Improving the quality of the Navy's material handling equipment (MHE) fleet with special emphasis on forklifts at Naval Supply Centers

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Bump, Robert J.
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1986-12Advisor
McMasters, Alan W.
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Thomas, George
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Reliable and readily available MHE is vital to all large
scale military supply, maintenance and transportation operations.
Therefore, the need to improve the quality of the
Navy's MHE fleet cannot be over-emphasized. The current MHE
inventory quality is poor and methods for improving this
quality are essential. 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. Next, 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 be replaced by the private sector approach for determining
the economic life of MHE.
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