Homework/Assignment 7
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Problems
Question 1: Describe Material Handling. Provide one specific example you have observed in reality
(What are they? For which products? What are the processes? And how people manage to handle these
materials safely and efficiently?)
Question 2: How the Manufacturing System should be changed to adapt with the 4.0 industry?
Question 3: Fill in the blanks for the following figure of “Volume-variety layout classification”.
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2.
3.
4.
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Question 4: Read the page 188 in the text book:
a) Illustrate the example in the excel file
b) Figure out the relationship between Unit load size and
c) Comments
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Question 5: Given a warehouse similar to that given in Figure 7.27a, where would you position
the following items?
First, we calculate the receiving/shipping ratio by formulation:
𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝
We have:
Product
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
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Receiving/Shipping
ratio
2
1
0.2
0.5
1.67
2
1
1.25
1
0.7
2
1
0.5
1.4
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Based on the table:
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Product B, G, I, L: the ratio = 1 Can be anywhere
Product A, E, F, H, K, N: the ratio > 1  Locate close to receiving (the higher ratio, the
closer to receiving)
Product C, D, J, M: the ratio < 1  Locate close to shipping (the lower ratio, the closer to
shipping)
The position on warehouse:
A
K
H
Receiving
F
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E
N
B
I
Main aisle
G
L
J
C
Shipping
D
M
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