Intelligent materials management

The result of a ten-year research and development programme that has also involved extensive field trials, Agilon has been created to help deliver added value to the materials management process. This is achieved through increased productivity, as the efficiency of the system reduces time spent looking for goods, counting parts and making purchase orders.

The Agilon materials management solution consists of a net portal, user access point, a shelving system and one or several robots that travel within the system to pick parts and deliver them quickly and efficiently to one or more service points. The user interface shows the availability of parts or components, whilst also displaying an image of the specific part’s package that is needed. A fully modular system, Agilon can also be supplied with transportation tubes that can be used to connect multiple modular shelf systems, even when located on different floors.

As Paul Nagy, General Manager Agilon UK and the person responsible for delivering the service into the UK states: “Agilon has the real potential to totally transform the materials management process. It is a solution that can be used to not only store hundreds or thousands of components; it enables information to be shared in a full and transparent manner with all parties involved in the supply chain. Indeed the flexibility of the system not only comes from its ability to locate, pick and deposit individual and standalone components, parts or products, it can be instructed to do the same for multiple parts required to assemble a larger component. 
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