Goals of Material Handling
1. Maintain product quality, reduce damage and provide protection of materials.
2. Promote safety and improve working conditions.
3. Improve productivity through:
- Materials should move as short distance as possible
- Increase the size of materials handled
- Mechanize /Automate Material Handling
- Maintain/Improve material handling ratios
- Increase throughput by using automated material handling equipment
4. Promote increase use of facilities
- Increase cubic utilization
- Purchase versatile equipment
- Standardize material handling equipment
- Maintain, and replace as needed, all equipment and develop a preventive maintenance program
- Integrate all material handling equipment into a system
5. Reduce tare weight (describe the weight of packaging material).
6. Control inventory.
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