Master material flow automation with your secret ingredient: AGVs and AMRs

Maximize productivity and combat skills shortages with robust, scalable internal transport automation.

Here’s what you need to know

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A material handling recipe for success

In food and beverage production, the pressure’s on. Like a gourmet chef, you must deliver excellence at scale, every time – and for you, that means serving up a seamless material handling process.

On one side, you face razor-thin margins and high inflation. On the other, a deep shortage of skilled staff threatens to cause errors and delays, and impact safety.

One key ingredient can supercharge production efficiency, overcome skills shortages, and ensure success within tight margins. It transforms a good process into a ‘show-stopping dish’: automating material handling with AGVs and AMRs.

Getting started with mobile robotics: What the experts want you to know

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Your secret ingredient for material handling success

Refine your material handling recipe with AGVs and AMRs to bake in results. Read on to explore how you can elevate your internal logistics with ANT driven excellence.

AGVs: The right material handling solution for your business?

Are you new to automated guided vehicles (AGVs)? This guide explains what AGVs are and how they work. It also explores the benefits AGVs offer, and what you should consider before investing. It’s everything you need to know!

Winning with AGVs/AMRs: 4 success factors explained

In this exclusive on-demand webinar, AGV/AMR automation leader BlueBotics teams up with vehicle OEM partners Bastian Solutions and Oceaneering Mobile Robotics to explain the four keys to success when implementing mobile robotics.

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Efficiency, productivity, interoperability – at scale

It is rare to find a mobile robot supplier that offers a vehicle to suit every process, or supports seamless vehicle interoperability.

However, from raw material handling to operations in temperature-controlled, hygiene-secure environments, BlueBotics has an automated guided vehicle (AGV) or autonomous mobile robot (AMR) to suit your business.

Proven, robust and adaptable, BlueBotics’ ANT navigation software drives more than 150 models of AGV and AMR. Managed centrally, with ANT server fleet manager, every ‘ANT driven’ automated vehicle works together seamlessly – so you can create and scale the exact interoperable fleet your operations require.

With BlueBotics by your side, you can usher in an era of increased efficiency, higher productivity – and greater safety.

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Browse ANT driven vehicles

Whatever your material flow, we’ve got a mobile robot for that. Browse by payload, capacity, region and more.

ANT server fleet manager

ANT server is BlueBotics’ powerful AGV and AMR mission and fleet management software. Learn how this proven tool can control and manage interoperable fleets of ANT driven and/or VDA 5050-based vehicles.

All about ANT server

Quick to install, robust and proven

ANT driven vehicles are already transforming the Food and Beverage industry…

Your production is sensitive. That’s why, when automating time-critical material handling processes, you must be certain of its performance and, for the future, confident you can slot in additional vehicles solutions with ease and while minimizing downtime.

BlueBotics' market-leading Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT) is globally proven. Built on over 23 years of BlueBotics' industry experience, today ANT drives almost 6,000 AGVs and AMRs around the world – spanning more than 150 models – across a wide range of industries.

And thanks to BlueBotics technology, these vehicles are guaranteed to deliver pick/drop accuracy of ±1 cm / ±1°, both indoors and out.

Real-world success stories featuring ANT driven vehicles

Sweet success: Automating material handling processes in a Swiss chocolate factory

“Dull, dirty or dangerous”: the best jobs for robots are the ones humans don’t want to do. In one Swiss chocolate factory, AGVs have taken over the dullest transport tasks in the entire facility – freeing up their human co-workers to take on higher-value tasks.

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Hot potatoes: Using an AGV pallet jack in vegetable processing

The distribution of fast-moving consumer goods is always a challenge – especially when goods have an expiration date and bruise easily!

See how the Nipper pallet truck AGV helped AWEX, a Polish vegetable packaging and distribution company, meet its material handling challenges in a tight warehouse space.

Know your onions: Taking the next step in process automation with AGVs

After more than half a century in business, TOP The Onion Group took the next step in its automation program - and optimized its staffing costs - by equipping its flagship facility in The Netherlands with three Rhino counterbalanced AGVs.

AGVs/AMRs + ANT server: Serve up scalable, smarter material handling

When considering an internal transport automation project, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. But, with BlueBotics, the path forward is simple.

Our centralized and globally proven technology platform, ANT server fleet manager, is designed to make material handling streamlined and far less complex.

BlueBotics’ ANT server fleet manager can operate multiple brands of ‘ANT driven’ (and even VDA 5050) AGVs and AMRs in one connected fleet. Meaning you can serve up success, with the exact custom operation your business requires.

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Watch this video to see how AGVs and AMRs driven by ANT server enable efficiency, productivity and interoperability - at scale.

Move your AGV or AMR project forward

Book your free, no-obligation discovery call with the BlueBotics team

Ready to progress with automated vehicles, but still have questions? Our team of intralogistics experts is ready.

We’re here to help you define:

Your organization's specific automation goals
Whether an automated vehicle is your best-fit solution
What type(s) of vehicle might best fit your business’s needs
How ANT driven vehicles and fleets work
Key questions to consider when adopting AGVs, automated forklifts, or other types of mobile robot

After this consultation call, there will be no obligation to talk further or to meet any suppliers of ANT driven vehicles.

However, if you are interested in moving forward, we will be happy to help you identify the perfect solution, and then introduce you to our vehicle partners for more detailed discussions.

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