How can industrialists take advantage of AGV systems?
Do AGV solutions meet their needs and expectations?
Economic gains
Productivity gains
- Availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Suppression of manual tasks with no added value
- Reduction of operating and maintenance costs
- Decrease of building maintenance costs
- Suppression of interfering stocks
Quick return on investment (ROI)
- 18 to 36 months on average
- Investments based on effective needs
- Simple and easy track expansion and/or introduction of new AGVs
Operation related advantages
Reliable operation
- Rigorous management of flows and stocks
- Identification and traceability: "real time" follow-up
- Transport time under control: regularity and continuity
Products handled with care: no more damaged loads
Improvement of working conditions
- Staff safety
- Suppression of laborious and repetitive tasks
- Extreme environment (cold –25°C)
No infrastructure on ground.
Easy implementation and track evolution.
Smooth and flexible operation.
When the solutions fit the needs
If only one advantage has to be kept in mind, it surely is the AGVs' capability to adapt to companies' evolutions — an essential competitiveness factor for industrialists.
20/02/2006.