Konecranes introduces its ARTG

The company also claims that it has overcome many of the problems that, in the past, have prevented wide adoption of automated RTG operations.  This includes enabling the ARTG to operate on a range of yard surfaces, inherent in container yards.  As such, customers can introduce the ARTG system into their current yard infrastructure as they move towards fully automated operations.

Based on its standard 16-wheel RTG, the automated system includes a complete package of truck guidance infrastructure, including a remote operating station with a specially developed graphical user interface (GUI) and an IT system that interfaces with the customer’s terminal operating system (TOS).  The new machine has integrated scanning and light truck guidance to handle the multi-dimensional complexity of truck traffic along the container stacks in an automated operating model.

Designed with what the company calls ‘its intelligent steel structure’ to provide additional tolerances on rough yard surfaces, additional features include active load control to eliminate sway, special safety infrastructure including real-time anti-collision laser positioning and intelligent stack gates.