KC COLLEGE OF

MANAGEMENT STUDIES

COURSE: PGCHM

SEMESTER 2(2009-2010)

SUBJECT: SUPPLY CHAIN

AND LOGISTICS

TOPIC

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 Group 2
Name Roll No
Anup Nayak 69

Kamlesh Panwar 87

Akshit Shah 96

Kapil Sharma 99

Rucha Shelawela 101

Samruddhi Vedak 108

Contribution

Anup Nayak: Material Handling techniques for Fruits and Vegetables.

Kamlesh Panwar: Material Handling techniques for Fruits and

Vegetables.

Akshit Shah: Material Handling techniques for Fruits and Vegetables

Kapil Sharma: Material Handling techniques for Fruits and Vegetables

Rucha Shelawala: Material Handling techniques for Dairy products

Samruddhi Vedak: Material Handling techniques for Dairy products

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have
extended their support and guidance for making this project an enriching
and memorable experience for us.

We are also thankful to Prof. Vijay Parekh, K.C.College Of

Management Studies for giving us necessary guidelines to prepare our
project.

Thank you.

Table of Contents
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1 Introduction 5

Material Handling

Material Handling Equipment

2 Material Handling Techniques for Fruits and Vegetables 7-14

3 Material Handling Techniques for Dairy products 15-18

4 Conclusion 19

5 Bibliography 20

What is Material Handling?

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Material handling is concerned with the handling of materials from the source or raw
materials till the product reaches the ultimate consumer. In case manufacturing
organization handling of material is very important factor. It is the movement of
materials men, or machinery within the premises.

American Material Handling Society defines it as "material handling is the art and
science which involves moving, packing and storing of material in any form by
means of gravity, manual effort or power activated machinery".

Material Handling Equipment

Material handling equipment (MHE) is the equipment used for the movement and
storage of material within a facility or a site.

The basic FUNCTIONS of MHE:

1. Transport: Moving the material from one location to another. (e.g. between
workplaces, loading docks & storage area)

2. Positioning: Handling material at a single location so that it is in the correct

position for subsequent handling, machining, transport, or storage.

3. Unit Load Formation: To restrict materials so that they maintain their integrity
when handled a single load during transport and storage.

4. Storage: Holding or buffering materials over a period of time.

5. Identification and Control: To collect and communicate the information used to

coordinate the flow of materials within a facility and between a facility and its
suppliers and customers.

Material Handling Techniques for Perishable

products
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Following are the material handling techniques for overall perishable
products

• Belt conveyors, troughed conveyors, curved conveyors and chain conveyors.

• Driven and non-driven roller conveyors for trays, boxes and pallets.
• Flexible plastic chain and belt conveyors and spiral conveyors.
• Stacking and de-stacking systems for trays, boxes, trolleys and pallets.
• Semi-automatic and fully automatic palletising and de-palletising systems.
• Loading and unloading systems for trolleys.
• Checkweighers, line dividers and inliners for punnets, bags, crates and boxes.
• Walking beams for trolleys.
• Shunters and lifting units.
• Push-over units, turning units and rotation units.
• Automatic storage systems for crates, racks, boxes or pallets.
• Robot technology and pick and place systems.
• Sorting systems for punnets, trays, boxes and various other products.
• Internal transport systems.
• End of line pallet strapping and stretch wrapping machines.
• Industrial washing machines for trays, crates, pallets and trolleys.
• Case-packers for bags and punnets.
• Coding and labeling equipment.
• Flowpack (horizontal en vertical), topseal and stretchfilm packing machines.
• Lidding machines.
• Multihead weighers en lineair weighers for several products.
• Multifunctional packing lines

Material Handling Techniques for Fruits and

Vegetables

Unloading
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Unloading of fruits and vegetables takes place manually. This involves a labour cost
and also the goods get damaged.

In the above example wooden boxes are used for unloading. This prevents the
goods from getting damaged.

