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Industrial Automation in Material Handling

Material handling involves the movement, storage, and control of materials throughout manufacturing and distribution. Automated material handling reduces the need for human labor by using automated systems like automated guided vehicles to move materials. The industrial benefits of automated material handling include higher value jobs, better access to production data, improved quality control, increased workplace safety, higher production volumes and flexibility, and faster time to market.

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Industrial Automation in Material Handling

Material handling involves the movement, storage, and control of materials throughout manufacturing and distribution. Automated material handling reduces the need for human labor by using automated systems like automated guided vehicles to move materials. The industrial benefits of automated material handling include higher value jobs, better access to production data, improved quality control, increased workplace safety, higher production volumes and flexibility, and faster time to market.

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Material handling and industrial

material handling
Material Handling & Industrial. Material handling is
the movement, protection, storage and control
of materials and products throughout manufacturing,
warehousing, distribution, consumption and disposal.
Automated materials handling
• Automated materials handling (AMH) refers
to any automation that reduces or eliminates
the need for humans to check-in, check-out,
sort material, or to move totes and bins
containing library material.
Industrial benefits of automated material
handling
• 1- Higher-Value Jobs
• When people talk about automation, they
focus most of the time on the 
potential displacement of human workers. In
reality, automation is a complement to human
effort – and companies that navigate the
transition to selective automation well often
don’t have to lose even a single employee.
2- Better Access to Data

• Before automation became more widely available, the various work


areas and pieces of equipment within an industrial setting
represented islands of process data. But thanks to 
connected automated systems, logistics experts, facilities managers
and other industry professionals have access to many types of data
they didn’t have before.
• Crucially, this access allows those systems to communicate with one
another, too. When a 
connected conveyor system in a distribution center can adjust
product flow based on surrounding conditions, including
maintenance items, it means machines and workers alike can react
accordingly. The various parts of a facility are able to use the
information to plan ahead to anticipate changes and delays.
3- Improved Quality Control

• As we mentioned before, some of the roles being


inherited by robots – including automated material
handling equipment – involve inspections and quality
control processes.
• The concept of machine vision powered by AI has gained a
lot of traction in recent years and now enjoys some of the
top billing when companies start shopping around for
connected material handling systems. Compared with
manual inspections, automated inspection using machine
vision catches more errors and 
cuts waste by reducing rework.
4-  Better Workplace Safety

• Most employers are quick to say that


employee safety is one of their top concerns.
But not every company means it or takes the
time to find out which technologies can
contribute to a safer workplace. The 
numbers on workplace safety incidents speak
volumes.
5-  Higher-Volume, More Flexible Production

• Automated material handling equipment can help factories and


distribution centers assemble or move more products in any given
period. It also helps those companies realize greater flexibility across
their operations.
• Supply chain and logistics managers have the means to call upon data
from a central location, as well as issue new commands to automated
guided vehicles and make adjustments to other connected machines
on the fly. All of this makes any given facility far more flexible and
better equipped to switch over to manufacturing a different product
— or making another process change — without first gathering up half
your workforce to get it done.
6-  Faster Time to Market

• All of the above factors combined make


automated material handling equipment the
obvious choice for any company worried
about beating their competitors to the
market.

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