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Material Handling: Material Handling Involves Short-Distance Movement Within The Confines of A Building or

Material handling involves the short-distance movement, storage, and control of materials within buildings and between transportation. It uses manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment. The primary objective is to reduce production costs by decreasing cycle time, delays, damage, and promoting safety, quality, and productivity. Material handling principles provide guidelines for effective material flow and are applied using activities like straight-line movement and gravity-based handling.

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Material Handling: Material Handling Involves Short-Distance Movement Within The Confines of A Building or

Material handling involves the short-distance movement, storage, and control of materials within buildings and between transportation. It uses manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment. The primary objective is to reduce production costs by decreasing cycle time, delays, damage, and promoting safety, quality, and productivity. Material handling principles provide guidelines for effective material flow and are applied using activities like straight-line movement and gravity-based handling.

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Material handling

Material handling involves short-distance movement within the confines of a building or


between a building and a transportation vehicle. It uses a wide range of manual, semi-
automated, and automated equipment and includes consideration of the protection, storage, and
control of materials throughout their manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption, and
disposal. Material handling can be used to create time and place utility through the handling,
storage, and control of material, as distinct from manufacturing, which creates form utility by
Materials handling is the
changing the shape, form, and makeup of material.
science and art both involving the moving, packing and storing of
substance in any form, and includes the preparation, placing and
positioning the material to facilitate their movement or storage.

Materials handling occurs whenever a material is moved may be in


a manufacturing, distribution (warehouse), or office environment.
Materials handling also occur during preparation for shipment,
transportation may be by sea, air or land, and moving material in
and out of carriers.

OBJECTIVES OF MATERIAL HANDLING

The primary objective of a material handling system is to reduce the unit cost of production. The other
subordinate objectives are:

1. Reduce manufacturing cycle time


2. Reduce delays, and damage
3. Promote safety and improve working conditions
4. Maintain or improve product quality
5. Promote productivity

i. Material should flow in a straight line


ii. Material should move as short a distance as possible
iii. Use gravity
iv. Move more material at one time
v. Automate material handling

6. Promote increased use of facilities

i. Promote the use of building cube


ii. Purchase versatile equipment
iii. Develop a preventive maintenance program
iv. Maximize the equipment utilization etc.

7. Reduce tare weight

8. Control inventory
Principles of Materials Handling:
Since it is not possible to acquire experience by a materials handling
engineer himself on all types of problems, he has to take advantage
of others’ experience. On the basis of-experience gained by himself
and also by others he should try to solve the handling problems.

On the basis of these experiences facts, systematic approach and


other ideas, certain principles have been developed. These
principles have been implemented, practiced and perfected during
several years. These principles of material handling are useful in all
the fields may it be engineering, office or elsewhere.

The word ‘principle’ can be defined as a prescribed guide to


accepted procedures established through past practice and is
accepted as authoritative by practitioners, and without which a
system would be less effective. Therefore, when these principles of
materials handling are applied by materials handling engineer, even
if he is not much experienced, he can find correct solution faster.

These principles are general guides, and can be put to use by means
of different activities. In the table below, principles of materials
handling are given, and against each of them activities necessary for
implementing the principle are indicated.

Material Handling Guideline:

Material handling is the movement, protection, storage and control of materials and products
throughout manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption and disposal. As a process,
material handling incorporates a wide range of manual, semi-automated andautomated equipment
and systems that support logistics and make the supply chain work. Their application helps with:

 Forecasting
 Resource allocation
 Production planning
 Flow and process management
 Inventory management and control
 Customer delivery
 After-sales support and service
A company’s material handling system and processes are put in place to improve customer service,
reduce inventory, shorten delivery time, and lower overall handling costs in manufacturing,
distribution and transportation.
Materials Handling Equipment
Material handling equipment is any tool used to aid in the movement, protection,
storage, and control of materials and products. The equipment used to do so can be
broken down into four main categories. Each category has a wide variety of useful
equipment that makes safely moving heavy materials or large volumes of materials
easier.
Storage and Handling Equipment
The title of this equipment category is pretty self-explanatory. Storage equipment is
used to hold materials while they wait to be transported from the manufacturer or
wholesaler to their final destination. Having the right storage equipment can increase
efficiency on the production floor and maximize space utilization- two very important
factors in any production environment.

