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MARGO Optimizing Material Flow with AGVs in Ring Gear Production Due to a lack of skilled workers and external cost pressure, small and medium-sized production companies are also forced to optimize and automate processes. A great potential lies in logistic processes, which often take place manually and thus require productive working time of skilled personnel. For small and medium-sized companies, however, the initial investment for automated processes represents a major hurdle. The MARGO project aims to use OPIL, an open platform for the integration of logistics processes, to demonstrate the optimisation potential of internal logistics processes in a simple and fast way by means of simulations and to prove the feasibility by means of a pilot test. Thus the risk of an investment is reduced to a minimum and the complete integration can be planned more easily. For the identification of optimizations, the production environment of a ring gear manufacturer is mapped in a 3D simulation environment, which is part of OPIL. In this way, different application scenarios of automated guided vehicles (AGV) can be evaluated and compared quickly and cost-effectively. A prototype AGV will be integrated into the cloud based IoT platform. This allows existing processes to be combined with new material handling processes. Contact persons: L. Rolfs   (Project manager)N. Hoppe D. Schweers Funded by: EU - H2020 Duration: 01.03.2020 - 31.01.2021 See project's publications List all projects |
