Material Handling 1

MATERIAL
HANDLING
(INTRODUCTION,CONCEPT,OBJECTIVES,IMPORTA
NCE & PRINCIPLES)
PRESENTING BY GROUP- 2
SIDDHESH SAWANT -20
ANKIT BHAGAT - 02
VISHAL YADAV -27
SAHIL MHATRE -11
PRANAY RAHATE -18
HARSHAL GHUDE -05
INTRODUCTION
• DEFINATION:
Material handling is the art and science of moving, storing,
protecting and controlling of the product.
• MEANING:
Material handling is a necessary and significant component
of any productive activity. It is something that goes on in
every plant all the time. Material handing is the providing
the Right amount of Right material, in the Right place, at
the Right time in the Right position and for the Right cost,
by using Right method.It is simply picking up, moving and
laying down of material through manufacturer. It applies to
the movement of a raw material, parts in process, finished
goods, packaging material and disposal of scrap.
There is a variety of manual, semi-automated and automated
material handling equipment and technologies available to
aid in the movement, protection, storage and control of
materials and products throughout manufacturing,
distribution, consumption and disposal.
•Automated storage and retrieval systems
•Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs)
•Automatic identification and data collection
•Conveyors
•Dock equipment
•Hoisting equipment
•Industrial robots
•Integrated material handling systems
•Item order fulfillment systems
•Lift trucks
•Monorails and workstation cranes
•Overhead cranes
•Packaging
•Storage
MANUAL HANDLING
■ Manual handling refers to the use of a worker’s hands to
move individual containers by lifting, lowering, filling,
emptying, or carrying them. It can expose workers to
physical conditions that can lead to injuries that
represent a large percentage of the over half a million
cases of musculoskeletal disorders reported in the U.S.
each year, and often involve strains and sprains to the
lower back, shoulders, and upper limbs.
AUTOMATED HANDLING
• Whenever technically and economically feasible, equipment
can be used to reduce and sometimes replace the need to
manually handle material. Most existing material handling
equipment is only semi-automated because a human operator
is needed for tasks like loading/unloading and driving that are
difficult and/or too costly to fully automate. However, ongoing
advances in sensing, machine intelligence, and robotics have
made it possible to fully automate an increasing number of
handling tasks.
OBJECTIVES
• Therefore main objective of materials handling is to
reduce product cost the one overall goal. Materials
handling equipment is not production machinery, but is
auxiliary equipment that improves the flow of material
which in turn reduces stoppages in production machines
and thus increases their production.
• 1. Reduction in cost.
• 2. Increase in capacity.
• 3. Improved safety and working conditions.
• 4. Improved customer service.
• 5. promote productivity.
1. Reduction in Cost:
• Reduction in total cost of production can be achieved by either
reducing materials handling or by improved handling procedure or
both.
• The objective of reduction in cost of production through
improved materials handling can be achieved by:
• (a) Reducing material handling labour.
• (b) Material handling work should not be assigned to skilled or
semi-skilled labour.
• (c) Reducing indirect labour expenses on activities connected with
storage, inspection, quality control, repair, tool room, shipping etc.
• (d) Reducing damage of materials during handling.
• (e) Better utilisation of space.
• (f) Reducing in process storage.
• (g) Increasing productivity.
• (h) Reducing expenditure on packaging and other protective devices.
• (i) Decreasing inventory.
2. Increase in Capacity:
• Improved materials handling system results in increase of capacity
by better utilisation of space.
• Improved handling system can increase the capacity in the
following ways:
• (a) By better utilisation of space:
• (b) By reducing travel space or excessive wastage of space:
• (c) By improving equipment utilisation:
• (d) By faster loading or unloading.
3. Improvement in Working Conditions:

• (a) Safety aspects.
• (b) Easy working.
• (c) Foolproof operation.
4. Improved Customer Service.

5. Promote productivity.
FUNCTIONS OF MATERIAL
HANDLING
• The basic function of material handling is to choose most
appropriate materials handling equipment which is safe
and can fulfill material handling requirements at the
minimum possible overall cost and to choose production
machinery and assist in plant layout so as to eliminate, as
far as possible, the need of materials handling. In general,
the functions of good materials handling system include:
• (a) Using the principles of centralization, unit load or
cartelization, aim at moving optimum number of pieces in
one unit.
• (b) Safe, standard, efficient, effective, appropriate, flexible
and proper sized materials handling equipments should
be selected.
(c) To employ mechanical aids in place of manual labour in
order to speed up the materials movement.
(d) To minimize the movement involved in a production
operation.
(e) Changes in sequence of production operations may be
suggested in order to minimize backtracking and duplicate
handling.
(f) Handling equipments’ arrangement should minimize
distance moved by products and at the same time handling
equipments should not interfere with the production line.
(g) To minimize the distances moved, by adopting shortest
routes.
(h) To design containers, packages, drums etc., to economise
handling and to reduce damage to the materials in transit.
(i) To utilize gravity for assisting materials movement
wherever possible.
Principle of material handling
1. Planning principle
2. System principle
3. Simplification principle
4. Material flow principle
5. Gravity principle
6. Unit size principle
7. Space utilization
8. Safety principle
9. Mechanization principle
10. Flexibility principle
11. Equipment selection principle
12. Standardization principle
13. Light weight principle
14. Motion principle
15. idle time principle
16. obsolescence principle
17. maintenance principle
18. control principle
19. capacity principle
20. performance principle
Material handling principles and equipment's
• All materials to be handled mechanically from the inbound

raw materials stage to the outgoing finished good stage.
• Heavy loads must be handled mechanically.
• Avoid mixing which require future sorting.
• Hot and hazardous material must be handled mechanically.
• Transfer material from one container to another should be

done mechanically.
Material handling principles and equipment's
 Materials are to be moved in a straight line to

the extent possible.
 Avoid floor contact of material is preferable,
pallets can be used for this purpose.
 Gravity feed must be taken into advantage
 Pick and place of materials within operation

and in transits should be infrequent.

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MATERIAL

3. Improvement in Working Conditions:

4. Improved Customer Service.

• All materials to be handled mechanically from the inbound

• Heavy loads must be handled mechanically.

• Avoid mixing which require future sorting.

• Hot and hazardous material must be handled mechanically.

• Transfer material from one container to another should be

 Materials are to be moved in a straight line to

 Pick and place of materials within operation

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