Mobile Equipments on the Move
Mobile Equipment is one of the major equipments used in supply chain and warehouse management system. Manually powered handling vehicles are the oldest devices and they are widely used. They include two-wheeled hand trucks, four-wheeled platform trucks and hydraulic pallet movers. Another important material handling equipment is counter-balanced forklift truck. It is the most widely used motorized material handling vehicle.
With the evolution of technology, forks were augmented with a variety of other additional materials such as clamp devices to hold cartons or paper rolls. Other attachments that are used with forks are slip-sheets and multi-pallet forks. The earliest lift trucks were powered by internal-combustion gasoline engines. Later models were developed to handle other fuel sources such as propane, diesel and CNG. Over the years, battery-powered electric vehicles became a popular replacement for internal combustion. The latest inclusion is the hybrid gas/electric power that has been developed for lifting trucks.
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