Material Handling Systems Explained

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Material Handling
Arif Rahman, ST MT

Arif Rahman – The Production Systems
Material handling is the movement,
storage, protection and control of materials
throughout the manufacturing and distribution
process including their consumption and
disposal (The Material Handling Industry of
America)
Material handling is the function of moving
the right material to the right place in the right
time, in the right amount, in sequence, and in
the right condition to minimize production
cost.
Material Handling
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The art and science of moving, storing,
protecting, and controlling material.
Providing
¤ Right amount
¤ Right material
¤ Right condition
¤ Right place
¤ Right position
¤ Right sequence
¤ Right cost
¤ Right method
Material Handling
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Material-handling system is an integrated
system involving such activities as handling,
storing and controlling material.
¤ Handling  transportation and movement
system
¤ Storage  Storage system
¤ Controlling material  Automation
identification & data capture
Material Handling System
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To move raw material, working process,
finish parts, tools and supplies from one
location to another (to facilitate the over all
operation of manufacturing)
Consists of: Movement of materials from
sources of supply, all intra-plant handling
& distribution of finished goods customers.
Material Handling Scope of Movement
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Concerned with the acquisition, movement,
storage, and distribution of materials and
products to satisfy customer demand
Two categories of logistics:
External logistics - transportation and related activities
that occur outside of a facility (between different
geographical locations). Five traditional modes of
transportation: rail truck, air, ship, and pipeline
Internal logistics - material handling and storage within
a facility
Material Handling and Logistics
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It consumes more time
It needs extra cost
It triggers some troublesome.
The materials can be damaged since
improper movement
The materials can be lost in transit
Material Handling Risks
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Handling of materials must be performed
¤ Safely and smoothly
¤ Efficiently and directly
¤ At low cost
¤ In a timely manner
¤ Accurately (the right materials in the right
quantities to the right locations)
¤ And without damage to the materials
Material Handling Consideration
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1. Form of material at point of origin, e.g.,
liquid, granular, sheets, etc.
2. Characteristics of the material, e.g., fragile,
radioactive, oily, etc.
3. Original position of the material, e.g., under
the earth, in cartons, etc.
4. Flow demands, e.g., amount needed,
continuous or intermittent, timing, etc.
5. Final position, where material is needed,
e.g., distance, elevation differences, etc.
Material Handling Factors
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6. In-transit conditions, e.g., transocean, jungle,
city traffic, inplant, etc., and any hazards, perils,
special events or situations that could occur
during transit
7. Handling equipment available, e.g., devices,
prices, reliability, maintenance needs, etc.
8. Form and position needed at destination
9. Integration with other equipment and
systems
10.Degree of control required
Material Handling Factors
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Reduce Unit Material Handling Cost
¤ Eliminate Unnecessary Handling
¤ Handle Material in Batch Lots
¤ Minimize Required Handling Time
¤ Replace Handling Equipment as Appropriate
Reduce Production Time
¤ Minimize Delays of Machine Operations
¤ Maintain Uniform, Appropriate Movement of Material
¤ Use Automatic Processing When Appropriate
Material Handling Objectives
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Reduce Overhead
¤ Minimize Non-Productive Labour
¤ Prevent and Reduce Damage to Materials
¤ Coordinate All Material Handling Systems
¤ Maintain or Improve Product Quality
¤ Control Inventory
Conserve Floor Space
¤ Avoid Excessive Stock Storage
¤ Move Materials in a Position to Save Space
¤ Use Equipment Requiring No Floor Space
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Prevent Accidents
¤ Reduce Physical Load Required
¤ Insure Handling Equipment is Safe
¤ Promote safety and improve working conditions
Improve Employee Morale
¤ Provide Proper Relationship Between Employee &
Work
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Promote Productivity
¤ Material Should Flow In A Straight Line
¤ Use Gravity! It Is Free Power
¤ Move More Material At One Time
¤ Mechanize Material Handling
¤ Automate Material Handling
¤ Promote Increased Use Of Facilities
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Increase capacity
Improve working conditions
Improve customer services
Increase equipment and space utility
Reduce Costs
Material Handling Benefits
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Overview of Material
Handling Equipment
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Material transport equipment
¤ to move materials inside a factory, warehouse, or
other facility
¤ industrial trucks, Automated Guided vehicles (AGVs),
monorails (and other rail guided vehicles), conveyors,
cranes and hoists
Storage systems
¤ to store materials and provide access to those
materials when required
¤ bulk storage, rack systems, shelving and bins, drawer
storage, automated storage systems
Material Handling Equipment
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Unitizing equipment
¤ refers to (1) containers to hold materials, and (2)
equipment used to load and package the containers
¤ Pallets, boxes, baskets, barrels, pails, and drums;
palletizers, depalletizers
Identification and tracking systems
¤ to identify and keep track of the materials being
moved and stored
¤ Bar codes, magnetic stripes, radio frequency tags
Material Handling Equipment
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Considerations in Material
Handling System Design
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Material characteristics
Flow rate, routing, and scheduling
Plant layout
Unit load principle
Factors that influence the design
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Category Measures
Physical state
Size
Weight
Shape
Condition
Risk of
damage
Safety risk
Solid, liquid, or gas
Volume; length, width, height
Weight per piece, weight per unit
volume
Long and flat, bulky, round,
square, etc.
