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Flexible logistics with automated solutions
Automation in logistics is booming due to several reasons such as driver shortage, reducing operational costs and increasing efficiency. However, automated solutions may not be the answer for every logistics flow. It all comes down to eliminating unnecessary processes and adding value where it makes most sense. Toyota can help you take the automation journey step by step, where man & AGV can complement each other.
Step-by-step automation
Modular thinking
Automating your material handling processes can seem complex, but often the material flow throughout your site is quite logic, regardless if it's a warehouse or a production site. With our systematic approach we can easily find common functions that can be identified as configurable modules for repetitive use. This is the Toyota way of working: separating repetitive flows from unique ones within the process.
Lean thinking
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are ideal to use for your repetitive flows. Together we will identify the flows where automation will add the most value and take on your automation journey step by step. When we have identified which flows to automate, lean thinking will help us eliminate waste, and standardise processes to make automation smoother.
Let’s take a look at this manufacturing site to see which processes can easily be carried out by AGVs and take the first step...
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In the put-away area pallets are transported from the inbound area, typically floor buffers, to a storage area, which is often a floor buffer or racking.
In production sites or warehouses there is always a need for replenishment of material such as pallets with parts that are taken to the production lines or picking areas that are restocked.
Where pallets are moved, there are often simple transportations from one specific station to another specific station. In distribution centres where pallets are directly transported from inbound to outbound this is called cross-docking.
In a warehouse or manufacturing site, there are always a lot of empty pallets as goods have been used or picked. Empty pallets are also needed to place picked items or finished goods from the production on.
Pallets with finished goods are picked up at a temporary storage or the wrappers close to production or picking areas, and dropped off at the outbound area, typically floor buffers or deep stacks, waiting to be loaded into lorries.
Our automated vehicles
Automated warehouse trucks
- Designed to automate repetitive pallet handling
- Allows for pallet transport, block stacking, mixed pallet handling and high-level storage
- Manual operation possible
Automated tow trains
- Fork-free automated pallet and item handling
- Perfect for just-in-time delivery and milkruns
- Manual operation possible
Automated carts
- Ideal for light goods handling
- Simple installation and programming
- Variety of load carriers
Semi-automated shuttles
- High-density, deep storage solution with 80% space utilisation
- Increased throughput
- Ideal for coldstore operations
Integrated solutions
Full turn-key projects
We deliver complete integrated logistics solutions from concept to implementation. Whether you’re looking into increasing your output, flexibility or resilience; our Systems Integration division will work with you in designing systems based on your data and needs. We will execute and commission full turn-key projects and support your operation through our service network.
Wide expertise
Our systems integration group specialises in state-of-the-art automation applications for order preparation, product sortation and high-density storage technologies. Controlled with modular Warehouse Execution Systems (WES), these are designed to optimise our customers’ material handling operations.
Close co-operation with Vanderlande
We also work together with our sister company Vanderlande, global market leader for value-added logistic process automation, along which we offer a wide range of fully automated solutions for airports, warehouses and the parcel industry.
Our automated offer
In order to optimise efficiency and flexibility in your warehouse, Toyota offers different types of automation products and components. These will support you in your journey to automate material handling processes.
Still not convinced?
Read our customer stories to learn more about how we've helped our customers with their automation journeys.
TORO’s goods are safely moved by driverless trucks from Toyota
TORO implemented 5 automated trucks from Toyota to work faster and more cost-efficiently. The vehicles operate side by side with manual trucks and/or operators, making safety also a priority.
Tine’s dairy products carefully handled by Toyota AGV
In TINE's new warehouse dairy goods are automatically picked up on a conveyor belt and stored in a rack by an automated reach truck from Toyota. Automating this process delivered many benefits to Tine.
Automated stackers interact safely with forklift drivers at Coop
Using automated trucks in manual storage environments can be a challenging combination. At the Coop regional warehouse in Trondheim, the warehouse employees have learned to work safely with the automated stackers.
How the Toyota Radioshuttle optimised use of space at Zgonc
Toyota offered Zgonc a semi-automated shuttle solution that enabled Zgonc to increase productivity and safety, and reduce damage while storing more than 4000 pallets.
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