JBT’s Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) division is dedicated to fostering a sustainable future. It’s about doing right by our customers, employees, communities, and the planet. It’s about preventing the depletion of natural and physical resources so they will remain available for generations. We see our sustainability journey as a work in progress and part of our company’s DNA. At AGV, we differentiate our business sustainability approach within our market by Empowering Sustainable Automation. JBT’s AGV technology solutions are inherently sustainable, because we often replace manual forklift trucks powered by fossil fuels. Our systems use the power they consume more efficiently by optimizing routes and precisely controlling vehicle and load movements. This is one of the significant ways JBT plays an essential role in helping our customers with their sustainability plans.
Focusing on creating Customer Solutions:
Our focus on creating customer solutions allows us to focus on our customers by understanding and addressing their sustainability needs by offering high-quality, technologically advanced, and reliable solutions.
Our vehicles allow our customers to reduce the use of manually driven combustion engine forklifts, which emit harmful pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter.
Also, our systems work in concert with our customers’ automation platforms, such as their production & inventory systems. It also optimizes storage space, minimizes product damages and waste, etc.
Our focus on Responsible Operations:
Our focus on responsible operations challenges us to reduce our carbon footprint, optimize our resources, and recycle whenever possible. AGV sees this through value engineering by using only required hardware to achieve functionality, maintaining an efficiency philosophy with our software controls, and minimizing waste during all project phases.
We use regenerative braking on all our vehicles, returning energy to the battery during decelerations which enables the batteries to be charged during regular operation.
For our new Counter Balance CB750 vehicles, we now have an All-Electric architecture, which eliminates the need for hydraulic fluid and is by nature more efficient. Also, the new CB750 vehicles feature aluminum covers, which eliminate the polypropylene ones used in the past.
Our focus on People and Communities:
Our focus on people and communities moves us to care for our employees and community. This is seen in many ways, such as our workplace safety, diversity, inclusion, engagement surveys, etc.
Here at AGV, we amplify our company’s core competency of a vibrant workplace with our employee involvement with safety commitment within our own and at our customer’s facilities, Employee Engagement Committee, who continuously work to keep our employees connected (summer company picnic, 5K / Fun Walk), and our strong commitment to retaining our talent, etc.
JBT’s automation technology is inherently sustainable from its green energy source, innate efficiencies, and safety enhancements and capabilities. When implemented, customers see an immediate benefit using this transformational automated material handling solution. Everyone’s carbon footprint becomes naturally smaller. Sustainability is a mindset on how we approach each other, our technology, customers, and our community. Simply put, the environment is the beneficiary, including both people and the planet!