In a nearly 1.5-million-square-foot space in Caledon, Ontario-a space equivalent to a good-sized factory-a fleet of 43 automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) shuttles pallets between work areas or puts them away into very narrow aisle storage. In one part of the building, a 250,000-square-foot area is designated to an overhead tire-handling gantry and storage area where two robots move some 20,000 tires a day to fill orders or stock reserve storage. Tuggers deliver pallets that aren't handled by AGVs to the shipping area.
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