ENHANCE YOUR WORKFORCE.
Hiring quality labor is a challenge for many companies. Since Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) function safely without human operators, they reduce the risk of human error, decrease labor costs and help you avoid lost productivity due to absenteeism or worker shortages. AGVs can be added to your warehouse seamlessly without major operational changes. Additionally, these automated guided vehicles are available to lease or purchase, decreasing your company’s overhead expenses and providing a rapid return on investment (ROI). Our EQSOLUTIONS™ automation specialists help guide you through the selection and implementation process to ensure a seamless and successful integration of AGVs into your operation.
SAFETY & EFFICIENCY
With the precision of AGVs, you reduce product and equipment damage caused by operators in conventional forklift trucks
WIDE SELECTION
Broad range of solutions available, including AGVs for very narrow aisle (VNA) and high bay racking layouts
PRODUCTIVITY & PROFITABILITY
AGVs can operate across multiple shifts, minimizing downtime and helping you save on labor costs
BENEFITS OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES
SAFER AND MORE EFFICIENT FUNCTIONALITY
With EQSOLUTIONS™, your automated guided vehicles are programmed to prioritize and process orders with maximum efficiency, improving your warehouse’s operational performance. Automated guided vehicles include sensors and reflectors to monitor and identify obstacles. Technologies such as laser navigation provide precise accuracy when interfacing with other elements in your warehouse, improving warehouse safety by eliminating common accidents that happen due to human error.
FLEXIBLE OPERATIONS
You can use AGVs in mixed operations alongside manual trucks and pedestrians. Hybrid vehicles are available, and this type of AGV system operates as a manual truck and an automated one. AGVs help support pick-to-AGV operations enabling an employee to stay in the picking area while items are transported by an AGV, which can increase productivity by up to 33%. Many vehicles feature adjustable forks or attachments to move pallets and specialty loads. AGVs also include technology that interfaces with hundreds of warehouse management systems and other types of automation and manufacturing equipment.
BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
AGV forklifts advance your warehouse’s productivity levels by increasing the consistency and efficiency of how your company moves products. Automated guided vehicles can be used across multiple shifts, and when you invest in AGVs for your warehouse, you can hire fewer workers or repurpose them to more productive tasks. For many warehouses, using AGVs for routine or repetitive jobs is beneficial since these roles are hard to fill.
BETTER OPERATIONAL CONTROL
AGVs feature control systems that manage the transportation of orders, control traffic flow, and constantly update order statuses. You can see which tasks each vehicle is scheduled to complete and input orders that require priority transport. AGV control systems also optimize the route of each AGV for the most efficient path through your facility to increase delivery speed and process orders more efficiently.
ACCURATE AND DEPENDABLE NAVIGATION
AGVs from EQSOLUTIONS™ come with reliable navigation technology, ensuring that the automated machines operate with exact precision when delivering loads to defined destinations. The most common warehouse navigation method used is laser triangulation, with magnetic sensors or floor wire navigation available for specific applications. We’ll help determine the best AGV navigation type based on your needs and the structure of your facility. Investing in automated guided vehicles decreases product damage while improving your company’s shipping speed and product delivery accuracy.
COMMON USES FOR AGVS
AGVs can be used to improve production efficiency in a wide range of diverse applications. These include, but are not limited to:
- Transferring Goods & Raw Materials: AGV tow tractors effectively transport materials or pull carts and trailers throughout a warehouse
- Conveyor Transport: Use low lift trucks to move products from conveyor equipment to the truck, or use automated conveyors to transfer between fixed conveyors
- Order Picking: Program AGVs to pick up orders from the warehouse storage areas and take them to packing, pallet wrapping or shipping and receiving areas
- Pallet Loading: Use AGVs to load trucks for transport or unload shipments and move them to the storage area
- Pallet Handling AGVs can move and stack pallets in many different racking systems, including block storage, drive-in racking, gravity racking, mobile racks, VNA and push-back racking
- Empty Pallet Restacking: Program your AGV to automatically replenish stacks of empty pallets when they are low
- Paper Reel Handling: AGVs can be equipped with reel clamps or reel forks for safely transporting and stacking paper and tissue reels
- Custom Applications: Many AGVs can be modified with different attachments to accommodate specific intralogistics tasks you wish to automate
THE BEST CHOICE FOR AGV SOLUTIONS
When you implement AGVs for daily use in your operations, you are freeing up your personnel’s time so they can take care of more complex and demanding tasks. AGVs operate safely and precisely, which results in greater accuracy, production and cost-savings for your business. Start your path to improved productivity with EQSOLUTIONS™, and learn more about automated guided vehicles today.