Equipment Guidelines
Download Material Handling Equipment Guidelines
This document provides an overview of different types of material handling equipment. It contains typical operating specifications for the equipment and some general guidelines about possible application areas. It is intended as an introductory document that provides some basic information about different categories of material handling equipment.
A link to the equipment guidelines file (PDF format) may be found following the key benefits and table of contents below.
Key Benefits
- Classification of material handling equipment types
- Ranges of operating parameters for each type
- Typical application areas for each type
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- General Considerations
- Static Storage Systems
- Industrial Steel Storage Racks
Shelving and Drawer Storage
Mezzanines
- In-Plant Industrial Trucks
- Powered Trucks
Non-Powered Trucks
- Non-powered hand trucks
Non-powered hand pallet trucks
- Dock Equipment
- Dock Levelers
Truck Restraining Devices
- Fixed Path Conveying
- Gravity Conveyors
- Horizontal Powered Conveyors
- Live Roller
- Live Roller Accumulation Conveyors
- Slider Bed/Roller Bed Conveyors
- Roller Curves and Belt Turn Conveyors
- Sortation Conveyors
- Powered Overhead Conveyors
- Vertical Conveyors
- Variable Path Conveying
- Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV)
- Monorails
- Pneumatic Tube Systems
- Dynamic Storage Systems
- High-Density Dynamic Storage Systems
- Horizontal and Vertical Carousels
- Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS)
- Lifting, Leveling, and Work Positioning Systems
- Cranes
- Electric Hoists
- Unitizing Systems
- Pallets
- Industrial Metal Containers and Plastic Containers
- Palletizers
- Load Stabilizing Systems
- Stretching
- Strapping
- Shrinking
- Pallet Stacking Frames
- Reference
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