Answer

We just provide to you answer for Section A only. For the Section B, you can check through your lecturer.

Answer for the Quiz SECTION A

1.  i) manual equipment   ii) power assisted equipment   iii)fully mechanized equipment
2. Pallet is a portable platform, which goods are stacked for transportation and storage.
3. i) To reduce handling cost    ii) to increased space utilization.
4. i) u-shaped    ii) I-shaped
5. i) promote the full space utilization ii) improve the materials handling efficiency. 

Movement Equipment Choice

•  Movement Equipment is differentiated by its degree of specialized use and the extent the manual power is required to operate it.

• There broad equipment categories : Manual Equipment, Power-Assisted Equipment, Fully Mechanized Equipment.

• Combination these 3 categories is generally found within a materials handling system rather than a single category used exclusively.

MANUAL EQUIPMENT

• Hand operated, material handling equipment such as 2-wheeled hand trucks and 4-wheeled platform trucks provides some mechanical advantages in movement of goods and requires only modest investment.
• Generally, manual equipment flexibility and low cost make good choice. 

• Example of manual equipments are carpet handling, furniture handling, pipe handling.

carpet handling

POWER ASSISTED EQUIPMENT

• By using Power assisted equipment, materials handling can be speeded up and output per worker-hour increased.

• The example of power assisted equipment is forklift, crane, elevators and hoists.

• Forklift and pallet has high flexibility.

crane

FULLY MECHANIZED EQUIPMENT

• With computer-controlled handling equipment, bar coding and scanning technology, some materials handling system have been developed that come close to full automation.

• Such system referred to as automated storage and retrieval system or AS/RS for short.

conveyor

Storage Equipment Choice

Storage equipment choice
I hope with this note, you all can understand what is storage equipment choice.

• Storage quipment can be defined as equipment used for holding or buffering materials over a period of time. Some storage equipment may include the transport of materials (e.g., the S/R machines of an AS/RS, or storage carousels). If materials are block stacked directly on the floor, then no storage equipment is required.

• In a way, storage is a temporary halt in materials flowing through a warehouse.

Figure below shows that example of storage equipment:

• Storage aids promote the full space utilization and improve the materials handling efficiency

• The most important storage aids is rack. Usually rack made from wood and metal.

Rack

• Rack also aids in rotating stock as in first-in-first-out inventory control system.

•  Other available storage aids include shelf-boxes, horizontal and vertical dunnage, bins, U-frames.

As u can see below, there are example of available storage 

Bins

Horizontal Dunnage

U-frames

Vertical Dunnage

Picture :D

There are some example of materials handling that we can see either in the warehouse or port...

WPC Pallet

stacker crane

Forklift 

container flow rack

Quiz~

Here, we provides to you some exercise to you after you completely read all notes that we have provided to you. So, enjoy with all question :) Section A      i).   Give 3 (three) movement of equipment.

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ii) Define the pallet

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iii)     Give 2 (two) objective of Material Handling

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iv)   Give any 2 (two) operational design

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v)      Give any 2 (two) of storage aids

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Section B

     1.       With appropriate example, briefly explain type(s) of space layout.

   2.       Imagine you have just open new factory plant production for car manufacture in Shah Alam, as manager     define and explain how you want to decide about how the movement of material into your factory plant production?

3.       Explain the advantages and disadvantages u-shape layout.

4.       Briefly explain any 4(four) the basic requirement of warehouse.

5.       State and explain how to store the product in the warehouse.

Load Unitization - Space Layout

Here we provide note about Material Handling Consideration. We hope that you guys can be enjoyed reading this note.

Material Handling Consideration

Objectives:-

• to reduce handling cost 
• to increase space utilization

Material Handling efficiency can be improved along four(4) lines:

1. loading unitization
2. space layout
3. storage equipment choice
4. movement equipment choice

LOAD UNITIZATION

Principle in material handling is material handling economy is directly proportional to the size of load handled.

- As the load size increases, the fewer the number of required tips to store a given quantity of goods and the greater the economy.

- The number of trips is relates directly to the labor time necessary to move goods.

- Efficiency often can be improved through consolidating a number of small packages into a single.

- Referred to as load unitization and is most commonly accomplished through palletization and containerization 

SPACE LAYOUT

Location of stock in the warehouse directly affects the total materials-handling expense of all goods moving through the warehouse.

Basic requirement for layout are :-

• Receiving
• Storage
• Order Processing (assemble,order picking,packaging)
• Office
• Miscellenous (toilet,mosque,pantry,washroom)
• Recouping Area
• Shipping

Type of Warehouse can be divided into two(2):-

1. I-shape

example of I-shaped layout 

 2. U-shape

example of u-shape layout

Material handling's video

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We hope that with this video can improved your understanding about this topic, Material Handling :)

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