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A simple device for easing the work of unloading transport vehicles can be
constructed using a two pulleys and a strong rope. One pulley can be mounted
inside the truck at the front of the bed, the second outside on a portable post or on a
stationary object like the side of a building. Containers can be hung directly by their
handles or placed into a sling.

In warehouse

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There is a range of innovative standard and custom designed techniques for the fruit
handling. These techniques are easy to use and simple to install.

Standard products like the Flap Filer, Rotofiller, Twin Roll and Robotic Tray Picker all
integrate with the range of conveyor and automation services which are very
effective in fruit handling.

Some of the techniques are explained below

1)Robotic Tray Pickers

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Robotic tray picker combines fruit handling experience and robotic speed and
flexibility to produce a system that can singulate, present, identify, track, pick,
orientate and place the fruit into the waiting tray in the correct pattern

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2) Twin Roll Bin Dumper

Product ra The Twin Roll bin dump is an innovative solution for water dumping fruit
and vegetable products.

A forklift mounted solution, the Twin Roll is designed to pick two bins from a stack,
forward dump in to a water flume, retract and then stack the two empty bins for
removal.
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The forward motion of the dumping process while fully submerged is ideally suited
for products that are easily damaged during the transfer from bins to water fluming.

The Twin Roll is mounted to a standard 3000 Kg forklift and is capable of lifting two
full bins or eight empty bins, thus speeding up the process of removing the empty
bins from the work area.

A smaller Single Roll unit can be supplied for lower rate applications, the Single Roll
handles one full bin at a time.

3) Conveyors
The conveyors enables to deliver vegetable washing, waxing, drying and sorting
systems that can be selected from standard modules or built as custom designs.

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4)Rotofiller 4, Fully Automatic Inline Dry Bin Filler

The RF4 incorporates all the qualities associated with ROTOFILLER range, the wide
fruit belt, staged fruit delivery, rotary head and advanced controls. The result is low
fruit velocity, excellent fill quality and less fruit damage.

In Retail Stores
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 Vegetable & Fruit Crates

For handling fruits and vegetable in the retail stores plastic crates are used.
Some of its features are

• Easy To Handle
• High storage capacity
• Highly Durable

Material Handling of dairy products

Milk Pouch Crates

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Milk pouch crates are characterized by the following features

• Easy to use and transport

• Sturdy
• Highly capacious

Milk Can

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Light weight and durable
• Cost effective
• Made out of one piece rot mold of
• Premium grade polyethylene
• Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use

Packo has been manufacturing small milk processing lines for 20 years now and has
references worldwide. The range starts with batch pasteurizers with a capacity of
150 litres and extends to full turnkey mini-dairies with a processing capacity of up to
10.000 litres per hour. The mini-dairies are real milk processing lines, based on the
technology of larger dairies, but on a reduced scale. They can be supplied and
installed suitable for all usual kinds of dairy products, i.e. consumption milk, cream,
butter, yogurt, kefir, other fermented milk products, fresh and ripened cheese, etc

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Cheese Handling

This machine is designed to complement the very successful cheese De-palletising

Robot and cheese block carton remover. Two models are available, 12 blocks per
minute and 5 blocks per minute. Non Standard industry block sizes can be
accommodated within a special machine design.

The cartons are automatically cut on all four sides, the top is removed, then the
carton is inverted allowing the removal of the base and liner. The cheese is then
conveyed out of the De Cartoner for further processing.

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The Cheese Handling - De Cartoner is constructed from stainless steel and is a
stand alone compact machine that is easily installed and operated. The cardboard
waste is safely removed and can be conveyed to a compactor.

Conclusion
Material Handling is a crucial activity of Logistical Management. Its cost is around
10-15% of the total cost of the product. So by adopting innovative material handling
techniques, a company can bring down the costs significantly and pass on this
benefit to its customers. It would also ensure safe movement of the goods in lesser
time.

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 Bibliography

Links

http://www.viscon.eu/index.php?id=411

http://www.tradeindia.com/Seller-1983976-2441937-1231-TL/Pallets-
Crates/GALAXY-POLYMERS.html

http://www.plasticpalletmanufacturers.com/food-storage.html

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