How You Will Benefit

• Plan and analyze material handling systems
• Improve material handling operations within their organization
• Ascertain when to apply material handling automation

What Is Covered

• Fundamental material handling principles and concepts
• Classifications of material handling equipment
• Systematic Handling Analysis (SHA)
• Material handling evaluations, selections, and continuous improvement

Day 1

• Fundamental Principles and Concepts
• Definition and objectives of material handling
• Basic principles and economics of material handling
• Classifications of Material Handling Equipment
• Understanding the categories of handling equipment
• Understanding the types of handling systems
• How to Analyze Material Handling Problems
• Systemic Handling Analysis (SHA) – an organized approach
• Key information for systematic analysis
• Practical ways to visualize and analyze material movements
• Guided Application in Material Handling Analysis
• Use data on material movements to develop a material handling plan
• Identify preferred handling methods and equipment for different classes of materials and for each move in a facility.
• Material Handling Exercise
• Use your material handling plan to validate your concepts; find real products that could help you implement it.
• Map actual material handling products to a wide range of movement situations: high-volume; low volume; conveyable, not conveyable; short-distance; long-distance; between workplaces; within the workplace, etc.

Day 2

• Evaluation and Selection
• Cost Justification and comparison
• Evaluation and selection of plans and equipment
• How to Improve Material Handling Operations
• Ways to attack material handling problems
• Checklists and surveys
• Work sampling, time standards and measurement of material handling labor.
• Summary and Closing Remarks

Course Materials

Participants receive a course notebook.

Course Prerequisite and Related Certificate Information

No prerequisites. This course is part of the Distribution Operations Analysis & Design (DOAD) Certificate.

Course Instructors

Lee Hales

Course Times

On the first day, please check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.

• First Day - 8:00am - 5:00pm
• Second Day - 8:00am - 5:00pm