Proposta de um veículo auto-guiado para o transporte de cargas industriais na fábrica de blocos de Ndlavela

Abstract

The use of automation in the logistics of materials can greatly reduce the time of operations, increase efficiency in the use of physical space resulting in better dynamics of manufacturing processes. The use of non-automated systems, as the case of wheelbarrows or forklifts results not only in the long time of the manufacturing processes, low efficiency, but also in accidents due to distraction, accelerations and indiscipline, hence the need to automate the cargo transport process using automatically guided vehicles, in the block factory in Ndlavela as a way of reducing losses in the transport of these from the production machine to the drying area, improving efficiency, effectiveness by quick response that the new system will bring. This solution will also reduce the accidents and the environmental impacts that occur as a result of the emission of CO2. In order to effectively reduce or limit all the inconveniences mentioned above, an automatically guided electric vehicle was designed, independent of human action and intelligent enough to make decisions in the during the adversities he may face during his journey at the factory. THE methodological way followed to achieve this objective is qualitative and quantitative, because it starts from concrete data to make the dimensioning of this and concludes with an analysis of numerical results that showed that this is an economically viable solution. This objective research does not only to assess the economic viability of this solution, but also to carry out a exploration of the subject of industrial freight transport using electric vehicles independent.