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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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Presented by:

Ankita Maheshwari 91007

Harsh Agarwal 91022

Naveen Yadav 91035