“One-stop solution” will become the trend of AGV industry
Throughout the current AGV industry, the development has been relatively mature, but each product has its own characteristics in technology, stability, reliability, security, intelligence and other aspects. In Tobias Byfeldt’s opinion, there is a huge demand for AGV systems in any type of vertical in the world, but there is a lack of professionals able to install all systems worldwide. This happens to be very important to Kollmorgen AGV and is one of the strategic priorities for the company going forward.
In other words, over the past few years and into the future, Kollmorgen AGV has been working on designing a system that end users can trust and that will work over the long term. Tobias Byfeldt said, “We wanted to make the product’s system easier for users to use in order to simplify the speed of design and debugging, and open up our system to make it easy to collaborate. This will always help to capitalize on any market trend we see.”
In Tobias Byfeldt’s opinion, there have been many different types of technology in the past decade, such as mobile robots, robotic systems, AMRs, AGVs, and there is bound to be a carrier form that can mix everything together in the future, which he calls a “one-stop solution”.
What is a “one-stop solution”? It is a system based on the needs of the end user, which is perfectly tailored to the end user and makes it cost effective. In this system, Kollmorgen AGV blends industrial AMRs, AGVs and lift truck AGVs so that end users have the right vehicle type, the right solution type, and the vehicle’s performance and behavior in the application that meets their needs. More importantly, this type of solution will focus on green energy and other industries, especially in the future “machine replacement” trend, the direction of fully automatic production lines will inevitably bring more investment for the transformation of AGV industry.
Taking root in the Chinese market, intelligent manufacturing creates huge opportunities
It can be seen that six out of the top ten forklift manufacturers in the world have chosen the NDC technology platform of Colmorgen AGV. In addition, more and more partners from Europe, North America and Asia, especially China, are actively joining the partner network of Colmorgen AGV, which proves the feasibility of its business model based on “partnership”.
It is worth noting that intelligent manufacturing has been one of the important directions of China’s industrial production development and transformation, especially the AGV industry, which has also spawned a huge market opportunity. Johan Lundblad, global sales and marketing director of Kol Morgon AGV, told OfWeek.com that Kol Morgon AGV has many strong partners, such as Kunchuan, Meco, Hangkou, Heli, Nori, Today International, Jiateng, Oukai, etc. They are helping Kohl Morgon AGV serve clients across China in a number of different industries.