Subject: Production Engineering and Robotics

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 8 Marks

A) Related to planning.

• All activity should be planned.
• Plan a system which include all the handling activities & co-coordinating the operations.
• Simplification principle: Reduced or eliminate unnecessary movements and equipment.
• Gravity principle: Utilize the gravity whenever possible to move material.
• Space utilization: Make optimum utilization of building cube.
• Safety principle: Provide for safe handling methods and equipment.

B) Related to equipment.

• Mechanization/ automation principle: Use mechanized or automated handling equipment when practicable.
• Equipment selection according to movement & method of material handling.
• Standardization principle: Standardize the method as well as type of sizes of handling equipment.
• Flexibility principle: Use methods and equipment’s that can perform a variety of tasks and application.
• Maintenance principle: Plan for preventing maintenance and schedule repair of all handling equipment.
• Idle time principle-reduced idle time: Reduced idle or unproductive time of both handling equipment and manpower.

C) Related to Operation.

• Control principle-Use material handling equipment to improve production control, inventory control etc.
• Capacity principle-to achieve full production capacity.-Performance efficiency principle: Determine efficiency of material handling performance in terms of expense per unit handled.