AGV improves assembly line operations

摘要

Quite often, a manual process occurs within the automo-tive industry, the handling of parts bins that provide a variety of components to supply racks. In one particular example, an engineered services and products provider's client's baseline process involved a six-day-a-week (16 hours per day) operation where employees manually transported bins—each weighing up to 50 kilograms—from the factory's inventory warehouse to individual supply racks in the assembly area. The supply racks were configured at several different heights (from near ground level to approximately 1.5 meters high), with many racks containing multiple levels.