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

Initial situation
- Production delivery by front loader
- Transportation of steel boxes
- Limited spatial conditions
- Replenishment by one material dealer on each of six assembly lines
- Waiting times on the assembly line
- Inventory differences / incorrect planning
- High traffic volume
- High safety risk for employees
Customer requirement
- Two frame trolley parking spaces
- Front stackers are to be gradually removed from production
- Effective tugger train system for material delivery
- Due to the limited space available: High directional stability, loading and unloading on both sides, use of no more than two trailers at the same time
LKE solution
- Virtual LKE clutch and drawbar system for optimum directional stability
- Production supply by means of a forklift-free tugger train system
- Cargo-Liner cab trolley in special dimensions > Can be integrated into the existing customer system
- Platform trolley type X > Supplement for transporting customer-specific steel crates in a tugger train
Cab car Cargo Liner SP2
Individual solution for transporting frame trolleys with customized steel boxes
- Two parking spaces
- Central hand lever
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual clutch and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all castors
Platform trolley type X
Individual solution for transporting customer-specific steel boxes
- Two floors
- Stackable
- Loading and unloading on both sides
- Secured drawbar
- Virtual clutch and drawbar system
- Overrun protection on all castors
Virtual clutch and drawbar system
For easy handling
- Optimum directional stability
- Simple foot operation
- Self-locking drawbar ensures that the trailers do not uncouple when connected
Result
- Optimum directional stability thanks to the use of the LKE coupling and drawbar system
- 170 fewer journeys thanks to the use of Cargo-Liners
- Cost reduction of 70,000 euros / year
- Inventory differences eliminated
- Reliable and timely delivery to the assembly stations
- Precise material planning
- Time saving for material delivery
- Reduced traffic volume
- More security
- Space saving




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