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  2. Conveyor system - Wikipedia

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    A conveyor system is often the lifeline to a company's ability to effectively move its product in a timely fashion. The steps that a company can take to ensure that it performs at peak capacity, include regular inspections and system audits, close monitoring of motors and reducers, keeping key parts in stock, and proper training of personnel.

  3. Electric track vehicle system - Wikipedia

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    ETV system at University library Regensburg, Germany. An electric track vehicle system (ETV) is a conveyor system for light goods transport. The system uses independently driven vehicles traveling on a monorail track network, consisting of straight track elements, bends, curves and transfer-units for changing of travel direction.

  4. 16 Divisions - Wikipedia

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    The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada.

  5. Pneumatic tube - Wikipedia

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    Capsule pipelines were first used in the Victorian era, to transmit telegrams from telegraph stations to nearby buildings. The system is known as pneumatic dispatch. [3] In 1854, Josiah Latimer Clark was issued a patent "for conveying letters or

  6. Material-handling equipment - Wikipedia

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    A sortation conveyor system is used for merging, identifying, inducting, and separating products to be conveyed to specific destinations, and typically consists of flat-belt, roller, and chute conveyor segments together with various moveable arms and/or pop-up wheels and chains that deflect, push, or pull products to different destinations. [6]

  7. Material handling - Wikipedia

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    Material handling involves short-distance movement within the confines of a building or between a building and a transportation vehicle. [1] It uses a wide range of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment and includes consideration of the protection, storage, and control of materials throughout their manufacturing, warehousing ...

  8. Building transportation systems - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Building transportation systems include: [1] Elevator; Escalator; Moving walkway; Paternoster ...

  9. Building - Wikipedia

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    A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, [1] such as a house or factory. [1] Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and ...