Platform solution in sight
But this special collaboration is by no means over: Schiller is currently working on a platform solution for a comprehensive ‘gap-free’ intralogistical vehicle fleet that covers every eventuality – whether indoors, outdoors, free-driving or lane-guided. “Our vision is a complete scalable and flexible system made up of smart individual components.
To achieve this, we need a chain of autonomous vehicles that undertake different transport tasks individually or in a group and cover the logistics chain seamlessly – whether indoors or outdoors,” explains Peter Stoiber. The next milestones on this path are an autonomous forklift truck and a picking robot. SICK is providing support with its extensive sensor expertise.
This shows that the two partners are not afraid of major objectives because they know what they are capable of.
“The high level of design complexity, the standards requiring compliance, the pressure of rapidly delivering a solution for the customer – all this made our previous projects risky. But we succeeded,” says Michael Badeja. “And both companies dared enter territory that was not their original core business,” adds Peter Stoiber. “That also required courage.” The two of them agree that the key to success is trust and the readiness to undertake advance investments for each other. The ideal prerequisites for working together to create a solution that could revolutionize the extremely dynamic intralogistics segment.