MATERIAL HANDLING MODEL OF PRODUCTION WORKPLACES

Abstract

Nowadays, most of the manufacturing procedures use different workplaces to realize given production steps. At the production workplaces different material handling solutions are applied, however the selection of the suitable handling equipment is not optimized and based on experimental knowledge. The research presented in this paper targets to develop a model which can help to select the most suitable material handling equipment for different production workplaces. This paper gives an overview about the types of the workplaces in the aspects of material handling, the principals of the model building process, the structure of the possible model versions and presents an example for the applicability of the conception.