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Heavy-Duty Automatic Guided Vehicle Moves Steel Plates Both Indoors and Outside
A builder of aircraft carriers and submarines needed to move extremely large steel plates from a single plate conveyor to one of seven individual delivery stations. Plate sizes generally vary from a minimum of three-sixteenths of an inch to a two-inch thickness, and up to 14 feet in width by 50 feet in length. The largest of these plates can weigh nearly 20 tons. Embedded steel rails carried the individual plates. An Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system eliminated the rails. The AGV travels in both directions, inside and outside the facility. It also travels sideways at any angle and rotates at its center point.
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Automatic Guided Carts Help Agricultural Manufacturer Consolidate Product Lines and Save Money
In a move to streamline their lawn tractor assembly plant, officials at a major agricultural manufacturer decided to consolidate their three separate product lines into a single, common component platform line. The company looked a variety of material handling options, including various types of conveyors and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs). In the end, it selected a fleet of cost-effective automatic guided carts (AGCs) to move its lawn tractors through the entire assembly process from start to finish. The ACGs improved ergonomics at the assembly stations. Opportunity charging saves time and money.
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Heavy Duty Automatic Guided Vehicles Maximize Material Flow in Major Auto Manufacturing Facility
A major automotive manufacturing facility utilizes a fleet of four Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to transport steel blanks and dies. The system, monitored in real time by an AGV Control Server, consists of three 12,000 lb capacity blank handling vehicles and one 60,000 lb capacity die handling vehicle. The AGVs navigate using accurate laser guidance. This flexible solution is perfect for the plant’s changing production demands, thereby reducing operating costs and improving material flow.
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Dual Load Handling Automatic Guided Vehicle Reduces Costs and Improves Efficiency
The Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system was installed at a major food manufacturer in New South Wales Australia. The 6 vehicle fleet automates movement of palletized finished product and empty pallets between the stretch wrapper, ten packaging/palletizing lines, a shipping buffer storage area, and two dispatch locations. The dual fork carriage allows the AGVs to transport empty and full pallets simultaneously eliminating the need for pallet dispensers at each packaging line. The system provides for the safe, reliable delivery of food and empty pallets and significantly reduced pallet and product damage.
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Automatic Guided Vehicle System Increases Floor Space and Storage Capacity
An Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system consisting of seven side loading vehicles with a telescopic platform replaced an existing AGV system at a major automotive manufacturing plant. The system facilitates movement of pre and post heat treated machined parts baskets.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Automatic Guided Vehicle System Transports Newspaper Print Reels
A system of three automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) with clamps picks up reels from the receiving area and delivers to storage. When the facility signals a new press run, the clamp vehicles automatically pick up reels from storage and deliver vertically to the reel tipper unit. Using AGVs for reel transport contributes to a safe environment at the newspaper facility.
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Automotive Assembly Plant Improves Productivity with Guided Vehicle System
Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) deliver stamped parts in an automotive assembly plant. The AGVs operate on two shifts per day making over 1,100 deliveries of 32 different components. Using laser guidance, the AGVs maneuver throughout the facility. This flexibility allows changes to the vehicle guide path to be implemented quickly and easily. The system has provided a safe, efficient material handling solution for the plant.
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Linking Packaging and Palletizing Common Application for Automatic Guided Vehicles
Roller deck automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) pick up and transport loads ensuring consistent product movement as well as production and palletizer operation. The system maximizes vehicle traffic efficiency. Additionally, a particular stretch-wrap conveyor can be designated for each palletizer. Linking packaging and palletizing lines is a common application for these vehicles.
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