Course detail

Project, Design and Logistics of Transport and Handling Equipment

FSI-QLD Acad. year: 2022/2023 Winter semester

The course in Project and Design of Transport and Handling Equipments familiarises students with project activities in the sphere of material handling and with new possibilities of computer support used for its rationalization. Material flow, its analysis and evaluation methods are discussed. Mathematical expression of handling-transport problem. Methods of minimizing transport costs. Project documentation of material handling systems. Method of Systematic Handling Analyses. Efficiency indexes of handling systems. Design of storage services. Logistics of handling chain. Simulation of handling processes. Transport logistics and handling acquaints students with the logistics and costs of services and their impact on the efficient function of transport – handling systems. Using computer aided simulation of the transport-handling processes.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course in Project and Design of Transport and Handling Equipments makes students familiar with the design of handling equipments and material handling planning. Student will be able to optimise the material flow in definite production, evaluate handling work, and to minimize handling-transport costs. The student is able to identify appropriate indicators and logistics to calculate logistics costs and performance. Students will acquire basic knowledge for modeling simple handling and transport processes using the numerical software.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the course is conditional on the basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics and higher mathematics.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline.
Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Part of the course can be excursions to the companies, which manufacture or operate the equipments from the thematic area of education.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the seminars, and worked out the assigned tasks. Examination tests student's knowledge, as well as his/her ability to apply in practice. The examination has a written an oral part.

Aims

The aim of the course is to make students familiar with methods of project activities in the sphere of material handling. The meaning of material flow and its evaluation are also discussed. The course presents the principle of the S.H.A. method, including evaluation of efficiency of handling systems. Also dealt with is the simulation of handling processes. Another aim is to acquaint students with the concept, purpose and meaning of logistics and transportation planning. Logistics as a tool for optimization, cost reduction and marketing in transport. Logistical factors. Logistics in the transport strategy. Understanding the basics of simulation software "Plant Simulation" and associated programming languages. The possibility of its use for solving transport-handling processes.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at lectures is voluntary.
Attendance at seminars is obligatory and checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the course supervisor.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1.Handling process and handling equipments, quantitative factors of handling process.
2.Handling equipment – conveyors.
3.Handling equipment – cranes, industrial trucks.
4.Positioning equipments, storage unit and forming equipment.
5.Storage equipment, identification and control equipment.
6.Material flow and its analysis, methods of analysis of the material handling.
7.Mathematical expression of the handling-transport problem.
8.Project documentation of material handling systems.
9.Method Systematic Handling Analyses.
10.Logistics in sphere material handling.
11.Possibilities of simulating of handling processes.
12.Simulation languages and their application by simulating of the handling processes.
13.Simulation languages and their application by simulating of the handling processes.

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1.Solution of handling-transport problem – index methods.
2.Solution of handling-transport problem – method VAM.
3.Solution of handling-transport problem – optical method.
4.Solution of handling-transport problem (individual tasks).
5.Solution of optimised material flow for determined production scheme.
6.Solution of optimised material flow for determined production scheme.
7.Solution of optimised material flow (individual tasks).
8.Analyses of material flow (processes and possibilities of realization).
9.The numerical simulation program (structure, function of objects).
10.The numerical simulation program (simulating of systems and subsystems).
11.The numerical simulation program (possibilities of model controls).
12.The numerical simulation program (animation of model).
13.Simulating of handling process.