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Future topic brings DS Automotion largest order in the company's history
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from DS Automotion are taking over more and more internal transportation tasks. They make assembly processes in industry more flexible, as they can react to changing requirements better than any alternative. This is why many manufacturers are using the agile systems from Linz to assemble batteries for electromobility. The Upper Austrian high-tech company's many years of experience with this future-oriented topic have now brought it the largest order in its 30-year history.
At the end of 2017, DS Automotion GmbH was awarded the first part of a three-year contract to equip a new assembly plant for electric car batteries in Germany with an automated guided vehicle system (AGV). When the plant goes into full operation at the end of 2020 after several partial start-ups, it will be one of the world's largest AGV systems with around 150 vehicles of various types. At a total of EUR 19 million, it is the largest order in the more than 30-year history of the Linz-based company.
DS Automotion has been producing AGVs of all sizes and complexities for industry and healthcare since 1984. The company serves a wide range of requirements with both track-guided and freely navigating AGVs and is one of the world's leading manufacturers in this field.
Prerequisite for Industry 4.0
AGVs from DS Automotion enable agile assembly in line with the principles of Industry 4.0, allowing production to be flexibly organized with regard to future requirements that cannot yet be foreseen. This is also the main reason why numerous e-car manufacturers in Europe and the USA use AGVs from DS Automotion, including most German premium manufacturers.
"DS Automotion has been developing AGVs in line with the principles of Industry 4.0 for over 30 years, even if it wasn't called that back then," concludes Arthur Kornmüller, Managing Director at DS Automotion. "It is not least thanks to our many years of experience with the future topic of battery assembly for e-mobility that we have gained the trust of the industry, which has led to this order."
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