Material handling equipment selection in manufacturing environment.

Iftikhar Hussain; Abdul Hadi; Sahar Noor; Mohammad Naeem Khan

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Material handling equipment selection in manufacturing environment.

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Iftikhar Hussain Department of Industrial Engineering, Engineering College, King Saud University, PO Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia

Abdul Hadi Department of Mechanical Engineering, NWFP University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Sahar Noor Department of Mechanical Engineering, NWFP University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Mohammad Naeem Khan University Workshops, NWFP, University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

This Paper is about the selection of material handling equipment in a manufacturing environment. A known algorithm 1 about the selection of material handling equipment is modified and a more realistic factor (flexibility) is included in the mathematical formulation as a constraint. A new model named Material Handling Equipment Selection Model (MHESM) is developed and implemented in Visual Basic 6. The model is tested and verified by using 50 different data sets. An illustrative example is given to describe the model.

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Page(s) 1-9

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Published Journal: Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Year: 2003

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