Kuka‘s AIVI control system employs artificial intelligence to guide the KMP 1500 automated guided vehicles (AGV) successfully integrated by BMW to optimize the material flow, making intralogistics of production fully automated, locally flexible and scalable.
Kuka’s AIVI controls all intralogistical production processes for faster throughput times, a more efficient supply chain and thus greater production cost-effectiveness. The AI-based flexible controller also enabled the perfect utilization of the AGVs, reducing the number of AGVs used. For the Bavarian car manufacturer’s body shop, AIVI currently controls five AGVs, which supply the individual production stations with component containers and also remove empty containers. The KMP 1500 thus delivers components for the front and rear of the vehicle, such as floor panels, engine mounts, rear panels and partitions, along the optimal route to the process station.
In addition, the software interacts with other (automated) vehicles, machines and employees and reacts flexibly and reliably to the constantly changing production requirements. In the future, 16 additional KMP 1500 will then ensure the flexible material flow of an additional production line at BMW.