Chapter 5: Facilities Management

it is the movement of materials or products by any means, including storage, and all movements except processing operations and inspection

• material handling

• planning principle

• ergonomic principle

better cargo and storage methods for air transport where materials handling is concerned

• mining

• processing

• aircraft

It is the science that seeks to adopt work or working conditions to suit the abilities of the workers

• work

• ergonomic

• standardation

it combines individual items or items in shipping containers into single "units" that can be moved easily with a pallet jack or forklift truck.

• material handling

• planning principle

• unit load

is a proven process of unit load component cost optimization based on an understanding of how the pallet, packaging, and material handling equipment interact during product distribution and storage to design the unit load component parts.

• component-based design

• system-based design

• standards

this refers to the different kinds of transportation items and vehicles used to move materials and products in materials handling.

• industrial trucks

• bulk material handling

• storage equipment

cover a variety of units that work cohesively to enable storage and transportation. They are often automated.

• storage equipment

• industrial trucks

• engineered system

it includes all ash flows that will occur between the time the first peso is spent to plan procure a new piece of equipment, or to put in place a new method until that method and/or equipment is totally replaced.

• life cycle cost

• construction

• processing

The design of many processing machines is influenced by the need or integrating various material handling features or attachments to modern machine mechanisms.

• railroad car builders

• aircraft

• machine tools

it is the movement, protection, storage, and control of materials and products throughout manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption, and disposal.

• unit load design

• material handling

• system- based design