Glossary

A device added to a material handling piece of equipment to assist in the handling or “manipulation” of the product.  Often equipped with an end effector to grab onto the product.  Manipulators counter the weight of the product creating a

Document that lists products/orders on a bill of lading or in a shipment.

The management of material flow throughout the supply chain.  Logistics can be as broad as managing inbound and outbound flows to a facility or as narrow as managing the flow within an individual process.  Supply Chain and Material Handling are

The area of facility where shipping and receiving is performed and product is loaded/unloaded into trucks, vans or containers.

Area where load will actually come into contact with the load.

Any powered conveyor that utilizes rollers as the direct surface that conveys the product.

A powered roller conveyor where a round shaft or spool rotates underneath the rollers.  Small rubber bands or o-rings wrap around rotating shaft and fit into grooves in rollers to mobilize the rollers which then convey the product.

A table with a scissor lift device attached to it which raises and lowers product to desired elevation.

Load carrying capability of a material handling lifting device.  Capacity is given as a uniformly distributed load.

A drawing reflecting the graphical orientation of material handling equipment within a facility.  Also known as floor plan.