Rethinking Material Handling in Manufacturing with Cart Tuggers

Tuggers are often used alongside mother and daughter cart configurations to create tugger trains. Mother carts tow one or more daughter carts, creating a train system that improves operational efficiency. Electric towing tuggers, as the name suggests, are then utilized to tow the train system.

Utilizing tugging equipment alongside mother and daughter cart systems enables manufacturers to achieve greater throughput, improved ergonomics, and enhanced efficiency across their operations.

Alongside towing trains of carts, material handling tuggers can be implemented to move large and heavy loads like sub-assemblies and work-in-progress. Manufacturers trust powered cart movers to mobilise high-value loads and deliver unrivalled precision and manoeuvrability. Example movements include:

• In the automotive industry this is often loads such as chassis, body-in-whites (BiW) or powertrain assemblies
• Within aerospace manufacturing, this often includes the movement of sensitive loads like aerostructures, composites and wings
• Heavy plant equipment manufacturers utilize tuggers to mobilize loads such as chassis, sub-assemblies and booms

Across industrial manufacturing sectors such as automotive manufacturing, heavy plant assembly and aerospace, the timely delivery of components to the production bays and the assembly line is integral to maintaining throughput and reducing downtime. With no operator license required, tuggers allow a single operator to move components just-in-time, offering a more efficient solution for intralogistics and internal material flow.

As well as supporting processes like those outlined above, electric cart movers can also be used to power the production line. As a modular and more flexible solution, industrial tuggers offer a scalable alternative to fixed chain driven production lines or other traditional systems. Utilizing material handling tuggers to mobilize the production line enables manufacturers to benefit from greater flexibility, allowing them to scale up or down in line with output.