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Automated Guided Vehicles
When your operation needs a safer, more efficient way to move materials around the factory floor, warehouse, or production line, Pack King’s automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and transfer cars offer a future-ready solution. Designed to reduce manual handling, improve productivity, and minimise workplace risk, these systems are ideal for modern facilities seeking automation without a major infrastructure overhaul.
Built with Pack King’s trademark focus on reliability and function, our AGVs and transfer carts are available in a range of configurations, each tailored to suit specific site layouts, load types, and operational requirements. Whether you’re handling pallets, components, equipment, or bulk materials, these systems streamline internal logistics.
Your Reliable Source for Automated Guided Vehicles
Pack King supplies robust, low-maintenance automated guided vehicles and transfer cars engineered to integrate with existing workflows. With simple programming, safety sensors, and load-specific configurations, these units move materials between workstations, docks, storage zones, and production lines, all without a human operator.
Key features include:
- Programmable Guidance Systems
AGVs can follow magnetic strips, QR codes, laser paths, or mapped floor plans using onboard navigation. - Load-Specific Configurations
Options for pallet handling, coil transport, flat goods, drums, and heavy equipment. - Transfer Car Systems
Designed to move loads across parallel tracks or between bays, ideal for wide production layouts or multistation operations. - Safety Sensors and Obstacle Detection
Built-in emergency stop systems and environment sensors prevent collisions with workers or equipment. - Heavy Load Capacities
Transfer cars and AGVs available with load ratings from 500kg to several tonnes depending on requirements. - Battery or Power Rail Options
Choose from rechargeable battery-powered models or direct-powered rail systems for long-run operation. - Custom Design Available
Get a system designed around your facility’s footprint, height clearances, and workflow.
Ideal applications include:
- Manufacturing production lines
- Warehousing and distribution centres
- Food and pharmaceutical processing
- Automotive and aerospace facilities
- Heavy equipment assembly and component transport
- High-frequency material movement between workstations
By automating repetitive movement tasks, AGVs and transfer cars allow your team to focus on skilled work while maintaining safe, consistent material flow.
Need Handling Equipment to Complement Your AGV?
Pack King also offers a full range of materials handling solutions, including trolleys, lift tables, pallet jacks, and drum lifters, all of which can be integrated with or supported by your automated guided vehicles. Talk to us about designing a total handling system built around your AGV infrastructure.
Why Buy From Pack King?
- Operating Since 1989
Over 30 years of delivering smart, durable equipment to industrial and commercial operations across Australia. - Owner Operated – Speak Directly with Ron
No pushy salespeople. Just practical advice from someone who understands material handling inside and out. - Customised AGV Solutions
We work with your layout, products, and operational requirements to recommend the right configuration. - Melbourne Showroom – Local Support
See select handling products in person and speak to us about your AGV goals. - Best Price Guarantee
Found a comparable automated guided vehicle system at a lower price? We’ll beat it. - Fast, Practical Support
Pre-sale, post-sale, and everything in between, we help you plan and implement with confidence. - Trusted by Industry Leaders
Our clients span manufacturing, logistics, food processing, and more, because our equipment performs. - Nationwide Delivery and Setup Support
We organise delivery and help coordinate integration with your facility systems. - Focus on Safety and Compliance
All AGV systems include safety features to support Australian workplace safety standards. - One Supplier, Full Solution
From manual to automated handling, we supply everything you need for a smooth and scalable workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is an automated guided vehicle?
A: An AGV is a self-driving material handling vehicle designed to transport goods within a facility using pre-defined navigation systems, without human control.
Q: How do AGVs know where to go?
A: They follow mapped paths via magnetic tape, laser navigation, GPS mapping, or vision-based systems, depending on the model.
Q: What is the difference between AGVs and transfer cars?
A: AGVs are mobile and free-roaming within a guided path, while transfer cars move along fixed tracks to shuttle materials between set points or across bays.
Q: Are AGVs suitable for small businesses or only large factories?
A: Both. We offer scalable AGV options, from compact units for smaller sites to heavy-duty models for high-volume operations.
Q: How are AGVs powered?
A: Most are battery-operated with charging docks, though direct-powered models for continuous use (e.g., via rails or floor conductors) are also available.
Q: What kind of loads can they carry?
A: Load capacity varies by model, from 500kg up to 10 tonnes or more. We’ll match the unit to your application.
Q: How do AGVs avoid accidents?
A: They’re equipped with safety sensors, obstacle detection, and emergency stop features to prevent collisions or unsafe operation.
Q: Can I customise the AGV for my workflow?
A: Yes. We work with you to define the load type, route, frequency, and handling equipment compatibility before selecting or designing the right system.
Q: How long does installation take?
A: Installation depends on the system complexity. Basic setups can be operational within a week, while larger integrations may require longer planning.
Q: How do I get started?
A: Call Ron on (03) 9720 0425 or email ron@kinggroup.com.au to discuss your material handling needs. We’ll provide advice, pricing, and integration recommendations.
Transfer cars are motorised trolleys or vehicles, used to transfer goods from one location to another.
Pack King has proudly taken on the distribution of the BDG range of Transfer Cars for Australia and New Zealand.
BDG has been in business since 2003. They produce and sell into a dozen countries, a range of shelving, racking, AGVs and Transfer Cars.
A Transfer Car or AGV is designed specifically to move products from one area to another. Whether it is guided by wire, tape, sensors, wireless or wired depends upon the client’s preference, and what the goals are.
AGVs are flavour of the month, as warehouses become more automated. They can pick, move and deposit almost anything to anywhere automatically – after programming. Transfer Cars are however used mainly to transfer heavy and awkward goods from station to workstation, or used in maintenance to transport items to workshops for repair.
An overhead crane has only so much area to work in, and the task is very slow and deliberate, whereas a Transfer Car can be guided close to or under a heavy piece of machinery or a fabricated section, and guided to any point inside or outside, so it is like a very strong forklift, but without the restrictions of a counterweight or length of fork tines. The load on a Transfer Car, is directly over the load and idler wheels, making for the most secure ground contact – unlike a tow tug for instance that needs weight over the drive wheels in order to gain enough traction to overcome the inertia of the trolley and load weight combined.
By using a small hand held joystick control, the Transfer Car can be maneuvered into tight spaces, thereby preventing the use of manual force, or to have personnel in the vicinity. This makes the operation safer and free of insurance claims.
The Transfer Car can be fitted with cradles for rolls or cylinders, or custom made retainers for any object. It can also be supplied with a scissor lift inbuilt, in order to raise and lower items, suggesting an ideal vehicle to raise air conditioning to the roof of a tunnel.
The Transfer Car can also run on rails. It can be completely automatic. It can sense people and objects. It can be fitted with any warning device.
In a large engineering / fabrication shops; defence contractors, space, shipping, wood mills, etc. Anywhere large objects have to be moved around, the Transfer Car is the answer. 500 Kg or 500 tonnes. Just load it on!
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