PROGRAM MAP | THE FULL JOURNEYMATERIAL HANDLING ACADEMY
The Curriculum Map
8 Parts · 35 Lessons · One Project
IThink Like a Solutions Professional
1The Profession
2The Warehouse Ecosystem
3Reading an Operation
4Customer Discovery
IIUnderstand the Product
5Think Like the Package
6The MTBH and the Design Envelope
7The Product Decision Chain
IIIUnderstand Flow
8Flow Before Equipment
9The Layered Flow Diagram
10Rate and Bottlenecks
IVDesign the Conveyance
11How Conveyors Work
12Transportation vs Accumulation
13Accumulation Design
14Changing Direction and Elevation
15Transfers and Merges
16Sortation
17The Automation Landscape
VMake the System Intelligent
18Control Philosophy
19Sensing and Identification
20Machine Controls
21Power and Networks
22Data and Decisions
23Recovery, Diagnostics, and the Operator
VIValidate the Design
24The Perfect World Problem
25The Gap Check and Capacity Proof
26Reliability Engineering
27Validate for People
VIICommunicate the Design
28The Drawing Is the Plan
29The Business Case
30The Proposal
31The Room
VIIIDeliver the Solution
32The Handoff
33Execution Support
34Commissioning and Acceptance
35Becoming the Engineer
The Riverside Thread
One project runs the whole program. Dana Merrill's voicemail in Lesson 1 becomes a designed, validated, and accepted sortation system by the end of the program, and every lesson adds one more piece to the Riverside folder you carry the entire way.