Material handling equipment (MHE) is equipment used to transport, store or control material within various facilities. These facilities can include the manufacturing plants where the material is produced or the disposal sites where it ends up. Large material handling equipment includes cranes, trucks and lifts. Smaller equipment includes things such as storage bins, dollies and […]
Safety when operating man lift equipment is an extreme significance. Every employer must put their staff through compulsory safety training before allowing an individual to operate the machinery. Employers must consider follow-up training for employees as many fail to remember the safety procedures. As a person becomes comfortable in their job, they can often forget […]
Those involved with the business of material handling understand the complex concerns of the type of work. It is characterised by specific needs for equipment, safety procedures and a clever use of space that both streamlines storage retrieval, and uses available spaces optimally. These are but a few of the concerns that this industry is […]
In many material handling situations, there are those places which are simply too hard to reach. For these cases, man-up lifting equipment provides an elegant and cost-effective answer to the problem of getting to places that are out of reach. Though there are many different types of man-up machines, just as there are many different […]
There are many different types of forklifts available today, Below we have named and explained 5: Counterbalance Lift The counterbalance lift is the kind of forklift you will see the most. At the front of the mechanism there are forks and it was designed with a weight at the back in order to counter […]
Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) have been around since the 1960’s. They are basically systems that are computer controlled that put away, store and retrieve products in manufacturing facilities, warehouses and distribution centres. The executive director of sales at Daifuku America explained that the first systems were built to handle big loads, and after […]