High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A skid loader or skid steer loader is a small rigid frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms used to attach a wide variety of labor-saving tools or attachments. Though sometimes they are equipped with tracks, skid-steer loaders are typically four-wheel drive vehicles with the left-side drive wheels independent of the right-side drive wheels. By ha…
Forest biomass terminals provide diverse services to the forest industry: buffer storage, transfers of material between different modes of transport, raw material upgrading, etc. Terminals’ operational costs are highly sensitive to their layout and design. In order to design efficient terminals, it will be essential to understand the current state of forest terminals. To this end, a survey wa…
In designing container terminals one have to consider the choice for a certain type of storage and retrieval equipment by performing a feasibility and economic analysis. In this paper, we compare, by means of a simulation study, the performance of manned straddle carriers and automated stacking cranes. As main performance measure, we use the total travel time required to handle storage and retr…
Many companies are not satisfied with the methods used to calculate savings for capital equipment purchasing (CEP), and the existing academic literature does not provide adequate suggestions for solving this problem. Therefore, the authors will aim to analyze how companies measure savings for CEP and attempt to identify the main challenges in this area. In order to understand which savings meas…
Food production lines consist of several machines in series, and for that reason if a failure occurs in a machine some or all of the in-process material upstream of the failure will have to be scrapped due to quality deterioration during the stoppage, therefore the necessity of better maintenance strategy is required. This paper aims to address this issue.
Internal transport operations connect the seaside, yard side, and landside processes at container terminals. This paper presents an in-depth overview of transport operations and the material handling equipment used, highlights current industry trends and developments, and proposes a new classification scheme for transport operations and scientific journal papers published up to 2012. The paper …
Seaside operations are considered the bottleneck operation in most container terminals around the world. This paper presents an in-depth updated overview of the seaside operations at container terminals and highlights current trends and developments. We review and classify scientific journal papers on container terminal seaside operations, published between 2004 and 2012. The paper also discuss…
The purpose of this paper is to assist facility design practitioners, industrial managers, and expert systems (ES) developers identify important issues to consider and actions to follow in the selection of material handling (MH) equipment, overcome limitations of existing equipment selection approaches, and design complete MH systems.
Indonesia Port Corporatioon I have a business unit of good services segment includes activities stevedoring which market segment to compete with other comapnies. Stevedoring business units owned by the owner of the ship and not as the owner of the goods. To be more competitive and increase market share Indonesia Port Corporation I need to have a strategy, among others, in to optimize and equipm…
Containerisation has replaced many conventional fragmented transport system by one fully integrated method. After a spectacular development, it is firmly established on many trade routes. Containerisation is the modern contribution to the historic trend of dimishing transport costs and is therefore irresistible. It is by its repercussions outside technology much more than "almost as profound a…