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Employees willing to take on physically strenuous jobs and hard manual labor are harder than ever to find. Along with a general goal of optimizing warehouse space, making manufacturing flexible and making better use of their employees, companies around the world seek to automate processes, increase efficiency and save costs altogether.
This is a clear global trend, and a way to accomplish all of the above is to extend the use of AMRs and AGVs. These intelligent machines are going to handle a lot of materials in manufacturing and will help streamline stock management almost everywhere.
According to A3 (Association of Advancing Automation) 95% of warehouses today are not yet automated. However, Interact Analysis forecasts an increase in the installation rate of mobile robots of 10% by the year 2025. By then, the installed base will be around 2 million.
Platforms with deck-load the most popular functions
A closer look at the current market shows that the deck-load type of mobile robots is the most commonly used. The typical tasks include moving unit loads, for example, pallets, boxes or shelves. Besides taking over the classic transport task from A to B, mobile robots are increasingly used as a kind of flexible, mobile conveyer fit for the factory of the future.
In order to handle the payloads, a durable vertical lift is needed, and to help you find the right solution, LINAK® brings years of experience.
Precision and reliability are key factors
In order to meet end user demands, the material handling process – from manufacturing to logistics – needs to be precise and reliable. According to Business Development Manager Heiko Kleineder, LINAK actuators are ideal for mobile robots.
“Precision and reliability are traits that have been synonymous with LINAK actuators for decades. Autonomous robots and AGVs with our electric movement solutions depend on both if they are to create value at all,” he explains, and adds:
“Utilizing CANopen or the IO-Link interface and signal feedback options, our actuators are really easy to integrate with modern mobile robot design and they support digital twins. And our long-life and maintenance-free actuators provide the high level of reliability that our customers need. We are used to making tailored solutions and often work together with our customers to reach desired results. That’s how we know!”
If you want to know more about how electric actuators can support your AGV or AMR application, please contact your local LINAK office.
Our solutions in material handling applications
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LINAK has the first AGV of its kind in Scandinavia
At LINAK, we know all the benefits of using AGVs to automate processes and how to use them to spare our employees from physically strenuous tasks.
At our manufacturing facility in Denmark we have an AGV in Machining to do the heavy lifting. It moves some 40 tons of spindles every day – an essential task, previously performed manually with carts.
The AGV is fully autonomous and operates side by side with employees, moving required spindle materials to the right processing stations. This ensures an accurate flow of materials while keeping track of stock status and material placement.
The main reasons for implementing the AGV at LINAK are to improve ergonomics and enhance safety for employees. We are also experiencing fewer errors because – with the AGV – more processes are now computer-controlled.
Our AGV is the first of its kind in Scandinavia and features LINAK actuatorsLA25 and LA36.
We call her ‘Marie’ and you can see her in action in this video.
