With six automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from the modular VARIO MOVE series, the Hamburg-based company ek robotics is implementing a new intralogistics solution for a large, family-run German brewery. The transport robots are equipped with special load handling devices for their continuous use 365 days a year in sorting empties.
At the headquarters of the private brewery, which has been run for five generations, a wide range of premium beer products are produced using the art of craft brewing. With the driving innovative spirit of the 200-year-old company, an automated guided vehicle system from the German manufacturer and integrator ek robotics will be responsible for future intralogistics processes in sorting empties. The new automation process revolutionises the previously manual forklift transport of unsorted and sorted empties. The Hamburg-based company’s transport solution comprises six high-performance transport robots from the modular VARIO MOVE series. Equipped with a special combination of two load handling attachments, they handle transportation between numerous conveyor systems, robot cells and other transfer stations in 24-hour operation. The AGVs also serve two block storage areas, where they store and retrieve stacks of pallets and transport new glass provided there to the transfer stations of the conveyor systems.
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