Design Competition
The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education
(CICMHE) and Modern Materials Handling Magazine sponsor a
national team design competition for students interested in the
analysis and design of material handling systems. Since the
first design competition was offered during the 1994-1995
academic year, student design teams have developed material
handling system designs for manufacturing and warehousing
operations. Design problems are typically drawn from the case
files of designers and manufacturers of material handling
equipment and their end users. The 2007-2008 case was developed
by Bastian Material Handling. Cash prizes from CICMHE and
Modern Materials Handling Magazine are provided to the top
three teams and the academic departments of the team members.
See the links below regarding the current design competition
and the summaries of the past design competitions.
The 2007-2008 design competition case files are now
available in the links below. The case was developed for CICMHE
by Bastian Material Handling. Note that the data files are
available in either a single Access database file or as
individual text files in a comma separated value (CSV) format
that may be imported into either a database or spreadsheet.
Case
Description and
Case
Rules
Facility
Drawing (Autocad .DWG) and
Guide to
the Facility Drawing (PowerPoint)
Facility
Data Files (in Access, 11MB file)
Facility Data Files (text files in CSV format) of
Item
Master (2MB),
Order
Headers (19MB),
Order Line
Item Detail (35MB),
Receipts
(4MB)
Judging
Guidelines for Design Competition
Summary of Previous Design Competitions and
Results
2006-2007
Design Competition Summary
2005-2006
Design Competition Summary
2004-2005
Design Competition Summary
2003-2004
Design Competition Summary
2002-2003
Design Competition Summary
2001-2002
Design Competition Summary
2000-2001
Design Competition Summary
1999-2000
Design Competition Summary
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