Tugger train systems vs. forklift trucks
German-designed tugger trains from LKE – a very popular solution in the industry: We supply our modular product range to many manufacturing companies worldwide. Thanks to our design concept, you can easily adapt, scale, and expand the LKE system as your business grows. That means investment security at its best!
Facts
product
Routing system from LKE
area of application
production environments
industry
Automotive industry, industrial manufacturing, supply industry, logistics, and many more
Special features
efficient, ergonomic, safe

"With nearly 30 years of experience and one of the largest development teams in the industry, we are able to focus on your needs and deliver significant benefits."
Sebastian Neuhaus-Schwermann
Managing Director, LKE Group
Within German automotive OEM production facilities and their Tier 1 supplier base, it is common knowledge that industrial trucks with forks are not the preferred choice when it comes to sophisticated, line-side material feeding systems. This is more likely to be solved with a milk run logistics train, in which the material in question, whether KANBAN-based or a sequenced subassembly, is delivered by a route train with a wide range of customer-specific dollies. This increases the delivery frequency of internal material and goods transport. These solutions thus form the basis of a modern lean production concept.
In addition to a tugger, the necessary ingredients include a wide selection of mother and daughter vehicles that can be adapted to the specific needs of each production and assembly hall in order to create the flexibility required for the demands of a modern workshop. The answers to this requirement are based on a vehicle portfolio that can adapt to the dynamic, constantly changing production requirements of your customer base. The LKE product portfolio is the perfect answer to these requirements.
Conveyor trains increase the number of castors, making this part a critical component for success. Blickle castors are best in class and have proven themselves in countless applications. They reduce noise emissions and enable high loads to be transported at the necessary speed in any logistics environment.
With similar emphasis, factory floors today must be kept clean and tidy. Not only because customers are shown around, but also because your manufacturing tolerances do not allow foreign substances to enter your highly sensitive production processes. Today's ProfilGate "clean drive zones" prevent these substances from being transported throughout your facility.


Good reasons for the route train
profitability
- Optimization of labor and machine costs
- high investment security
- reduction in inventory
- small number of industrial trucks
time saving
- simultaneous supply and disposal
- replaces forklift trucks
- Increase in throughput
safety
- Simplified and safe handling for employees
- eliminates security risks
- reduction in traffic volume
productivity
- Increase in supply
- high transport capacities
- maximum throughput
space saving
- Increase in space efficiency
- Reduction of semi-finished goods inventories
- Optimal supply to the assembly stations
Non-binding
product advice
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