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,
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Automated Guided Vehicles

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Presented by:
Ankita Maheshwari 91007
Harsh Agarwal
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Naveen Yadav
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