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THE CIHNA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950,

WORTHINGTON

"PUMP HEADQUARTERS"

CENTRIFUGAL

POWER

STEAM ROTARY

MARINE

PUMPS COMPRESSORS-DIESEL ENGINER

STEAM POWER EQUIPMENT~CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT.

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DAVID HOUSE

MORRISON

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ENGINEERING PAGE PRODUCTION IS MATERIAL ON THE MOVE

While material handling is a J'L

most uf production and times loses its identity under that heading, it is in itself, non- productive work. Simply stated, material handling is moving mate rial from one spot to another dering its course of manufacture, For that reason hote it in moved Leeomes a vital item in the cont of Buished product.

By Thomas N. Parlon

but, just ask him how much it is costing him to move a ton of material through his plunt, and he is sunk.

savings in our material handling operation:

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1. We want to move as much material at one time as is neces- where temporary storage very sary to keep our production ikely are encoutered, then as machines working at full enpa- dished products into storage and city: 7 into shipping. How efficiently 2. We want to eliminate the Have you any idea of the cost uten moves ar made determines extra cost of neeilicss rehaulDE | DAVID HOUSE

whelber or not producting coats or, individual placeaehandling are high or low.

can mushroom "Ail" right,” you ray, "My into 1,000 tons per day: material handling costs are too)

3. We want to keep skilled, producing high. So what do I do, is the nearest telephone and order is for high-priced workers

very minute they are on the job ruck 7"

1. We

want

to relense many men as possible for pro- ductive work;

Cost of product

10 tons per

daydoni nés szalaen sand

6. We want to conservo stor- age space;

of handling materials in the course of manufacturing a given mujor problem of the product? Carefully kept records that material handling, manufacturer today is how to show handle material fast enough to which is entirely non-productive keep pace with the capacity of work, mind you, accounts (on a

for 30 cents of every hi: production machines. Just as average)

collar spent for production. some of our highways today are Think of it; 30 cents of every dequate to handle motor cars dollar goes for non-productive BASEMENT Syafanzen that travel over them, co muscle

And that is average. In To lat question, let me ask you methods of handing material are work.

more. I ore. How do you determine the

B. We want to permit the most indequate when

coines to many plants it is even it

If you eat that by Jint 5 cents, cost of a product ?" You make

effective use of present plant lay- į komping production machines

for COUTAO, So working at, their full capacity. think of the money you would cost analysis,

much steel at so much per ton. So out or improve it by change:"

7. We want to avold muscle Now that An important thing save!

Tet me tell you right now of a many machine screws of so much muving, because it supa workers' to remember for machines are

30 many men per et economical when perform-company that not only thought per gros,

on the job about the money they could save, hour, and so on, until you have energy and cuts down their pro- int at full capacity

but they saved it to the prout your carts of manufacture. Then ductivity they were designed to do.

nhle tune of US$26,000 a year by you take a look at them: if they trucks which permitted the trans- tism and motion study: you find fer of twenty men to more pro- a way to have each man turn our action wark, plus a huge saving five hore arts per hour: your unit cost drops a few pennies.

10. We want to help reduce in starite space.

fnater How did that company realire 7 study a little more and shave demurrage charges by a

custs another loading and unloading of trucks, that saving? Its machinery was your production

Pretty soon there is railroad cars, and vessels, of the most madein type and ita fraction.

These are the things we want to blunt layout left little to be desir-precious little leit to shave. You

lo and must do, if we are ed. They realised that saving by reach, bottom.

reduce our ninterlal jandling turning to the one place fef where a substantial saving could

Rosts. their method of be, made in handling material.

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HOLLAND HOUSE.

8.

Whetta skilled operator must installing special pallets and fork appear too high, you ED over your foWe want to make it enteri

stand idly by at the rate of U.S.$ while he waits for py hour, parts to be carried or dragged to i mnchine hy musele power, you don't have to be on expert: mercantant 10 figure that it dern't take many of those wait- ing periods to skyrocket the cost of the finished product. And with the abrupt rise of the breakeven pulut, with which almost every Lusiners Is belt faced today, material handling may well be 21 difference between profit and loss.

Well, that is how you attack your material handling problem by a thorough study of every hand- Big Job In year plant. But don't become alarmed, because it is not like your nigghine production pro- lem--there is plenty left to shave from your materials handling cost,

workers, tu Kafeguard mate- rials against damage

D.. We want to assure a better inventory control of materinis inventory

to

Now, how can we best do them? bviously the job is too big, too important to be treated lightly. If you do not now have a man whose direct responsibility it in to keen an eagle, eye on production flow in your plant, then appoint

The modern plant is basically a material handling systent, for production material on the move. Whether or not parts or ingredients arrive in bulk or in

Let's consider briefly some of DRC, boxes, on skids or on pallet, ali

be moved into stores, the things we want to accomplish must

proceaking operations i order to realise substantial}

When musele power does the lifting, pushing and pulling the production curve is bound to go down while the cost curve goes up, especially when you consider through the fact that the Average man can only do as much work as ah. p. electrle molor. It is no wonder muscle power can't keep pace with modern production machines.

By the score

Remember, those machines are capable of turning out parts and shed products by the score. For example, a recent installa- tion of a jo-station machine in an automobile plant drilla 89 toles in a cylinder block, with one operator running the machine by pushbutton. To keep up with this kind of production-to move such quantities through o plant in the least possible time at the lowest possible cost, your ma- terial handling methods must be as modern as your production methods.

There is hardly a plant super- intendent or manager who couldn't tell you to the fraction of a penny how much il i eosting him to fabricate a part,

(Continued next week)

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