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AGVs help ensure greater efficiency
20 February 2025
FURNITURE MANUFACTURER Alfons Venjakob & Co KG in Gütersloh, Germany uses automated guided vehicles (AGV) for greater efficiency, safety and flexibility in a production environment with varying load sizes and narrow travel paths.

Venjakob manufactures furniture in a wide range of shapes and sizes – a challenge for in-house material transport, due to the variety of loads. At the same time, narrow routes require precise navigation of the transport vehicles. A solution therefore had to be both flexible and space-saving. The solution is a customised AGV with two vehicles of the VARIO MOVE series from ek robotics.
These transport robots are equipped with extended forks, sensors to detect the width and length of the load and a duplex lift mast. This enables them to transport loads of up to 1000kg and store them at heights of up to four meters.
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