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1. Industrial Vehicles/Trucks
 Industrial trucks are used to move
materials over variable paths, with no
restrictions on the area covered by the
movement.
 Manual or power driven
 The three categories of industrial
vehicles are walking, riding and automated
guided.

2. Walking Industrial Vehicles
• Walking industrial vehicles can be classified as
hand driven and power driven.
Two Wheel Hand Truck

3. Hand Lift Trucks

5. Powered Industrial Trucks
• It is used to lift, maneuver, and transport material
for short distance.
• Its battery powered for both lifting and
transporting.
Pallet lift truck(battery)

6. Riding Industrial Vehicles
• Allow the vehicle operator to ride to, form, and between
locations.
• They are typically used for longer moves than walking vehicles
and also offer additional weight and storage height capacity.
stand-up counterbalanced fork truck double reach fork truck

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Fork Lift Trucks
These are self loading, counterbalanced, powered, wheeled vehicles,
with the operator seating on the vehicle.
Designed for lifting, lowering, loading and unloading and maneuvering
of medium to large weight, uniform shaped unit loads, intermittently.

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The limitations of these equipment are
i. Usually requires pallet/skid/container,
ii. Requires skilled operator,
iii. Equipment needs maintenance facility,
iv. Capacity of these equipment vary from 1ton upto about 60
tons, v. Slow travel speed (10-15 kmph) ,
v. Suitable for short hauls (hundreds of meters)

10. Automated Guided Vehicles(AGVs)
• The AGVs belongs to a class of highly flexible,
intelligent and versatile material handling systems used
to transport materials from various loading locations
throughout a facility.
• An AGV is a material handling system that is
independently operated, steerable, wheeled vehicle,
driven by electric motors using storage batteries; and
it follows a predefined path along an aisle.

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Components of AGVs
• The vehicle
• The guide path
• The control unit
• The computer interface

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Types of AGVs
Some commonly used AGVs are:
• Driverless train (Towing vehicle)
• Unit load vehicles
• Pallet trucks
• Fork trucks
• Work platforms

15. Driverless train (Towing vehicle)

16. Unit load vehicles

17. Pallet trucks

19. Management of AGVs
Some of the important issues that must be considered
for the proper management of AGVs:
Guidance systems
Wire guidance system
Non-wire guidance system
Routing
AGVs control systems
Vehicle dispatching
Interfacing with other subsystems

20. Automated Storage and Retrieval system(AS/RS)
• An AS/RS consists of a variety of computer controlled
methods for automatically placing and retrieving loads
from specific storage locations.
Typically used in applications where:
There is a very high volume of loads being moved into
and out of storage;
Storage density is important because of space
constraints;
Accuracy is critical because of potential expensive
damages to the load.