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`THE. CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1050.

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ENGINEERING PAGE

Production is material on the move

(Continued from last week) Somo plants have found it ex-. pédient to establish a committee or department to gather all the Becessary incis. To learn what

By THOMAS N. comically filled with the plat

PARLON

happens when material in trans- cause I am so closely associated forrod in your plant, your man with them, as well as trucks and must divide your handling alops | hoists. However, I am not un. Into logical classifications, such as mindful of the importance of con receiving, processing, storage, and shipping.

vayora in the handling of materi- als. There is a definite place for them in the material bandling pic ture, as there is for scales, hoists,

form truck

The transition or fork truck, however, from a truck builder's stand-point, was not a simple pru CAL Problems of dealgn were entirely new.

If your products require a great number of parts, he will find it ndvisable to begin by selecting and trucks. representative part or unit and tracing its path or travel through thu plant. Your man will have to Let us get back on the track find the answers to such things and talk about another phase, and as the type and number of mates most important one it in, of rial handling machines now used, original material handling story

In fact, they com.sporting it. plement rather than replace each other.

their load capacity, the type of palletising.

lond whether tote pan, carton, "We must turn to the war expe sline, barrel, etc., the number of frience, to demonstrate the auded units handled per load and per savings made possible by palioti. nuniber of incr needed to win. During the war the U.S. move, and deliver material Army and Navy asked all sup Cherint

handling step, dike each

displlers to ship on standardised Lance.

between

ench

transfer pallets. This grontly facilitated point, celling heights and column movement of goods from manufac spacing in storing areas, type and buring plants to supply depots, to condition of floor, how material is ship-board, to foreign supply received and finished products are dumps, to disbursing points, shipped, dimensions of receiving and shipping docks, dimensions und grade of ramps.

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Lighting for G.E. MOTORS the make-up & CONTROLS

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The problem of make-up ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY LTD.

and its suitability under vary- ing kinds of lighting is a con- siderable one, which taxes not only, the woman who uses cosmetics, but the manufac- turer who supplies her. distinction between daylight and There is, of course, major artificial light which needs to be carefully catered for by correct selection of make-up shades if make-up is to full' its function of enhancing a woman's appear-

Platform truck In the Hit platform truck we had the relatively easy assign ment of putting wheels under the load, lifting the load, and tran- Once we know the weight of the land to be handied, we simply had to 'furnish Д pint- form and wheelbare to suit the load dimensions. Platform trucks, therefore, wore rated in lifting capacity alone and stood or fell on their ability economically to per« form the task of moving material

Matance. from one point in a plant to un-

With the fork truck. It was not colours of one type of artificial that simple. The Pallet left us lighting and another. For the space under the load for wheels, whether she will be dining in a woman who may be unaware theretore Wo were forced design to carry the load entirely restaurant lighted by tungsten outside of the trucks' wheelcase. light, and later dancing in room With that construction it was no which has fluorescent lighting. langer possible to handle the given compromise is almost certainly weight by simply making forks to the make-up answer. suit the load dimensions.

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There is also a big difference between the effect on cosmetic

the same.

The cosmetic manufacturers' problem has a slightly different emphasis although basiently it is They must know about, and be prepared to cater of distortion in the shades of their products when viewed in differ- ent lighting:

exports, what is know na thn Vis- ling of a pallet" piece consist corneault not be measured in for quite a considerable margini

corrective

Type of equipment

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for

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the forks the centre

of

and

Savings possible

Fork trucks had to be tailored Savings were made possible, to suit b To guide your man in finding because in palletised shipping the

both the weight of the load and the length of the load out on these answers, we have developed goods are handled "IN BULK the forks. A fork truck there with the nki of material handling

each Package

with IER load, 0-Graph Chort.

which This chart etsin handled as a

terms of its rated weight lifting single unit through forth the factors that must be con-

capacity alone,

We got many requests, for ex- sidered, if ways to find improve moving, tooding, unloading.

storage, reloading, and simitas ampic,"

To this end Messra. Atkinson's 4,000 lbs. capacity ments and lower costs are to be.

operations, Such "unit loads

Lid, of Old Bond Street, who fork truck. Before wo uncovered.

cnn - The Vis-O-Graph is not presen-and picked up, moved, about, and we have to find out at what din collaborating with The General have a finely equipped Experi- usually wolgh une ten or more telligently answer that request,

mental and Test Salon, have been ted as a cure-all for handling pro-

or tiered easily by set down blems. However, it does provide modern a practical means for recording modern power-driven industrial of gravity of the load is located. Electric Co. Ltd., of England for

forks trucks.

some considerable time in order anndling operations, tracing the Those bulk packages or unit load times the distance out on the Then the product of the 4,000 lbs.

