Register now or log in to join your professional community.
Automated Guided Vehicles are used to consistently and predictably transport loads of material to places that might otherwise be service by fork lift trucks, conveyors, or manual cart transport. They are typically used where high volumes of repetitive movements of material is required, but where little or no human decision making skill is required to perform the movement. They are especially useful in serving processes where change is contact, and barriers - such as conveyors - are undesirable.
Automated guided vehicles can be divided into the following three categories:
(1) driver less trains
(2) pallet trucks
(3) unit load carriers
