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News Release from: Danaher Motion | Subject: Control platform for automated guided vehicles
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2006
AGV control platform offers programming
options
A control platform for automated guided vehicles stands out on account of its extensive programming options, flexibility and high degree of user friendliness.
A control platform for automated guided vehicles stands out on account of its extensive programming options, flexibility and high degree of user friendliness Danaher Motion has signed two new Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) technology partners - the US group Jervis B Webb Company (Farmington Hills, Michigan), and TTS Port Equipment from Sweden
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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It can be used for the problem-free combination of all important automatic guidance and navigation processes, including laser, spot magnet and pilot line guidance.
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Jervis B.
Webb Company, a global leader providing material handling system solutions, has now obtained a license to use the NDC8 control platform through its acquisition of Danaher Motion's former partner, Mentor AGVS, and intends to extend its existing AGV product range using the company as a base.
Through its cooperative venture with Danaher Motion, the group will be able to strengthen its position on the international market for laser and magnet-guided vehicles, as well as heavy AGVs (100 tons+).
TTS Port Equipment AB is using Danaher Motion's NDC8 technology in a new AGV program engineered for use in container terminals.
The program will help improve the efficiency of Lo/Lo and Ro/Ro operations at ports worldwide, and also in other outdoor heavy process and industrial material handling fields.
TTS Port Equipment managing director, Lennart Svensson, said, "By working with Danaher Motion to adapt traditional AGV industry technology to our needs, we can offer our customers significant efficiency gains in the operation of container terminals".
"This project will see TTS providing its customers with a solution that will improve the cost-efficiency of container port logistics by providing capacity and system reliability improvements." TTS Port Equipment selected Danaher Motion as its partner for this project based on its proven AGV technology and its ability to provide technical expertise and support in all of TTS's key markets worldwide.
* About Danaher Motion - Danaher Motion is a leading global manufacturer of motion control products that improve the efficiency and productivity of complex manufacturing operations.
Danaher Motion's product innovations have been revolutionizing the motion control industry for over 60 years through trusted brand names including Dover, Kollmorgen and Thomson.
Danaher Motion is a strategic business platform of the Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), a manufacturer of process and environmental controls, tools and industrial components.
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