ZF
Automated management of dollies transporting automotive parts
Anne-Charlotte C.
Logistics Project Manager
A fully autonomous robot that picks up dollies at location A, transports them and puts them back at location B. The AMR is a flexible solution in the sense that it avoids obstacles it identifies as it navigates through an environment.
The use case in brief
With a view to factory restructuring for the optimization and automation of intralogistics flows. 3 SHERPA-Ds replace small logistics trains in charge of transporting bins containing parts for assembly.
Key figures
Up to 360 bins transported per hour
24/24 availability thanks to induction charging
The facility's plus points
1
Improved ergonomics for operators concerned by musculoskeletal disorders related to load transport
2
Safe collaboration between a fleet of mobile robots and humans. Trained operators live together with the machines.
3
The SHERPA solution transports standard automotive dollies (600x400mm). It also enables dollies to be picked up deep finto the rail.
4
Productivity gains: the operator calls the robot from his workstation without leaving it, and the robot brings the necessary parts to the operator autonomously.