170 fewer trips per day
Key Facts
customer
ZF Friedrichshafen
Location
Friedrichshafen
industry
Drive and chassis components
number of employees
157.549

initial situation
- Delivery to production by front loader
- Transport of steel boxes
- Limited space conditions
- Supply of materials by one materials supplier to each of six assembly lines
- Waiting times at the assembly line
- Inventory discrepancies / incorrect planning
- High traffic volume
- High safety risk for employees
customer requirement
- Two frame trolley parking spaces
- Front-loading forklifts are to be gradually phased out of production.
- Effective tugger train system for material delivery
- Due to limited space: High directional stability, loading and unloading on both sides, use of no more than two trailers at the same time
LKE solution
- Virtual LKE coupling and drawbar system for optimum directional stability
- Production supply using a forklift-free tugger train system
- Cargo-Liner taxi vehicle in special dimensions > Can be integrated into the existing customer system
- Platform truck type X > Addition for transport in tugger trains of customer-specific steel crates
Taxi vehicle Cargo Liner SP2
Customized solution for transporting frame trolleys with customer-specific steel boxes
- Two parking spaces
- Central hand lever
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual coupling and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all casters
Platform trolley type X
Customized solution for transporting customer-specific steel boxes
- Two floors
- Stackable
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual coupling and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all casters
Virtual coupling and drawbar system
For easy handling
- Optimal directional stability
- Simple foot control
- Self-locking drawbar ensures that trailers in a convoy do not become uncoupled
result
- Optimal directional stability through the use of LKE coupling and drawbar systems
- 170 fewer trips thanks to the use of cargo liners
- Cost reduction of €70,000 per year
- Inventory differences eliminated
- Reliable and timely delivery to the assembly stations
- Precise material planning
- Time savings in material delivery
- Reduced traffic volume
- Greater security
- space saving




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