Materials Handling Equipment Flashcards
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- Involves “short-distance movement that usually takes place within the confines of a building such as a plant or a warehouse and between a building and a transportation agency.” –
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Materials Handling
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- Common approach to the design of MH systems (MHSs) -
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consider MH as a cost to be minimized.
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- 10 Principles of Materials Handling -
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Planning Principle
Standardization Principle
Work Principle
Ergonomic Principle
Unit Load Principle
Space Utilization Principle
System Principle
Automation Principle
Environmental Principle
Life Cycle Cost Principle
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- All MH 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.
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– Planning Principle
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- MH methods, equipment, controls and software should be standardized within the limits of achieving overall performance objectives and without sacrificing needed flexibility, modularity, and throughput. –
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Standardization Principle
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- MH work (defined as material flow multiplied by the distance moved) should be minimized without sacrificing productivity or the level of service required of the operation. –
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Work Principle
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- Human capabilities and limitations must be recognized and respected in the design of MH tasks and equipment to ensure safe and effective operations. –
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Ergonomic Principle
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- Unit loads shall be appropriately sized and configured in a way that achieves the material flow and inventory objectives at each stage in the supply chain. –
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Unit Load Principle
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- Effective and efficient use must be made of all available (cubic) space. –
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Space Utilization Principle
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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, and transportation, and the handling of returns. –
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System Principle
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- MH 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. –
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Automation Principle
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- Environmental impact and energy consumption should be considered as criteria when designing or selecting alternative equipment and MHS. –
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Environmental Principle
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- A thorough economic analysis should account for the entire life cycle of all MHE and resulting systems. –
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Life Cycle Cost Principle
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- Characteristics of material that affects handling.
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– size, weight, shape
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- A _____ is either a single unit of an item, or multiple units so arranged or restricted that they can be handled as a single unit and maintain their integrity.
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- unit load
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- One or more units that can maintain their integrity when handled as a single item.
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- Self-restraining
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- pallets and skids; platform with enough clearance beneath its top surface (or face) to enable the insertion of forks for subsequent lifting purposes. –
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Platforms
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- Slipsheets –
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sheets
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- tote pans, pallet boxes, skid boxes, bins, baskets, bulk containers (e.g., barrels), intermodal containers –
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reusable containers
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- cartons, bags, crates -
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Disposable containers
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- Basic ways of restraining a unit load. –
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self-restraining
platforms
sheets
reusable containers
disposable containers
racks
load stabilization.
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- Major Equipment Categories –
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transport equipment
positioning equipment
unit load formation equipment
storage equipment
identification and control equipment
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- Equipment used to move material from one location to another. The major subcategories of transport equipment are conveyors, cranes, and industrial trucks. Material can also be transported manually using no equipment. –
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transport equipment
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- Equipment used to restrict materials so that they maintain their integrity when handled a single load during transport and for storage. If materials are self-restraining (e.g., a single part or interlocking parts), then they can be formed into a unit load with no equipment. –
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unit load formation equipment
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25. Equipment used to handle material at a single location. Unlike transport equipment, positioning equipment is usually used for handling at a single workplace. Material can also be positioned manually using no equipment. –
positioning equipment
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26. Equipment 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. –
identification and control equipment
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27. Equipment used for holding or buffering materials over a period of time. Some storage equipment may include the transport of materials. If materials are block stacked directly on the floor, then no storage equipment is required. –
storage equipment
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28. Platform with enough clearance beneath its top surface to enable the insertion of forks for subsequent lifting purpose.
– Pallets
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29. Most common material. –
Wood
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30. Typical pallet height.
– 5 in
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31. GMA –
Grocery Manufacturers of America
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32. Standard pallet in Europe –
1200x800 mm Euro-Pallet
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33. Single-face pallets –
skids
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34. Platform (typically metal) with enough clearance beneath its top surface to enable a platform truck to move underneath for subsequent lifting purposes –
Skids
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35. It is also used to handle skids since the clearance of a skid is greater than of a pallet –
Forks
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36. Thick piece of paper, corrugated fiber, or plastic upon which a load is placed. –
slipsheets
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37. Reusable container used to utinize and protect loose discrete items typically used for in-process handling
– tote pans
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38. Reusable containers used to utinize and protect loose items for forl/platform truck handling/ bin pallet
– pallet//skid boxes
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39. Disposable container used to utinize and protect loose discrete items. Typically used for distribution –
Cartons
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40. Disposable container used to utinize and protect bulk materials –
bags
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41. Reusable container used to utinize and protect bulk materials used for both distribution and in-process handling –
bulk load containers
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42. Disposable container used to protect discrete items –
crates
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43. Reusable container used to utinize and protect loose discrete items. Enables a load to be handled as a single unit when it is transferred between road… -
intermodal containers
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44. Used for load stabilization –
strapping/tape/glue
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45. Allows irregular loads to be stabilized –
shrink-wrap/stretch-wrap
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46. Used for load formation –
palletizers
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47. Operators arrange items into the desired pattern used to form the unit load
– manual palletizing
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48. Fully automated device to build units loads used when flexibility is required –
robotic pick and place palletizers
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49. Fully automated device used when high throughput of identical loads is required –
conventional stripper plate palletizers
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50. Position equipment
manual
lift
dock leveler,
ball transfer table,
rotary index table,
parts feeder,
air film device,
hoist, balancer,
manipulator,
industrial robot
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51. Conveyors –
chute conveyor,
wheel conveyor,
roller conveyor,
gravity roller conv,
live roller conv,
chain conv,
slat conv,
flat belt conveyor,
magnetic belt conv,
throughed belt,
bucket conv,
vibrating conv,
screw conv,
pneumatic conv,
vertical conv,
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52. Used to move loads over variable paths within a restricted area
– cranes
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53. Horizontal boom supported from a stationary vertical support
– jib crane
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54. Bridge mounted on tracks that are located on opposite walls of the facility –
bridge crane
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55. Similar to a bridge crane except that it is floor supported at one ot both ends instead of overhead supported –
gantry crane
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56. Similar to abridge except that except that instead of a hoist, it uses a mast with forks or a platform to handle unit loads –
stacker crane
