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Heat pumps help us reach our climate targets. Instead of fossil fuels, the environment-friendly heating and cooling systems utilize energy from the ambient air, soil or phreatic water. In Holzminden, Germany, Stiebel Eltron manufactures various types of heat pumps on a common, highly flexible production line. There, a driver-less transport system made by DS Automotion takes care of the fully automated transport of the unfin-ished heat pumps between manual work stations that are linked using conventional conveyor systems.

In the BSH production facility in Giengen an der Brenz in Southern Germany, refrigerator and freezer doors travel quite a distance to where they are fitted to the cabinets. Their manual transport left an automation gap within the appliances’ assembly. Now an automated AGV system designed and installed by DS AUTOMOTION provides fully automatic, demand-driven door transport. Its OSCAR spin tunnel AGVs take the carriers piggyback to haul them from door assembly to the final assembly lines. This set former transport workers free for more rewarding tasks. With guaranteed on-time delivery, a reduced accident rate and in-creased energy efficiency, it also contributes to a frictionless and sustainable home appliances production.

The switch from fossil to electric power presents the automotive industry with major challenges. Demand for batteries as a key component of electromobility is rising rapidly. In its largest European facility alone, a German premium manufacturer is expanding its production capacity for this in several steps to 500,000 units per year and is relying on application-optimized automated guided vehicles from DS AUTOMOTION.