Hot, cold, wet, dirty, sticky
Fragile, brittle, sturdy
Explosive, flammable, toxic,
corrosive, etc.
Material Characteristics
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Flow rate  amount of material moved per unit
time
¤ Examples: pieces/hr, pallet loads/hr, tons/hr
¤ Whether the material must be moved in individual
units, as batches, or continuously (pipe line)
Routing  pick-up and drop-off locations, move
distances, routing variations, conditions along the
route (surface, traffic, elevation)
Scheduling  timing of each individual delivery
¤ Prompt delivery when required
¤ Use of buffer stocks to mitigate against late deliveries
Flow Rate, Routing, and Scheduling
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Manualhandling
Hand trucks
Powered trucks
Unit load AGV
Conveyors Conveyors
AGV trainHigh
Low
LongShort Move Distance
Quantity of
material
moved
Flow Rate, Routing, and Scheduling
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In the case of a new facility, the design of
handling system should be considered as part of
the layout design
The layout should provide the following
information for use in the design of the handling
system:
¤ Locations where materials must be picked up (load stations)
¤ Locations where materials must be delivered (unload stations)
¤ Possible routes between these locations
¤ Distances that must be travelled to move materials
¤ Flow patterns, opportunities to combine deliveries, possible
places where congestion might occur
¤ Total area of the facility and areas within specific departments in
the layout
¤ Arrangement of equipment in the layout
Plant Layout: Layout Type
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Layout
Type
Characteristics Typical MH Equipment
Fixed –
position
Process
Product
Large product size, low
production rate
Variation in product and
processing, low and medium
production rates
Limited product variety, high
production rate
Cranes, hoists,
industrial trucks
Hand trucks, forklift
trucks, AGVs
Conveyors for product
flow, trucks to deliver
components to stations.
Plant Layout: Layout Type
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Fixed Path
¤ Equipment: Conveyors, Elevators, Lifts,
Pipes/Tubes
¤ Advantages:
• More economical if large volume of material moved to
same place
• One power supply to drive entire “belt” – more
economical
• Reduction in need for lot identification tags
• Can be used to pace the workers
¤ Disadvantages: Less economical if material
follows diverse paths
Plant Layout: Path
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Limited Area (Semi-Fixed Path)
¤ Equipment: cranes, trucks
¤ Advantages: Can cover a wider area
¤ Disadvantages: Still limited to area covered
Plant Layout: Path
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Wide Area (Variable Path)
¤ Equipment:
• Manual: trucks 2-wheel, trucks 4-wheel, lift truck,
dolly
• Powered: power lift truck, forklift truck, multiple
trailer, yard truck, over-the-road truck, rail, portable
conveyor
¤ Advantages: flexible
¤ Disadvantages: must have portable power
supply with each piece of equipment
Plant Layout: Path
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In general, the unit load should be as large as
practical for the material handling system that
will move and store it
¤ A unit load is the mass that is to be moved or
otherwise handled at one time
Reasons for using unit loads in material
handling:
¤ Multiple items handled simultaneously
¤ Required number of trips is reduced
¤ Loading/unloading times are reduced
¤ Product damage is decreased
Unit Load Principle (unitizing)
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Wooden pallet Pallet box Tote box
Unit Load Containers
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Unit Load Containers : Wooden Pallet
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Single faced pallet Double faced pallet Double faced reversible pallet
Two-way Entry pallet Four-way Entry pallet

Unit Load Containers : Pallet Box
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Pallet Crate Skid Box Pallet Box

Unit Load Containers : Pallet Box
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Unit Load Containers : Box
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Cartoon Box
Tote Pan
Tote Box
Crate
Bins

Unit Load Containers : Others
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The 10 Principles of
Material Handling
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1. Planning Principle
2. Standardization Principle
3. Work Principle
4. Ergonomic Principle
5. Unit Load Principle
6. Space Utilization Principle
7. System Principle
8. Automation Principle
9. Environmental Principle
10.Life Cycle Cost Principle
The 10 Principles of Material Handling
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All material handling should be the result of a
deliberate plan where the needs, performance
objectives and functional specification of the
proposed methods are completely defined at the
outset
Definition: A plan is a prescribed course of
action that is defined in advance of
implementation. In its simplest form a material
handing plan defines the material (what) and the
moves (when and where); together they define
the method (how and who).
