Automatic Guided Vehicles

Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Group (Logisnext) (Booth B9019) invites Modex attendees to experience the latest in materials handling innovation as they showcase a range of Jungheinrich warehouse products and introduce Rocrich AGV Solutions as the exclusive provider of Jungheinrich and Rocla AGVs and AMRs in North America.

Operating as a subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based Murata Machinery Ltd., Murata Machinery USA provides sales, service, and support for the Muratec brand.

AGVs use sensors to avoid collisions, but best practices can still make the environments they will operate in as predictable and productive as possible.

The joint venture between Jungheinrich and Mitsubishi Logisnext America, announced in June, offers mobile automation solutions spanning customer use cases from standard to special purpose AGVs and automated forklifts.

Latest MAG industry group members are Crown Equipment Corporation, Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products, Gray Solutions, Murata Machinery USA (Muratec), Pepperl+Fuchs, and Rajant Corporation.

Upcoming launch of Rocrich AGV Solutions builds on their existing partnership to offer mobile automation solutions for warehouses and production facilities in North America. With the combined offering, the product and service portfolios of Jungheinrich and Rocla will enable Rocrich to cover all major customer use cases from standard to special purpose AGVs and automated forklifts.

During a Tuesday press conference, Jungheinrich (Booth S1918) discussed its EKX 516ka/516a, an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) high-rack stacker, as well as other models.

One of the four modes of mobile automation, guided vehicles are ready to improve their flexibility and adapt more readily to changes in real-time conditions.

On Wednesday, Rocla AGV Solutions (Booth B6019) presented its Reach Truck AGV during a press conference.

On Tuesday, Jungheinrich (Booth B8819) held a media event with a variety of product demonstrations.

Murata Machinery USA, Inc. (Booth B7632b) expands its logistics & automation product offerings with an extensive line of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).

BlueBotics (Booth B2009), a ZAPI group company, is displaying a multi-brand fleet demo of vehicles, each of which is driven by its ANT navigation ecosystem.

With more operations implementing robotic solutions such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) to increase throughput and operational efficiency, it’s important to create the optimal environment to maximize the productivity of these technologies.

Automatic guided vehicles have become a bit of a mystery to some of late. Newer technologies and explanations of them have often confused potential buyers. Here’s a rundown on conventional AGVs, where they are important and what's coming next.

The three-year collaboration will see future generations of Dürr’s EcoProFleet AGVs being built upon BlueBotics’ ANT natural feature navigation technology