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MATERIAL HANDLING

Types are distinguished from one another by their degree of automation,

capital expense, lift height, capacity, and aisle requirements. There are Walkie
Stacker, Counterbalance lift Truck, Narrow-Aisle Vehicles (straddle trucks,
straddle side loader trucks, turret trucks, and hybrids truck)

2) Small unit load Storage and Retrieval Equipment

House small inventory quantity of one or more items storage location
and been classified as:

a) operator-to-stock (OTS)
(or man-to-part or in-the-aisle system) is if the operator travels to the
storage location to retrieve material and stock. Operator-to-stock equipment

types are Bin Shelving, Modular Storage Drawers in Cabinets and Gravity Flow
Rack. Operator-to-Stock Systems retrieval equipment types are Picking Carts,
Order Picking Trucks Person-on-Board AR/R and Robotic Retrieval.

b) Stock-to-operator

O r (part-to-man or end-aisle systems) is if material is mechanically
transported to and operator for retrieval. Stock-to-operator equipments are
Miniload Automated Storage and Retrieval Machines

Figure 5.15: Pallet stacking frame storage
5.4.4 Automatic identification and communication equipment

A vision system reading and interpreting labels to identify the proper
destination for a cartin traveling on a sortation conveyor - A laser scanner to

relay the inventory levels of a small parts warehouse to a computer via radio
frequency communication. A voice recognition system to identify parts received
at the receiving dock. A radio frequency (RF) or surface acoustical wave (SAW)
tag use to permanently identify a tote pans or pallet. A card with magnetic

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