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Safety Principle: All handling activities in operation or being planned should be safe, since the object of material handling is to improve working conditions by providing safe work environment.
(ix)
Equipment Selection Principle: In selecting material handling equipment, one must consider all aspects of the material to be handled the move to be made the methods to be utilized.
(x)
Mechanisation \ Automation Principle: Use mechanized or automated handling equipment whenever necessary. Use of mechanized or automated handling devices and equipment can be of extreme value in increasing material handling efficiency.
(xi)
Standardisation Principle: Standardise methods as well as types and size of handling equipment consideration. Standardisation does not mean that only one type or make of equipment must be used. It should be interpreted to mean fewer number of types makes, models, sizes.
(xii)
Flexibility Principle: Use methods and equipment that can perform a variety of tasks and applications. Equipment that can perform a wide range of handling tasks and applications can be utilized.
(xiii)
Dead-weight Principle: Reduce the ratio of mobile equipment dead-weight to pay load. Excess weight of mobile equipment not only costs more money, but may require additional power and be slower to operate.
(xiv)
Maintenance Principle: Plan for preventive maintenance and scheduled repair of all handling equipment. The suggestions for application of several of the previous principles have implied the importance of preventive maintenance and schedule repairs to the effectiveness of material handling activities.
(xv)
Control Principle: Use material handling equipment to improve production control, inventory control and order handling. Since material handling equipment is used to move material through the plant and the production processes its use can have a great effect on the control of the items being moved.
(xvi)
Capacity Principle: Make optimal use of equipment to help achieve full production capacity.
(xvii)
Performance Principle:
Determine efficiency job handling performance in terms of cost per unit handled which is the primary criteria.
MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENTS: WHAT ARE THE EQUIPMENTS USED FOR HANDLING THE MATERIALS? LIST OUT THE EQUIPMENT FOR HANDLING MATERIAS. Various types of equipment available for material handling can be divided on the basis of types of service rendered into three major divisions. They are
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