The total production and logistic area at Marquardt’s plant in Sibiu, Romania, covers 25.000 sqm (270,000 sq. ft), which means having to transport a lot of materials very long distances. Before automating their internal material transportation, Marquardt used tugger trains and pallet jacks. Other challenges included COVID restrictions and difficulties in attracting and retaining labour.
This led Marquardt to look for alternatives, including automating their internal material transport.
The solution
Marquardt tested several automation solutions, and quickly decided that the best fit would be the GoPal AMR solution. One of the key factors was the ability of the GoPal AMRs to operate in narrow passages and to pass through tight restrictions.
In fact, Marquardt were so impressed with the performance of the GoPal AMRs that the company decided to not only deploy the GoPal solution within their production environment, but also to cover all their intralogistics operations:
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