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AGV - Automated Guided Vehicles
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Increase productivity, reduce costs and maximize efficiency with AGVs

AGVs – automated guided vehicles: the solution for efficient intralogistics

In modern logistics, efficiency and automation are key factors for sustainable success. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are revolutionizing intralogistics by automating transport processes, reducing operating costs, and increasing workplace safety.

 

Our advanced AGV solutions are designed to optimize your intralogistics processes and equip your company for the challenges of today and tomorrow. Discover how driverless transport systems can increase your efficiency and secure long-term competitive advantages.

 

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Automating intralogistics with AGVs

Our partner WAREMA Renkhoff SE in Germany offers an example of a fully automated process chain. With a comprehensive automated transport solution, we have now implemented a customized driverless transport system for the sun protection specialist for the second time.

At the new production site in twelve transport robots accompany the entire value-added process and ensure sustainable, efficient workflows in production, warehousing, and logistics. The transport robots, which are precisely tailored to the customer's specific transport requirements, ensure optimized material flow and a high degree of automation at the new site.

Automated transport systems for efficiency and cost-effectiveness

Driverless transport systems are one of the basic components of sustainable, efficient intralogistics. Automated processes offer a wide range of advantages that users can benefit from in particular, enabling them to maximize their cost-effectiveness.

 

Our transport robots optimize internal material flows and a wide variety of processes in production, warehousing, and distribution centers. In addition to transparent and optimized intralogistics, users also benefit from increased safety, as replacing conventional forklifts with automated transport systems reduces accidents caused by humans.

 

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Diverse application areas of AGVs

Whether for shelving systems, production and manufacturing lines, warehouses, shipping, or outdoor areas, we optimize your intralogistics in the long term with tailor-made driverless transport systems.

 

Our intralogistics solutions perform a wide variety of transport tasks every day in almost every industry: automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical, refractory, food, plastics, sun protection, paper, packaging, and even a crematorium are just a few of the areas in which our more than 12,000 vehicles are now in use in over 1,500 systems worldwide.

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Customized automated guided vehicle systems

The variety of our driverless transport systems knows no bounds. In addition to our modular standard vehicles, we manufacture customized transport robots for every task and environmental condition. With a wide range of compatible load handling devices (forks, roller conveyors, lifting beams, or telescopic units) and navigation types, we implement robust transport solutions with load weights of up to 35 tons. The life cycle of the vehicles is several decades, provided that maintenance intervals and retrofit programs are adhered to.

 

The significance of AGVs: An AGV describes the entire system in which one or more autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) are used. Driverless transport vehicles are also referred to as AGVs and are internal, ground-based transport systems with automatically controlled vehicles.
 

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AGVs AND AMRs?

Autonomous mobile robots are transport vehicles that independently navigate through production and storage halls within a defined area, using virtual maps of their environment for orientation. With modern cameras and sensors, they can detect fixed or moving obstacles, independently drive around them and thus ensure reliable transport in dynamic environments.

 

Intralogistics efficiency with automatic guided vehicles
WHAT IS AN AGV?

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are internal, floor-bound transport systems. Automatically controlled vehicles transport various goods between several functional areas within a warehouse or production hall, thereby increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This leads to improved competitiveness.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF AGV?

AGVs automate the connection between production and logistics areas, making material flows more economical than manual transport processes. They offer significant efficiency and cost benefits, especially over long distances, in repetitive processes, and with a wide variety of products, thereby increasing competitiveness.

WHAT ARE THE APPLICATION AREAS FOR AGVs?

AGVs are used in production and manufacturing lines, shelving systems, hospitals, and for outdoor transport. They are designed for demanding and complex transport tasks, require no downtime, and offer maximum availability for several decades.

WHAT TYPES OF AGV ARE THERE?

There are different types of AGVs for different applications such as storage and retrieval, production supply, or area linking. While some driverless transport vehicles follow a programmed route, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) calculate their routes independently and actively avoid obstacles.

HOW DOES AN AGV OPERATE?

One or more transport robots are controlled by a guidance system and automatically carry out a wide variety of transport tasks along a fixed route in production or logistics areas. This increases order and efficiency along the material flow.