What Does a Material Handler Do?

Material handling refers to the activities carried out within the scope of the same place with the main goal of changing the material storage state and space location. Material handling is very important to improve the efficiency of warehouse operations. Material handling also directly affects production efficiency. In a production-oriented enterprise, the logistics manager is usually responsible for the movement of the goods into the warehouse, the storage of the goods in the warehouse, the movement of the goods from the storage location to the order picking area, and the final arrival in the shipping area to prepare for the outbound warehouse. The specific material handling operations mainly include: horizontal or inclined movement-handling operations; vertical movement-loading and unloading operations; palletizing or picking-lifting or lowering operations; steering-rotation operations around the vertical line and flipping-rotation operations around the horizontal axis. The basics of material handling: materials, movements, and methods

Material handling

The increase in industrial production automation and the expansion of production scale, as well as the huge impact of material handling costs on profit during the production process, have prompted enterprises to increasingly adopt large, efficient and automated material handling machinery in production. With the increasing competitiveness of China's material handling equipment manufacturing enterprises in the international market, and the needs of developing countries' economic construction for sustained and stable development, the overall demand for China's material handling machinery in the world market will continue to grow.

The material handling equipment manufacturing industry provides various modern handling equipment for various industries of the national economy, major construction projects, and national defense security. It has basically formed a comprehensive product range, a good technical system and a large enterprise group. It has become an independent industry in the machinery industry, serving various industries in the national economy, including providing a large number and variety of products for the secondary and tertiary industries. A large number of products can provide large-scale lifting and transportation machinery equipment and systems for national key projects independently or in cooperation with foreign countries, and have a certain amount of exports.

In 2011, China's material handling equipment manufacturing industry scale (annual revenue of 20 million yuan) and more than 1,580 companies, more than 400,000 employees; the industry realized sales income of 472.347 billion yuan, total industrial output value of 471.223 billion yuan, total profit of 34.150 billion yuan, annual The average compound growth rate is over 20%. With the expansion of the production scale and the increase of the degree of automation, the material handling equipment manufacturing industry is becoming more and more widely used in the modern production process, and its role is becoming more and more important.

The basic competition pattern of the domestic material handling machinery market is: the high-end market is mainly occupied by multinational enterprises, and key domestic large enterprises have also gained some markets in some specific areas; participants in the mid-end market include large domestic enterprises and a few excellent manufacturing processes, Small and medium-sized enterprises with high management level; many small-scale, weak-tech, and poorly-managed enterprises lack product innovation, low product quality, low added value, and poor economic benefits. They are in the low-end market of the industry and have fierce competition.

The period from the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to 2020 is an important period for China to implement the sustainable development strategy of the national economy, promote the development of circular economy, take a new path of industrialization, and lay the foundation for building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society. Attaching great importance to the role of social and corporate logistics and vigorously developing the modern logistics industry is of great significance for promoting and enhancing the development of the industry, improving the quality and efficiency of economic operations, and enhancing overall national strength and corporate competitiveness. The material handling equipment manufacturing industry, which provides a large amount of equipment to the various industries of the national economy, including the secondary and tertiary industries, is an effective carrier means. The rapid and stable development of the national economy, the advancement of informatization and industrialization of basic industries, provides the best development opportunities for the material handling equipment manufacturing industry.

Materials handling

Material handling refers to the lifting, moving, and placing of materials to produce time and place, that is, the storage of materials and the management of short-distance movement. Another argument is that material handling is to provide the correct amount of the correct material at the right place, at the right time, in the right place, in the right order, and at the right cost, using the right method under the right conditions. Simply put, j is to use a variety of power and handling machinery to move the materials to a designated place with good quality, on time, on time, safely and economically.

The off-site material handling of the mechanical plant is closely related to site selection and professional collaboration. Off-site material handling usually includes road transportation, rail transportation, and water transportation. Each factory chooses the mode of transportation based on conditions such as external transportation, supply of raw materials, specialized collaboration and product sales. The railway transportation to the factory requires the construction of a special line and its own railway vehicles, which often require large investment and occupy a large area. The use of water transportation needs to consider factors such as the nature and source of materials, product characteristics and destinations, loading and unloading and transshipment capacity of the terminal, and infrastructure investment and surface and land transshipment costs. Road transportation is the most widely used in off-site material handling. Automobiles can generally reach the storage and use locations of materials directly. Automobile transportation should pay attention to energy conservation, improve loading and unloading conditions, increase vehicle utilization and full load coefficient, and reduce transportation costs. In modern enterprise management, factories that use just-in-time production systems use cars to transport purchased raw materials and parts directly to the plant's work place on time for production use on time, thereby eliminating intermediate storage, reducing multiple handling, and significantly shortening production cycles. And save working capital.

The in-plant logistics system of the mechanical factory involves the entire plant's production planning, technological processes, handling operations, warehouse management, information systems, and other aspects. It requires the reasonable arrangement of material handling routes, volumes, handling methods and equipment, storage sites, operators, etc. in order to speed up the logistics speed (less intermediate pauses, short production cycles) and improve the quality of logistics (less material loss, high handling efficiency, Safe operation), reduce logistics costs (including transportation, storage and other related costs).

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Unitize

Unitization is the application of the idea of scale to the handling of different materials. Its advantages are mainly reflected in:

Can simplify the link, save costs and achieve overall optimization;

Facilitate the mechanization of loading and unloading operations, reduce labor intensity and improve work efficiency;

Reduce the change of goods, reduce the loss of goods caused by the change, improve the quality of logistics, and save manpower and costs;

Reduced the impact of climate, ensure normal work, speed up the flow of goods and improve efficiency.

standardization

1) Logistics basic modulus

Material handling

The basic modulus of logistics is the minimum convention size of each standard size of the logistics system. After the size of the basic modulus is determined, each specific size standard must be based on the size of the basic modulus, and the integer multiple is selected as the specified size standard. After the size of the basic modulus is determined, only the standard size selection is required in the multiple. , Can be used as a standard for other sizes.

2) Logistics modulus

The logistics modulus is a benchmark for the dimensions of logistics facilities and equipment.

Logistics modulus is a standard scale for the rationalization and standardization of logistics. It is composed of various factors in the logistics system, including: grouping of goods, loading and unloading machinery for grouped goods, handling machinery and equipment trucks, trucks, containers and transportation facilities, machinery and equipment for cargo storage Wait.