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Material Handling System

Material handling involves the movement, storage, and control of materials throughout the supply chain from manufacturing to disposal. It uses a variety of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment like conveyors, lift trucks, robots, and software. When designing a material handling system, it is important to follow best practices and analyze goals to ensure all equipment works as a unified system, improving customer service and lowering costs.

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Material Handling System

Material handling involves the movement, storage, and control of materials throughout the supply chain from manufacturing to disposal. It uses a variety of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment like conveyors, lift trucks, robots, and software. When designing a material handling system, it is important to follow best practices and analyze goals to ensure all equipment works as a unified system, improving customer service and lowering costs.

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An overview of Material handling in food processing plants

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 and automated 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

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. These include:

 Automated storage and retrieval systems


 Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs)
 Automatic identification and data collection
 Casters and wheels
 Controls
 Conveyors
 Dock equipment
 Ergonomics
 Hoisting equipment
 Industrial robots
 Integrated material handling systems
 Item order fulfillment systems
 Lift trucks
 Monorails and workstation cranes
 Overhead cranes
 Packaging
 Protective guarding
 Racks
 Software
 Sortation
 Storage

When designing a material handling system, it is important to refer to best practices to ensure that all
the equipment and processes—including manual, semi-automated and automated—in a facility work
together as a unified, system. By analyzing the goals of the material handling process and aligning
them to guidelines, such as the 10 Principles of Material Handling, a properly designed system will
improve customer service, reduce inventory, shorten delivery time, and lower overall handling costs
in manufacturing, distribution and transportation. These principles include:

1. Planning: Define the needs, strategic performance objectives and functional specification of
the proposed system and supporting technologies at the outset of the design. The plan should
be developed in a team approach, with input from consultants, suppliers and end users, as
well as from management, engineering, information systems, finance and operations.

2. Standardization: All material handling methods, equipment, controls and software should be
standardized and able to perform a range of tasks in a variety of operating conditions.

3. Work: Material handling processes should be simplified by reducing, combining, shortening


or eliminating unnecessary movement that will impede productivity. Examples include using
gravity to assist in material movement, and employing straight-line movement as much as
possible.

4. Ergonomics: Work and working conditions should be adapted to support the abilities of a
worker, reduce repetitive and strenuous manual labor, and emphasize safety.

5. Unit load: Because less effort and work is required to move several individual items together
as a single load (as opposed to moving many items one at a time), unit loads—such as pallets,
containers or totes of items—should be used.

6. Space utilization: To maximize efficient use of space within a facility, it is important to keep
work areas organized and free of clutter, to maximize density in storage areas (without
compromising accessibility and flexibility), and to utilize overhead space.

7. System: Material movement and storage should be coordinated throughout all processes,
from receiving, inspection, storage, production, assembly, packaging, unitizing and order
selection, to shipping, transportation and the handling of returns.

8. Environment: Energy use and potential environmental impact should be considered when
designing the system, with reusability and recycling processes implemented when possible,
as well as safe practices established for handling hazardous materials.

9. Automation: To improve operational efficiency, responsiveness, consistency and


predictability, automated material handling technologies should be deployed when possible
and where they make sense to do so.

10. Life cycle cost: For all equipment specified for the system, an analysis of life cycle costs should
be conducted. Areas of consideration should include capital investment, installation, setup,
programming, training, system testing, operation, maintenance and repair, reuse value and
ultimate disposal.

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