Functions of Material Handling?

Functions of Material Handling?


1) Storage & preservation

Storage means keeping physical custody of material whereas preservation means keeping physical custody in such a way that quality & quantity of material remain intact. The design of ware-houses, storage facilities, racks, cup boards, crates, boxes and equipment's needed for internal movement of material, etc. are important part of material handling. Material handling is concerned with safe storage of raw materials, finished stocks, by-products, work-in-progress inventories, scrap & wastage, etc.

2) Transportation

The basic need of transportation of material arises because most manufacturing processes are made of multiple operations performed in the different & on different machines. This transportation need must be satisfied in such a way that it is done safely, economically & in timely manner.

3) Palletizing

Palletizing can be understood as an activity of converting or assembling small & loose pieces of regular sized objects to make one large size solid object. The purpose is to do safe & economical transportation. Foe example, loose soap bars can be arranged on a ply sheet. Another ply-sheet can be put on the top of regularly arranged stack of soap bars. The entire rectangular object can be tide & can be transported as one single object.

4) Handling at same work station

Some sophisticated machines are able to perform manufacturing operations. They are large machine & have many stage wise process locations. For example, the current technology of filling material in flexible pouches is done on one single machine called 'form-fill-seal' machine popularly known as FFs machines. Here many operations are performed on the same machines.

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