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