Improving the Quality of the Navy's Material Handling Equipment (MHE) Fleet with Special Emphasis on Forklifts at Naval Supply Centers.

Abstract

Reliable and readily available MHE is vital to all large scale military supply, maintenance and transportation operations. This thesis considers the Navy's forklift trucks because they comprise a large majority of the MHE fleet. A review of current MHE management policies, maintenance concept and plan, and replacement methodology is provided. The current status of Navy forklifts at the eight Naval Supply Centers is analyzed to determine the average age and over-age of MHE, the compliance with DOD MHE replacement criteria, utilization rates and the extent of economically obsolete MHE. The results of this analysis showed that a significant percentage of these trucks are over-aged and economically obsolete. The DOD criteria need to replaced by the private sector approach for determining the economic life of MHE. Keywords: Naval logistics. (Theses).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176876

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Bump

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Inventory
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Materials
  • Materials Handling
  • Materials Handling Equipment
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Supply Depots
  • Transportation
  • United States

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.