Focus on AGV industry for 18 years
Focus on AGV industry for 18 years
As one of the core processes in automobile manufacturing, the assembly workshop is continuously exploring and implementing intelligent trends to maintain a competitive edge. By utilizing flexible automation production lines, smart logistics, and other methods, the goal is to reduce production costs, improve production efficiency, and enhance product quality.
This project is a smart logistics initiative for the assembly workshops in the automotive and parts industries, helping the client achieve autonomous inbound and outbound operations for raw materials, purchased parts, and self-made components, delivering them to the line-side storage or flexible assembly lines. It aims to enable intelligent distribution and upgrade the flexible production lines through centralized control.
The production cycle is rapid, with takt times of less than 1 minute. This places high demands on the task continuity of AGVs, requiring them to quickly align with the turnover pace to ensure production efficiency.
There are over 600 buffer storage locations, including flat storage, line-side buffer points, and NG buffer points. This necessitates a segmented storage location management system to bind, record, and trace task information, ensuring smooth and consistent data flow.
With more than 20 process nodes, the scheduling algorithm logic for AGVs must meet high standards to handle the intricate production workflow effectively.
This project utilizes technologies such as latent lifting mobile robots, latent towing robots, automatic charging stations, the CRMS intelligent mobile robot control system, wireless docking systems, and the CWMS intelligent warehouse location management system.
Optimized Storage and Task Management: The intelligent mobile robot control system works seamlessly with the intelligent warehouse location management system. Using a weighted algorithm, it prioritizes placing large-volume and large-sized materials on the outer areas of the storage zone, heavier and high-frequency materials on lower shelves, and lighter, low-frequency materials on higher shelves. This approach increases the dynamic storage capacity of racks, enhances warehouse space utilization, and improves inbound and outbound efficiency. Task information is also bound, recorded, and traced to ensure data consistency and smooth operation.
Flexible and Efficient Material Handling: The mobile robots are compatible with various carriers, ensuring adaptability to the entire production process. They employ a relay-style task delivery system, where the endpoint of one task serves as the starting point for the next. This guarantees that AGVs execute transportation tasks efficiently in a continuous cycle.
The solution incorporates two navigation methods—magnetic navigation and QR code navigation. By combining these methods under unified scheduling, costs are effectively reduced, scheduling efficiency is enhanced, and unnecessary traffic control issues caused by isolated systems are minimized.
The integration of the warehouse location management system with the mobile robot control system enables the rapid and cost-effective implementation of intelligent warehouse management, significantly improving flat storage utilization rates.
To prevent excessive empty runs during AGV returns, which can reduce equipment utilization, a relay-style task delivery system is adopted. In this system, the endpoint of one task serves as the starting point for the next, ensuring AGVs can continuously and efficiently perform transportation tasks.
Lower the investment in fixed equipment, create a flexible production line, and improve scheduling flexibility; increase the yield rate and accuracy.
Achieve intelligent in-house logistics by optimizing warehouse locations, paths, and task assignments, and implementing full-process information management.
Accurately collect data on material efficiency, frequency, utilization, etc., and use the analysis to improve processes and enhance efficiency.
