What is an Automated Guided Vehicle system?
An Automated Guided Vehicle system (AGV) is a means of transportation that has its own drive system. It steers automatically and requires no human guidance. The vehicle moves through the rails or certain magnets under the floor to travel the desired path. It is intended to provide support when pulling or carrying goods and transporting materials.
Automated Guided Vehicle systems are considered a particularly flexible solution among automated transport systems. Thanks to their flexibility, they can be perfectly integrated into existing processes (work areas, routes, warehouse superstructures) and used for the transportation of various goods.
Automated Guided Vehicle systems are now also increasingly being used in order picking. In retail and wholesale in particular, large quantities of different goods are often picked and loaded individually for each customer from different storage locations.
