Optimal Materials Handling Equipment and Defective Product Reduction Skills in Enhance Overall Production Efficiency

Abstract

This study examined the extent of optimal materials handling equipment impact on defective product reduction skills to enhance overall production efficiency, taking steel and iron factories as a case study. To achieve this end, the study was performed by using qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection was employed which represented in the questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. Questionnaire instrument already has been tested. Findings of the study revealed that optimal materials handling equipment, particularly storage and handling equipment and engineered systems assist significantly in improving defective product reduction skills by facilitating a shorter operating cycle, reduces handling costs, eliminates unproductive handling of materials, reduces idle machine capacity, and eliminates factory hazards. All this, in turn, enabling optimum usage of space and maintains the quality of materials toward enhancing overall production efficiency in terms of facilitating better customer care and ensuring the production of quality products and in a timely. Based on findings, the study recommended manufacturing organizations management in order to succeed in enhancing operational and production efficiency as a whole, it should give a keen interest in optimal materials handling equipment and give them prioritize as a very vital cost center to defective products reduction.

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“…Addressing customer needs and meeting expectations while establishing objectives is paramount. In achieving this, maintaining a continuous production schedule assumes considerable importance and is central to this efficient material handling, encompassing the strategic planning of procurement, receiving, sorting, and delivery of materials for consumption in production, all underpinned by effective control measures [8,9]. It is evident that industrial goods, serving as inputs for other physical products, constitute materials subject to management, known as material handling [9,10].…”

“…In achieving this, maintaining a continuous production schedule assumes considerable importance and is central to this efficient material handling, encompassing the strategic planning of procurement, receiving, sorting, and delivery of materials for consumption in production, all underpinned by effective control measures [8,9]. It is evident that industrial goods, serving as inputs for other physical products, constitute materials subject to management, known as material handling [9,10]. Material handling encompasses all activities, tasks, and processes involved in the transfer of external materials and services into the organization [9,11].…”

“…It is evident that industrial goods, serving as inputs for other physical products, constitute materials subject to management, known as material handling [9,10]. Material handling encompasses all activities, tasks, and processes involved in the transfer of external materials and services into the organization [9,11]. Optimal material handling serves as a tool to enhance organizational efficiency by importing skills in reducing defective products, shortening operating cycles, lowering handling costs, eliminating unproductive material handling, reducing idle machine capacity, and mitigating factory hazards [9,12].…”

“…Material handling encompasses all activities, tasks, and processes involved in the transfer of external materials and services into the organization [9,11]. Optimal material handling serves as a tool to enhance organizational efficiency by importing skills in reducing defective products, shortening operating cycles, lowering handling costs, eliminating unproductive material handling, reducing idle machine capacity, and mitigating factory hazards [9,12]. Logistics facilities are interpreted as transshipment terminals, distribution or production sites, but all of them have one shared goal, and that is global optimization [13].…”