1. Planning Principle
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The plan should be developed in consultation between the
planner(s) and all who will use and benefit from the equipment
to be employed.
Success in planning large scale material handling projects
generally requires a team approach involving suppliers,
consultants when appropriate, and end user specialists from
management, engineering, computer and information
systems, finance and operations.
The plan should promote concurrent engineering of product,
process design, process layout, and material handling
methods, as opposed to independent and sequential design
practices.
The material handling plan should reflect the strategic
objectives of the organization as well as the more immediate
needs.
1. Planning Principle : Key Points
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Material handling methods, equipment,
controls and software should be
standardized within the limits of achieving
overall performance objectives and
without sacrificing needed flexibility ,
modularity and throughput
2. Standardization Principle
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Standardization means less variety and customization
in the methods and equipment employed
Standardization applies to sizes of containers and
other load forming components as well as operating
procedures and equipment
The planner should select methods and equipment that
can perform a variety of tasks under a variety of
operating conditions and in anticipation of changing
future requirements
Standardization, flexibility and modularity must not be
incompatible
2. Standardization Principle : Key Points
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Material handling work should be
minimized without sacrificing productivity
or the level of service required of the
operation
3. Work Principle
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The measure of material handling work is flow
rate (volume, weight or count per unit of time)
multiplied by the distance moved
Consider each pickup and set-down, or placing
material in and out of storage, as distinct moves
and components of the distance moved
Simplifying processes by reducing, combining,
shortening or eliminating unnecessary moves
will reduce work
3. Work Principle : Key Points
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Where possible, gravity should be used to move
materials or to assist in their movement while
respecting consideration of safety and the
potential for product damage
The work principle applies universally, from
mechanized material handling in a factory to over-
the-road trucking
The work principle is implemented best by
appropriate layout planning: locating the
production equipment into a physical arrangement
corresponding to the flow of work. This
arrangement tends to minimize the distances that
must be traveled by the materials being processed
3. Work Principle : Key Points
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Human capabilities and limitations must
be recognized and respected in the design
of material handling tasks and equipment
to ensure safe and effective operations
4. Ergonomic Principle
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Ergonomics is the science that seeks to
adapt work or working conditions to suit the
abilities of the worker
The material handling workplace and the
equipment employed to assist in that work
must be designed so they are safe for people
The ergonomic principle embraces both
physical and mental tasks
Equipment should be selected that eliminates
repetitive and strenuous manual labour and
which effectively interacts with human
operators and users
4. Ergonomic Principle : Key Points
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Unit loads shall be appropriately sized and
configured in a way which achieves the
material flow and inventory objectives at
each stage in the supply chain
5. Unit Load Principle
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A unit load is one that can be stored or
moved as a single entity at one time, such as
a pallet, container or tote, regardless of the
number of individual items that make up the
load
Less effort and work is required to collect and
move many individual items as a single load
than to move many items one at a time
Large unit loads are common both pre and
post manufacturing in the form of raw
materials and finished goods
5. Unit Load Principle : Key Points
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Load size and composition may change as
material and product moves through stages
of manufacturing and the resulting distribution
channels.
Smaller unit loads are consistent with
manufacturing strategies that embrace
operating objectives such as flexibility,
continuous flow and just-in-time delivery.
Smaller unit loads (as few as one item) yield
less in-process inventory and shorter item
throughput times.
5. Unit Load Principle : Key Points
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Effective and efficient use must be made
of all available space
6. Space Utilization Principle
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Space in material handling is three
dimensional and therefore is counted as
cubic space
In storage areas, the objective of maximizing
storage density must be balanced against
accessibility and selectivity.
When transporting loads within a facility the
use of overhead space should be considered
as an option. Use of overhead material
handling systems serves valuable floor space
for productive purposes.
