Material Handling Equipment Fleet Sizing: Forklift Cycle Times, Moves per Hour, Truck Counts, Battery Shifts & Rent vs Buy
Work out how many trucks a warehouse really needs. You will build cycle times from distances, speeds and handling times, convert pallet moves into truck hours by shift and peak hour, add availability and charging, size the fleet by truck type, compare renting with buying and track utilisation afterwards, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you size the truck fleet of a fictional distribution centre step by step in a spreadsheet. You turn daily pallet flows into moves and find the peak hour, build cycle times from distances, planning speeds, lift and handling times, and convert moves into truck hours per shift and per truck type. You remove breaks, checks and maintenance to get effective hours, round truck counts up per shift and peak hour, add spares, count battery changes and charger slots, compare renting with buying using NPV and track utilisation per truck with a chart.
Lessons
- Move Demand: Pallet Moves per Day and the Peak Hour Pro
- Cycle Times: Travel, Lift and Handling per Move Pro
- Truck Hours: From Moves to Hours per Shift and in the Peak Hour Pro
- Availability: Breaks, Checks, Maintenance and Effective Hours Pro
- Fleet Size: Trucks per Type, Average vs Peak Sizing and Spares Pro
- Energy and Charging: Battery Changes, Spare Batteries and Charger Slots Pro
- Rent vs Buy: Lease Rates, Purchase, Maintenance, Residual Value and NPV Pro
- Utilisation Tracking: Hours Used vs Available and a Fleet Review Chart Pro