Our autonomous transport vehicle

It is often necessary to implement specific requirements when transporting goods or loads. The move-e-star shown here, for example, has a customer-specific application for transporting various panels.

As part of a FAT, the ability to pick up and move goods with the transport racks provided for this purpose must often also be demonstrated. Here is a move-e-star that can move up to 60 tons. A matter of course for us.

The move-e-star is the platform that ensures the mobility of a variety of superstructures. In the basic application, the move-e-star transports goods, production parts, production machines or similar on its loading platform. The loads can be highly customized. One customer needed to transport goods with different surface qualities. HIT designed the move-e-star's load support to be interchangeable for two surface qualities at the touch of a button and without additional assembly work.

The move-e-star moves effortlessly in any direction. It can also be rotated around any vertical axis outside the move-e-star. This omnidirectional mobility, also known as surface mobility, is otherwise only achieved by air cushion transportation systems. Unlike these, however, the move-e-star can cope with the rough floors encountered in production. Customers appreciate the high driving and positioning accuracy of the area mobility. This frees up valuable space on expensive production areas for applications other than transportation.

Picking up and setting down loads as well as positioning at or on handling machines must be carried out with a high degree of accuracy and uniformity in order to ensure that the process continues quickly without the need for readjustments. Even when transporting production equipment from one point of use to the next, it should be set down precisely at the processing station. This also eliminates time-consuming set-up times. This is where the area mobility of the move-e-star, which sets down the transported load with pinpoint accuracy, proves its worth.

In a typical production process, loads are often moved in narrowly defined weight ranges or dimensions. To a lesser extent, however, significantly heavier or larger loads also have to be transported. This is where the move-e-star's ability to couple two or more units and then move as one unit proves its worth. The user does not have to buy and keep a small and a large transport unit. By linking the modular move-e-stars, he can create the "large" move-e-star himself if required and use the units as individual platforms again after transportation.

The chassis of the move-e-star already has an integrated lifting system. Loads are driven under, picked up, transported and set down again. The move-e-star is then ready for the next task. The customer benefit is obvious: the move-e-star has a low body height, as a separate device for lifting the load is not necessary. In addition, the complexity of the platform is reduced and fewer parts need to be maintained and replaced if necessary. The move-e-star is a transport platform from a single source that is optimally adapted to its functionality.

Industry 4.0: Not only the production goods, but also the means of production are becoming mobile. The route of the production goods varies from one piece to another. The means of production are now also used at one point in the plant, but must be available at another point shortly afterwards. This can only be achieved if goods and production equipment find their way to the respective processing and deployment positions on their own. Of course, the move-e-star has the ability to receive and process corresponding commands.

Heavy loads in particular are often difficult or impossible to transport along the individual processing stations. Rail systems make the routes inflexible and block future design options. This is where the move-e-star feels at home: the combination of different capabilities makes it possible to design flow production with the help of one or more move-e-stars without having to permanently install complex systems and without minimizing future design possibilities and options.