Overseas Hoisting and Handling Equipment Innovations

Abstract

Digitalization and automation determine the main trends in the development of logistics at the present stage. The same trends set the way for the improvement of handling equipment, as the basis for the development of logistics and mainly internal logistics. An important place in the implementation is occupied by fl oor vehicles, especially transport systems with fl oor carts operating without drivers. The innovative development of these systems is considered. The relevance of automating the determination of the dimensions and mass of cargo is noted, data are given on the systems in which these functions are implemented. The use of robots, including collaborative ones, in lifts, cranes and other types of equipment is described. Examples of the use of new technical means for IT-technologies are shown.Innovations in handling and storage equipment abroad are determined by the requirements of digitalization and automation. This also provides for the introduction of some IT-technologies where automation is ineff ective due to the small amount of work or for reasons of economic effi ciency.Automatic cranes, various types of lifts, automatic sorting systems, automatic systems and means for measuring the mass and size of goods, and other equipment have been widely used.All these innovations create the conditions for dynamic, digitized, intelligent warehouse logistics and modern internal transport in industrial plants and warehouses.Foreign innovative experience should be used in our country in the implementation of promising projects and programs in the fi eld of transport and logistics.