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Dematic Valpak AGV (full version)

Keeping product in continuous motion at Valpak's Manufacturing Center is the job of 17 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from Dematic: 13 vehicles for reel handling, plus four forklifts for palletized loads. The reel handlers operate in the print roll area, moving reels of signatures from buffer storage to the collators. The forklifts transport pallets of filled trays from the collation line to a station where the pallets are broken down into smaller loads for sorting by postal route. The guide path that the battery-powered vehicles follow on these rounds is 13,000 feet, or nearly 2.5 miles, in length. The AGVs carry their own routing instructions in on-board computers that get wireless pick-and-drop commands from central SAP. One of the key characteristics of the roll handling vehicles is their placement accuracy. After an AGV picks a reel of signatures from the buffer rack and transports it to the collating line, it reports the successful drop to SAP. The fit of the reel must be precise, and if anything impedes the transfer, SAP is notified. Safety-oriented “interlock” specifications developed by Dematic ensure that before an AGV attempts to deliver a load to another piece of automated equipment, the receiving unit will confirm that space is available so that delivery can proceed. The transfer mechanism of the reel vehicles is exchangeable from vehicle to vehicle so that each AGV can be used for reel handling or pallet transport as needed.