Material handling equipment

Material handling equipment is all equipment that relates to the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal. Material handling equipment is the mechanical equipment involved in the complete system[1]. Material handling equipment is generally separated into four main categories: storage and handling equipment, engineered systems, industrial trucks, and bulk material handling.

Contents

1 Ways in Which Material Handling Equipment Can Improve Efficiency 2 Types of Material Handling Equipment o 2.1 Storage and handling equipment o 2.2 Engineered systems o 2.3 Industrial trucks o 2.4 Bulk material handling o 2.5 On-rails transfer cart 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Ways in Which Material Handling Equipment Can Improve Efficiency

Material handling equipment is used to increase output, control costs, and maximize productivity. There are several ways to determine if the material handling equipment is achieving peak efficiency. These include capturing all relevant data related to the warehouses operation (such as SKUs), measuring how many times an item is touched from the time it is ordered until it leaves the building, making sure you are using the proper picking technology, and keeping system downtime to a minimum......

Types of Material Handling Equipment

Storage and handling equipment
Storage and handling equipment is a category within the material handling industry. The equipment that falls under this description is usually non-automated storage equipment. Products such as Pallet rack, shelving, carts, etc. belong to storage and handling. Many of these products are often referred to as "catalog" items because they generally have globally accepted standards and are often sold as stock materials out of Material handling catalogs.

Engineered systems
Engineered systems are typically custom engineered material handling systems. Conveyors, Handling Robots, AS/RS, AGV and most other automated material handling systems fall into this category. Engineered systems are often a combination of products integrated to one system. Many distribution centers will optimize storage and picking by utilizing engineered systems such as pick modules and sortation systems. Equipment and utensils used for processing or otherwise handling edible product or ingredients must be of such material and construction to facilitate thorough cleaning and to ensure that their use will not cause the adulteration of product during processing, handling, or storage. Equipment and utensils must be maintained in sanitary condition so as not to adulterate product.

Industrial trucks
Industrial trucks usually refer to operator driven motorized warehouse vehicles, powered manually, by gasoline, propane or electrically[2]. Industrial trucks assist the material handling system with versatility; they can go where engineered systems cannot. Forklift trucks are the most common example of industrial trucks but certainly aren't the extent of the category. Tow tractors and stock chasers are additional examples of industrial trucks.

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Bulk material handling

Main article: Bulk material handling Bulk material handling equipment is used to move and store bulk materials such as ore, liquids, and cereals. This equipment is often seen on farms, mines, shipyards and refineries. This category is also explained in Bulk material handling. rail transfer cart is a kind of material handling equipment Bulk material handling is an engineering field that is centered around the design of equipment used for the handling of materials such as ores, coal, cereals, wood chips, sand, gravel and stone in loose bulk form. It can also relate to the handling of mixed wastes. Bulk material handling systems are typically composed of stationary machinery such as conveyor belts, stackers, reclaimers, bucket elevators, railcar dumpers or wagon tipplers, shiploaders, hoppers and diverters[disambiguation needed] and various mobile equipment such as

loaders, various shuttles,[disambiguation needed] combined with storage facilities such as stockyards, storage silos or stockpiles. Advanced bulk material handling systems feature integrated bulk storage, conveying, and discharge.(web site) The purpose of a bulk material handling facility may be to transport material from one of several locations (i.e. a source) to an ultimate destination or to process material such as ore in concentrating and smelting or handling materials for manufacturing such as logs wood chips and sawdust at sawmills and paper mills. Other industries using bulk materials handling include flour mills and coal fired utility boilers. Providing storage and inventory control and possibly material blending is usually part of a bulk material handling system. In ports handling large quantities of bulk materials continuous ship unloaders are replacing gantry cranes.

On-rails transfer cart

On-rails transfer cart is a kind of material handling equipment.It moves on the rails and can transfer heavy cargoes or equipment with the weight 1-300t between the workshops or warehouses in the factory.It widely use in the line of metallurgy,coal,heavy manufacturing,automative assembly and so on.It`s power can be DC power and AC power.DC Power has rail transmit the power,battery power;AC power includes cable power and slippery touch line power.There is aslo manual rail transfer cart or towed rail transfer cart.We also named it motorized transfer trolley.