AGV refers to a transport vehicle equipped with electromagnetic or optical automatic guiding device, which can travel along the specified guiding path and has safety protection and various load shifting functions. Under the command of the control system, the AGV car with automatic load shifting device automatically completes the whole process of picking, placing and horizontal operation of goods.
With the rising of labor cost, more and more enterprises are facing the problem of difficult recruitment, and it has become the general trend that machines replace people. As an important tool for automatic transportation and handling, AGV has been widely used in recent years. The use of AGV can meet the humanized and diversified needs of customers with high efficiency and low cost.
It plays a very important role in intelligent warehousing and internal logistics of intelligent factories. AGV has the characteristics of intelligence, flexibility, mobility, low cost, high efficiency and safe operation. It can solve the problem of workers' difficulty in working in bad weather and dangerous environment, and reduce waste gas and noise. It can also meet the individual needs of enterprises and has broad market prospects.
Source of AGV:
The first AGV was born in 1953. It was transformed from a simple tractor with AGC products, with a car pocket, and transported goods along wires arranged in the air in a grocery warehouse. More than 60 years later, with the continuous development of science and technology, Lingbird has built an intelligent unmanned sorting warehouse in Jiangsu, which is not only based on natural trackless navigation technology.
The case of realizing the application in the complex and changeable large-scale dispatching production environment is also a case of realizing the whole process of unmanned. This case provides a realistic reference sample for the development of AGV industry, including technical upgrading and practical application. It has played a certain role in promoting the realization of the strategic goal of "Made in China 2025".
In the previous warehousing and logistics, manual operation was generally used to complete heavy transportation work, which was not only time-consuming and laborious, but also might cause unnecessary harm to personal safety under special circumstances. The addition of AGV trolley has really improved the material conveyor belts in workshops and factories, improved the production efficiency and reduced the total production cost.