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Review on Material Handling Equipment

Neeraj Sharma

Abstract


Material handling (MH) involves “short-distance movement that usually takes place within the confines of a building such as a plant or a warehouse and between a building and a transportation agency.”1 It can be used to create “time and place utility” through the handling, storage, and control of material, as distinct from manufacturing (i.e., fabrication and assembly operations), which creates “form utility” by changing the shape, form, and makeup of material. The value of a product can increase after MH has taken place; for example: The value (to the customer) added by the overnight delivery of a package (e.g., Federal Express) is greater than or equal to the additional cost of the service as compared to regular mail service—otherwise regular mail would have been used. The value added by having parts stored next to a bottleneck machine is the savings associated with the increase in machine utilization minus the cost of storing the parts at the machine.

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