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SICK and MasterMover – Safe starting points for Industry 4.0

30Sep

All too often, fixed legacy infrastructure and buildings create a barrier to rethinking conventional linear production processes as part of Industry 4.0.

The growing use of Automated Guided Vehicles and Carts offers the prospect of introducing more flexible materials handling, while dispensing with costly and non-value-added manual handling tasks.

“Everyone is talking about AGVs at the moment,” says Dan Evans, Research and Development Manager at MasterMover. “Nearly everywhere we go, our customers ask us how we are developing our capability in this area.”

MasterMover has a 20-year pedigree in designing and manufacturing safe electric tugs that take the effort and danger out of moving wheeled loads around.

Read the full article in the October issue of PBSI