For Instructors Material Handling Academy
Material Handling Academy

The Instructor Hub

This page is for whoever teaches the program: the facilitation view of every session, the assessments, and the working documents you run a cohort from. Students never need to come here. Their door is the student home.

Start with the playbook for how the program runs end to end, then work the parts. Each part has an opener to set it up, four to seven session plans, and a checkpoint to close it.

Start Here

The two documents that frame the whole program before you open a single session plan.

Session Plans

All thirty-five instructor session plans, grouped by part. Each part opener and checkpoint is shown in its facilitation view.

Part I

Think Like a Solutions Professional

Lesson 1The ProfessionSession Plan
Lesson 2The Warehouse EcosystemSession Plan
Lesson 3Reading an OperationSession Plan
Lesson 4Customer DiscoverySession Plan
Part II

Understand the Product

Lesson 5Think Like the PackageSession Plan
Lesson 6The MTBH and the Design EnvelopeSession Plan
Lesson 7The Product Decision ChainSession Plan
Part III

Understand Flow

Lesson 8Flow Before EquipmentSession Plan
Lesson 9The Layered Flow DiagramSession Plan
Lesson 10Rate and BottlenecksSession Plan
Part IV

Design the Conveyance

Lesson 11How Conveyors WorkSession Plan
Lesson 12Transportation vs AccumulationSession Plan
Lesson 13Accumulation DesignSession Plan
Lesson 14Changing Direction and ElevationSession Plan
Lesson 15Transfers and MergesSession Plan
Lesson 16SortationSession Plan
Lesson 17The Automation LandscapeSession Plan
Part V

Make the System Intelligent

Lesson 18Control PhilosophySession Plan
Lesson 19Sensing and IdentificationSession Plan
Lesson 20Machine ControlsSession Plan
Lesson 21Power and NetworksSession Plan
Lesson 22Data and DecisionsSession Plan
Lesson 23Recovery, Diagnostics, and the OperatorSession Plan
Part VI

Validate the Design

Lesson 24The Perfect World ProblemSession Plan
Lesson 25The Gap Check and Capacity ProofSession Plan
Lesson 26Reliability EngineeringSession Plan
Lesson 27Validate for PeopleSession Plan
Part VII

Communicate the Design

Lesson 28The Drawing Is the PlanSession Plan
Lesson 29The Business CaseSession Plan
Lesson 30The ProposalSession Plan
Lesson 31The RoomSession Plan
Part VIII

Deliver the Solution

Lesson 32The HandoffSession Plan
Lesson 33Execution SupportSession Plan
Lesson 34Commissioning and AcceptanceSession Plan
Lesson 35Becoming the EngineerSession Plan

Assessment

The program assesses judgment, not recall. The eight part checkpoints are the graded instruments through the course; the Riverside capstone is the summative one.

Part checkpoints

Capstone

Companions

The working documents you keep open on the desk while a cohort designs: the same references the students use, framed here for the person running the room.