Development Of Transportation System For Dates Industry

Abstract

Traditional means of transportations, such as forklifts and manual labor used in warehouses, is considered one of the problems that seek solution because these means causes waste of time and money, inconvenience, breakdowns, expensive materials in addition to risks to the workers and the product itself. Finding a solution is very important especially to the owner of commercial establishments and warehouses. Thus, this project aims at designing a transportation system of the stock within the warehouses easily and accurately in a way that saves time, efforts, cost, and reduces congestion and inconvenience. Proposed Design is a trailer suitable for hauling fruit bins or the like, pivotally connected to hitch and supported by an axle assembly, which includes an offset cross shaft.a An hydraulically actuated cam assembly rotates the cross shaft so that the rear end of the trailer can be lowered to the ground for easy loading and unloading without raising the forward end. A date transfer system has been designed to transfer the date product between the production and manufacturing stages, replacing the traditional transport system (forklifts). This system provides 62% of the time required to complete the transport.