Examples of storage and handling equipment include:


• Racks: such as pallet racks, drive-through or drive-in racks, push-back racks, and
sliding racks
• Stacking frames: these are interlocking units that enable stacking of a load so
crushing doesn’t occur
• Shelves
• Bins and drawers
Conveyor systems: Automated conveyor systems carry heavy materials to specified
destinations using belts, flexible chain, or live rollers. It is a highly efficient equipment
to move large volumes of material quickly.
• Robotic delivery systems– These automated systems are ideal for moving products
on an assembly line or transporting goods throughout a plant or warehouse.
• Automatic guided vehicles– These vehicles are mobile robots that follow specific
markers or wires in the floor to move large materials around a manufacturing facility
or warehouse. Vision, magnets, or lasers can also be used as methods for AGV
navigation.
Industrial Trucks
Powered industrial trucks, such as forklifts, are used to move large materials or large
quantities of materials around the manufacturing floor. They are also utilized to
efficiently load (or unload) heavy objects onto delivery trucks. Industrial trucks are
very useful when there is insufficient flow volume to justify the implementation of a
conveyor system. Examples of industrial trucks include:

• Hand trucks– Also known as a dolly, or box cart. Hand trucks are l-shaped box-
moving handcarts with handles at one end, wheels at the base, and a ledge to set
objects on.
• Pallet jacks– These are tools are the most basic form of a forklift and used to lift
and move pallets within a warehouse.
• Pallet trucks– Manual operated or powered industrial forklifts.
• Walkie stackers– A pedestrian walk-behind stacker with a mast for lifting pallets to
heights.
• Platform trucks– These are similar to a two wheeled dolly, but with an extended
deck.
• Order picker– An electric lift truck specifically designed for filling individual
customer orders. This requires piece-part picking rather than selecting full pallets or
unit loads.
• Sideloader– Automated tool similar to a fork lift that loads and unloads from the side
of the machine rather than the front.
• Automatic guided vehicles

Bulk Material Handling Equipment


Equipment that deals with bulk handling aids in the control and transportation of
large volumes of material either in bulk or loose form. In general the equipment is
used to move loose parts from one area of the production floor to another. Drums
and hoppers can also be used to funnel loose items so they can be easily
manipulated or packaged. Bulk Material Handling Systems can also utilize conveyor
belts for horizontal transportation and elevators for vertical transportation. Examples
of bulk material handling equipment are:

• Conveyor belts
• Stackers– Similar to forklifts, stackers help to lift and stack heavy loads on the dock
or in the warehouse.
• Reclaimers– These are large machines used to recover bulk materials from a
stockpile.
• Bucket elevators– Also known as a grain leg. These elevators haul flowable bulk
materials vertically.
• Grain elevators– This type of equipment is used to store and move grain and other
similar materials throughout a production pathway.

System safety matting:

Production and warehousing facilities install safety mats in order to protect floors, trap dirt and
water, as well as preventing slip-and-fall accidents.
To prevent tripping hazards, and to draw attention to the fact a mat is present, many use either
safety beveled edges, yellow safety borders, or both.
Safety floor mats with diamond-plate surfaces help prevent slip-and-fall accidents by providing
better traction in slippery areas. In areas with greater accumulation of water or grease, a non-slip
safety drainage mat allows water and debris to channel through the drainage holes and flow
under the mat.
Non-conductive safety mats are used to insulate and protect workers from shocks created by
high-voltage equipment. These shocks could be deadly.
A special group of safety mats has been designed to shut down machines or sundry equipment
when stepped on. These safety mats are often used in loading docks, in areas where welding
occurs, in emergency shower stations, and in cleanroom environments.
It is also necessary to make sure that mats will not slip on slippery surfaces.

Industrial Safety Equipment


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material storage system:

Storage is an essential function in an automation system. The material


storage system allows materials to be stocked for a specified period of time,
before they are re-introduced, or are introduced for the first time, into the
automation system.The sorts of stored material are related to the product
(e.g. raw materials,purchased parts, work-in-process, finished products,
and scrap and rework), the process (e.g. process refuse, such as process
waste products; and tooling), and the overall support functions in the
factory (e.g. maintenance spare parts, office supplies, and plant records).
Each of these material types is typically stored under different conditions
and controls.
Conventional and Automated Storage Systems
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