Siemens has partnered with two UK engineering companies, AR Controls and Parmley Graham, to produce smart automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to meet growing demand across a range of industries.
Gateshead-based industrial automation firm Parmley Graham will provide hardware specifications, organising of kit-formed bills of material, and sourcing of other third-party products for the AGVs.
Nick Wilson, managing director, Parmley Graham, said: “We work in partnership with organisations across a wide spectrum of industries. This collaboration helped produce the AGVs for a burgeoning need to meet efficiencies in warehousing, intralogistics, and logistics across many industries.
“Our experienced engineering team regularly delivers innovative solutions, training, and support that is tailored to the diverse needs of our varied customer base. We take our initiatives seriously and have appointed a project manager to oversee the production of the AGVs. We will be able to deliver bespoke solutions for AGVs to a range of customers in the pharmaceutical, food and drink and logistic industries”
Furthermore, Sunderland-based robotics integration company AR Controls will design and build this new range of AGV.
“We have a portfolio of automotive manufacturers for who we provide services like sensing, position control, visual inspection, machine safety, audio-indent, robotics, drives and programmable logic control so partnering with Siemens and Parmley Graham to produce AGVs is a very exciting project for us,” added Andy Ramsey, company founder and managing director, AR Control.
While Siemens said its AGV kit will be at the heart of the project. This includes SIMOVE, a standardised system platform for AGV applications and solutions, and the SIMATIC MICRO-DRIVE, a safety-related servo drive system that covers a wide range of applications in the protective extra-low voltage range (24-48 V DC).
These compatible controllers from the SIMATIC portfolios optimally complement the motion control functionalities of this future-proof solution, Siemens said.
