Environment-Friendly Products
Daifuku aims to develop environmentally friendly products and to improve our manufacturing process.
Environmentally Friendly Engine Test Bench
A motoring test bench evaluates automobile engines, using an external motor drive that turns the engine without fuel.
Compared with conventional firing, test benches that evaluate engines by means of fuel ignition improve work environments, give consideration to the natural environment, reduce auxiliary equipment, including for fuel and cooling water, and reduce operating costs.
- Motoring test bench testing auto engines without fuel
Installation of AS/RS in Food Recycling Factory
I'll Clean-Tech Corporation Co., Ltd., a general and industrial waste handling company in Saitama Prefecture, established a pallet-type organic resource recycle center in Yorii-machi, Osato, Saitama Prefecture, to compost organic waste such as food leftovers. I'll Clean-Tech installed a Unit Load AS/RS, pallet-type automated warehouse and a Sorting Transfer Vehicle (STV), high-speed conveyor vehicle in the facilities to automate the compost manufacturing process. This center enables to process up to 108 tons of organic waste per day.
- STV carries fermentation pallets to inverting equipment for stirring, and unit load AS/RS (in the right)
Low noise car wash machine slashing water use in half
All Daifuku car wash machine models now mount the “super low noise crystal drying system” significantly reducing the blower noise while drying a car. Daifuku also markets drive-through Waxmor Abient and Waxmor Sfida with water-saving design using less than half the amount of previous models and applying plant-derived shampoo and wax for the first time in the industry.
- Waxmor Abient
Automation of Surgical Instruments Transport and Storage System
As a part of the National University Facility Improvement Plan, a new central ward was built on the premises of Nagoya University Hospital. Daifuku delivered an automated transport and storage system for supplying and collecting surgical instruments, integrating a mini load AS/RS, Vertical Carrousel, and Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs).
These systems promote laborsaving in work operations for item collection and hygienic material control that previously labor-intensive, improve efficiency by making systems that allow nurses on the ward to concentrate on patient care, and contribute to efficiency by reducing the time between surgical operations.
In addition, the AGV collects unsanitary items including waste, blood and fluids generated in the operating theater, preventing in-hospital infections.
- Vertical Carrousel transports between floors
