Replacing tugger trains with eight INO-PS units across two body shops.
Fleet of platform AGVs synchronized with the press shop and weld lines. Throughput up, floor space down, control-room operated.
A body shop fed by manual tugger trains.
The customer ran two parallel body shops fed by a fleet of manual tugger trains. As output ramped up, the maneuvering became the line's bottleneck.
Three problems at once:
- Operator risk in proximity of heavy loads
- Aisles sized for tugger trains, not production stations
- No centralized visibility into fleet state
Four measurable goals.
- Increase line throughput by at least 30 %
- Free floor space for production stations
- Eliminate handling incidents
- Centralize fleet control
Eight synchronized platform AGVs.
INOGEC deployed eight INO-PS units in tandem mode, synchronized with the upstream press shop and weld lines. Three pillars made the project successful.
Press shop synchronization
Each AGV gets its mission order directly from the upstream press. The fleet's rhythm follows the press cadence, not the other way around.
Tighter aisles
INO-PS omnidirectional motion shrinks aisles by 40 %. Reclaimed space was converted to finishing stations.
Control-room operation
The fleet manager surfaces every vehicle's state in real time. One operator in a control room runs the whole system.
Faster, safer, denser.
“We replaced a fleet of tugger trains with eight INO-PS units across two body shops. Throughput went up, the floor cleared out, and our team now runs the system from a control room.”
Platform Series
The Platform Series is Inogec's workhorse — a low-profile mother-vehicle that drives under carts, fixtures and assembly bodies and moves them across the plant under its own power.
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