Swedish forklift and facility energy methods supplier Concentric has surpassed 250,000 battery swaps utilizing PowerHIVE, its autonomous forklift battery administration system.
Concentric goals to assist amenities speed up their transition from lead-acid to lithium-ion batteries by eliminating costly charging infrastructure, chopping downtime and reclaiming ground house. Lithium batteries require expansive electrical installations but nonetheless require operators to handle charging and cope with idle forklifts and ancillary gear, Concentric famous.
The PowerHIVE system standardizes batteries to a single dimension and centralizes charging in a compact footprint. Standardized batteries usually allow a ten% discount in fleet dimension whereas releasing as a lot as 80% of battery room house for revenue-generating storage, Concentric stated.
Operators don’t want to the touch a 3,000-pound battery, and reloads take two minutes, rising pallet throughput by as much as 15%. Services understand a 5-12% improve of their throughput KPIs throughout receiving, transport and manufacturing processes, in line with the corporate. Prospects report as much as 37% reductions in power utilization.
“Reaching 250,000 forklift battery swaps in such a brief interval displays what our prospects already know: PowerHIVE works,” stated John Winter, President and CEO of Concentric. “The primary 100,000 swaps took 20 months. The following 150,000 occurred in seven. That’s exponential progress fueled by simplicity and outcomes.”
Supply: Concentric

