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What will it take?
01 Oct 2005
Is investing in AGVs all a question of labour costs? Partly yes, but other factors should also be assessed when comparing them with alternative handling systems. Neil Madden reports.
Gottwald AGV at CTA Hamburg: biggest challenge is lack of predictability
Why are there not more AGVs in the ports around the world? In 1999, Frost & Sullivan, a research company, published a report - World AGV and AEM Markets - that predicted huge growth for the suppliers of AGVs, leading to revenues topping US$1.6bn by 2005.
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