TGW’s latest Stingray shuttles score high on sustainability

TGW director of product management Thomas Gruber-Blanka explains the impact of the new shuttles: “The latest Stingray generation unites the highest performance and reliability with energy-saving operation and sustainable materials. Users benefit from an extremely short commissioning time thanks to the Plug & Play concept. Complete data transparency also allows for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Both help to optimally schedule maintenance and increase availability.”

Built-in energy-saving

The new generation of Stingray saves a substantial amount of energy during the hundreds of accelerations and decelerations per day. The Stingray stores braking energy in power capacitors and then make it available to all vehicles on the same level for acceleration. This saves energy when accelerating. What’s more, all shuttle and tote lifts are equipped with a standard recuperation function channeling unused energy back into the power grid.

90% decrease in manual intervention

The Stingray also performs automatic health checks, detects twisted totes and resolves the issue without human intervention. This way, manual interventions are reduced by up to 90% and maintenance effort by up to 75%.

Yet, the main strength of the shuttles lies in their maximum performance range, whether in order picking or order consolidation, across normal, refrigerated and deep-freeze settings. In addition, storage-driven applications with lower performance requirements can also be covered efficiently by applying roaming shuttle principle.

With a throughput exceeding 1,500 load carriers per hour, the latest generation of shuttles is said to be the most powerful in the world. Its performance is 10% higher than its predecessor. The individual Stingray vehicles are 20% faster, with a top speed of 5m/s.

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