22 Manufacturing Outlook / June 2020 MANUFACTURING TIDBITS Hands free, touchless, and material flow are the themes of manufacturing and distribution both now during the height of COVID-19 and forever thereafter. The efficacy and urgency for automation has changed. Solutions which empower material flow, throughput, and productivity have been popular for the past decade. That said, pre-pandemic, the seminal question was an ROI (return on investment) calculation. Now material HANDLING is anachronistic; new linguistics are needed to describe the value proposition of products which support the back-to-work safely paradigm for many generations to come. Until COVID-19 few Americans knew the acronym PPE (Personal Protection Equipment.) Now that vernacular is repeated thousands of times a month. Ultimately material movement includes any process that involves the movement between vehicles, conveyors, storerooms, and other forms of logistics support where employees are involved to some extent. The extent of employee involvement will vary by operation and may include manual, automated, and semi-automated material handling events. The safety required to reopen manufacturing operations means the amount and frequency of manual contact must be significantly reduced if not eliminated. Before COVID-19, the foundation for a safe workplace started with policies and procedures as a requirement of EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) or OHS (Occupation Health and Safety) senior management team MATERIAL HANDLING: A MISNOMER by TR CUTLER MANUFACTURING TIDBITS
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22 Manufacturing Outlook / June 2020
MANUFACTURING TIDBITS
Hands free, touchless, and material flow are the themes of manufacturing and distribution both now during the height of COVID-19 and forever thereafter.
The efficacy and urgency for automation has changed. Solutions which empower material flow, throughput, and productivity have been popular for the past decade. That said, pre-pandemic, the seminal question was an ROI (return on investment) calculation.
Now material HANDLING is anachronistic; new linguistics are needed to describe the value proposition of products which support the back-to-work safely paradigm for many generations to come.
Until COVID-19 few Americans knew the acronym PPE (Personal Protection Equipment.) Now that vernacular is repeated thousands of times a month. Ultimately material movement includes any process that involves the movement between vehicles, conveyors, storerooms, and other forms of logistics support where employees are involved to some extent. The extent of employee involvement will vary by operation and may include manual, automated, and semi-automated material handling events. The safety required to reopen manufacturing operations means the amount and frequency of manual contact must be significantly reduced if not eliminated.
Before COVID-19, the foundation for a safe workplace started with policies and procedures as a requirement of EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) or OHS (Occupation Health and Safety) senior management team
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member. Comprehensive health and safety policies include the appropriate level of guidelines on material movement and the associated employee training programs.
That requirement, as seen recently in meat packing plants, has reached a stage 4 metastasis. People are dying in plants, and without a flair for dramatics, material HANDING must be called material flow or material movement.
A key portion of the policy would be the safety compliance activity that is essential for the business to operate. As new OSHA requirements are updated, there is a need to effectively communication these new policies informing the entire workplace team about the shared responsibilities of each employee in keeping the workplace safe.
Material management encompasses the entire company where employee safety risks frequently encountered in distribution centers, warehouses, shop floors and loading docks. The mitigation of safety risks starts with proper training in awareness, procedures, and safety equipment.
Before COVID-19, safety training was mandated for all employees involved with lifting, carrying, loading, or transporting materials in any form. In addition to new hire training, the safety risks and potential safety compliance rules required re-certification on an annual or other regular time cycle.
Since COVID-19, daily safety training, new protocol processes, and mitigation strategies are the norm.
Before COVID-19, the day-to-day procedures of materials management were to ensure an accident-free or injury-free workplace. Safety procedures were monitored to ensure they were consistently followed.
Since COVID-19, the fast-changing frequently modified procedures start with awareness of the specific risks involved and the proper safety equipment for the situation. Procedures would cover the types of material, and the conditions of the work area including social distancing, PPE, and temperature checks.
Author Profile:Thomas R. Cutler is the President and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-
based, TR Cutler, Inc., celebrating its 21st year. Cutler is the founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium including more than 8000 journalists, editors, and economists writing about trends in manufacturing, industry, material handling, and process improvement. Cutler authors more than 1000 feature articles annually regarding the manufacturing sector. More than 4200
industry leaders follow Cutler on Twitter daily at @ThomasRCutler. Contact Cutler at [email protected].
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