In all our previous articles so far, we have discussed about material handling, multiple issues faced by different sectors of industries in material hanlding, how we came up with our first ever AGV – RAGHAV and how it has helped resolve these impending material handling issues. If you have not gone through our articles or even if you want to revisit, you can do so right now by clicking this link: https://www.yantrallp.com/blog. All our articles are present on our website under the “Knowledge Corner” tab. Today however, we are going to discuss an entirely different subject that we are very sure, a lot of you might be wondering about. Why Make…
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Hygiene Issues in Food Processing
In our previous article “RAGHAV in Pharmaceuticals”, we saw how RAGHAV helps in sustaining a hygienic work environment for pharma companies. We have also discussed about the importance of hygiene and sanitation for pharmaceutical companies. Now, which other industry comes to your mind where hygiene is a major concern? That’s right the Food Industry. It is one of the fastest growing industry in the world. A little research helped us find that the compound annual growth rate of food industry in India is about 20%, which is gigantic. It stretches from companies processing vegetables, grains, dairy, meat to the ones making canned foods, snacks, sweets, chocolates, even cold drinks. Amul, Chitale…
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RAGHAV in Pharmaceuticals
All of you who have gone through our previous article, “Hygiene Issues in Pharmaceuticals”, know that it dealt with the numerous challenges faced by the ever growing pharmaceutical industry while mainly focusing the hygiene issues. We saw how critical yet extremely challenging it is to maintain hygiene in the pharmaceutical production, packaging as well as warehousing. Statistics show that sometimes complete batches of drugs are rejected for not meeting the standards because of bad hygiene which is often a result of improper handling. Hence, these companies are constantly on the search for improved technologies for meeting their material handling requirements. In today’s topic, RAGHAV in Pharmaceuticals, let us find out…
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Hygiene Issues In Pharmaceuticals
In our previous article “RAGHAV in Automobile”, we saw how RAGHAV works effortlessly in an automobile industry to efficiently overcome the hurdle of low productivity caused by material handling. As we have always underlined, RAGHAV has not one, but many wide spread applications in the manufacturing sector and is able to solve countless problems that these industries face. Let us look at one such very important industry namely pharmaceuticals. Medical and pharmaceutical is a fast growing field all over the world. Surveys have shown an annual growth rate of about 4% to 7% in the pharmaceutical sector, which is considerably large. Manufacturers are always under pressure to keep up with…
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PRODUCTIVITY IN AUTOMOBILE
In our previous article, we introduced you all to our rising star “RAGHAV”. We saw all its magnificent features and functionalities. What we deliberately left out was the wide range of applications RAGHAV has in all the manufacturing industries. Each industry differs when it comes to material handling needs and so do their issues. You must be wondering how does RAGHAV solve all these issues efficiently? This is exactly what we are going to see in our articles hence forward. Let us start with automobile industry, which we are all quite familiar with. Productivity is by far the most important factor for automobile industry as it directly affects the profit…
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RAGHAV
As you know, our previous article “Automated Guided Vehicles” was completely dedicated to mobotics. We discussed about the various sensing mechanisms on which these AGVs work and which are most commonly sought after. We also saw how widely AGVs are used in every industry to meet the material handling needs. Now that there has been enough backdrop, without further a do, we present to you Yantra’s very own mobile robot RAGHAV. You might wonder why we have named our AGV as RAGHAV. Well because it is stylish, it represents India in a way and of course it is logical, as it is the abbreviation for Rucha Auto Guided Heavy Assistance…
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Autonomous Material Handling
Until now, our focus was on various material handling technics used widely across the globe. We also saw the issues faced by companies while deploying these technics, labor and safety being the two topmost concerns. In fact, we dedicated our previous article “Safety in Material Handling” completely to address the issue of safety in current material handling practices, which largely involve manual labor. In order to reduce the risks and improve efficiency, industries all over the world are searching for better means of material handling. No doubt, most of them are settling over Autonomous Material Handling as an advanced and better option. You would agree that the whole world…
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Safety in Material Handling
We are back with yet another interesting topic in Material Handling – Safety. Our previous article “Labor Issues in Material Handling” threw light on the labor problems faced by manufacturing industries in material handling, from the trouble finding skilled labor to loss in productivity and efficiency affecting the end product. One of the most important issues that we discussed quite in brief was about labor safety. How about diving deeper into the topic in today’s article? Labor safety is of supreme importance in all the processes that are followed in a manufacturing company. Material handling is no exception to this as these workers have to handle heavy material and work…
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Labor Issues in Material Handling
Hope you all have read our very first article in the Knowledge Corner “Current material handling practices and challenges”. Were too busy and did not get a chance to go through it? Don’t worry, as it will always be there on our website and you can go visit it anytime. As the name suggests, the write-up focused on the various material handling technics practiced in the manufacturing industries and the challenges faced by these companies on account of such obsolete practices. We also saw that manual labor, while being an integral part of material handling, is also a major challenge in the process. Continuing with the topic, let us now…
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Current Material Handling Practices and Challenges
Material Handling is such a vast topic in itself that it could take a hundred pages and we would still be covering only different definitions according to different industries. Let us leave that job to Google and confine our discussion to Material Handling practices in Manufacturing Industries. Material Handling in Manufacturing refers to the movement of any kind of material/load within the limits of shop floor or at the most to the transportation vehicles or warehouses. The manufacturing industries underwent a drastic transition during the Industrial Revolution in 18th -19th century, thereby raising the need for proper material handling. Since then the material handling practices have continuously evolved in…
