Driven by Industry 4.0 and "Made in China 2025", smart logistics has ushered in a major development opportunity, and smart logistics is also the cornerstone of building future smart factories. AGV forklift is the key core equipment of intelligent logistics equipment. The task of intelligent logistics is to find an optimized way to reduce inventory, increase flexibility, reduce costs, production time and resource consumption as much as possible, and it is also the only way for enterprises to upgrade their intelligence.

 

At present, the scale of the logistics industry is growing rapidly at a rate of 40% per year, but it is still a typical labor-intensive industry. With the rapid rise of automated guided vehicle technology, various industries have set off a wave of "machine substitution", and companies involved in the logistics field have also invested in the research of AGV forklift technology.

 

In May 2016, my country’s "Automated Pallet Truck Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)" clearly pointed out that it is necessary to focus on smart production and smart logistics, and overcome the key technologies of industrial automated trucks. Autonomous programming of six iconic industrial automated guided vehicles, including intelligent industrial automated guided vehicles, man-machine cooperative automated guided vehicles, dual-arm automated guided vehicles, and heavy-duty AGV forklifts.

 

The policy's east wind has attracted the influx of capital, and automated guided vehicles are quickly becoming one of the most popular terms in the logistics industry. Among them, AGV forklifts are aimed at the application of logistics automation. They have become the most widely used field of AGV forklifts in mechanical processing, automobiles, military industry, home appliance production, microelectronics manufacturing, tobacco, e-commerce warehousing and other industries. While the industry has achieved steady development in 2016, some application areas have grown more than expected.