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MATERIAL HANDLING HDBK (McGraw-Hill Handbooks) (Hardcover)

by David E. Mulcahy (Author) "This introductory chapter serves several purposes: (1) It identifies the key warehouse, plant product movement, and transporation functions; (2) it defines terms that are used..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 768 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 007044014X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070440142
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16 x 5.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,193,777 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Your hands-on guide to materials handling and product movement methods for today's competitive facilities

Dramatically improve the movement of materials in any warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing facility. This book will introduce you to the latest methods for designing, organizing, operating, and maintaining a state-of-the-art materials handling/product movement system. You'll learn about horizontal and vertical transportation techniques for items of all sizes, and get full details on inventory control...identification systems...cost estimates...site selection...product security...the use of consultants...and much more.

This essential logistics tool features:

  • insights and tips from plant and warehouse pros that will make your materials handling operations more efficient and cost effective
  • scores of illustrations, forms, and tables to assist you in developing product movement strategies that can be implemented immediately
  • complete information on the requirements of manual, mechanized, and automated systems.

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    In most manufacturing operations, containers, pallets and cartons are moving continually between the warehouse, machine shop, and production floor, to the loading docks, and shipping centers. This handbook provides the procedures, techniques, and methods needed to design, organize, operate, and maintain all facets of an efficient, cost-effective material handling/product movement system. Designed for large, medium, and small business operations, it helps reduce product damage, enhances product flow, increases employee productivity, improves customer service, and maintains on-schedule deliveries.

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    This introductory chapter serves several purposes: (1) It identifies the key warehouse, plant product movement, and transporation functions; (2) it defines terms that are used in the logistics industry to identify the in-house transportation function and activities; (3) it outlines the objective, transportation concept, and equipment; and (4) it identifies issues and trends that are shaping the present and future warehouse and plant product movement (transportation) concepts, transportation concepts, and equipment. Read the first page
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    4.0 out of 5 stars All you need to know about materials handling in one place, 24 Jul 2001
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    Easey to read format, clear indexing of all the relevant topics. No need to plough through pages and pages just to find the information you need, it's right there on the index page with a reference number - find it even more easily than sax on the next! One tip from this book will save even a small company thousands of pounds.
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