To Increase the Productivity of an Organization by Effective Material Handling - A Case Study

The work in the present paper is based on study conducted in a medium job type industry located at Vishnoli, Nadiad-Petlad road, Anand-Gujarat, which manufactures two Machine1.shot blasting 2.shot pinning & its component. Material handling is an important activity within the larger system by which materials are moved, stored, and tracked in our commercial infrastructure. The term commonly used for the larger system is logistics, which is concerned with the acquisition, movement, storage, and distribution of materials and products, as well as the planning and control of these operations in order to satisfy customer demand. External logistics is concerned with transportation and related activities that occur outside of a facility. In general, these activities involve the movement of materials between different geographical locations. The five traditional modes of transportation are rail, truck, air, ship, and pipeline. Internal logistics, more popularly known as material handling, involves the movement and storage of materials inside a given facility. Our interest in this dissertation work is on internal logistics. This dissertation work describes the basic material handling equipment principles, equipment’s and their effective implementation in a firm to increase its productivity.