Textile Automation Made Easy with Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems
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| | Features/Benefits Provided: - Laser, Inertial, Wire and Optical Guidance Available.
- Ideal for Multi-Shift Operations.
- Reduce Labor Costs.
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Automatic Guided Vehicle System (AGVS) Increases Productivity and Efficiency While Maintaining Safety: The Automated Guided Vehicle System for a textile manufacturer in Valley, Alabama has eight battery-powered tugger AGVs. These AGVs tow trailers between the drying room, consolidated cloth room and full trailer storage. Tugger dispatch can be triggered using an input device to a control management system or by having an operator key in destinations. The tugger is equipped with a full safety system including long-range non-contact sensors.
Installed in various stages over 1997 through 1999, these inertial guided tuggers are 58” wide with a capacity of 5,000 lbs. A guidepath of 3,500 feet is found throughout this facility. Each AGV comes complete with an on-board microprocessor that controls the AGV and communicates with other vehicles in the system. This processor determines the AGV’s location by taking input from encoders, a gyroscope and a magnet reader. It routes itself to destinations selected and entered into the AGV’s keypad by facility personnel.
While traveling through the facility, the AGV verifies its location on its internal system map and communicates that location to other AGVs in the system. The AGVs are equipped with an automatic charging system. At certain intervals, the AGV dispatches itself to the automatic battery charger. The charger puts enough energy back into the battery to allow the AGV to run for one-hour minimum and then releases the AGV. The AGV continues to run and auto charge based upon the AGV workload.
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