Egemin Receives Turn-Key Automation Order from Hansen Transmission
Egemin builds on it's already strong success with Hansen Transmission by receiving an order for an automated high-tech material handling system. Egemin will install this state-of-the-art, fully automated material handling system that to manage the inbound and outbound storage of pallets.
Additionally, the contract calls for E'wms®, Egemin's software suite for warehouse management and control, to govern the entire warehouse system. The system will be operational by the summer of 2008. view photo
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Egemin Sells Third License Contract to Chinese Technology Company
Egemin recently closed its third license contract with a Chinese technology giant in eighteen months. The company is Machinery Technology Development Co., Ltd, (MTD). MTD is a comprehensive scientific and technological research center and industrial technology service center in China's machinery equipment industry. MTD was officially founded in 2002 by the China Academy of Machinery Science & Technology under direct control of the Chinese government and operating from China’s capital, Beijing.
The contract comprises the licence sales of Egemin technology to control automated guided vehicles (AGVs), in particular Egemin’s E’tricc® AGV management software and E’nsor® navigation software. AGVs are autonomous transport vehicles that move goods in warehouses, distribution areas and production environments. view photo
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Second Order Received for Transporting Cheese with AGVs
During the fall of 2007, Egemin will automate Campina’s cheese warehouse by installing a four-vehicle AGV system. The AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) will transport ripening cheese to automatic treatment machines and will also manage the inbound and outbound storage of cheese in the cold storage area. The AGVs will be installed during production allowing Campina to continue it's 24/7 operations. Commissioning of the AGV system will completed before the end of 2007.
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Honda Signs Contract with Egemin for AGV Transport System
Honda Europe and Egemin Automation recently signed an agreement for an Automated Guided Vehicle System to be installed within Honda’s production and warehouse environment. Founded in 1963, Honda Belgium was the first production plant of the Japanese automobile concern outside Japan. The Belgium Honda plant specializes in bumper spraying for after market parts and is building a brand new distribution center which Egemin has been entrusted with the engineering, construction and installation of an AGV system that automates spare parts transport.
The transport system will consist of forklift AGVs with on-board E’nsor® navigation software. The vehicles receive transport commands from Egemin's E’tricc® management software that communicates with Honda's production system.
This project represents the second order from Honda for Egemin in very short time. Earlier this year Honda of America contracted Egemin to implement an AGV system for the transport of containers loaded with components in the parts center of Troy, Ohio. The Honda plant of East Liberty, Ohio features a fleet of 67 Egemin AGVs that supply parts to the Civic and Element assembly lines. view photo
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Bridgestone Places Order to Retrofit Existing AGV System
Bridgestone's state-of-the-art tire manufacturing facility located in Tennessee has employed Egemin to replace its 15 year old vehicle controls with the latest, most advanced AGV controls technology available on the market today. The transition between old and new controls will be done without interruption to current manufacturing practices and needs. To do this, Egemin will upgrade a few AGVs at a time and insert them back into the system allowing the newly upgraded AGVs to co-mingle with the ones yet needing upgrades. This process will continue until all AGVs have received new controls packages.
In 2006, Bridgestone upgraded their external AGV control system, which utilizes Egemin’s E'tricc® (AGV Transport Intelligent Control Center) running on a robust Windows XP platform. This upgrade allows Bridgestone increased functionality and flexibility than was possible with the previous control system.
Bridgestone’s original AGV system, installed by Egemin in 1992, has been running 24/7 ever since.
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Fonterra Orders New Automated Guided Vehicle System
Fonterra, world’s largest dairy producer, recently ordered a new Automatic Guided Vehicle System to be installed in the production unit of Pahiatua to transport pallets loaded with milk powder. The system also manages the buffer storage of milk products.
This order follows the successful commissioning of Egemin’s previous E’gv® transport system in Fonterra’s plant of Te Rapa, installed during the summer of 2006. view photo
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Egemin Receives Repeat Order from Hansen Transmission
Hansen Transmissions International is market leader in the production of gear units and drive solutions for a wide range of applications from water purification systems and industrial mixers to wind turbines. Egemin has a close relationship with Hansen Transmissions and had been contracted twice in the past for the automation of warehouses where the gear units for wind turbine generators are manufactured.
The project scope includes three new warehouses and 1 AGV zone:
- 1 AGV system for transport of heavy components up to 12 tons from the logistic hub to assembly
- 1 warehouse with 1 pallet crane for storage of large products
- 1 warehouse with 4 pallet cranes for storage of medium-sized articles
- 1 warehouse with storage elevators for smaller products
Egemin's warehouse management system E'wms® will take care of the management of the three warehouses and the location management of the AGV system. The entire installation should be operational by the end of 2007.
