1. MATERIAL HANDLING
EQUPMENT.

2. What is Material Handling?
“Efficient short-distance movement of
goods that usually takes place within the
confines of a building such as a plant or
a warehouse or between a building and
a transportation agency. ”
Material Handling Equipment

3. Material Handling Dimensions
• Movement
• Time
• Quantity
• Space

4. Why Material Handling?
• improves efficiency
• Improves productivity
• Maximize profits
• Competitive edge

5. The most successful brands in the world uses
material handling and logistic solutions to gain
competitive edge
Toyota
Wal-Mart
Disney
Coca Cola
NASA
John Deere
Mitsubishi
Pepsi-Cola

6. Where MHE is utilized
• Warehouses
• Manufacturing Plants
• Ports
• Airports

7. Baggage Handling in an Air Port

8. Material Handling Equipment
• Material handling equipment (MHE) is used
for the movement , storage ,protection,
consumption and disposal of materials within
a facility or at a site.

9. Types of material handling equipment
• Transport Equipment
• Positioning Equipment
• Unit Load Formation Equipment
• Storage Equipment
• Identification and Control Equipment
Ref: http://www.ise.ncsu.edu/kay/mhetax/index.htm

10. Transport Equipment
• These equipment are used to move materials
from one location to other

11. Conveyers
• Equipment used to move materials over a
fixed path between specific points

12. Types of Conveyers
• Mainly there are about 20 types of conveyers
 Belt conveyers
 Chute conveyers
 Wheel conveyers
 Roller conveyers
 Chain conveyers
 Slat conveyers
 Flat belt conveyers
 Magnetic belt conveyers
 Vertical conveyers

13. conveyers are used
• When material is to be moved frequently
between specific points
• To move materials over a fixed path
• When there is a sufficient flow volume to
justify the fixed conveyor investment

14. Cranes
• Equipment used to move materials over
variable paths within a restricted area.

15. Types of cranes
• Jib cranes
• Bridge cranes
• Gantry cranes
• Stacker cranes

16. Industrial Trucks
• Equipment used to move materials over
variable paths, with no restrictions on the area
covered by the movement

17. Types of industrial trucks
• Hand Truck
• Pallet Jack
• Walkie Stacker

18. • Counterbalanced lift truck
• Narrow-Aisle reach truck

19. Fork Lifts
• most common equipment in material
handling

20. Unit Load Formation Equipment
• Unit load formation equipment used to
restrict materials so that they maintain their
integrity when handled a single load during
transport and for storage

21. Pallets
 48 x 40 in. pallet is most popular in US
 1200 x 800 mm "Euro-Pallet" is the standard pallet in Europe
is a flat transport
structure that
supports goods in
a stable fashion
while being lifted
by a forklift,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet

22. Pallet Boxes
Reusable container used to unitize and
protect loose items for fork/platform
truck handling

23. Storage Equipment

24. Drive Through Rack

25. Drive-In Rack

26. Flow-Through Rack

27. Push-Back Rack

28. Identification and Control Equipment
Identification and control equipment is used to collect
and communicate the information that is used to
coordinate the flow of materials within a facility and
between a facility and its suppliers and customers.
Ref:
http://logistic-
mhe.blogspot.com/2008/01/identification-
and-control-equipment.html

29. Bar Codes
• Unique bar/space patterns represent various
alphanumeric characters.
• Bar code system consists of bar code label, bar
code scanner, and bar code printer.
• Contact bar code scanners use pen or wand to
read labels.
• Non-contact bar code scanners include fixed
beam, moving beam, and omni-directional beam.
• 1-D codes are most common; 2-D codes enable
much greater data storage capability.

30. Bar codes and scanners
Contact Scanner Non contact scanner

31. Radio Frequency (RF) Tag

32. Magnetic Stripe

33. Machine Vision

34. Safety in Material Handling
• We need to consider two main aspects
Material Safety
Human Safety