With the development of science and technology, more and more enterprises begin to use AGV car, AGV handling robot can improve the efficiency of enterprise warehouse out, reduce labor costs, AGV car as an unmanned intelligent carrier, can make the enterprise’s handling system more flexible and intelligent, reduce costs at the same time can greatly improve the efficiency of enterprises.So how to improve the efficient operation of AGV handling robot?
1、 Reasonable planning of transportation distance
First of all, let’s take an example. If we are hungry and need some takeout, we’ll choose a store close to home.In fact, material handling is the same. If you want the AGV car to complete its handling task as soon as possible, the closer the handling point is, the better.
This is also the preliminary planning work of the intelligent logistics warehousing system. On the premise of meeting the process requirements and reasonable placement of equipment, we should try our best to reasonably arrange the working position distance between the goods to be transported.
2、 Capacity of material unit
Before we assign tasks to AGV cars, we should first analyze what to use to carry the goods, and consider whether to use pallets, bins or cages.Generally, the selection of material unit should fully consider the process requirements.For example, the handling task is to go to a separate station. AGV handling robot only needs one material box for each station at a time. If the pallet is selected as the material unit at this time, it is definitely not appropriate.However, if the station needs a whole pallet of goods, and only a few bins are provided for each handling, the system will be more flexible, but it will bring more pressure to the AGV car.Therefore, we need to comprehensively consider the requirements of the process and the composite of handling efficiency, and then make a balance.
Assuming that a pallet can hold 10 boxes of fruit, if the station needs to handle 20 boxes of fruit per hour, if the pallet handling is adopted, then it only needs to move 2 times per hour to meet the efficiency requirements; if we use the box handling protection, then it needs to move 20 times per hour.At the same time, the times of transportation are quite different.However, it is not necessarily good to use large capacity cargo units.If we need to record the operation record and specific information of each box in real time in the fruit processing station, then it is more convenient to use the box handling method at this time. Of course, we can also have other ways to solve the information tracking problem.
3、 Advance handling problem
We’ve all gone to eat fast food with AGV transport robot. As long as we order the dishes, we can serve them immediately. Why? In fact, it’s not hard to guess. It’s because every standard meal has the semi-finished products ready in advance, so the merchants only need to heat them up.
So for the intelligent AGV car handling system, we can also learn from this principle.We can move the goods to a reasonable transition position in advance, so that we can provide them from the side immediately when the materials are needed.Save more time and improve enterprise efficiency.
As mentioned above, suppose that we can prepare several pallets near the goods in advance when carrying fruit pallets. When AGV handling robot needs new pallets at the station, AGV trolley can directly transport the pallets prepared in advance to the designated station, greatly reducing the response time.
4、 Single batch handling
Let’s take fast food restaurants as an example.When there are too many guests, how to serve more quickly? I believe the following situation is not uncommon, that is, a waiter brings several dishes to different guests at the same time.
In the same way, in order to improve the handling efficiency, AGV car can also carry a variety of different goods at the same time, using pallet stacking, multiple loading mechanisms, dragging and other ways.
5、 Scale effect
The ancients said, “when people gather firewood, the flame is high.”.This is the same for AGV cars, and many AGV cars will move faster.The efficiency of one AGV is different from that of 10 AGV.The working property of AGV car generally belongs to the discrete type of handling, compared with some continuous handling equipment, such as conveyor,If we use a more flexible mobile handling AGV car, then in order to reduce the time interval in discrete handling, within a reasonable budget, we can appropriately increase multiple AGV cars to achieve fast and efficient transportationEfficient work.
6、 AGV car selection is very important
At present, the application of AGV car is more and more common, and various AGV manufacturers continue to launch new AGV products.In fact, the applicable scenarios and uses of each AGV car are different. We must choose the appropriate AGV car according to the actual situation.
For example, many traditional AGV cars use laser positioning technology to realize AGV car autonomous navigation.But the laser AGV car will run slowly, especially when turning and picking up.
The new AGV car, such as inertial navigation AGV car, uses the inertial navigation mode and special cargo handling technology. Compared with the laser AGV car, the walking speed will be faster, but the load-bearing capacity of inertial AGV car will be weaker.There are also some traction AGV cars, although they can carry multiple goods at one time, but because of the traction problem, they will occupy a little more channel area when turning.
Therefore, when we choose AGV car, we must integrate many factors, AGV robot choose a suitable for their own needs of intelligent handling equipment, rational use of resources, in order to give full play to its advantages.
7、 Outsourcing handling tasks
Find professional people and do professional things.This principle can also be used in the flexible automation system of intelligent logistics warehousing.As different models of AGV cars deal with different scenes, we should try our best to give full play to the different advantages of different AGV cars, so that several different AGV cars can cooperate with each other and create a reasonable and effective golden partner.
If the inertial AGV car is used to carry the goods quickly between the two places on the ground, the AGV robot will then deliver the goods to the AGV car with lifting function, which improves the work efficiency.Another novel application in the past two years is the intensive storage mode of combining forklift and shuttle board, which makes forklift only responsible for the handling outside the shelf and shuttle board responsible for the handling inside the shelf.This way can reasonably and effectively improve the efficiency of cargo handling.
8、 Reasonable planning of AGV vehicle path to reduce traffic congestion
In the early planning of the application of AGV car, we must reasonably plan the appropriate AGV car path, so as to avoid the situation of “traffic jam” caused by improper setting of AGV carrying robot.A good path planning can not only reduce the risk of road congestion, but also make the logistics system flow more smoothly and make the handling efficiency higher.We focus on providing intelligent manufacturing solutions for customers in different industries. We welcome cooperation if necessary.