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Egemin Expands AGV Manufacturing and Testing Facility
Due to an influx of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems being ordered, Egemin is expanding its manufacturing and test facilities with a 26,000 square foot addition. "This expansion will double Egemin's AGV testing capacities. With more AGVs being produced each year, we are able to test multiple AGV systems in a simulated customer environment simultaneously which will result in shorter delivery times" stated Craig Ollermann, Director of Assembly and Test at Egemin.
Thank you to all of our customers who have made this growth possible.
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Egemin Completes AGV Mail Delivery System at State Farm Insurance
State Farm, a user of hundreds of Egemin's Mailmobile® AGVs since 1984, has just completed adding additional mail delivery AGVs in their Bloomington, Illinois offices bringing the total number of vehicles to 18 in Bloomington alone. These 18 Mailmobile® AGVs service 60,000+ employees between multiple buildings traveling on more than six miles of path and taking elevators to automatically move between floors. Mail, claims, and files comprise over 500,000 items delivered daily by the 18 vehicle fleet.
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Building Houses and Improving Lives
The Charlotte office of Egemin Automation lent it's support along with local engineering firm Brown and Caldwell this past weekend to Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte, NC was founded in 1983 and has always been a leader among U.S. affiliates. In 2007 they will build their 750th house here in Charlotte! Habitat Charlotte is a sound non-profit organization with an experienced staff and more than 10,000 volunteers and donors working to build lives in our community.
In it's first 22 years, volunteers and homeowners built an amazing 650 homes - homes that have changed the lives of 650 families and many more. Habitat offers people a chance to own a home which they otherwise might never have. Families work hard building their own and other Habitat houses, and they're rewarded with a fine, affordable home and a low, interest-free mortgage. Moving from inadequate, often substandard housing into a well-built Habitat home gives family after family a fresh start. view photo
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Continental Goes with Egemin
Continental commissions Egemin to engineer and deliver an AGV system responsible for transporting and storing racks tire components. The automated guided vehicle system will make use of Egemin's E’nsor® multimode navigation system and are controlled by E’tricc®, Egemin’s standard software system for traffic control and transport management.
With several other Automatic Guided Vehicle - AGV System orders for European and American tire manufacturers, Egemin continues to be a prominent AGV supplier in this market segment.
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Airbus Buys Egemin AGV System
Aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus recently ordered an AGV system for its French production plant in Toulouse. The system will consist of two custom-made LPV (Load Platform Vehicle) Automated Guided Vehicles that will transport heavy and large-sized loads in the plant’s production area. The system is scheduled for commissioning in the last quarter of 2007.
In the past Egemin has installed several AGV systems for the aircraft industry worldwide. The confidence of Airbus, one of the world's most modern and comprehensive aircraft families, puts Egemin AGVs on the map as well.
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Egemin Closes Second Contract In China
KSEC is among the top integrators in the Chinese materials handling market and is the unchallenged market leader in Chinese AGV business. To further expand its business, KSEC has entered into a partnership with Egemin for the use of Egemin's AGV technology. This technology transfer has been successfully negotiated through Egemin's Representative Office in Shanghai that targets the South East Asian market. The contract was officially signed by the Vice General Manager of KSEC Li Tao and Egemin Handling Automation CEO Jan Vercammen at the KSEC headquarters in Kunming in the province of Yunnan. view photo
This contract is the second licence sale this year in China and means the real Asian breakthrough for Egemin. Egemin has been active on the AGV market since the seventies and the confidence of the leading AGV system builder in China proves that Egemin belongs at the top of AGV technology in the world.
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Sioen Orders Three Vehicle AGV System
Sioen Industries produces, develops and sells coated technical textiles, protective clothing and fine chemicals. Sioen employs more than 4,500 in several locations spread over Europe, Central America and South East Asia. Sioen already uses Egemin AGV technology in their Ardooie and Moeskroen plants and recently placed a new AGV order for the French production site of Flixecourt, Saint Frères Enduction.
The new automated guided vehicle system consists of three double mast forklift vehicles (FLVs) that will be used for transporting paint barrels to the working stations in the production area and the outfeed of empty barrels to the washing machines.
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Alcon Orders Automated Guided Vehicle System
Egemin recently received an order from Alcon for supplying a laser guided AGV system that will replace the obsolete wire guided AGV system at Alcon. Alcon chose for Egemin instead of extending the existing system supplied by the original AGV manufacturer because the Egemin system delivered a higher flexibility. In that respect, the Egemin system layout can be easily extended in the future and moreover the laser guided vehicles offer more with regard to flexible navigation. The Egemin AGVs will take care of the infeed and outfeed of pallets and the supply of packing material to the packing lines.
