With the addition of natural navigation capability to the supplier’s NDC8 platform, the need for deployment reflectors or markers within the existing environment for navigation has been removed.

The generic, complete and scalable system consists of three parts—navigation, hardware and software—and suits all types of automatic guided vehicles, from small and simple to large and complex.

Using natural navigation allows AGV movement to be easily arranged and rearranged quickly, as well as for easier expansion of existing systems that employ other navigation techniques.

Moving goods in warehouses and factories is labor-intensive work, plagued by inefficiency, errors and safety lapses that cut into profitability. Picking goods in the warehouse can be even more problematic as varying product size, weight, demand and even seasonality create real challenges for optimizing product slotting and maximizing worker efficiency.

Using Automated Guided Vehicles can make all the difference - lowering labor costs, increasing productivity, and keeping staff out of the way of danger. Kollmorgen provides complete hardware and software solutions for intelligently automating standard forklifts and purpose-build vehicles.