Beverage production and warehousing goals to innovate, reduce overhead costs and improve productivity with a limited workforce are driving recent trends and advances in robotics and software. The use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), or robotic lift trucks, is expanding as the industry finds ways to transition simple, repeatable tasks to guided or autonomous vehicles, experts say.
Between common load types, regularity of scheduling and activities such as picking up, transporting and positioning pallets, beverage companies are prime candidates for AGVs. Not only do the automated vehicles improve bottom-line costs, they are integral to improving beverage operations while boosting production.