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SkidWeigh, Freight Weight, Industrial Engineering Case Study of Vehicle Usage
SkidWeigh, Freight Weight, Industrial Engineering Case Study of Vehicle Usage
Further results showed that in only 0.2 percent of the rounds of observation were all lift truck in use. In only 1.3 percent of the rounds were as many as four trucks in use at the same time. As a result of the information obtained management was able to take action to reduce the cost of material handling substantially by reduction of lift trucks from six to four. Evaluating Lift tTruck Utilization From the above example the lift truck utilization is only a part of the overall material handling efficiency of the system in place. Its efficiency does not depend on the lift truck operator alone, but on the other elements of the material handling system as a whole.
It is a well known fact that most of the material handling operations do not have any engineered standard in order to measure lift truck operational utilization. Its also well known fact that the task to arrive at such a standard is not an easy one. It requires time study and even when standards are in place, its difficult to measure vehicle utilization against the standard. The flow of material might change, which means a new standard must be incorporated and such systems require input from the lift truck operator by handwritten reports or utilizing some other online communication system to report on the work in progress. Review for management Across multiple industries data collected reveals a very similar pattern of lift truck operation of material handling operations without any vehicle utilization control: Typical Shift Pay 8 hours Operator Logged in to Lift truck 4 hours Lift Truck in Motion 2hours Lift Truck Moving with a Load 1 hour
One hour of product moved for every 8 hours paid! The above data has been collected from over 20.000 VMS lift truck installations. ( Source I.D. Systems, Inc.) Of course, some operators are higher and some are lower, but VMS provides visibility and productivity metrics that are not achievable in any other way. If you can use any VMS to achieve 2 hours of Vehicle motion with a load time, that represents a100% increase in your vehicle productivity.
The object of material handling is to move materials The most important factor to increase vehicle utilization is the real-time measurement of vehicle driving time loaded and unloaded, lift time, lifted load above pre-set threshold as of the percentage of the working time utilization factor. The degree of utilization considered to be optimum will depend upon the type of material handling operation. As of example, the percentage should be as high as possible for continuous lift truck haulage work. Solution Providing that the work load is there and all other elements within the total material handling system are in place are working well, there is no reason why vehicle utilization can not be increased substantially. With a constant measurements of the vehicle utilization on every lift truck, everyday in real-time you will achieve a constant increase in percentages of vehicle operational hours utilized. ED2-400 SkidWeigh Series
Onboard check weighing scale Utilization factor input Under utilization visual warning to lift truck operator Web based reports, optional External under utilization visual / audio warning, optional Universal application for all kinds of lift trucks Operating voltage from 12 to 55 V DC Compact size No operator input required Optional events input
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