Production Line AGV

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are integral to maintaining a smooth and efficient production line, especially when they are required to keep a pre-defined separation distance and ensure functional safety through emergency stopping capabilities.

Challenge

Ensuring that AGVs maintain a pre-defined separation distance on the production line while also having a functionally safe emergency stopping feature. Additionally, control and safety-related data traffic needs to be transmitted continuously for several applications in parallel to ensure uninterrupted, continuous movement of AGVs, which is a prerequisite for high productivity and optimal production output.

Solution

• Control: Bridge E enables AGVs to share low-latency controls among them, allowing them to move in “lockstep” and maintain a pre-defined separation distance. It utilizes PROFIsafe over PROFINET with a PROFINET cycle time of 32ms.

• Functional Safety: Bridge E allows for the inclusion of a wireless emergency stopping function for a “platoon of vehicles”, ensuring that the AGVs can be halted safely in an emergency

Key Takeaways

• Ensures AGVs maintain a pre-defined separation distance.

• Provides a functionally safe wireless emergency stopping feature.

• Facilitates continuous and parallel transmission of control and safety-related data traffic.

Learn how Bridge E can safeguard and optimize your AGV operations on the production line. Contact us for more information and a personalized demo.