AGVs

Direct marketer Valpak’s new $220 million production and distribution facility in St. Petersburg is a hub of technology and automated materials handling.

he Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS) Industry Group of Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) has released it's Spring 2011 Quarterly Report titled AGVs Improve Workplace Ergonomics.

Mobile robots, an AS/RS and supply chain software transformed this manufacturer’s processes.

At Otis Technology, the laser-guided vehicles shaved over an hour of walk time per employee.

Honda equips distribution center with automatic guided vehicles to improve transport and handling of spare parts.

Inro, a New Zealand startup, is blurring the lines between lift truck and AGV

Egemin introduces an AGV that will operate automatically or manually

Production plant supplements a conveyor system with small-volume AGVs.

Super-sized, specially designed AGV handles wide loads for manufacturer of naval and commercial vessels.

Mobile robot fleet customized to include voice messages and sound bites for manufacturer.

One of the nation’s premier medical centers transformed a manual, paper-based warehouse into a state of the art facility using automated materials handling technologies to optimize the delivery of food, supplies, medications and surgical tools to more than 14,000 locations.

One of Canada’s largest retailers shares the lessons it learned from automating the manual materials handling processes with automatic guided vehicles in its pallet flow area.

Beverage distributor cans old layout in favor of new equipment and software.

Call them robots, AGVs or carts. But first call them solutions.