Reflection from Educational Field Trip to Army Logistics Base by LIN THU REIN
The LOM students had to go to Army Logistics Base (ALB) on 24th November 2008 to view the real life warehouse processes and distribution industry practices, to understand the different applications of various types of material handling equipment and storage facilities and to learn how the automatic technology including RFID can enhance the logistics operations performances and productivity.
The type of flow of warehousing floor layout at ALB is through flow. The high of the building is 30 meters and it has 10 stories. The storage systems that installed at ALB are Bin ASRS for the small items, Pellets ASRS and APIR. ALB use power mobile racking system at the main storage area. They use vertical carousel system at medical storage area. This area has air conditional to provide the environment that will stretch the life of the products. The MHEs used at the inbound of ALB are forklift, very narrow aside machine and for outbound they use laser guided vehicle. ALB use 10 foot container trucks as the delivery trucks.
This educational field trip gives me a lot of knowledge about the real life warehousing processes. And also understand the different applications of various types of material handling equipment and storage facilities.