Industrial materials handling equipment and tools encompass a wide range of vehicles, tools, appliances, storage units, accessories, etc. involved in transportation, storage, control, enumeration and protection products at different stages of manufacture, distribution, disposal as well as consumption.
Here, Vendaxo presents different types of material handling tools and equipment:
Different types of material handling tools and equipment
1. Storage as well as handling equipment
Storage equipment is restricted to the non-auto examples that come under the engineered systems. A storage equipment is mainly used for holding or buffering the material during the downtime or for times when they’re not transported. Such periods may refer to the temporary pauses for long term transportation or long term storage needs which are designed for allowing build-up of stocks. Most of the storage equipment refer to shelves, pallets, racks on which the materials are stacked in a proper manner for awaiting consumption and transportation.
2. Engineered Systems
Engineered systems covers a wide range of units which work cohesively for enabling storage as well as transportation. They are mostly automated. An example of engineered system is auto storage as well as retrieval system. It’s a large auto organisation structure which involves racks, shelves and aisles accessible by shuttle system. This shuttle system is mechanised picker which may be used by the worker or may perform fully auto functions for locating the location of the item quickly.
3. Industrial materials handling trucks
The industrial trucks mainly refer to different types of transportation vehicles and items which are used for moving products and material for material handling. Such transportation devices include pallet jacks, hand operated vehicles and different types of forklifts. Such trucks have wide range of characteristics for making them best for different types of operations. Some of the trucks also have forklifts or flat surface which helps in lifting the items while other require separate pieces for loading. The trucks could be power lifted or manual and operations may be ride requiring the user to push them manually. A truck may also be used for stacking the items while the non-stacking truck maybe used typically for the purpose of transportation.
4. Bulk material equipment
Bulk material refers to storage, transportation as well as controlling of material in loose form. Such materials comprise of food, minerals, liquid, etc. Generally speaking, these equipment deal with items which are loose like elevators, conveyor belts which are designed for moving large quantity of material or packaged form with the help of hoppers as well as drums.
Above all are the different types of material handling equipment!
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