M1.8 - Material Handling and Transportation Technologies (MHT)

• Basic components of MHT (drives/engines, breaks, ropes and chains, couplings, weight/force carrying structures, load carrying devices)
• Packaging systems (impact of good characteristics on handling, packs/pallets/containers, packaging methods and technologies, load protection)
• Material handling systems (conveyors, cranes, trucks/vehicles, design constraints, automation, performance, maintenance, examples)
• Warehousing/storing systems and container yards (indoor/outdoor, racks, operating systems, design constraints, automation, performance, maintenance, examples)
• Order picking systems, sorters (functionality, components, design constraints, automation, performance, maintenance, examples)
• Transhipment equipment (loading/unloading devices, dock levellers, loading platforms, functionality, components, design constraints, automation, maintenance, examples)
• Transportation systems (functionality, components, design constraints, performance)
• Cases (e.g. distribution systems)