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Article: Unit handling conveyor selection factors. (material handling)
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- Plant Engineering
- Article date:
- February 22, 1990
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Addressing these considerations ensures successful transport and accumulation of material for light manufacturing and assembly operations
Ever-increasing demands for flexibility, integration, and inventory reduction are revising management's opinion on the importance of material handling as the foundation on which to base modernization efforts. Correspondingly, the changing nature of material handling is enlarging the use and concept of unit handling conveyors, which are now viewed as tools for change instead of simply a method for moving an item from here to there.
The increasing role of unit handling conveyors is especially evident in the areas of ...