Within the past few years, the number of Fastems’ CNC automation solutions utilizing automated guided vehicles (AGV) or autonomous mobile robots (AMR) has multiplied, and the demand keeps rising. Typical AGV applications include material intralogistics, delivering tools to machines, and moving machining pallets between production process phases. The common goal of all the AGV projects is timely, safe, and economical transfers of production items and Fastems is actively developing ways to utilize these technologies efficiently with CNC automation. “Today, most of our customer industries are using AGVs or AMRs in some way. Whether in aerospace, defense, machine building, medical or subcontracting, there are automated vehicles in many production shops”, said Mika Laitinen, Solution Sales Director at Fastems. “When it comes to CNC automation and AGVs or AMRs, they can greatly help reduce manual transfers and forklift operations, reduce buffer sizes, increase the automation level, and make production flow more predictable and reproducible.”
