170 fewer trips per day
Key Facts
Customer
ZF Friedrichshafen
Location
Friedrichshafen
Branch
Drive and chassis components
Number of employees
157.549

Initial situation
- Delivery production by front loader
- Transport of steel boxes
- Limited space
- Replenishment by one material dealer at each of six assembly lines
- Waiting times on the assembly line
- Inventory differences / incorrect planning
- High traffic volume
- High safety risk for employees
Customer request
- Two frame car parking spaces
- Front stackers to be successively removed from production
- Effective tugger train system for material delivery
- Due to limited space conditions: High tracking, Loading and unloading from both sides, Use of no more than two trailers at a time.
LKE solution
- Virtual LKE coupling and drawbar system for optimum directional stability
- Production supply by means of a forklift-free tugger system
- Special-size Cargo-Liner cab car > Can be integrated into the existing customer system
- Platform trolley type X > Supplement for transport in tugger train of customized steel crates
Cab car Cargo Liner SP2
Customized solution for the transport of frame trolleys with customized steel boxes
- Two pitches
- Central hand lever
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual coupling and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all rollers
Platform trolley type X
Individual solution for the transport of customized steel boxes
- Two floors
- Stackable
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual coupling and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all rollers
Virtual coupling and drawbar system
For easy handling
- Optimum tracking accuracy
- Simple foot operation
- Self-locking drawbar ensures that the trailers do not uncouple in the compound
Result
- Optimum directional stability due to the use of LKE coupling and drawbar system
- 170 fewer trips due to the use of cargo liners
- Cost reduction of 70,000 euros / year
- Inventory differences eliminated
- Reliable and timely delivery to the assembly stations
- Accurate material planning
- Time saving for material delivery
- Reduced traffic volume
- More security
- Space saving




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