Monday, November 7, 2016

The Different Equipment Used For Material Handling Transportation

By Roger Snyder


Material handling is a type of transportation that is often utilized in most buildings for transportation or movement of materials. It uses different equipment that may either be semi automated, automated or manual and this includes the consideration for storage, control, and protection of the facilities. These processes are being done in the warehousing, consumption, disposal, manufacturing, and distribution.

Material handling is also very important for logistics and for manufacturing. The items will be transported over time by the use of a conveyor, lift truck, or any other equipment for material handling transportation in the retail stores, manufacturing plants, and warehouses. This process also is required in most production jobs because the operators are using this for transporting the various goods to industrial settings.

Manual handling is one type of this which refers to the movement of containers by the use of the workers hands when lowering, emptying, carrying, lifting, and filling them. Using this may possibly expose the workers into some physical conditions which may result to serious injuries specifically, musculoskeletal disorders. This type of disorder often involves sprains and strains to the shoulders, upper limbs, and lower back.

The most common handling type that is being used as an alternative for material manual handling is the semi automated. It is because the human operators will still be needed due to some difficulties in unloading, driving, and loading. These tasks may be very difficult for machines to perform even if there are already some advancements of robotics, sensing, and machine intelligence.

Transport facilities are utilized for moving the materials from one particular location into another while positioning materials are utilized for the manipulation of materials in just a single location. There are sub categories of these materials including cranes, industrial trucks, and conveyors. Manual materials may also be used without the use of any equipment.

Conveyors are used whenever there is a frequent movement of materials between two specific points with fixed paths and whenever there is a sufficiency in volume flow for justification of fixed investments of conveyor. A conveyor may either be a unity load or a bulk load. And also, it has different locations such as in floor, over head, or on floor. Bucket, magnetic belt, screw conveyors, and troughed belt are examples of a bulk conveyor.

Cranes will be used for transporting goods loads in a vertical or horizontal variable path in restricted areas. And also, these are used if there is an insufficient volume flow or intermittent flow. Cranes are considered to be more flexible compared to conveyors since the loads are handled with respect based on their weight and shape.

But if compared to the industrial trucks, these have lesser flexibility because of the operations in the restricted areas. Cranes are mostly used with trolley and with tracks in a horizontal movement while used with hoists in a vertical movement. Crane types include stacker, gantry, bridge, and jib cranes.

Industrial trucks are not being provided with licenses for traveling on public roads. These are used for moving materials in variable paths and if there is an insufficient or a intermittent volume flow. These are more flexible than the conveyors and the cranes since the area of movement is not restricted.




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