AGILOX expands its product portfolio with an clever dolly mover
After AGILOX ONE and AGILOX OCF, now comes AGILOX ODM. The corporate, which focuses on logistics robots, is including an autonomous dolly mover to its vary of clever transport methods managed by swarm intelligence. AGILOX is thus concentrating on a very new space of software: the transport of small load carriers.
AGILOX is increasing its vary of Autonomous Cell Robots (AMRs) with the brand new Omnidirectional Dolly Mover AGILOX ODM. Whereas the AGILOX ONE is supplied with a scissor elevate and the AGILOX OCF has a free elevate for load dealing with, the AGILOX ODM is constructed on the precept of a dolly mover. This implies it will possibly settle for hundreds with a most weight of 300 kg to a most lifting top of 250 mm and transport them to their vacation spot. The clever AMR idea with AGILOX X-SWARM expertise thus opens up new areas of software and different trade segments as a result of small load carriers (resembling totes), which the brand new AGILOX ODM is designed to move, are extensively used, particularly within the electronics and pharmaceutical industries.
Particulars of the brand new AGILOX ODM
With the AGILOX ODM, AGILOX has introduced new considering to the idea of Automated Guided Autos: The compact car travels autonomously and navigates freely on the manufacturing flooring or within the warehouse, completely making certain the in-house materials circulation. Identical to AGILOX ONE and AGILOX OCF, AGILOX ODM makes use of an omnidirectional drive idea. This enables it to journey transversely into rack aisles in addition to activate the spot, enabling it to maneuver even within the tightest of areas. The lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) accumulator ensures brief cost occasions and lengthy working cycles.
“AGILOX is a model that has constructed a powerful basis with the AGILOX ONE and the AGILOX OCF. With the brand new AGILOX ODM, we stay true to our model DNA whereas concurrently concentrating on the transport of small load carriers to assist our development plan to turn into the world’s main AMR supplier,” says Georg Kirchmayr, CEO of AGILOX Providers GmbH.
The AGILOX benefit
With the brand new AGILOX ODM, prospects can profit from all some great benefits of similar confirmed X-SWARM expertise as in AGILOX ONE and AGILOX OCF: the distinctive benefits of an (intra-)logistics resolution designed from the bottom up.
Since AGILOX AMRs haven’t any want for a central management system and may orient to the prevailing contours with millimeter precision, this eliminates time-consuming and expensive modifications to the prevailing infrastructure. Autonomous route-finding additionally permits the automobiles to keep away from obstacles unaided. If it’s not doable to get previous the detected impediment due its dimension or the obtainable clearance, the AMRs calculate a brand new route inside seconds to succeed in their vacation spot as rapidly as doable. For purchasers, this implies most freedom of their present processes, as a result of they don’t have to adapt to the Autonomous Cell Robotic system. As an alternative, the system adapts to the shopper’s processes. Moreover, absolutely autonomous routing ensures a protected workflow – even in combined operations.
Plug & Carry out commissioning of the clever intralogistics options and the absence of a grasp laptop or navigation aids additionally saves AGILOX prospects from doing tedious alteration work upfront. As soon as the logistics robots have been put into operation, they set up themselves in response to the (decentralized) precept of swarm intelligence, i.e. they change info a number of occasions a second to allow all the fleet to calculate essentially the most environment friendly route and stop potential deadlocks earlier than these can happen. The client thus advantages from a system that continually runs easily, with no downtime. Time-consuming coordination of automobiles by the shopper can be a factor of the previous because of AGILOX X-SWARM expertise. For the shopper, this implies flexibility, as a result of it lets them broaden the automobiles’ space of operation inside only a few minutes. It additionally signifies that it is extremely straightforward to relocate an AGILOX AMR for use quickly in different areas of the corporate areas or its subsidiaries. Since AGILOX automobiles may also talk with different machines or the constructing infrastructure via IO bins, even rolling doorways or a number of flooring are not any drawback for the AMRs. So, this too signifies that prospects take pleasure in most flexibility within the group of their manufacturing processes.
One other main benefit comes from combined operation of the AGILOX fleet in a “swarm”. The smaller AGILOX ONE and ODM sequence automobiles can then, for instance, feed the meeting workstations or e-Kanban racks, whereas the AGILOX OCF automobiles transport the pallets. This may simply be performed as a result of AGILOX AMRs all use the identical management and WiFi infrastructure.