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Material Handling Academy

The Full Journey

EDUCATE. ELEVATE. ENGINEER EXCELLENCE.

The Instructor runs the whole program for you: each lesson, then its flashcards, then the next one. You just show up.

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The program above is the way through. These are the tools you reach for alongside it.

The Course Library Browse all 35 lessons
Part I

Think Like a Solutions Professional

Before you spec a thing, learn to read the floor and the customer.

Lesson 1 The Profession

Lesson 2 The Warehouse Ecosystem

Lesson 3 Reading an Operation

Lesson 4 Customer Discovery

Part II

Understand the Product

Know what you're moving. The product sets every rule that follows.

Lesson 5 Think Like the Package

Lesson 6 The MTBH and the Design Envelope

Lesson 7 The Product Decision Chain

Part III

Understand Flow

Design the flow first. Equipment is what you reach for after.

Lesson 8 Flow Before Equipment

Lesson 9 The Layered Flow Diagram

Lesson 10 Rate and Bottlenecks

Part IV

Design the Conveyance

The heart of the craft: how conveyance actually moves work.

Lesson 11 How Conveyors Work

Lesson 12 Transportation vs Accumulation

Lesson 13 Accumulation Design

Lesson 14 Changing Direction and Elevation

Lesson 15 Transfers and Merges

Lesson 16 Sortation

Lesson 17 The Automation Landscape

Part V

Make the System Intelligent

Give the system senses and judgment so it runs itself.

Lesson 18 Control Philosophy

Lesson 19 Sensing and Identification

Lesson 20 Machine Controls

Lesson 21 Power and Networks

Lesson 22 Data and Decisions

Lesson 23 Recovery, Diagnostics, and the Operator

Part VI

Validate the Design

Prove it works before it's built, on paper and against reality.

Lesson 24 The Perfect World Problem

Lesson 25 The Gap Check and Capacity Proof

Lesson 26 Reliability Engineering

Lesson 27 Validate for People

Part VII

Communicate the Design

A design nobody understands never gets built. Make the case.

Lesson 28 The Drawing Is the Plan

Lesson 29 The Business Case

Lesson 30 The Proposal

Lesson 31 The Room

Part VIII

Deliver the Solution

Hand it off, stand it up, and sign your name to it.

Lesson 32 The Handoff

Lesson 33 Execution Support

Lesson 34 Commissioning and Acceptance

Lesson 35 Becoming the Engineer

Part openers set up each part; checkpoints close it. Every lesson ships as student material, a worksheet, slides, and a poster.

Next at the Academy

The academy keeps building. Here is what is on the bench, being written to the same field-first standard as the thirty-five lessons you just walked.

In Development

Industrial Controls

The panel behind the conveyor: PLCs, VFDs, safety circuits, and how to read a ladder rung the way the electrician on your line already does.

In Development

Pallet Handling

Unit loads, not cartons. Rack, reach trucks, drive-in and pushback, and why the pallet you design for decides the shape of the building around it.

In Development

Goods-to-Person and Person-to-Goods

The two ways to close the gap between an order and a picker, when each one earns its keep, and what each does to your labor plan and your floor.

In Development

WCS Software

The layer that tells the equipment what to do. What a warehouse control system owns, where it hands off to the WMS, and how to spec one without getting sold one.

In Development

AutoCAD for Material Handling Professionals

Drawing the system you designed so it can actually get built: layers, scale, title blocks, and the conveyor centerline discipline that keeps a plan view honest.

Program & Reference

The reference layer that sits above the lessons: how we work, the full map, the language, the math, and the Riverside project that runs through the whole course.

Program

Companions

Capstone