Author : admin | Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Author : admin | Tuesday, 12 February 2019
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - February 7, 2019 — Dematic, a leading
global supplier of integrated automated technology, software and services to
optimize the supply chain, has been chosen by a plastics production company to
create and implement an Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS) for intra-plant
delivery of materials. The manufacturer is skilled in plastic injections
molding and produces plastic parts for the medical, peThe system is created to
automate the material flow from production. It will include a fleet of
counterbalanced fork AGVs. The AGVs will pick up tubs of plastic product at
manufacturing and transport to the warehouse. The loads can be stacked up to
six levels high without racking. For outbound load movement, the AGVs will pick
up tubs of finished goods from the warehouse and transport to the
transportation dock. The system is planned to launch in the third quarter of
2019.
The Dematic System software manages and controls the AGV fleet to boost task projects of intra-plant movement of materials. An interface to the host ERP is incorporated to support lot control and quality auditing. For on-board controls, the AGVs use a combination of laser and natural target guidance.
This article is originally posted on Tronserve.com
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