Selection of Material Handling Equipment

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Introduction
The material handling system is vital to support operations in any facility by delivering right
material in right quantity to right location at the right time, to perform these activities, various
functions are included i.e. moving, lifting, loading, unloading etc. Designing a material handling
system is a complex task to design by keeping in view the various types of sub-systems and large
numbers of equipment categories, classes and types.
This study helps to identify issues to consider while selecting the material handling equipment.
Physical resources should be design effectively so that, they can help in efficient operations. If
material handling system is not well mapped, installed or utilized, it would cause delays in
operations, less efficiency, damaged products, time and resources will also be wasted , fatigue
for workers and ultimately it will affect overall efficiency of the operations and cost
minimization will not be controlled. By mapping the effective material handling system
productivity will be enhanced, quality of products will be improved, reduction in slack time,
overall it will help to complete operations effectively and would be cost saving.
Analytical models of material handling equipment have limitations like; they are focusing on just
the cost reduction strategies rather than safety, high utilization of equipments and high through-
puts. The layout of facilities should be design to allow information and material flow in a
systematic way.
Factors and issues in selection of material handling equipment
A material handling system comprises of hardware, software and human that work together to
perform activities. Hardware is the largest element of material handling system and it comprises
of various equipment i.e. transfer, unit load, storage, identification, communication, packaging,
information processing, control and support equipment. Every category is sub-dividing i.e.
transfer includes use of conveyor, trucks, cranes. The conveyor has also various types i.e. belt,
roller etc.
Every product/system has life cycle that comprises on Designing, installation, operations,
maintenance, obsolete and its disposal. While designing the material handling system, it should
be consider achieving un-interrupted operations due to any component failure or maintenance
shutdowns of the operations or system.
Equipment selection should be based on requirement from both supplier i.e. type and size of
units that is going to be received and customer i.e. packaging requirements and shipment
requirement. Facility description is also the matter of selection of system and equipment i.e. type
of facility, storage type, physical restrictions i.e. columns, multi-stories building, ceiling height,
entrance and atmosphere at the facility which includes wet conditions, damp etc. there are aisles
warehouse adjacent to the production facility for storing raw material and finished products.
The handling of material/product is depending on their types, shape, size, weight and quality of
product. Right selection of equipment is depending on how to configure the requirements and
features or attributes of products and facility.
Every equipment has its own attributes i.e. carrying capacity, speed and lifting altitude. These
attributes have direct influence/impact on the cost and efficiency of operations as-well-as cost of
equipment and their maintenance is also depending on its features.
The steps of frame-work, which are applicable on all sort of industries and facilities are:
Design Phase Step

Conceptual design 1. Specify and prioritize requirements
2. Set and decompose objectives
3. Establish performance measures
4. Functional decomposition
5. Determine candidate equipment classes
6. Design subsystems
Preliminary design 7. Select equipment type from a class
8. Determine number of units of an equipment type
Detailed design 9. Determine specifications of selected equipment
10. Evaluate the design
Conceptual design
The requirements, objectives and functions of the material handling system are specified and
classes’ equipment (conveyor, trucks and racks) and categories (transfer & storage) would be
determined.
Preliminary design
An equipment type within a class of equipment (belt, roller, conveyor) is identified will be
selected on the basis of requirements and objective of the functions.
Detailed design
Attributes of equipment (dimensions of conveyor and its shape) are finalized and equipment will
be ready for installation or acquire.
The layout and framework is a joint effort of facility managers and designers. Managers and end-
user of material handling system will coordinate their requirements and designer than convert
those requirements or demand into technical aspects of design. The end approval is taken from
facility manager before installation and purchase of that system.
The principle of standardization, ergonomics and ecology would be consider in designing to

minimize the variation among equipment types, avoid handling of hand loads and flexibility to
reuse the packaging material to reduce the cost of operations.
Application of the framework
Mechanical system is preferred over the manual ones for better efficiency and its ability to
support pull system. The maintenance of equipment and capacity to operate with heavy loads as
well as light ones should be considered.
Recommendations
 Manual system have its own limitations, machines made the work easy and efficiency of
the operations are improved. Equipments have vital role in the safety of workers and help
quality maintenance of the products and minimizing the damages.
 Quality check of the products or material should be done outside the facility to ensure
less handling cost as well as inventory cost and return ability cost.
 Right choice of the material handling system is useful, which can only be judged by
getting information from the workers, who have direct access to the equipment and
handling abilities.
 Decomposing the systems and needs should be study, but also focus on the resources of
the firm, it is useless to get all type of machines/equipments even they are of not use on
regular basis, as they incur their own costs (storage, handling, maintenance) and
depreciation of machinery/system can’t be neglected.
 Material should be placed at stores with identification numbers and they should be visible
easily to the works to minimize the doubling efforts of one job.
References
 MohsenM.D Hassan, (2010), “ A framework for selection of material handling equipment

in manufacturing and logistics facilities” Journal of manufacturing Technology
Management, Vol 21 iss 2 pp. 246-268
 Logistics operations and Management (Reza Zanjirani) Chapter No. 2 Physical Flow

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LOGISTICS MANAGMENT

MB2.502163004 AKIF ZUBAIR

MB3.502153013 USMAN TARIQ

SUBMITTED TO: MS SAYDA UZMA TAHIRA

DATE OF SUBMISSION: MARCH 02, 2018

SESSION OF SUBMISSION: 5TH

Factors and issues in selection of material handling equipment

Design Phase Step

The principle of standardization, ergonomics and ecology would be consider in designing to

Application of the framework

 MohsenM.D Hassan, (2010), “ A framework for selection of material handling equipment

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