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Commercial Printer Reduces Noise with Guided Vehicle Reach Trucks
Features and benefits of this commercial printer’s automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) include reduced fork truck traffic increases safety and makes work environment quieter and cleaner. The quick response to product handling needs saves time; there’s minimum system supervision and optimal uptime and maintainability.
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Optimize Uptime and Maintainability
A newsprint facility uses an automatic guided vehicle system consisting of 14 wire guided fork styled vehicles to move rolls from strip station to press or roll storage. They also handle empty, full waste and core carts. Paper waste is reduced; and, there is minimal system supervision.
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Automation Services Multi-Floor Pharmaceutical Needs
When a multi-floor pharmaceutical production facility needed a solution to vehicle control issues, an automatic guided vehicle system was chosen. High precision deliveries and reduced labor costs were achieved through the use of one narrow aisle and two outrigger fork styled AGVs.
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Accurate Positioning Key to Refurbished Automatic Guided Vehicle System
A cigarette manufacturer with two facilities needed to combine two different automatic guided vehicle systems –wire guided and laser guided – into one system, modified to accommodate a new production process. Accurate positioning was key in the refurbishment of the vehicles.
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Automation Seamlessly Links Assembly Stations and Production Lines
The 7 automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) operate in a 30,000 square meter clean room environment in this Morganton, NC facility. The AGVs travel some 1,500 meters in total routes along the assembly lines in this brake discs and ABS systems production plant. Costs were recouped six months faster than projected.
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Flexible Automatic Guided Vehicle System Supports Dynamic Manufacturing
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) work around the clock moving finished goods at this automotive part maker’s new facility. The AGVs use a magnetic grid embedded into the floor for calibration. Extending the array of magnets is simple and quick. Altering the travel paths of the AGVs is as simple as pointing and clicking. Best of all payback was reached in less than a year!
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Automatic Vehicle Design Accommodates Fragile Item Transportation
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are responsible for the transportation of full pallet loads of unwrapped bottles to the shrink wrap lines at one of Australia’s largest manufacturers of glass and plastic containers. To prevent the bottles from moving during transportation in the plant, the AGVs are equipped with a special clamping system. The pallets are then wrapped in plastic before shipping.
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Modification of Existing Vehicle Navigation System Increases Flexibility
With some 86,000 employees worldwide, this computer systems and peripherals manufacturer utilize automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) to help deliver 80% of their orders in less than 24 hours. After exploring different options, modifying their existing navigation fleet would be the most cost effective transport system. Costs were recouped within 6 months.
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Reduce Labor Needs at Container Terminal
More than 180 automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) are in use in this European cargo container terminal, The AGVs transport containers between quay cranes and storage locations. Rail-guided automated stacking cranes pick and put away containers in storage. Layout and routing changes can be done without assistance, reducing labor needs.
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Automatic Guided Tow Vehicles Maximize Movement in Stamping Plant
In a typical automotive stamping plant, coils of steel are “stamped” into shapes which are then assembled into car body panels. All materials were usually moved manually using fork lift trucks (hi-lo). As an introduction to automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), two tow style vehicles were purchased to move materials from one stamping line to shipping. Tow style vehicles were chosen to maximize the amount of material that could be moved per vehicle. Over the next 3 years, that original 2 vehicle AGV System has expanded to a 31 vehicle system.
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Laser Guidance System Assures Accuracy
Containers of components are automatically loaded onto Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at receiving dock conveyors at an automotive transmission plant. The AGVs are then assigned in-plant destinations via a host computer interfacing with the plant’s Management Information System (MIS). 45 AGV Roller Deck and 6 AGV Scissor Lift Roller Decks service over 540 powered conveyors. Laser guidance assures accuracy.
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Automation Optimizes Pharmaceutical Production Facility
An automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) provides for efficient handling of production and packaging materials for a pharmaceutical site’s Work-In-Process (WIP) requirements. There was no downtime or impact to production during installation of the AGVs, which was of major benefit in preventing lost revenue or increased overtime. The AGVS is responsible for transporting material between two inbound conveyors, a 12-aisle/44,000 location Automated Storage / Retrieval System (AS/RS) and two outbound conveyors. Raw material or WIP items are introduced into the system for storage until needed by production or packaging.
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Link Production and Shipping
A seven vehicle automatic guided vehicle (AGV) system was installed to streamline operations in the packaging area of a production plant that produces plastic resin. Until recently, workers driving fork lifts moved boxes from the finishing line to the truck to the warehouse. Now, the AGVs transport full pallets of finished product weighing up to 4,000 lbs from output conveyors on each production line to the shipping dock area. The system significantly reduced pallet and product damage.
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Warehouse Operations Streamlined with use of Automatic Guided Vehicles
Flexibility and reliability were critical components in building one of Europe’s most modern corrugated board production plants. The use of automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) provided a highly flexible and reliable platform for storing and delivering reels of paper. The vehicles can reach up to 24 ft. high with reels being stacked three high in the warehouse. The AGVs helped maximize storage capacity and minimize reel damage due to handling.
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Load Trailers Automatically with Guided Vehicle System
An automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) was installed to automatically load trailers in a juice beverage plant. Pallets are picked up directly from conveyors at the exit of the palletizing lines and then delivered into standard, over-the-road trailers. The system needs no special dock equipment and is scaleable so larger and smaller throughputs can be accommodated by adjusting the number of vehicles. The installation significantly reduced labor cost and product damage.
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Just What the Doctor Ordered!
An 11-story, 1,000+ bed hospital installed an automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) to pickup and deliver materials (meal trays, surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, etc.) to approximately 500 different points throughout the facility. Each of the 43 vehicles can lift and transport loads weighing as much as 1,000 lbs. They make 3,000 material movements daily interfacing with nine dedicated freight elevators. The AGVS replaced an obsolete overhead rail transport system and provides a cleaner, safer and more organized environment.
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Vehicle Automation Reduces Pallet and Product Damage
Three automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) has proven to be a safe, efficient way to handle pallets generated by four robotic palletizing lines in this food and beverage warehouse. The use of AGVs eliminated the damage caused by material handling and increased workforce productivity. With the installation of the automatic guided vehicles, the system payback is under two years!
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Maximize Space in Automotive Stamping Plant
The use of automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) has opened up a large amount of unused manufacturing space in this automotive stamping plant. A fleet of five AGVs pick up steel blanks at the receiving area load stand. The vehicles transport the steel about one-half mile up a ramp leading to the second floor. The AGVs then transfer the steel to a press for stamping into truck door and hood panels. A second fleet of AGVs pull three trailers, take away the racks of door panels to a work-in-process station where they’re staged on three high racks to await final assembly and shipment. The system has increased productivity within a “fork-free” manufacturing environment.
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Automatic Guided Vehicle System Increases Production Capacity
A large food/beverage warehouse nearly doubled its production without the hiring additional employees. The labor-free solution implemented was the installation of four automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) in the warehouse. Production lines automated were storage, transportation, and dispatch of pallets. Pallet and product damaged has been significantly reduced.
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Automatic Guided Vehicles Keep on Rolling at Paper Facility
A system of automatic guided vehicles provides a paper facility with a damage-free solution to material handling, while contributing to a safe operating environment. Utilizing one vehicle type for parent rolls, parent roll cores and broke (waste) has increased system utilization by multitasking the vehicles.
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