How You Will Benefit
- Plan and analyze material handling systems
- Improve material handling operations within their organization
- Ascertain when to apply material handling automation
What Is Covered
- Fundamental material handling principles and concepts
- Classifications of material handling equipment
- Systematic Handling Analysis (SHA)
- Material handling evaluations, selections, and continuous improvement
Day 1
- Fundamental Principles and Concepts
- Definition and objectives of material handling
- Basic principles and economics of material handling
- Classifications of Material Handling Equipment
- Understanding the categories of handling equipment
- Understanding the types of handling systems
- How to Analyze Material Handling Problems
- Systemic Handling Analysis (SHA) – an organized approach
- Key information for systematic analysis
- Practical ways to visualize and analyze material movements
- Guided Application in Material Handling Analysis
- Use data on material movements to develop a material handling plan
- Identify preferred handling methods and equipment for different classes of materials and for each move in a facility.
- Material Handling Exercise
- Use your material handling plan to validate your concepts; find real products that could help you implement it.
- Map actual material handling products to a wide range of movement situations: high-volume; low volume; conveyable, not conveyable; short-distance; long-distance; between workplaces; within the workplace, etc.
Day 2
- Evaluation and Selection
- Cost Justification and comparison
- Evaluation and selection of plans and equipment
- How to Improve Material Handling Operations
- Ways to attack material handling problems
- Checklists and surveys
- Work sampling, time standards and measurement of material handling labor.
- Summary and Closing Remarks
Course Materials
Participants receive a course notebook.
Course Prerequisite and Related Certificate Information
No prerequisites. This course is part of the Distribution Operations Analysis & Design (DOAD) Certificate.
Course Instructors
Course Times
On the first day, please check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
- First Day - 8:00am - 5:00pm
- Second Day - 8:00am - 5:00pm