The industrial truck industry has evolved it’s own offerings for mobile automation as well; robotic versions of it’s industrial trucks. Currently my company, Seegrid, is the leader in this product category. But others are on the horizon, and will be entering the market shortly. Robotic industrial trucks are robotic versions of standard, proven, well-engineered industrial trucks, whose categories are defined by the Industrial Truck Association. Robotic Industrial Trucks are sold, supported, serviced and maintained through the mature, industrial truck channel of dealers and distributors. The products are simple, and flexible; performing in most ways exactly like industrial trucks, yet they are also automated to provide significant cost savings. Seegrid’s own products make pallet deliveries as just 10% of the cost of manned deliveries. Simply put, robotic industrial trucks are a product category evolved from the classic industrial truck, which has moved products from point A to B in warehouses for over 7 decades. For customers, the offerings are similar in that they typically have ROIs from 5 months to 1.5 years, are supported by a range of local or in house industrial truck technicians already servicing the customer, and deployment changes are done by the customers themselves at no additional cost.
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