The L-mobile forklift guidance system (FGS) is used to manage your forklifts and industrial trucks at the warehouse or production site. The goal: Minimizing empty runs and downtimes of your forklifts as well as reducing search times and incorrect loading! You can use the forklift control system to control and locate forklifts based on optimized routes. It is also hardware-independent and offers full integration of your ERP system.
Why is this ERP integration so valuable for your transportation management system? Quite simple: because it allows you to effectively apply your existing expertise with your ERP system. The FGS will know exactly when you need forklifts, where, and for what tasks. L-mobile combines the information of the ERP system with a precise forklift location system, facilitating route optimization for your forklifts. The forklift guidance system guides forklift drivers (RFID forklift optional) automatically along optimized routes through your warehouse enabling the clear and paperless processing of transport orders. Coordinating forklifts in your storage areas via GPS, RFID or UWB and locating them down to the last centimeter is no longer a problem with such a transport management system.
In this way, the L-mobile forklift guidance system enables you to have complete stock transparency and the required inventory reliability at all times. As a result, stocks will never again be lost in untraceable open spaces or buildings. Your drivers will receive transport orders or loading lists conveniently via a forklift terminal. This also allows successfully completed tasks, such as a stock transfer, to be reported directly back to the ERP system on a touchpad or with a connected radio scanner.
The transport management system also has a forklift management function that allows you to store relevant forklift information, such as model, tare weight, lifting height, dimensions, engine, so that the required criteria for a forklift can also be met for each transport order.
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The L-mobile FGS in use at Birkenmeier Stein + Design GmbH
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie müssten auf einer Lagerfläche von etwa zwei Fußballfeldern Ihre Stapler koordinieren. Bei etwa 250 Buchungen pro Tag.
Das Unternehmen Birkenmeier Stein+Design GmbH ist einer der führenden Hersteller hochwertiger Betonprodukte und Design-Elemente für die Gestaltung von Gärten, Terrassen und Außenanlagen. Verwaltet werden sämtliche Produktpaletten auf einer 110.000 m² großen Hoflogistik ohne und aufgrund des breiten Sortiments ohne feste Lagerstrukturen, weshalb es für den Betonspezialisten enorm wichtig ist, Fehlverladungen zu verhindern und Suchzeiten im Lager zu reduzieren. Das Ziel: Die Prozessgestaltung auf ein neues technologisches Level anzuheben.
Mit dem L-mobile Staplerleitsystem (SLS) in Kombination mit der mobilen Lagerverwaltungssoftware L-mobile warehouse ready for MS Dynamics können Suchzeiten reduziert, Leerfahrten der Stapler unterbunden und die Transparenz im Lager maximiert werden. Wie genau das L-mobile SLS bei unserem Kunden Birkenmeier zum Einsatz kommt und wie das Unternehmen heute durchschnittlich 250 Buchungen täglich effizient kommissionieren und verladen können erfahren Sie im Video und einem ausführlichen Referenzbericht.
Making logistics processes up to 60% more efficient
The choice is yours: Experience our forklift management with connection to our smart factory, the Digital Factory, as well as information on suitable hardware offers and benefit calculations for an forklift guidance system either from the comfort of your desk in a live stream at one of our numerous FGS online events.
Or visit us for an individual presentation appointment directly at our headquarters in Sulzbach and experience first-hand practical scenarios involving high-precision forklift tracking using GPS at our outdoor premises. Of course, you can also experience indoor tracking live on site as well as all the other technologies and software solutions that we offer for optimizing your warehouse and production processes.
These include forklift management and forklift localization, digitalization of the entire materials management system, and informative reporting
Der Einsatz eines Staplerleitsystems zur Staplerlokalisierung und Routenoptimierung der Stapler ist längst noch nicht alles. In Sachen Lageroptimierung und Digitalisierung von innerbetrieblichen Logistikprozessen haben wir noch mehr zu bieten. Mit unserer Lagerlösung L-mobile warehouse in Kombination mit einem Transportleitsystem, Scannerlösungen und weiteren Lösungen bieten wir Ihnen die optimale Basis für Bestandssicherheit und Bestandstransparenz innerhalb Ihrer gesamten Lagerverwaltung. Außerdem unterstützen wir Sie auch gerne im Bereich Produktion und auf Ihrem Weg zur smarten Fabrik. Das Beste: All das können Sie jederzeit live in unserer Digital Factory in Form eines komplett digitalisierten Fertigungsprozesses entdecken – von der Bestellung bis zum Versand, sowie kombiniert mit vielen weiteren modernen Technologien und Lösungen.
