Material Handling System (MHS)

Examples of Material Handling System (MHS) in the following topics:

• Materials Handling

  • The material handling industry manufactures and distributes the equipment and services required to implement material handling systems.
  • Material handling systems range from simple pallet rack and shelving projects, to complex overhead conveyor systems and automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS).
  • The material handling system (MHS) is a fundamental part of a flexible manufacturing system, since it interconnects the different processes supplying and taking out raw material, workpieces, sub-products, parts, and final products.
  • Due to the automated nature of the whole production process, the MHS must respond in concert with timeliness for all requirements of the processes and systems.
  • The MHS is composed of warehouses, buffers, conveyors, transportation vehicles or systems, part sorters, feeders, and manipulators.

• Benefits of Inventory Management

  • Improved inventory management can lead to increased revenue, lower handling and holding costs, and improved cash flows.
  • Management of the inventories, with the primary objective of determining/controlling stock levels within the physical distribution system, functions to balance the need for product availability against the need for minimizing stock holding and handling costs.
  • Inventory management involves systems and processes that identify inventory requirements, set targets, provide replenishment techniques, report actual and projected inventory status, and handle all functions related to the tracking and management of material.
  • This would include the monitoring of material moved into and out of stockroom locations and the reconciling of the inventory balances.
  • This also saves handling and holding costs.

• Inputs to the Production Schedule

  • Raw materials - materials and components scheduled for use in making a product.
  • A raw material is the basic material from which a product is manufactured or made, frequently used with an extended meaning.
  • Inventory management involves a retailer seeking to acquire and maintain a proper merchandise assortment while ordering, shipping, handling, and related costs are kept in check.
  • It also involves systems and processes that identify inventory requirements, set targets, provide replenishment techniques, report actual and projected inventory status, and handle all functions related to the tracking and management of material.
  • Management of the inventories, with the primary objective of determining/controlling stock levels within the physical distribution system, functions to balance the need for product availability against the need for minimizing stock holding and handling costs.

• Inventory Management

  • In the U.S. and Canada, inventory has become the equivalent of the British term stock; that is, it refers to material that is available from and stocked by a business.
  • Inventory management often involves a retailer seeking to acquire and maintain a proper merchandise assortment while ordering, shipping, handling, and related costs are kept in check.
  • It requires systems and processes that identify inventory requirements, set targets, provide replenishment techniques, report actual and projected inventory status, and handle all functions related to the tracking and management of material.
  • These include the monitoring of material moved into and out of stockroom locations, as well as the reconciling of inventory balances.
  • Management of inventories, aimed primarily at determining and controlling stock levels within the physical distribution system, serves to balance the need for product availability against the need for minimizing stock holding and handling costs.

• Warehousing

  • Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing, or commerce.
  • Some warehouses are completely automated, and require only operators to work and handle all the tasks.
  • Pallets and products move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes, and automated storage and retrieval systems coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software.
  • Automated storage systems can be built up to 40m high.
  • It should start at the container design stage of a product and not at the delivery of material in the warehouse.

• Special topic: just-in-time and lean systems

  • unnecessary transportation (material handling, customer travel through a facility, etc. )
  • In a manufacturing setting, there are six major ways to pursue JIT goals: inventory reduction to expose waste, use of a "demand-pull" production system, quick setups to reduce lot sizes, uniform plant loading, flexible resources, and cellular flow layouts.
  • By gradually lowering inventory, the weaknesses of the production system can be revealed and addressed one by one.

• Flame Cells of Planaria and Nephridia of Worms

  • As multi-cellular systems evolved to have organ systems that divided the metabolic needs of the body, individual organs evolved to perform the excretory function.
  • Their excretory system consists of two tubules connected to a highly-branched duct system that leads to pores located all along the sides of the body.
  • Flame cells function like a kidney, removing waste materials through filtration.
  • In the excretory system of the (a) planaria, cilia of flame cells propel waste through a tubule formed by a tube cell.
  • Compare and contrast the way in which planaria and annelids handle waste products

• Vertebrate Digestive Systems

  • Humans and many animals have a monogastric digestive system .
  • The waste material travels to the large intestine where water is absorbed and the drier waste material is compacted into feces that are stored until excreted through the rectum.
  • The undigested material forms food pellets that are sometimes regurgitated.
  • They eat a lot of plant material and roughage.
  • Since the digestive system must be able to handle large amounts of roughage and break down the cellulose, pseudo-ruminants have a three-chamber stomach.

• Radiation from Food

  • This is because the deep penetration of gamma rays allows for the treatment of entire industrial pallets or totes at once, which reduces the need for material handling.
  • Radioactive material must be monitored and carefully stored to shield workers and the environment from its gamma rays.
  • X-ray irradiators are considered an alternative to isotope-based irradiation systems.
  • They also permit dose uniformity, but these systems generally have low energetic efficiency during the conversion of electron energy to photon radiation, so they require much more electrical energy than other systems.
  • X-ray systems also rely on concrete shields to protect the environment and workers from radiation.

• Inventory Costs

  • It is required at different locations within a facility or within many locations of a supply network to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.
  • Inventory management involves a retailer seeking to acquire and maintain a proper merchandise assortment while ordering, shipping, handling, and related costs are kept in check.
  • It also involves systems and processes that identify inventory requirements, set targets, provide replenishment techniques, report actual and projected inventory status, and handle all functions related to the tracking and management of material.
  • This would include the monitoring of material moved into and out of stockroom locations and the reconciling of the inventory balances.
  • Management of the inventories, with the primary objective of determining/controlling stock levels within the physical distribution system, functions to balance the need for product availability against the need for minimizing stock holding and handling costs.