Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 77.78
September 11, 2017
Founded in 1988, Amerden AGVs is a full service AGV System provider, including consulting, design, manufacture, installation and long-term support of your AGV System. Working with the latest in AGV control and vehicle design technologies, Amerden provides cost effective solutions to meet the most challenging load handling and operational requirements. From manufacturing to warehousing every AGV environment is different. At Amerden, each AGV system is uniquely engineered to meet your exact requirements. When choosing Amerden as your AGV system vendor you receive a quality product and support from the company who services, repairs, and supports AGV systems to the component…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.19
July 31, 2017
…Logistics 2017-2037, which includes automated guided vehicles and carts (AGVs and AGCs); autonomous mobile vehicles and carts/units; mobile picking robots; last mile delivery ground robots (droids) and drones; and autonomous trucks and light delivery vans (level 4 and level 5 automation). Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, research director at IDTechEx and the report’s author, said the figures “mask turbulent transformative change underneath; some technologies will rise and transform the fortunes of industries, fueling growth rates far outpacing recent trends, whilst others will face decay and obsolescence.” The research report includes technology roadmaps and twenty-year market forecasts, in unit numbers and revenue, for all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.44
June 08, 2017
…to their flexibility compared to the automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) of the past. AGV vendors also offer smaller, “smart AGVs” that, like mobile robots, need minimal or no guidance infrastructure. “Perhaps the biggest change in the market is the move to navigation that allows the vehicles to operate without anything on the floor or reflectors on racks or columns,” says Sarah Carlson, vice president of AutoGuide, a mobile robotics vendor. “Not needing special guidance infrastructure is appealing because there is nothing extra to install, and over time, it makes for a system that is very flexible.” Mobile robots may need…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.46
May 05, 2017
…use of what Gartner calls smart automated guided vehicles [AGVs], that are also known as autonomous mobile robots, within DCs,” says Klappich. “They’re going to have a dramatic effect on how you can operate a warehouse, and how you design and build warehouses.” Mobile robotics, contends Klappich, are more flexible than traditional automated materials handling systems that require extensive fixed infrastructure. Mobile robotics/smart AGVs that can carry or pull inventory to workstations—or function as smart, driverless lift trucks—would alleviate the labor needs at the DC level, and allow for DC automation that’s quicker to install and reconfigure. “There has always…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.64
January 17, 2017
…autonomous cars edges closer to reality, automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) are advancing into the warehouse in a very real way. As the likes of Google and Apple pour resources into the development of driverless technology, the decreased price and improved performance of the vehicles are benefiting the makers of driverless industrial vehicles. Already, Amazon is poised to become one of the biggest users—and suppliers—of automatic guided vehicles in the warehousing and distribution space. But AGVs aren’t just for those with big budgets and massive operations. In fact, AGVs aren’t even always AGVs. The “guided” part of that acronym, familiar from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.96
November 14, 2016
…the rest of the industry, including Toyota’s foray into AGVs. But for the most part, it’s been two separate worlds. That began to change a year or so ago, when KION acquired the automated guided vehicle (AGV) maker Egemin Automation and Retrotech, best known for automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). Riske said the catalyst for those deals was the explosion of automation around the world. This includes small growing companies that might now have one distribution center (DC) with lift trucks but want to expand their operations into global markets, like distribution centers serving Madrid, Spain, and Atlanta. Someone…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56
November 08, 2016
…operation, and Whirlpool has used traditional automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) in other plants. But, it’s not just automation for the sake of automation; Whirlpool looks for projects that will also improve on other areas of the operation besides just a labor savings. “If we can find ways to generate safety or quality improvements along with labor savings, that’s a win-win scenario,” Keppler says. The mobile robotic project in Clyde grew out of an ongoing lean initiative to create an efficient and repeatable process to deliver components to the line in a just-in-time basis. When the initiative got underway in 2012,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.40
October 21, 2016
…eye on these innovations, but actively invest in their development.” More than 40 percent of surveyed consumers would use AGVs (autonomous ground vehicles with lockers). Among younger respondents, this figure rises to one in two in favor of AGVs. Schröder adds that by 2025, he expects it will be possible to deliver around 80 percent of parcels autonomously. “However, some segments like grocery deliveries and immediate deliveries will continue to be delivered manually because there are still no cost-effective automated options in these areas
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.42
October 21, 2016
…eye on these innovations, but actively invest in their development.” More than 40 percent of surveyed consumers would use AGVs (autonomous ground vehicles with lockers). Among younger respondents, this figure rises to one in two in favor of AGVs. Schröder adds that by 2025, he expects it will be possible to deliver around 80 percent of parcels autonomously. “However, some segments like grocery deliveries and immediate deliveries will continue to be delivered manually because there are still no cost-effective automated options in these areas
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 13.51
September 07, 2016
Founded in 2001, BlueBotics provides the ANT autonomous navigation technology for automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and automated forklifts. Customers have used the company's natural feature navigation in systems for warehousing, manufacturing, and disinfection. Server software and application programming interfaces from BlueBotics enable autonomous systems to interact with other machinery and warehouse and enterprise software. The company said its core values are communication, innovation, and simplicity.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.39
August 30, 2016
…Co., Ltd. (China). The market for automated guided vehicles (AGV) is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022, mainly driven by the introduction of intelligent and customized AGVs, high throughput rates, optimization of logistic systems, increased reliability, and reduced operating costs. According to the report, one of the key restraining factors for the automated material handling equipment market is the requirement of high capital expenditure. The report indicates key market players such as Toyota Industries Corporation (Japan) and KION Group (Germany) are focusing on expansion and acquisition strategies to expand their business and leverage the benefits…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.16
April 04, 2016
…discuss the company’s end-to-end, multi-channel and customized solutions, including Layer Pick, Case Pick, Piece Pick, Storage & Retrieval and AGV Solutions, at Booth 4347. Modex 2016 is scheduled to be held April 4-7, 2016 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Conference Center. The tradeshow will showcase the latest manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the material handling and logistics industry. Modern’s complete Modex coverage.
