Özet:

Material handling and storage operations are activities that are used effectively in all areas of production including internal logistics movements. The main objective is to ensure that the needed material is transported in the right amount, in the right place, at the right time, in the right conditions, with minimum cost and safely. In this study, it is aimed to solve the material handling problems in the production department of a company in the defense industry and to ensure the selection of suitable material handling methods. In this context, Pareto analysis has been carried out in order to determine the material handling problems and the causes of these in the production. In order to eliminate these problems that interrupt the production, firstly, the criteria (eight different criteria for material handling: vehicle capacity, purchase cost, transportation accuracy, vehicle speed, applicability to production environment, ease of transportation, maintenance-repair frequency, ergonomics), which are important in the material handling and dependent to production environment, have been determined. And the importance degree of criteria are computed by AHP. Then, four different alternatives (wheelbarrow, trailer towing trailers, forklift trucks, auto-guided vehicles) suitable for production system are determined to select the most appropriate one among these alternatives by comparing VIKOR and MOORA methods.

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