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College Industry Council on Material Handling Education

Classroom Case Studies

Advanced Additives (Facility Layout, Material Handling, Production/Manufacturing, Product Flow Analysis, Bottleneck Identification, Capacity Analysis, Warehousing Systems)
 
AGVS Procurement (AGVS, Design documentation)
 
Automobile Plant (Equipment selection and balancing of an automotive assembly line)
 
Common Conduit (Process flow analysis, Facility design, Lease or Buy decision making)
 
Conveyor Line Power-and-free conveyor system design for an assembly line)
 
Fortune Filling (Manufacturing and material handling operations improvements)
 
L.L. Bean Distribution: The Monogramming Department (Distribution center customization area design)
 
M Porting Detailed Layout (Manufacturing and material handling operations improvements)
 
Material Handling and Storage Strategies for a Containerized Shipping (Gantry cranes, Capacity analysis)
 
Material Tracking in a Food Factory (Design of an IT system using Auto-ID)
 
Optimizing Material Handling System Costs (Warehouse justification, AS/RS, Material handling)
 
Plant Consolidation (Consolidating two facilities, Facility layout)
 
Quad Wants to be a Savi Player in Agribusiness (RFID, Reusable container tracking)
 
Sneaky Sneakers (Warehousing Systems, Product Flow Analysis, Facility Layout, Equipment Selection, Material Handling, Capacity Analysis)
 
Sonic Speakers (Assembly line design, Warehouse design, Facility layout, Material handling)
 
Twenty Short Case Problems in Materials Handling (Warehouse operations improvements)
 
Vital Vitamins (Assembly line design, Warehouse design, Facility layout, Material handling)