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MATERIAL HANDLING CHECKLIST
• Crowded operating conditions
• Cluttered aisles
• Cluttered docks
• Poor housekeeping
• Jam-ups in service departments
• Backtracking in materials flow
• Obstacles in materials flow
• Manual loading and unloading
• Manual handling of loads weighing more than 50 lbs.
• Two-man lifting jobs
• Excess tempory storage
• Excess time spent retrieving stored goods
• Unused building cube space
• Excessive rehandling
• Single piece handling instead of unit loads
• Production delays
• Idle equipment and machines
• High damage rate
• High demurrage charges
• High indirect labor costs
• Skilled employees waste time handling materials
• Material handling equipment more than 10 years old
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Taken from the MATERIAL HANDLING HANDBOOK, Second Edition,
Copyright by John Wiley & Sons.