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MATERIAL HANDLING

a) Hand trucks and hand carts

b ) Pallet jacks

Maneuver and transport a pallet load of material short
distances.

c) walkie stackers
extends the lifting capability, stackers unit load the storage

racks, transport a short distance

2) Riding industrial vehicles
 Operator can ride the vehicle.

 Suitable for longer distance travel. More weight and higher storage
capacity

a) Pallet truck
Used when the distance to be traveled precludes walking.

b) Platform truck
P r o v i d e a platform for supporting load. It has no lifting capability.

c) Tractor trailer
Providing power to hand trucks. Rider types vehicle to pull a train of
connected trailers.

3) Automated Industrial Vehicles

No human intervention from powering and guiding the movement of the
vehicle. Automatically guided by electrified wires buried in the floor, magnetic tape

lined along the floor, rail mounted in the ceiling, cameras mounted on the vehicles,
or inertial guided systems. The types are includes:

a) Automated guided vehicles (AGVs)
- resemble towline conveyors but it is driven and guided by it

own electric motors using storage batteries, followed
predeterminened path. Can be design as a tractor or unit

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