Material Handling Notes
Material Handling Notes
These are:
• Conveyors
• Monorail, Hoists and Cranes
• Trucks
2.1 Conveyors
Used for moving material continuously over a fixed path. Examples are:
1. Chute Conveyor
2. Belt Conveyor
a. Flat Belt Conveyor
b. Telescoping Belt Conveyor
c. Troughed Belt Conveyor
d. Magnetic Belt Conveyor
3. Roller Conveyor
4. Wheel Conveyor
5. Slat Conveyor
6. Chain Conveyor
7. Tow Line Conveyor
8. Trolley Conveyor
9. Power and Free Conveyor
10. Cart-on-Track Conveyor
11. Sorting Conveyor
2.3 Trucks
Hand and powered trucks move loads over varying paths.
Examples of such are:
• Lift trucks
• Hand trucks
• Fork trucks, trailer trains
• Automated guided vehicles
3.0 Accessories
• Pallet
– A a platform on which material can be stacked in unit loads and handled
by lifting equipment such as forklift truck
– Made of wood, plastic, metal or a combination of the three
– Size depends on size and weight of load, equipment moving the pallet,
size of aisles, doors and cost of pallet
• Box
– Portable container in which parts or material can be stored in unit loads
• Tote Pan
– Portable container smaller than box to carry small parts from one work
station to the other
3.1 The Unit Load Concept
• It is more economical to move items and material in groups than individually.
• Unit load is defined as a number of items arranged such that they can be handled
as a single object through palletization, unitization and containerization
– Palletization is assembling and securing of individual items on a platform
that can be moved by a truck or a crane
– Unitization is assembling of goods as one compact load by packaging and
wrapping the items
– Containerization is the assembling of items in a box or a bin (suitable for
use in conveying of small items)