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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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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 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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Low Profile Guided Vehicle System Maximizes Production Efficiency
A low profile design allows automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) to drive under conveyor stands for product pickup and delivery at a refrigerator manufacturer. The AGV lifts the load of four refrigerators, enters the drop conveyor stand and lowers the deck. The refrigerators are then deposited on the transfer conveyor. Software monitors the battery level, sending the AGV to the change area if the battery reaches a critical level.
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Engine Components Delivered Safely with Laser Guided Vehicle System
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) transport engine components from flow racks to intake conveyor positions safely and reliably in an engine manufacturing plant. The AGVs use laser navigation, traveling several miles each day in this 24/7 operation, stopping only for battery exchanges. Seamless coordination between the plant production software and AGV manager assure just-in-time (JIT) delivery of specific load types at all production intake conveyors.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Raw Material Transported Safely with Automatic Guided Vehicle
At a chemical manufacturer, an automated guided vehicle system (AGVS) ws installed to transport aluminum pin carts containing acetate fiber rolls. The system, seamlessly integrated with existing plant equipment, transported the raw materials to production lines. The integration included conveyors and a robotic arm system. The AGVS provided a solution which greatly improved production efficiency, reduced operation and labor costs. The expected pay back period is less than three years.
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