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Egemin Launches Mobile Website
Information about Egemin's automated guided vehicles can now be accessed from web enabled mobile phones. The new mobile website offers information about forked, tugger, trailer loading, unitload, Packmobile®, Mailmobile®, and custom AGVs.
The new mobile website can be accessed by entering www.egeminusa.com/mobile into web enabled phone browsers.
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Egemin Introduces Automatic Trailer Loading AGVs to Product Line
Technology has finally advanced enough to accurately and repetitively load over-the-road trailers with automated guided vehicles. Egemin's new Trailer Loading Vehicle (TLV) will be demonstrated at the upcoming Promat® tradeshow at Chicago's McCormick Place on January 8 - 11, 2007.
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Egemin Introduces Clamp AGV to Product Line
The need for clamping unitized loads for cross-docking and warehousing is increasingly becoming more popular for manufacturers. Egemin has received an order to manufacture and install a clamp style automated guided vehicle system.
The current clamp AGV uses a standard counter balance chassis with a standard off-the-shelf hydraulic clamp mechanism mounted at the rear. This clamp mechanism is not limited to the counter balance chassis, it can be mounted to a standard straddle chassis as well.
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AGV Order in New Zealand
Egemin recently won an important AGV order from the Fonterra Cooperative Group thanks to its Australian/New Zealand agent RML Ryan Manufacturing. Fonterra is a leading-edge multinational dairy company and is the world's largest exporter of dairy products, exporting its production to more than 140 countries.
Fonterra's order comprises the entire development and installation of an automatic AGV transport system for the production facility in Te Rapa, Hamilton. The system consists of three straddled fork lift vehicles (FLVs) designed for transporting pallets loaded with milk powder bags. The AGVs will operate in a 24/7 working regime and will also handle removal of the pallets and take care of the product grading in the night buffer managed by the E'tricc® control software (Egemin Transport Intelligent Control Center).
The Fonterra order is the result of our persistent efforts in the Oceanian region and constitutes the first joint success of Egemin and RML Engineering. The total implementation time for the project is 6 months.
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E'tow® Order in Germany
2005 turned out to be an exceptionally hard year on the German market, but 2006 seems very promising. Egemin GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Egemin Group, also reaps the benefits of this overall economic revival and has booked several new orders for its E'tow® in-floor chain conveyor systems the last few months, amongst others from Dachser and Spedition Geis.
Dachser GmbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Kempten, Germany, is one of Europe's leading-edge logistics service providers. Dachser recently contacted Egemin to have a look at some of their operations and to propose the right solutions. Following this study, Dachser decided to go through with Egemin and commissioned them to install an E'tow® towline system for the new distribution centre in Berlin Schönefeld. A little later Dachser placed a repeat order for its existing centre in Ueberherren. With these new orders Egemin GmbH regains the confidence of the Dachser company as its key supplier of towline systems. Spedition Geis, also very active in the logistics business, recently entrusted Egemin with the installation of an in-floor chain conveyor system for the Nuerenberg distribution centre. All three installations will be taken into use even this year.
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R.J. Reynolds Orders AGV System
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has selected Egemin to implement a 27 vehicle AGV system in its production facilities in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The system will be implemented throughout 2006.
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Toyota Orders AGV System
Toyota USA recently commissioned Egemin to develop and install an AGV system for its production facility in Princeton, Indiana. The system will consist of two TUVs (tugger vehicles) designed to pull carts loaded with bodywork components through the production area. Each vehicle tugs a maximum weight of 10 tons.
Toyota's order follows several other automotive success stories of Egemin, to name a few Honda USA, Ford, Nummi and Daimler Chrysler, and confirms the confidence of the American automotive industry in Egemin as a reliable AGV manufacturer.
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Commissioning of AGV system in Denmark
The installation of the automated guided vehicle system at Dinex in Middelfart (Denmark) has been successfully completed last April. Dinex manufactures exhaust systems for trucks, busses, industrial machines, etc. Due to the enormous expansion of its activities Dinex decided to invest in extending its storage capacity and optimizing its production. Dinex engaged Danish Langebaek Logistik as logistic consultant for the entire project. Langebaek chose for Egemin to take care of the internal transport in the production plant by means of automated guided vehicles.
The AGV system installed at Dinex transports exhaust components from the warehouse to the various production stations. The pallets with finished goods are either transported back to the warehouse or directly brought to the despatch zone. The system consists of four laser guided Fork Lift Vehicle (FLV) AGVs that receive commands from the E'tricc® system through the plant's wireless network. In turn, E'tricc® (Egemin Transport Intelligent Control Center) continuously communicates with the Dinex host system.
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