Control platform set for guided vehicle duties
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Danaher Motion product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 18, 2006
Danaher Motion has signed two new automated guided vehicle (AGV) technology partners - the US group Jervis B Webb Company and TTS Port Equipment from Sweden.
Danaher Motion has signed two new automated guided vehicle (AGV) technology partners - the US group Jervis B Webb Company and TTS Port Equipment from Sweden.
Central to this strategic co-operative venture is Danaher Motion's NDC8 control platform, to be used by both companies in their AGV solutions.
AGVs that feature NDC8 technology are particularly easy to manage, maintain, reconfigure and expand, while reducing total cost of ownership.
Danaher Motion's NDC8 control platform for Automated Guided Vehicles stands out on account of its extensive programming options, flexibility and high degree of user friendliness.
This solution is suitable for all vehicle types and areas of application.
It can be used for the problem-free combination of all important automatic guidance and navigation processes, including laser, spot magnet and pilot line guidance.
The development, co-ordination and administration of transport routes for all AGVs is simplified by means of a layout engineering tool for rapid achievement of optimum transport flow.
The NDC8 platform also provides a traffic manager that uses runtime decisions to prevent collisions.
Soft PLC programming complies with IEC61131-3, and there is a complete set of software tools for design, operational and service tasks.
Jervis B Webb Company, a global leader providing material handling system solutions, has now obtained a licence to use the NDC8 control platform through its acquisition of Danaher Motion's former partner, Mentor AGVS, and intends to extend its existing AGV product range using the company as a base.
Through its co-operative venture with Danaher Motion, the group will be able to strengthen its position on the international market for laser and magnet-guided vehicles, as well as heavy AGVs (100t plus).
TTS Port Equipment is using Danaher Motion's NDC8 technology in a new AGV programme engineered for use in container terminals.
The program will help improve the efficiency of Lo/Lo and Ro/Ro operations at ports worldwide, and also in other outdoor heavy process and industrial material handling fields.
TTS Port Equipment Managing Director, Lennart Svensson, says: "By working with Danaher Motion to adapt traditional AGV industry technology to our needs, we can offer our customers significant efficiency gains in the operation of container terminals".
"This project will see TTS providing its customers with a solution that will improve the cost-efficiency of container port logistics by providing capacity and system reliability improvements".
TTS Port Equipment selected Danaher Motion as its partner for this project based on its proven AGV technology and its ability to provide technical expertise and support in all of TTS's key markets worldwide.
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