Material Handling Unit Load

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Material Handling Unit Load
Unit Load Principle Handle product in as large a
unit load as practical

• Unit Load Unit to be moved/handled at one time
• One unit of production
• several cartons
• includes the container/carrier/support

• Basis for choosing unit load
• Reduce
• Number of trips
• Handling cost
• Load/Unload time
• Product damage

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Unit Load - Unitizing

• Lifting Methods
• Lifting
• Suspending
• Squeezing
• Lifting element (e.g. ram in steel coil)

• Unitizing Method
• container, platform, sheet, rack
• Inherently unitized tote box, carton, bin, bag,
  and similar items

Building a unit load Place one or more items on
a pallet
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Pallet Selection

• Criteria
• size
• weight
• dimension for storing loaded/unloaded pallets
• handling equipment
• cost
• supply
• maintenance
• aisle width
• door size
• clearance
• stacking height

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Material Handling Steps

• Material
• Move
• Method

MH equipment (conveyors, vehicles, monorails,
cranes, etc) is the Method step for material
handling
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Unit Load Storage Equipment
Part of storage and retrieval equipment discussion

• BLOCK STACKING Not a type of equipment
• stacked on top of each other
• stored on floor in storage lanes

• Stacking criteria
• weight
• stability
• building height
• safety codes

• Simple to use
• Suffers from vertical and horizontal honeycomb
  loss