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Certificate in Material Handling Equipment

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Material Handling Equipment


About Material Handling Equipment

Equipment used to move, store, regulate, and protect materials, commodities, and products during the production, distribution, consumption and disposal processes are known as material handling equipment (MHE). Transport equipment, positioning equipment, unit load formation equipment, and storage equipment are the four broad categories into which the many types of equipment may be divided.

Why is Material Handling Equipment important?

Material handling equipment advantages:

  • Save Money.
  • Maximize Space.
  • Decrease Product Damage. 
  • Improved Customer Service.
  • Increase Work Efficiency and Productivity.
  • Reduce Accidents in Facilities.
    • Attract employees and Improve Worker Satisfaction.

    Who should take the Material Handling Equipment Exam?

    • Material-handling and logistics engineers
    • Manufacturing and process engineers
    • Industrial engineers and systems analysts
    • Production supervisors and team leaders
    • Warehouse supervisors and team leaders

    Material Handling Equipment Certification Course Outline

    1. The definition and objectives of material handling
    2. Basic principles and economics of material handling
    3. Classifications of Material Handling Equipment
    4. How to understand the categories of handling equipment
    5. How to understand the types of handling systems
    6. Systemic Handling Analysis (SHA) – an organized approach
    7. Key information for systematic analysis
    8. Practical ways to visualize and analyze material movements
    9. Guided Application in Material Handling Analysis
    10. Use data on material movements to develop a material handling plan
    11. How to identify preferred handling methods and equipment for different classes of materials and for each move in a facility
    12. How to use your material handling plan to validate your concepts; find real products that could help you implement it.
    13. Cost Justification and comparison
    14. Evaluation and selection of plans and equipment
    15. Ways to attack material handling problems
    16. Checklists and surveys
    17. Work sampling, time standards, and measurement of material handling labor

    Certificate in Material Handling Equipment FAQs

    The result will be declared immediately on submission.

    It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.

    You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

    No there is no negative marking

    There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

    You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

    You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.