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Customer:	The Document Company, Xerox Ltd
Location:	Gloucestershire, UK and Venray, Holland
Number of Vehicles:	131
Production shift length:	24 hours/day, 7 days/week
Production Route Length	UK - 400m and Holland - 320m	Click to enlarge picture (80k)
Application:	Hundreds of variations of printers and photocopiers are assembled to customer order using Nuyts IAS as flexible build-platforms. Material handling and Work-In-Progress are minimised since all component parts are towed in a trolley on the back of the AGV. The entire facility, including the test tooling and the operator tool trolleys is on wheels, which enables the clean room conditions, needed to build digital products, to be maintained.
	The Xerox AGV's are controlled via an onboard PLC and powered by 2 quickly removable, 12V batteries. The 300Kg load is transferred gradually from the towed trolley to the vehicle build platform during the assembly cycle. The Dutch AGV's are also equipped with a variable height build platform to cope with the growing assembly, however the UK vehicles, with a smaller product require only a fixed build platform. The flexibility of the Nuyts passive inductive guidance system has already been demonstrated at Xerox, since layout changes are common place to match an rapidly increasing product demand.
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Customer:	Balda Werke GmbH
Location:	Buende, Germany
The Balda Werk GmbH, Buende Germany	Standing over 2m in height - the Balda motormouse® is part of a fully automatic, load-handling system that will integrate directly with Balda's production control system.
	The optically guided Balda AGV has been developed to transport pallets of mobile phone housings manufactured by Balda for Nokia from the production line to the warehouse facility. The finished moldings are first removed from the machine die via an overhead robot, and placed on a pallet on the second tier of a two tier conveyor.
	The Balda AGV then arrives at the one of the six injection molding machines carrying empty pallets ready to be filled. The vehicle loads them on to the 600mm high, first tier and proceeds to collect the full, 20kg pallets from the 1.2m high, second tier. The conveyor on the lift table assists with the transport of the pallets from the delivery conveyor.
	The vehicle transports the completed cases along its 120 m route and off loads them into the warehouse. As soon as it receives information from the Balda production control system, the AGV collects the appropriate empty pallets from the warehouse and continues to its next workstation. Communication between the control system and the Balda AGV is through an 8 bit, infrared transmitter located at the vehicle charging station.
	Working 24 hours per day and 5 days a week, the Balda AGV charges itself automatically either when the batteries require re-charging, or when there are no pallets waiting to be collected.

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Customer:	Austria Haustechnik AG
Location:	Rottenmann, Austria
Number of Vehicles:	3
Production shift length:	16 hours/ day, 7 days a week
Production Route Length:	100m (Total for 2 applications)	Click to enlarge picture (18k)
Application:	AHT is a leading worldwide supplier of frozen food storage units and chiller isles used by companies such as Unilever and Mövenpick, and they are all manufactured using Nuyts AGV's. The vehicles are used at 2 different stages in production making almost 2000 trips/day between them. The first application is a shuttling activity between the condenser and the final assembly production lines. The AGV's, fitted with 2m length roller conveyor's are manually loaded and unloaded at each production line transfer stations before reversing out from the station, and returning.
	The 3rd AGV is used to transport completed, packaged, freezers from the assembly line to the docking bay ready for shipping. The vehicle, equipped with a chain conveyor on top of a lift table first moves along side the assembly conveyer and negotiates the load transfer via an 8 bit infrared transmitter. After transferring the load, the AGV raises the freezer clear of the conveyor and proceeds to the docking bay (or the product rework line -) where it loads the freezer onto another conveyor. Upon completion, the AGV reverses clear of the conveyor, rotates 90' back to its track, and cycles round, back to the station.
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Customer:	AeroGo Europe NV (AeroGo Inc.)
Location:	Antwerp, Belgium
Production shift length:	'job' manufacture or small batches.
Production Route Length	Shuttle runs of up to 30m
Applications:	Nuyts Engineering also supplies its guidance system to a number of other AGV manufactures and suppliers and is used throughout the world. The Nuyts passive inductance guidance system is at the heart of the European Southern Observatory's Telescope maintenance operation in Paranal, Chile. Here, the system is used to guide an 8.2m diameter telescope mirror into the mirror reflective-coating plant on a virtually frictionless, air cushioned transport system with a total weight of around 50 tons.
	The unique Nuyts guidance system is also in use at the Zenker HausBau production plant in Michelstadt-Odenwald, Germany to manufacture pre-fabricated houses. The transport, again air cushioned measures 13m x 3m, and moves completed pre-fab walls from the production line to the warehouse. Vehicle communication is via radio transmission and each work station has a button to call the transporter when the assembly is complete. When the transporter is full, it switches tracks and navigates its way to the warehouse.
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	Nuyts have installed AGV's in some of the most demanding environments in the world and have an extensive list of references to illustrate it.

	AEROGO EUROPE - AUSTRIA HAUSTECHNIK AG - ALCATEL - COPELAND- MAN STEYR AG - MAGNA STEYR POWERTRAIN- RICOH - UNISYS - BRAUN- AMP - DAIMLER BENZ - VOLKSWAGON - XEROX