Material handling—the movement, protection, storage, and control of materials and products—is the unseen engine that powers ...

Manual material handling include activities like pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, and lowering. At Purdue University, manual material handling is a leading cause of occupational injuries. The ...

Material-handling costs can be reduced by deploying the right equipment in the right places. Take advantage of gravity-fed movement before adding power-driven equipment, by installing gravity ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala --- Is material handling a safety concern to you while here on the depot? It should be! Surprisingly, it’s a source of many safety issues within most field operations ...

The digital platform collects the IoT data, cleanses it, and harmonizes it (there is one common data schema for storing this data). The data can come from material handling systems, lift truck ...

The calculation in Fig. 2 shows the return on a modest 2% investment in material price, resulting in a willing vendor partner helping the contractor to reduce material handling labor costs by 25%.