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components—that are already on fixtures which are lifted together by the AGV after the vehicle slides underneath. The AGVs have a 320-V Siemens control architecture and servo- motors that are highly accurate and infinitely speed adjust- able, Meloche said. “When you don’t have anything on top of an AGV and you’re moving down a clear aisle, you may want to go faster, but when you’ve got a 60,000-lb (27,216 kg) wing that’s tip-to-tail 60–65' [5.6–6–m] long, you want to go at a very slow creep speed. You will have safety scanners on to prevent any collision, and the ability to program the speed based on where the AGV is, or what load it has on it.”
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These AGVs are suitable to a wide range of industries, he added, including any heavy components including wind blades, power generators, and rail-car manufacturing, said Meloche, who calls these machines MTAVs, a Multi-Tasking Autonomous Vehicle. The automated vehicles, which follow a magnetic stripe on the factory floor, use Siemens PLCs and are easily reprogrammable for different applications. The Sie- mens hand-held HMI pendant handle includes an interactive diagnostics screen and ActiveX control software co-developed by Fori Automation with Siemens. Fori even developed its own traffic control software that monitors the AGV locations, AGV diagnostics and recharging status of AGVs and commu- nicates with the plant manufacturing execution system (MES) software to direct AGVs to where they’re needed. “It’s very easy to program, and 100% of the controls are designed and built here, bought off and then shipped to the plant,” Meloche said. “Our goal is for the plants to be reconfigured on their own without needing to call us.”
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