Material Handling Case Study

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Material handling involves movement, storage, protection as well as control of materials throughout the manufacturing and distribution process including their consumption and disposal (The Material Handling Industry of America). According to Aized (2010), material handling can be defined as an integrated system involving such activities as moving, handling, storing and controlling of materials by means of gravity, manual effort or power activated machinery. In a simple way of understanding, material handling is concerned with loading, moving and unloading of materials. Material handling in engineering field is referred as the industrial activities and part of the production process.
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To identify the type of material handling system and their utilization percentage in Malaysia Manufacturing Industry. ii. To analyze the life cycle of the material handling system in Malaysia Manufacturing Industry.

1.4 Scope

This study covers on the life cycle of the material handling system in Malaysia. It focuses on the manual and automated material handling that is used in Malaysia manufacturing industries. In addition, this analysis will be carried out in Malaysia manufacturing industries which involve automotive, food and groceries, as well as electronics.

1.5 Thesis structure

CHAPTER 1
Chapter 1 is an introduction for this analysis. This chapter consists of five elements which are background, problem statement, objectives, scope and thesis structure.

CHAPTER 2
Chapter 2 is literature review. This chapter explains briefly about Material Handling and Life Cycle of Manufacturing System.
CHAPTER 3
Chapter 3 describes on the methodology.

CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Material Handling

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The categories are as follows:
i. Material transport equipment
• Material transport equipment is used to transport or move materials from one location to another inside a factory, warehouse or other facility. In general, there are five types of material transport equipment which are industrial trucks, Automated guided vehicles, monorails and other rail guided vehicles, conveyors and cranes.

ii. Storage systems
• To store materials for certain period of time and allow retrieval the materials when required. There are conventional and automated storage methods. Conventional storage method includes bulk storage, rack systems, shelving and bin, as well as drawer storage. Automated storage system includes Automated Storage/Retrieval System (AS/RS) and Carousel storage system.

iii. Unitizing equipment
• Refers to containers and unitizers. Containers are used to hold loose item so that it is easy to move and store where as the unitizers is describe as an equipment used to load and package the containers. For most operations, the main goal of using the equipment is that the load can be protected while it is in

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