four free tools, and we review the output with you.
Buyer guides
Written for the person who has been handed a storage problem and has to make a recommendation.
Every guide below covers the same ground in the same order: what actually drives the decision, where the trade-offs are, what to measure before you specify anything, and which questions belong to your own team rather than to a supplier. None of them quote prices, and none of them tell you what a regulation, standard or accreditation requirement means.
How to Choose a Medical CartDrawer carts, utility carts, basket carts and case carts compared by what the cart has to do: top work surface, drawer depth, lock style, casters, and how it moves through your doors.
Healthcare Shelving Selection GuideWire vs stainless steel vs polymer for hospital storage — cleaning, loads, weight, wet areas, small-item control and where each material is the wrong answer.- Supply Room Sizing Guide — capacity planning arithmetic you can reproduce, plus the two tools that do it for you
- Sterile Storage Planning Guide — layout considerations to review with your own infection prevention and SPD leads before anything is specified
- Mobile Shelving Space Savings — the aisle arithmetic behind high-density storage, and when it does not pay
Free planning tools in the Design Center
The tools are the fastest way to turn a rough idea into something a planner can quote. They run in the browser, they do not ask for a sign-up, and they deliberately show no pricing — quantities and footprints only. Everything they produce is an estimate for discussion.
Send us the output and we check it against the room, the door widths, the loads and the products that are actually available, then quote the configuration. That review step is where estimates become specifications.
- High-Density Storage Calculator — compare stationary runs against mobile runs for your room width and work out the capacity difference
- Room Designer — sketch a storage room to scale, drop in runs and aisles, and see what fits
- Medical Cart Configurator — build up a cart from drawer, basket and accessory choices and produce a configuration list
- Shelving and Bin Configurator — lay out shelf levels and bin sizes for a bay and see the resulting item count
- Design Center overview — what each tool is for and how the review process works
How to use these resources on a real project
Where to go next
The cluster is organised two ways. Browse by product if you already know you need carts, shelving, cabinets, bins and containers or wall systems. Browse by department if the starting point is a room: central supply, sterile processing, operating rooms, nursing units and clean utility, imaging and outpatient clinics, pharmacy, the emergency department or plant operations.
- Healthcare storage FAQ — short answers on products, sizing, lead times, installation and the design process
- Quantum Medical storage — who makes the products we supply and how we work with them
- High-density storage — mobile shelving, sliding track and overhead track systems
Model it before you specify it
Four free tools, no pricing and no sign-up. Bring the output to us and we will check it against the room and quote the configuration.
Questions about these resources
Are the guides specific to Quantum Medical products?
Why is there no pricing on any of these pages?
Do the guides tell me what the regulations require?
Can I use the tool output as a specification?
What if my question is not covered?
Talk through a storage project
Send us a room, a drawing or a rough item list. We will tell you what we would look at first, and what we would need to quote it.