Warehousing industry The warehousing industry is the earliest application of AGV. In 1954, the world's first AGV was put into operation in the warehouse of Mercury Motor Freight Company in South Carolina, USA, to realize the automatic handling of inbound and outbound goods. At present, there are about 20,000 various AGVs in the world running in 2,100 large and small warehouses. In the three-dimensional warehouse of the development zone that Haier Group put into operation in 2000, nine AGVs formed a flexible in-house automatic handling system, successfully completing the daily handling of 23,400 inbound and outbound cargo and parts.
manufacturing AGV is a leader in the manufacturing line of production, efficient, accurate and flexible material handling tasks. And a flexible logistics handling system can be composed of multiple AGVs. The transportation route can be adjusted in time with the adjustment of the production process, so that more than ten products can be manufactured on one production line, which greatly improves the flexibility of production and the competitiveness of the enterprise. In 1974, in order to improve the flexibility of the transport system, the Volvo Kalmar sedan assembly plant in Sweden adopted an automatic car assembly line based on AGVS as a carrier. The assembly line consists of several AGVSs that can be loaded with the car body. After the assembly line, the assembly time is reduced. 20%, assembly failure reduced by 39%, investment recovery time reduced by 57%, labor force reduced by 5%. At present, AGV has been widely used in the manufacturing and assembly lines of major automobile factories in the world, such as GM, Toyota, Chrysler, and Volkswagen. In recent years, as the basic handling tool of CIMS, the application of AGV has penetrated into many industries such as machining, home appliance production, microelectronics manufacturing, cigarettes, etc. The field of production and processing has become the most widely used field of AGV.
Post office, library, port terminal and airport In post offices, libraries, terminals, airports, etc., the transportation of items has the characteristics of large changes in workload, strong dynamics, frequent adjustment of work processes, and single handling operation. AGV's parallel operation, automation, intelligence and flexibility. The characteristics of the product can well meet the handling requirements of the above-mentioned occasions. Sweden started the postal work in 1983 at the Post Office in Greater Stockholm, Japan in Japan in 1988 at the Tama Post Office, and in 1990 at the Shanghai Post Hub in Shanghai. At the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 50 AGVs called “yard tractors” completed the repetitive work of transporting containers from the side of the ship to warehouses hundreds of yards away.
Tobacco, medicine, food, chemical In the tobacco, pharmaceutical, food, chemical and other industries where the handling operations are clean, safe, and free of emissions, the application of AGV has also received attention. Many cigarette companies in China, such as Qingdao Yuzhong Group, Yuxi Hongta Group, Honghe Cigarette Factory, and Huaiyin Cigarette Factory have applied laser-guided AGV to complete the handling of pallet goods.
Hazardous locations and special industries Militaryly, it integrates other detection and disassembly equipment based on AGV's automatic driving. It can be used for battlefield demining and position reconnaissance. The British military is developing MINDER Recce, a reconnaissance vehicle with mine detection, destruction and route verification capabilities. Automatic reconnaissance vehicle. In steel plants, AGV is used for the transportation of furnace materials, which reduces the labor intensity of workers. In places where nuclear power plants and nuclear radiation are used for fresh-keeping storage, AGVs are used for the transport of goods and avoid dangerous radiation. In film and film warehouses, AGV delivers accurate and reliable materials and semi-finished products in a dark environment.
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