Forklift localization, control, utilization, evaluation, and visualization of your forklifts
Stock identification in open areas is fast and error-free using GPS, barcode, RFID or in buildings with UWB. Two-stage posting (loading and unloading of the load carriers) allows for inventory tracking in real time. The “transfer storage bin” is the interim storage area for the load carriers until they arrive at their destination. This ensures that you always know where your order stock is at any given moment by means of forklift localizations (RFID forklift optional). Scanning necessary information such as source and target storage bin location, item number, batch, etc. ensures the correctness of the postings.
The L-mobile forklift guidance system uses GPS to guide your forklift drivers to the desired items or storage bins based on optimized routes. The global satellite navigation system ensures very accurate reception. This even makes the dynamic forklift movement visible on the terminals (map view). With the right filtering and algorithmic sorting of your orders, your forklifts can process route-optimized transport orders (individually or collectively).
Route optimization prevents orders from being left unattended or orders that do not have priority from being processed too early. As a result, all points of requirement always have their needed materials available at the right time. This consistently avoids idle times and machine downtimes.
The avoidance of empty runs is a core issue that, along with route optimization, can be solved most efficiently by using a transport management system. Forklift guidance systems prevent unnecessary forklift trips at several locations. Duplicate trips are a thing of the past thanks to effective routing and scanning. The scanning process alone avoids errors through consistent posting, no manual transfer errors, warning of incorrect storage locations, for example, or it prevents stock from being distributed across multiple storage bins.
For example, as soon as a forklift driver takes over a transport order, the information is taken directly from the ERP system and no other driver can execute this order.
Trips after a putaway (empty run) are then used to execute the next transport order (TO) in the vicinity. The forklift driver always knows what their next task will be and can avoid additional trips by means of the transport orders collected and algorithmically displayed on the forklift terminal.
The data is posted in real time thanks to the existing interfaces between L-mobile forklift management and most ERP systems.
It doesn’t matter if it is a stock transfer, putaway, stock removal or stock-independent transport order.
Supported ERP systems: Infor COM, MS Dynamics, Proalpha, SAP, ALPHAPLAN, Sage OL/100, and many other inventory management systems.
You can filter all finished transport orders either by ID (transport order, batch, sub-stock no., load carrier ID), user, deadline, or end date.
These KPIs provide transparency and the ability to run an analysis. How productive was my forklift operator Martin? How many transport orders did we complete on that day? This and many other factors provide you with information about the route instructions carried out by the forklifts and help you with the future utilization of the forklift drivers (forklift utilization forecast). A heat map of the routes is also possible.
Does this sound like a great way to optimize transport management in your warehouse? Then take a look at the L-mobile forklift guidance system in action! At our FGS online events, we present the numerous highlights of the L-mobile FGS live from our outdoor site at our main location in Sulzbach!
RFID forklift guidance, UWB forklift control system or GPS forklift management.
How does a transport management systemsuch as the L-mobile forklift guidance system become a solution with which forklifts and industrial trucks can be precisely located and coordinated efficiently based on their position? In a nutshell, what makes the L-mobile FGS a real-time location system (RTLS)? This solution features three different positioning technologies that enable real-time forklift localization: RFID, UWB, and GPS.
To select the appropriate tracking technologies for your individual forklift guidance system, it must first be determined whether the transport management system is to be used in the indoor area of the warehouse or outdoors. Depending on whether you need indoor localization or outdoor localization for your forklifts, different localization technologies are used, each with their own advantages.
If forklifts need to be coordinated indoors with the aid of forklift guidance, one option is RFID forklift coordination. Objects can be identified without optical contact by means of RFID transponders and RFID readers. In the case of forklift coordination, storage locations and load carriers are equipped with RFID transponders for this purpose. At the same time, the forklifts you use will be fitted with an RFID reader. This enables the forklift driver to automatically detect goods as soon as the RFID transponder is within range.
And this range is significantly greater for the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID frequency band used in most industrial applications than for tracking using UWB. RFID technology enables detection from a distance of up to 20 m. Based on this data, you can control your forklifts along optimized routes and successfully prevent empty runs in the warehouse.
However, RFID tags are very susceptible to interference from metals. Therefore, if you work with liquid containers or a lot of metal surfaces in your warehouse, the use of RFID forklift guidance becomes much more difficult and we recommend relying on a UWB based forklift guidance system instead.
