Trucks automatic guided vehicles

Today, a storage battery that is mainly used for propulsion of a vehicle and is recharged from an external energy source is referred to as a traction battery . Typical applications are forklift trucks, automatically guided vehicles (AGVs) in modern production and logistics, and on-road electric vehicles (EVs). 

The warehousing function must determine the number of distribution centers (DC) to own and their location. The optimal location of the DCs would clearly be a function of the locations of customers, sources of material, and the locations of manufacturing plants. To be responsive to customers, the DCs must store a mix of products that would vary by location, and therefore the product-mix must be chosen carefully. Material handling equipment enable efficient stacking and retrieval of items in a warehouse. They include trucks, forklifts, side loaders, platform trucks, conveyor systems, automatic guided vehicles (AGV), and robotic delivery systems. 

Hence, several types of equipment can be used to move materials, such as conveyors, rollers, self-powered monorails, carts, forklift trucks, and various devices and manipulators. Automated guided vehicles (AGV) are used extensively as they have high flexibility and they are capable of random delivery to different workstations. AGV are guided automatically along defined pathways, and their routing can be controlled so that the system optimizes the movement of materials and parts in case of congestion, machine breakdown, etc. 

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