Snox : automated guided vehicles & 3D simulation
Dekker
Latest projects
Sep 06 :
Bosch : BOSCH has ordered a production snoxCustomDesign AGV installation from us plus six conveyors
References
Maserati
Vehicle used for coupling the chassis andframe
Robert Bosch
8 banks control injection pumps
FBFC - AREVA
Link between production lines for transport of boxes
Sagem
Evacuation of production lines by 1 snoxCart
Johnson Controls
Delivery of raw materials and finished products evacuation
KBA
The AGV used production lines
Michelin
AGV equipped to put coins on automated workstation
Nolte
Delivery trays martyrs by AGV equipped conveyor chains
Puratos
Association between two conveyors of production
Samsonite
Automation of a standard K LINDE, with 12m of lift height
Sarrel
Shipping line edges by 1 snoxCart
Stow
Transport very long items (max.: 1500 kg)
Stella
Delivery and disposal of plastic containers
Dekker
Supplying an input conveyor line in stacks of pallets
Diffusion +
Evacuation and food production lines.
Further references
Supply of a snoxStacker AGV to DEKKER’s Netherlands site
CUSTOMER PROBLEM
General
DEKKER is a major horticultural producer in the Netherlands. These products are placed in plastic boxes. Their production plant is fitted with a conveyor used to supply empty plastic boxes to people.
These plastic boxes must, therefore, positioned on pallets.
The goal of the installation for DEKKER :
- Taking pallets full of empty plastic boxes to the storage area,
- Automatically placing down on the supply conveyor.
DEKKER is seeking a solution that can perform ALL these operations automatically.
Specific project features
- Operation of equipment: 12 hours/day, 6 days/week, 52 weeks/year,
- Picking up and putting down pallets automatically,
- The pallet storage area is divided into 5 rows, 40 m long,
- 5 pallet handling stations,
- Dekker would like the pallets to be taken automatically from the most congested row, but with the option of switching rows or forcing a pickup from a specified row,
- 1 pallet pick-up every 3 minutes,
- Max. load of 150 kg.
snoxStacker in Dekker
Applications of automatic carriage snoxStacker in Dekker
- feed conveyor for pallet storage area
- stockpiling pallet of finished goods
- bond inter mail
- link between production workshop and storage area
You can also view the video of this project on the snox Stacker page.
SNOX SOLUTION
SNOX supplied DEKKER with an automatic stacker (snoxStacker) for this project. It is a commercial stacker modified by us for “transformation” into an AGV.
In order to do this, SNOX Engineering Group has added various features to the stacker :
- Our control electronics,
- A laser gyroscope for the guidance method,
- Sensors at the end of the forks for pallet detection,
- Various encoders for measuring the distance travelled by the AGV and the fork,
- Height of the sensors at the front and rear for staff safety.
The chosen guidance method is laser guidance via reflectors carefully positioned around the workshop. The AGV is controlled via a central computer which controls and modifies the various routes and calculates the position of the AGV within the workshop.
This solution is therefore ideal for picking up and setting down pallets automatically.
To control pick-up stations, the AGV records the distance travelled along each row before converting this distance into a pallet occupancy percentage in the rows so that it travels to the most congested row. The user can determine this value entirely via the central computer, forcing the AGV to travel to the specified storage row. Shifting between rows is also possible.
The presence or absence of a pallet, the difference in pallet height, etc. are registered by sensors at the end of the forks.
Once the pallet has been allocated to a storage row, it is automatically taken to the workshop feed conveyor and put down.
The AGV speed is fully adjustable and can be modified over time. This feature gives the customer the option to adapt the speed to his production.