Another option for indoor forklift guidance is an Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-based forklift guidance system. Based on its high bandwidth, UWB technology is ideally suited for precise indoor positioning of your forklifts without interfering with other radio signals.
For precise localization of forklifts to the centimeter, warehouses are equipped with sensors, known as UWB anchors, to create different sections in the hall. Additional movable sensors in the form of UWB tags are mounted on the forklifts. UWB anchors and UWB tags can now exchange signals in various ways to determine the position of a moving object. In this way, the forklift can be localized with great accuracy and in real time in the warehouse.
In contrast to RFID tags, detection and localization using UWB technology is not restricted by metal surfaces. However, due to the low level of output density, the UWB signals can only travel within a limited distance. However, extremely accurate forklift location can be easily achieved with a sufficient amount of UWB anchors installed in the warehouse.
If you are looking for a transport management system for use in large outdoor storage areas where a lot of forklift drivers move around every day, then a GPS forklift location system is the ideal choice. This is because tracking with the world-renowned Global Positioning System (GPS) has proven its worth, especially for outdoor localization of industrial trucks. The global satellite navigation system ensures extremely precise localization, accurate to within a few centimeters. Coordinates are used to localize forklift drivers in real time. Based on this data, the driver is automatically assigned the transport orders that match their current position.
GPS forklift location also enables dynamic display of forklift movements on the terminals used. On a map, the forklift operator can see the position of the forklifts and the storage locations to be reached. A larger and more detailed area display is possible at any time.
For more information on the outdoor localization of your forklifts using GPS localization, please feel free to contact our experts. We will inform you about the essential prerequisites in the area of hardware and software and work with you to develop the right concept for successful forklift localization in your external storage facility.
No matter which forklift guidance technology you choose or we may recommend, the integration of tracking technologies has a decisive added value: By tracking your forklifts and items you get the best possible forklift utilization and routes.
Take a look at our product flyer to learn about the highlights of our forklift guidance system in addition to the localization of forklifts.
Because a transport order in L-mobile FGS does not only mean a stock transfer
It is clear that with professional forklift navigation, forklifts can be guided through the warehouse based on optimized routes and at the same time precisely localized in order to process transport orders. However, these transport orders do not only have to be stock transfers in the L-mobile FGS. The transport management system can also be used to process putaway from goods receipt, stock removal or inventory-independent transport orders. In all these stock transfers, the requirement to scan items, containers, or storage bins ensures that incorrect postings and therefore incorrect loadings are successfully avoided. This is because if an employee scans in the wrong item, they receive an instant notification and can quickly and easily correct the mistake.
| Stock transfer with forklift | Putaway with forklift | Stock removal with forklift | Inventory-independent transport orders |
| Example: Provision of material for manufacturing | Example: Goods receipt of material | Example: Post goods issue for material consumption (manufacturing order) | Example: Unloading goods that are not yet in the system |
If a user determines that an item needs to be transferred, but is unable to perform this stock transfer due to a lack of a suitable tool, they can create an internal stock transfer order on a PDA.
For example, if a pallet is to be moved, an employee who does not have a forklift creates an order for a forklift driver. The stock transfer order is then displayed to and executed by the appropriately equipped personnel.
With our forklift guidance system, we ensure that your forklift drivers can organize themselves. Transport orders are automatically suggested and assigned to the forklift drivers who currently have both the capacity for them and are located in the vicinity of the corresponding storage bin. Once an employee accepts a transport order, no other driver can execute it. Thanks to integration into your existing ERP system, all information booked by the forklift driver via the forklift guidance system is posted to your ERP system in real time. In this way, required trip determined online are always available to your personnel.
The forklift guidance system enables even temporary workers without much expertise to work with the system and you will not have to invest in cost-intensive and time-consuming training. The solution also provides an analysis of driver utilization. Or you can just display the workload information graphically. To keep track, you can also view the fill level of your warehouse online at any time.
In addition to all the options we provide with our software solution, we are also the ideal contact when it comes to the associated hardware for implementing your forklift guidance system. In addition to mobile handheld scanners, we also offer a selection of terminals to equip your forklifts, for example. Equipping your warehouse with UWB sensors or RFID tags, as well as comprehensive WLAN coverage survey if required, is also part of our range of services.
Our forklift control offers standard interfaces for all common ERP systems
