Automation brings stability to production
TPV Displays Polska is one of the leading manufacturers of television sets in Eu rope. Numerous industrial robots are already in use in production. Before the automation of internal material transport, processes relied heavily on manual work. Employees moved TV panels and components through the production halls using electric carts – a time-consuming and physically demanding task. At the same time, material flow was uneven, difficult to plan, and only limited in its flexibility to adapt to changing production requirements.
Automated material transport with autonomous robots
With the introduction of 22 autonomous mobile robots, internal transport has now been fully automated. The self-driving robots move independently through the production environment and take on key tasks: They transport TV panels and components from the warehouse to ten assembly lines, return empty pack aging, and continuously optimize their routes. The robots work safely alongside employees and relieve them of physically demanding tasks.
A coordinated interaction between robots
Even before the introduction of mobile robots, the company relied on stationary industrial robots – meaning robots that are permanently anchored to the fac tory floor. Today, both systems work together to ensure a reliable supply to pro duction. “The combination of stationary robots and AMRs improves the efficiency of supply to assembly lines, increases flexibility, and integrates mate rial flow and storage into a high-performance integrated system,” says Grzegorz Benda, Technical Director at TPV Displays Polska.
Smart software ensures predictable processes
The integration of the mobile robots was carried out by the automation special ist Saicon. A central software system controls the entire robot fleet, assigns transport orders, monitors processes in real time, and optimizes routes as well as utilization. Thanks to inductive charging, the robots operate almost continu ously in 24/7 mode. “The key challenge was seamlessly integrating the new technology into existing TPV processes. Our solution fully automated the in tralogistics and made them reliably predictable”, explains Łukasz Sobczak, Head of the Software Development Team at Saicon.
Greater transparency and future readiness
The status of the entire robot fleet can be monitored at all times. The collected data helps to analyze processes and continuously improve operations. At the same time, the system is designed to flexibly adapt to future requirements. From KUKA’s perspective, the project also demonstrates the potential of this technology: “This implementation demonstrates that autonomous mobile ro bots are already increasing production stability today – through reliable pro cesses, greater transparency in material flow, and better management of in tralogistics complexity”, says Mateusz Nowakowski, AMR Business Developer at KUKA Polska.
This underlines how automated material transport helps companies make their production processes more stable, efficient, and future‑proof.
The KUKA Group is an international automation group with sales of around EUR 3.7 bil lion and around 15,000 employees. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of intelligent, resource-efficient automation solutions, KUKA offers industrial robots, autonomous mo bile robots (AMR) including controllers, software, and cloud-based digital services, as well as fully connected production systems for various industries and markets such as automotive with a focus on e-mobility & battery, electronics, metal & plastic, consumer goods, food, e-commerce, retail, and healthcare. The KUKA Group is active in more than 50 countries with over 100 locations. The largest sites are in Germany, USA, China, and Hungary, with headquarters in Augsburg. The KUKA Group includes the plant engineering division KUKA Systems, the robotics division KUKA Robotics, Swisslog (intralogistics auto mation), Swisslog Healthcare (hospital and pharmacy automation) and the digital division KUKA Digital with the software specialists Visual Components and Device Insight.
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