Case Study – Material Handling

The client is a global European-listed material handling technology company that designs and markets handling robots worldwide.

The client has plans to adopt wireless contact chargers to achieve full autonomous capability with its automated forklifts. In order to fulfil European safety standards, their initial development of in-house wireless contact chargers were costly and cumbersome that resulted in less cost competitive autonomous forklift solutions to their customers. 

Xnergy’s low cost and stackable contactless charger with wide air gap tolerance was able to fulfil their charging performance expectation as well as maintaining an optimistic cost structure for their autonomous forklift solution to their customers.

Product Solution Initial set-up requirements (Capex) Operational costs(Opex) Issues
Existing 90A docking station solutions
  • Receiver Contacts (USD1,000)
  • Transmitter Contact (USD300)
  • 90A charger-converter (USD600)

Total: USD1,900

  • USD 500 annual wear and tear preventive maintenance

Total: USD 500 yearly

  • Requires accurate docking, complex charging protocols, wear and tear, difficulty in scaling
 
Xnergy 90A contactless wireless power transfer
  • Receiver  (USD 1000) Contactless
  • Contactless Transmitter (USD2,000)
  • No need for charger-converter

Total: USD 3,000

  • No manpower requirements
  • USD 140 annual inspection for preventive maintenance

Total: USD 140 yearly

  • Simple object detection required, not pacemaker friendly

Outcome : OPEX is down by 72%