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Automated transport technology that makes your life easier
- You're probably over-reliant on labor and need to reduce the type of lower-skill, difficult, and rote jobs that AGVs can fill. Material transport from point-to-point should be a priority target for labor needs reduction—and it's never been easier to justify with increasing shortages of available workers. AGVs let you focus your labor on your most important, value-add tasks and reduce it where necessary.
- Reduce congestion and confusion: Imagine a crowded shipping dock, with people, carts, tuggers and forklifts all competing for space and time. AGVs can replace most of that and allow you to schedule and prioritize for optimum performance.
- Forklifts are a primary safety concern for any facility that operates them. If you can reduce the number of forklifts, your operation will be safer, and AGVs are ideal forklift replacements. Driverless forklifts operate in areas and at times people cannot, to reduce forklift/pedestrian interactions.
- Improve throughput by automating product movement. You can run more shifts with fewer people and move more product per shift.
- We can help you integrate your AGVs with AS/RS, carousels, conveyors, lifts, storage equipment. Virtually anything that can be accessed by people with forklifts or tuggers can be accessed with the right AGV strategy.
You can operate AGVs separately or within a fully-integrated system, with all the necessary technology that lets your vehicles maneuver, interface with other systems and function.
Types of automated vehicles
AGV classifications include tow type (for pulling carts & trailers), unit load (with pallets or containers sitting on their decks), driverless forklifts that utilize a fork or mast and high-capacity carriers for extremely heavy loads. We can help you find the exact AGV for your needs.
Guidance systems
Guidance systems may employ embedded wire or floor tape for static routing, or laser and optical technologies for dynamic, adaptive navigation. When highly repetitive tasks are performed over extended distances, AGVs are ideal.
Safety is baked in
AGVs can work safely alongside people in ways that don't limit throughput because they align to both safety and productivity needs. Redundant safety features help prevent collisions with people and other equipment. Because AGVs can work in hazardous areas, they reduce human exposure to things like chemicals and extreme temperatures. You can keep people away from certain areas and processes to reduce the potential for injury.
Systems integration
We can help you plan for a forklift-free, or light forklift operation that creates superior product flow, increases safety and reduces labor needs by integrating automated vehicles with other automated storage and handling systems.