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MATERIAL HANDLING DEVICES
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Material Handling
• According to American society of material engineers
“Material handling is an art & science involving the moving, packing & storing of substances in any form.”
• It involves movement of material mechanically & manually in batches or one by one within the plant.
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Basic Equipment Types
• Wheeled Trolley
• Forklift Trucks
• Trailer
• Conveyors
• Overhead Cranes
• Industrial Robots
• Automated Guided Vehicles
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Wheeled Trolley
• Used for transferring boxes from one place to another within an organization
• Have wide range of sizes and shapes
• Organization decide as per their requirement.
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Wheeled Trolley
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ForkLift Trucks
• Highly useful• Movement of larger loads over a longer distance• Moving the loads vertically• Movement of loads vertically and horizontally• Transfer loads in any direction
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Forklift Trucks
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Trailer
• Used for mainly picking and placing the material in large volumes
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Conveyors
• These are used where continuous flow of material is essential
• Used in mass production activity on production shop floor also
• Widely used in automated warehouses in big retail shops
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Wheel Conveyors
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Roller Conveyors
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Belt Conveyors
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Chain Conveyors
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Overhead Cranes
• Used for movement of heavy items but for a shorter distances
• Controlled manually or it is computerised
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Industrial Robots
• Reprogrammable multifunctional manipulator designed to move material through variable programmed motions for the performance of tasks
• Application– To pick up hot steel ingots– Handling radioactive rods in nuclear power
plants– Spot welding and arc welding
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Industrial Robots
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Automated Guided Vehicles
• Battery powered, automatically steered vehicles designed to follow defined pathways
• Capable of automatically loading unloading goods
• Usually interfaced with other automated systems to achieve full benefits of integrated automation
• Example: driverless trains, pallet trucks, unit load carriers
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Automated Guided Vehicles
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Ankita Maheshwari 91007
Harsh Agarwal 91022
Naveen Yadav 91035