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  • Egemin Packmobile Robot Delivers in Big Sky Country

    June 20, 2011

    Montana Silversmiths recently installed an Egemin Packmobile® automated guided vehicle to perform robotic delivery of silver in their western style jewelry manufacturing facility. The Packmobile® transports work-in-process (WIP) goods between nine production lines and shipping. Within two days, the Packmobile® was installed and instantly increased production by tripling throughput.

  • I Can See Clearly Now with Egemin AGVs

    June 6, 2011

    Egemin's Packmobile Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) carries over 500,000 prescription eyeglasses annually. In 2010, Precision Optical Group Labs (P.O.G.), located in Creston, Iowa, purchased the Packmobile AGV to deliver...

  • Egemin Opens New AGV Testing Facility

    May 12, 2011

    Since late 2009, Egemin has been growing at rapid pace. With hybrid AGV sales going through the roof, a proven automatic trailer loading and unloading solution along with numerous warehouse management system orders, the need for a dedicated testing facility was necessary.

    The new testing facility has...

  • Hybrid Automated Guided Vehicles Are Flying Off-The-Shelf

    May 12, 2011

    “Off-The-Shelf” is a term with multiple meanings when referring to hybrid automated guided vehicles. Since the public release of the hybrid automated guided vehicle, sales for this new AGV are breaking industry records. “Apart from the...

  • Inventory Accuracy Captured with Egemin Warehouse Management Systems

    May 11, 2011

    A recent issue Warehouse-Management.net recently reported that warehouse management systems are critical tools to deliver efficient and lean material distribution operation systems. There are few warehouses that actually experience 99.9 percent inventory accuracy, and as many as...

  • Automated Trailer Loading by Egemin Allows AGVs to Reduce Workers Comp Claims

    April 19, 2011

    The reduction of safety related claims by forklift operators is an added benefit. The continual stress that is experienced as operators maneuver over dock plates between the building and trailers has increased Workman's Compensation claims significantly over the past few decades. The use of automated trailer loading AGVs eliminates costly back injury claims.

  • Warehouse Management Systems and Warehouse Control Systems Improve Inventory Accuracy

    April 18, 2011

    In the current issue of AccountingSoftware 411, manufacturing journalist TR Cutler noted, "Warehouse management systems must deliver efficient and lean material distribution operation systems through unrivaled personnel, inventory, and equipment management. Few warehouses experience 99.9% inventory accuracy and up to 35% productivity improvement from an automation environment."

  • Egemin AGVs Profiled in Industry Today

    April 12, 2011

    Egemin AGVs Profiled in Industry Today, In the current issue of Industry Today, Dan Harvey reports Automated guided vehicle systems, commonly called AGVS, once seemed like a fantasy described in an H.G. Wells novel.

    In the current issue of Industry Today, Dan Harvey reports Automated guided vehicle systems, commonly called AGVS, once seemed like a fantasy described in an H.G. Wells novel. Today it's becoming commonplace, thanks to Egemin Automation Inc. For almost 40 years, the Michigan-based company pioneered development and deployment. Efficient and cost-effective, the technology bolsters a company's bottom line.

  • AGV's Improve Inventory Accuracy and Food Safety

    April 8, 2011

    Food and beverage industry requirements of automated guided vehicles are unique. AGV's must be equipped to handle palletized and unit loads of beer, soft drinks, cereals, candy, snack foods, in-process ingredients, packaging materials in manufacturing, cross-docking, warehousing, and trailer loading environments.

    AGV systems in the industry support various storage types for pallets, racks and bins including block stacking, deep lane stacking or warehouse racking.

    AGV specific applications in Food and Beverage include...

  • Mitsubishi Caterpillar Named Primary Supplier

    March 30, 2011

    Egemin Automation Inc. (Egemin), the foremost manufacturer of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, announced that Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), the leading provider of forklift trucks in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Latin America, is the primary component supplier for Egemin's Hybrid Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). Egemin highlighted MCFA's contributions to the AGV during the ProMat 2011 Trade Show in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Egemin Enters Supply Chain Automation Agreement with ConAgra Foods

    March 14, 2011

    Egemin Automation's continuing leadership in Automated Warehousing and Automatic Trailer Loading has resulted in another agreement to supply fully automated production warehousing and automatic trailer loading systems for a major food corporation in the USA, ConAgra Foods, Inc.

  • Egemin Hybrid Automated Guided Vehicles… The New Face of AGVs

    December 22, 2010

    The man-a-board forklift and the Automated Guided Vehicle have finally become one.  Morphing manual and automatic operations onto a standard off-the-shelf forklift provides manufacturing and distribution centers the ultimate in...

  • New AGVs for Kimberly-Clark

    March 3, 2010

    Egemin Automation has developed and commissioned a brand-new AGV system for the American multinational paper and pulp company Kimberly-Clark. The five-vehicle automated guided vehicle system has been delivered to Kimberly-Clark's paper plant in...

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