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Chapter 5
MATERIAL HANDLING
Tran Van Ly
Industrial Engineering and Management
International University
22/01/12 1
Email: tvly@hcmiu.edu.vn
Lecture outline
1. Introduction
2. Material handling principles
3. Designing material handling systems
4. Unit load design
5. Material handling equipment
6. Estimating material handling costs
7. Safety considerations
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I. Introduction
• Material Handling accounts for:
– 25% of all employees,
– 55% of all factory space,
– 87% of production time
– 15-70% of the total cost of a manufactured product
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Definitions:
• Material handling (MH) is the art and science of moving, storing,
protecting, and controlling mat of goods and materials.
– Moving: Required to create time and place utility. The value of
having the material at the right time and the right place.
– Storing: Provides a buffer between operations, facilitates the
efficient use of people and machines.
– Protecting: Includes the packaging, packing against damage and
theft.
– Controlling: Physical: Orientation, sequence and space between
material.
Status: Real-time awareness of the location, amount,
destination, origin, ownership, and schedule of material.
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Definitions:
• MH means providing the right amount of the right material, in
the right condition, at the right place, in the right position, in
the right sequence, and for the right cost, by the right
methods.
- Right amount: how much inventory is needed?
- Right material
- Right condition: state in which customer desires the material
- Right sequence
- Right place: address both transportation and storage
- Right time: on-time delivery
- Right cost: not necessary the lowest cost
- Right method.
II. MH Principles
1. Planning
9. Environmental 10. Life Cycle Cost
2. Standardization
8. Automation
MH
7. System 3. Work principle
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Conditions for improvement
System not capable Idle production
No pre-kitting of of change or equipment due to
work expansion material shortage
Material piled
Automatic data
directly on floor
collection system
not used
MH
Backtracking of In-plant containers
material not standardized
Operators travel
Misdirected material excessively for
materials and
Excessive
supplies
demurrage
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III. Designing material handling systems (MHS)
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2. The MHS equation & questions
The MHS equation:
Materials + Moves +
Methods =
Recommended systems
Setup
time
Lead Time is made up of the following elements:
o Queue.
o Transportation.
o Inspection
o Unnecessary Motion
o Wait Time.
o Rework/Scrap.
o Overproduction.
o Excess inventory and WIP.
o Run Time.
o Inefficient plant layout
All these lead time factors influence Set-Up Times and provide focus
on what to reduce or eliminate as part of the Set-Up Reduction
Program---- WASTE ELIMINATION.
Increased flexibility – much easier to slot in that
urgent order or to service multiple customers or
part numbers
Reduced batch sizes – Shorter setup times allow
running smaller batches more often
one-piece flow
Reduced stock and WIP (Work in Progress)
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Fig 05_03
illustrates the effects of the unit load
size on job completion times
- Processing time = 1 time unit per piece
- Material handling time = 2 time units
per move
Completion time
Earliest available
1 2 4 8 16
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Fig 05_04
shows several
stages in the
material flow
process where
dimensional 4
relationships
play a major
role.
=32*3=96”
=48*2=96”
=8*12+6=106”
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Stackability
Nestability
Fig 05_05
shows why
these two
features
play key
roles in
moving
and storing
containers
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Efficiency of returnable containers
• Given the following dimensions of a plastic reusable containers:
– Inside dimensions: 18” x 11” x 11”
– Outside dimensions: 20” x 12” x 12”
– Each nested container: 20” x 12” x 2”
– The storage opening : 24” x 16” x 14”
A trailer with inside dimensions of 240” x 120” x 120” is used to transport these containers.
Assume no clearance is needed.
2^(-n)
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Unit load interactions with warehouse components
Figure 5.10
Schematic layout of a
manufacturing
subsystem of
packaging,
palletization,
storage, and shipping.
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The pallet loading pattern for each carton-pallet pair must be prescribed
as shown in two above figures.
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V. Material handling equipment
Categories of Material Handling Equipment
1. Containers and Unitizing Equipment
• Containers
• Unitizers
2. Material Transport Equipment
• Conveyors
• Industrial Vehicles
• Monorails, Hoists, and Cranes
3. Storage and Retrieval Equipment
• Unit Load Storage and Retrieval
• Unit Load Storage Equipment
• Unit Load Retrieval Equipment
• Small Load Storage and Retrieval
4. Automatic Data Collection and Communication Equipment
• Automatic Identification and Recognition
• Automatic Paperless Communication
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Containers: Tote pans
Containers: Pallets
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Unitizers: Palletizer Unitizers: Stretchwrapper
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Conveyors Automatic
identification and
recognition
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Industrial Vehicles Storage and Retrieval
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VII. Safety considerations
• The key to a safe facility is concentrating on the
interface between the workforce and the
equipment.
• The following table shows recommended aisle
widths for facility design.
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VII. Safety considerations
• Falling objects
• Fire fighting equipment
• Marking (Walk, non-stop etc.)
• Loading capacity
• Turning diameter
• Strapping of cargo
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VII. Safety considerations
• Collapsing of racks!
• Collision
• Explosion Proof
• Handling & storing NC
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