Automatic Coil Transporters (A.C.T.®)

for real heavyweights

Gentle coil handling at high throughput rates for coils weighing up to 40 tons.

The battery-operated A.C.T.® is an AMOVA in-house development. The vehicle is guided by laser and moves completely autonomously over routes fixed in the route layout. A fleet of several vehicles is controlled by a host computer that ensures that both the optimum route and the nearest free A.C.T.® is selected to perform the current order.

A tried and approved safety system detects both persons and obstacles on the trackway and stops the vehicle autonomously. The system decides autonomously whether a transport order can be accepted and performed or whether it uses waiting times in production to charge the batteries. At semi- or fully automated battery-changing stations fully discharged batteries can be completely exchanged for fully charged ones or can be partly charged when convenient (“opportunity charging”)

Advantages and Features

Flexible use

Coil pick-up from floor, turnstile, continuous conveyor or coil rest

Payload

Load capacity 40 tons

HIGH SPEED

Travel speed up to 1 m/sec

Easy retrofit

Integration in plants without modification of existing machinery

Laser controlled

Flexible travelling course, changeable at any time; free navigation with laser

approved safety system

No cordoned-off driveway required

Robust

High availability due to mill-compatible design of all components

Complete transparency

Complete transparency of the material flow

No material damage

Extremely gentle coil handling

COST-EFFICIENT

High economic efficiency of the overall system