Principles of Logistics Equipment Selection
Choose logistics equipment, in principle, technologically advanced, economically reasonable, safe and applicable production operations, pollution-free or pollution.
1. Applicability principle. This is for the logistics equipment has the ability to transport goods, including the adaptability and practicality. Logistics enterprises in the choice of transport equipment, to take full account of the actual needs of logistics operations, the selected equipment to meet the characteristics of the goods and the size of the freight, can be flexible in different operating conditions and convenient operation. Practicality involves the proper selection of equipment functions. Logistics equipment is not the function as much as possible, because in practice, do not need too many functions, if the equipment can not be fully utilized, resulting in waste of resources and funds. Similarly, too little function will lead to low efficiency of logistics enterprises. So according to the actual situation, the correct choice of equipment function.
2. Principles of advanced nature. The advanced nature here refers mainly to the advanced nature of equipment technology, mainly in the degree of automation, environmental protection, operating conditions and so on. But the advanced nature must serve the applicability, in particular, to be practical, to maximize the economic benefits.
3. Minimum cost principle. This mainly refers to the low cost of using the equipment, the low cost of the entire life cycle. Sometimes, advanced and low-cost conflict, which requires logistics companies in the full consideration of applicability on the basis of trade-offs, make a reasonable choice. 4. Principles of reliability and safety. This is increasingly becoming a major factor in selecting equipment and measuring equipment. Reliability refers to the ability of the device to complete the required function as required, which is the stability and maintainability of the device function in time. But the reliability is not as high as possible, must take into account the cost of the problem. Safety requires equipment to ensure the safety of the person and the goods during use, and as far as possible without compromising the environment （in line with environmental requirements, less noise, less pollution）。