The Importance of Material Handling for Industry

Material handling is an activity that involves movement of material or products within an organization from one place to another place or the flow of material or products to vehicles or from vehicles. The activities are usually confined within the boundaries of an organization. The movement of material from one organization to another is categorized as transportation work, which is not part of material handling activities.

Material Handling have tools which use in industry and divided into several parts base on function and capabitily, and it is importance in industry to operational. Material Handling have been function to lifting up and down, push, pull and move goods from one location to different location. Selection criteria material handling based on weight ,size goods, height of rack, goods type, range, and either use indoor or outdoor.

Purpose use material handling are :

1.Reduce Cost for Handling material

2.Increase safety for people or product while handling

3.Preventif broken product as result wrong handling

Kind of material handling and function can see in below :

1.Lifting Scissors

This tools like stairs can bring people to lift up, down and can brought workers to height. Lifting scissor use hidrolic system and use electric power, also this tools can use indoor or outdoor. (you can click this link for video Lifting Scissors)

2.Hand Pallet

This tools have function to move goods whose level are parallel and not higher from hand stacker. Hand Pallet consist 4 tiny wheels, two board parallel like fork and 1 handle to operation manually. (you can click this link for video Hand Pallet)

3. Hand Stacker

Hand stacker constitute upgrade version from pallet because hand stacker had hidrolik system so can use for move goods from height. This tools still operation with manually (you can click this link for video Hand Stacker)

4, Forklif

Forklift is vehicle for pick and move goods to another location. This tools is mainly diferrent from material handling before because forklif have capability to move goods with great weight either outdoor or indoor in harbor, factory, warehouse, market. this vehicles use battery electric for lift and up and move for long distance. Operator can easy use this vehicles with sit in back and have can control in many feature (LCD digital multi fungtion, knob speed, alarm, automatic brake, and seat belt. Capacity forklif common between 1 Ton - 10 Ton and can reach hight 3 m up to 6 meter, and when it use also use pallet when goods move to another location. (you can click this link for video Forklif)

5, Drum Handler

Drum handler often use to handle product liquid, actually it easy to use, save and able rotatete 360 degress to help pouring. (you can click this link for video Drum Handler)

6, Crane

Crane constitute tools for lift and move material more higher based on dimension or weight. Crane usually use in harbour, industry, or warehouse (you can click this link for video Crane)