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Introduction
•MH includes any or all movements, packaging and storage of
materials, parts, assemblies, and products
•Term materials include raw materials, parts, subassemblies,
and semi-finished goods
• Need of handling of goods between plants (transportation)
•MH includes all such movements of materials from the receipt
of the raw materials to the shipment of finished products.
•MH is a system which forms the various factors of movement,
transfer, warehousing, in-process handling, and shipping into
one interdependent cycle considering the most economical
solution for the respective plant. The next slide demonstrates
the material handling system in the form of flow diagram.
Materials Flow Diagram
MH system in the form of Flow Diagram:
Raw mat. supplier Transportation Receiving at
store
Disposal/ Warehouse
Dealers/consumers
recycling
Material handling in intermittent and
continuous manufacturing system
• In some operations, MH cost can be reduced by
accumulating parts between operations
• This condition is true for intermittent system where
less automation of MH system.
• Parts can be accumulated and inventoried in to the
boxes or baskets and transported by hand-jack dollies
or forklift trucks more economically than they can be
carried by hand.
• In continuous manufacturing, automated MH system
are designed to reduce overall handling costs,
resulting in less work in process