Case share 

• Customer background

  A large heavy machinery manufacturing enterprise focuses on the production and processing of large machine tool components, heavy molds, and steel structural parts. Its core production workshop covers an area of about 8000 square meters and needs to achieve cross regional transportation of raw materials (steel billets, cast iron blocks) and semi-finished products (machine tool bed bodies, stamping molds) between storage areas, processing areas, and assembly areas. The single batch transportation load can reach 20-35 tons, and the daily transportation frequency exceeds 50 times. The previous transportation mode of using traditional driving vehicles combined with manual forklifts can no longer meet the efficient circulation needs of automated production lines.
• 

  Core pain points of the project
  Low transfer efficiency: Crane lifting requires manual command and coordination, with a single transfer taking up to 15-20 minutes, and due to workshop space limitations, parallel operations cannot be carried out, resulting in a lag in production pace;
  Insufficient positioning accuracy: When manually operating forklifts to dock with processing equipment, the positioning error often reaches 30-50mm, requiring repeated adjustments, which can easily cause damage to the workpiece and result in a rework rate of up to 8%;
  Outstanding safety risks: There are hidden dangers of shaking and falling during the lifting of heavy workpieces, and frequent personnel exchanges in the workshop, which can easily lead to safety accidents due to human command errors;
  High labor costs: 8 full-time lifting workers and forklift drivers are required to work in shifts, with an annual labor cost of over 600000 yuan, and high-intensity labor leading to high personnel turnover.

• Implementation results

  
  Transfer efficiency improved by 45%: The single transfer time of the track type power handling vehicle has been reduced to 8-10 minutes, supporting parallel operation of 4 devices. The total daily transfer time has been reduced from 12 hours to 7 hours, fully matching the 24-hour uninterrupted operation requirements of the production line;
  Significant optimization of positioning accuracy: precise docking of processing equipment, reducing the rework rate of workpiece collision from 8% to 0.5%, and reducing losses caused by workpiece damage by over 300000 yuan per year;
  Double improvement in safety and cost: achieving unmanned automatic transportation, revoking full-time crane worker positions, saving an annual labor cost of 400000 yuan, and implementing it so far without any safety accidents, greatly improving the safety of workshop operations;
  Automation adaptation upgrade: Through linkage with MES system, intelligent collaboration between material transfer and production process is achieved, and the completion rate of production plan is increased from 82% to 95%, helping the intelligent transformation and implementation of workshop.

Customer feedback

The track type power handling vehicle completely solves the efficiency and safety problems of our heavy workpiece transportation. Its precise positioning ability and automated scheduling function perfectly adapt to the operational needs of intelligent production lines. Not only does it significantly reduce labor costs and safety risks, but it also improves the coherence of the production process, providing us with solid logistics support for expanding production capacity in the future