Acquiring basic professional knowledge related to reload processes, material flow, transport machines and devices.

Acquired knowledge can be used in practice for solving reload processes, optimal choice and exploitation of transport systems and devices.

Flow of goods and information, models of material flow, simulations. Postal goods terminals. Basic equipment parameters, analysis on working operations of intermittent running engines and the selection of machines and devices. Machines and devices for cargo gripping and carrying. Technology of operations in pallet warehouses, machines and equipment. Container manipulation, machines and equipment. Working automation of intermittent running machines. Technology of mail processing. Classification and capacity of continuous transport conveyer. Band conveyors. Conveyers with chain-driving element (plate, hanging, flexible, floor..). Conveyors without a chain-driving element (gravitation, cylinder). Automated transportation systems (automatically driven vehicles, manipulators and robots, binding, separation and connection devices, sorting machines). Automation of operation of continuous action machines.

Lectures and laboratory practice. During the teaching process, students have the possibility to take and pass three partial examinations – tests and hence be excluded from taking the written part of the examination. Final examination comprises theoretical questions.