6. Space Utilization Principle : Key Points
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Material movement and storage activities
should be fully integrated to form a
coordinated, operational system which
spans receiving, inspection, storage,
production, assembly, packaging,
unitizing, order selection, shipping,
transportation and the handling of returns
Definition: A system is a collection of
interacting and/or interdependent entities
that form a unified whole
7. System Principle
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Systems integration should encompass the entire
supply chain including reverse logistics. It should
include suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and
customers.
Inventory levels should be minimized at all stages of
production and distribution while respecting
considerations of process variability and customer
service.
Information flow and physical material flow should be
integrated and treated as concurrent activities.
Methods should be provided for easily identifying
materials and products, for determining their location
and status within facilities and within the supply chain
and for controlling their movement.
7. System Principle : Key Points
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Material handling operations should be
mechanized and/or automated where feasible to
improve operational efficiency, increase
responsiveness, improve consistency and
predictability, decrease operating costs and to
eliminate repetitive or potentially unsafe manual
labor
Definition: Automation is a technology concerned
with the application of electro-mechanical devices,
electronics and computer-based systems to
operate and control production and service
activities. It suggests the linking of multiple
mechanical operations to create a system that
can be controlled by programmed instructions
8. Automation Principle
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In any project in which automation is being
considered, pre-existing processes and methods
should be simplified and/or re-engineered before
any efforts at installing mechanized or automated
systems. Such analysis may lead to elimination of
unnecessary steps in the method. If the method
can be sufficiently simplified, it may not be
necessary to automate the process.
Items that are expected to be handled
automatically must have standard shapes and/or
features that permit mechanized and/or automated
handling.
8. Automation Principle : Key Points
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Interface issues are critical to successful
automation, including equipment to
equipment, equipment to load, equipment
to operator, and in-control
communications.
Computerized material handling systems
should be considered where appropriate
for effective integration of material flow
and information management.
8. Automation Principle : Key Points
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Environmental impact and energy
consumption should be considered as
criteria when designing or selecting
alternative equipment and material
handling systems
9. Environmental Principle
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Environmental consciousness stems from a
desire not to waste natural resources and to
predict and eliminate the possible negative
effects of our daily actions on the
environment
Containers, pallets and other products used
to form and protect unit loads should be
designed for reusability when possible and/or
biodegradability after disposal
Materials specified as hazardous have
special needs with regard to spill protection,
combustibility and other risks.
9. Environmental Principle : Key Points
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A thorough economic analysis should
account for the entire life cycle of all
material handling equipment and resulting
systems
10. Life Cycle Cost Principle
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Life cycle costs include all cash flows that will
occur between the time the first dollar is
spent to plan or procure a new piece of
equipment, or to put in place a new method,
until that method and/or equipment is totally
replaced.
Life cycle costs include capital investment,
installation, setup and equipment
programming, training, system testing and
acceptance, operating (labor, utilities, etc.),
maintenance and repair, reuse value, and
ultimate disposal.
10. Life Cycle Cost Principle : Key Points
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A plan for preventive and predictive maintenance
should be prepared for the equipment, and the
estimated cost of maintenance and spare parts
should be included in the economic analysis.
A long-range plan for replacement of the
equipment when it becomes obsolete should be
prepared.
Although measurable cost is a primary factor, it is
certainly not the only factor in selecting among
alternatives. Other factors of a strategic nature to
the organization and which form the basis for
competition in the market place should be
considered and quantified whenever possible.
10. Life Cycle Cost Principle : Key Points
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Safer Operating Conditions
Lower Costs
Better utilization and performance of
material handling systems
The Principles Benefits
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One of the most important of the principles is the
unit load principle
In general, the unit load should be as large as
practical for the material handling system that will
move and store it
¤ A unit load is the mass that is to be moved or
otherwise handled at one time
Reasons for using unit loads in material handling:
¤ Multiple items handled simultaneously
¤ Required number of trips is reduced
¤ Loading/unloading times are reduced
¤ Product damage is decreased
The Principles Most Importances
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Included in the definition of unit load is the
container that holds or supports the
materials to be moved
These containers are standardized in size
and configuration to be compatible with
the material handling system
Pallets are probably the most widely used,
owing to their versatility, low cost, and
compatibility with various types of material
handling equipment
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Depth =
x Dimension
Width =
y Dimension
800 mm (32 in) 1000 mm (40 in)
900 mm (36 in) 1200 mm (48 in)
1000 mm (40 in) 1200 mm (48 in)
1060 mm (42 in) 1060 mm (42 in)
1200 mm (48 in) 1200 mm (48 in)
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Standard Pallet Sizes Commonly Used
in Factories and Warehouses

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