Material Handling Glossary | A
A vehicle equipped with guidance equipment, either electro-magnetic or optical. Such a vehicle is capable of following prescribed guidepaths and may be equipped for vehicle programming and stop selection, blocking, and any other special functions required by the system.
A guidance system capable of automatically
routing storage and retrieval vehicles to
any position at any bin or rack located in an
automated warehouse.
A varied number of computer-controlled systems to place and retrieve loads from defined storage locations automatically is called the automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS or AS/RS).