to And a satisfactory solution, movement of materiala and collectoads do not have to be broken at

The result so far achieved is a forks to the centre of gravity of ting pertinent physical plant data any point in the shipping sequence

specially that a manner so organised your material handling engineer from the production line to point the bad gives us the inch-pound which fluorescent and tungsten

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capacity that is required in a fork lighting are ultimata consumption. The

· combined. Purc eas evaluate all factors intelll-Importance of this feature cannot

truck to do that particular job. tungsten, it was found,. over- Kently and suggest

Inch-pound capacity truck, and the colours of lipstick and rouge, then is the emphasised the red elements in methods and equipment.

be over-emphasised, as it means savings are obtained at every fork trucks can only be compared while all normal kinds

only measure of a

fluore- point of handling by doing the

scent light under-emphasised work with n truck or other mechana Inch-pound basis.

Equipment manufacturers have them. such apical handling device, instead of not as yet standardised their de Once you have mach

Hence the decision to study you are ready, with the help by hand.

blend the two types of light. of competent material handling Since modern material hand-oistency in the important load sides with panels

sign to the point that there is any The mirror is flanked on both muchinery engineers, to select the ting has opened a new cost-saving

covered with type of equipment to fit your par-frontier in our manufacturing andth rating of present day fork reeded "Perspex". Each of these

The trucks. Beolar needs.

to trend distribution operations, there has standardisation

pallet panels contains one Osram 3 ft. will In time. Natural fluorescent lamp, Probably no error in the applica- a rush to the fork truck and tion of material handling ma-bullet.

one force truck manufacturers The economics of the standard fork truck capacities,

to Osram 3 ft. architectural lamp. chinery is more common than the pallet as a shipping container assumption that one type of equip-have in turn led to the present ducer of fork trucks, who has con- Only very recently one large pro- wide-spread Interest in standar- Just as there are no all-nurpose did shipping pallets and pallet sistently designed to 80 load production machines, so there are pants.

length rating, has been forced in

done even after daylight has gone. As a result, make-up carried out all-purpose handling machines,

Every indication to date points his new design to match our Because of this fact the value to a

under this lighting will have-a rating. standard shipping pallet, standard 48" load length

It is well to remember about good appearance under daylight, to you of analysing landling oper-measuring about 40" by 48′′. This ations, as outlined in the Vis-O-alze has been dictated by the fact

the fork truck that it is essentially and also under most types of Graph and the Vis-O-Graph Sum that two 48" dimensions fit well tiering machine. Like any pro-artificial lighting. mary, cannot be over-emphasised

omleal when Such a study-ean reveal conditions across a box car, while two 40" duction machine, it is most ecol

dimensions fit well across a high-om.

full operating at

den which, when corrected, Improve

way trailer.

to do. handling efficiency immeasurably

That is the reason and appreciably reduce costs..

confining the fork truck to ware why. we frequently recommend In connection with material handling machinery. an item that is often overlooked, but neverthe

housing and loading operations and assigning the task of long tranafers to the more economical less of extreme importance a

tractor_trailer systern. tool of production control, is the Industrial Scale. The scales of do not merely weigh There are scales counting, bat

for measuring, and testing-all which speed production by erations and by lessening the

for human error. I suppose it is natural for me to mention sentes in connection with material handling, not only be cause they are a

port of the material handling picture, but be

ment is best for all user.

no

The rush to this new cost-saving isip on the job it was

material handling frontier has resulted in a few cases of mis. which prompts me to pass along application of the fork truck. few basic facts concerning this versatile tool. This is in an effort to dispel some of the mystery and confusion that surround the fork truck.

This combination gives a light properly assessed, and enables by which make-up colours can be experimental and test work to be

year on a single operation moving cases of canned goods from pru duction line to warehot.so.

the another example is that or battery manufacturer who com bined fork truck, palletised loads and roller skate conveyors in its highway trailors to out its load- Some examples

ing and unloading time of ■ 12 ton Here are a few examples of the trailer from 300 man-minutes par kind of savings that can be made handling operation to a. 45 man- The fork truck-pallet system la with a properly applied fork minate operation

with a fork per cent. The need to con truck handling skid system.

I could go on and on with hun- serve storage space and manual can unload a box car in 1-1/2 labour led to the dovelopment of hours. To do the job by hand dreds of similar examples oquaily startling. But invariably the the pallet and the high tiering formerly took men a half day.

conclusion in the same.

Why

1 fork truck, I do not intend to In another case, a Western can- Because production la material on imply that the lift platform trucknery that replaced muscle me the move, And the mere rasterial on obsolete, tool.. There are thods with fork trucks and paliets you move and the faster you move, still many jobs

sayed more than U.S. 5,000 the more you will be able to save

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