The BEUMER autover ensures a smart distribution
Speed, safety and flexibility are the three essential characteristics of the BEUMER autover baggage handling system. This DCV system comprises a passive rail system and individual vehicles, known as BEUMER autoca. This multi-functional sortation and distribution system ensures a safe and gentle baggage handling and transport. Owing to the contactless energy and data transmission, maintenance and operating costs are very low.
The BEUMER autoca are equipped with an on-board-controller and discrete drive unit. They move independently from each other through the rail system. The BEUMER autoca are able to receive goods having a weight of up to 60 kg and to transport them automatically to their respective destinations. The BEUMER autoca carry out automatic self-diagnosis and, where necessary, apply dynamically for maintenance according to arbitrary intervals. With just a mouse click, the corresponding vehicle drives toward the central maintenance area – without disrupting transport in the remainder of the baggage handling system.
Optimal range
Each vehicle can reach any point in the rail system. Accordingly, the autover system can respond completely and efficiently to peak times in respective check-in areas by concentrating an appropriate number of vehicles where needed. New route segments, in case of extensions, for example, are easily integrated. Small curve radii ensure that the system occupies little space. Furthermore, it is possible to deposit bags in an early bag store by using the BEUMER autoca and to release them on demand. In case of failure of x-ray equipment, the BEUMER autoca containing the baggage to be scanned is directly diverted to a device ready for use, thus ensuring a high degree of operational reliability.
The entire system is controlled by the BEUMER Sortation System (BeSS), a proprietary software system that controls each BEUMER autoca individually and constitutes the interface to the individual airport systems – such as FIS and DCS, among others. Modules for baggage management/sort allocation computers (SAC) are available.
Since 2001, a similar version of the BEUMER autover baggage handling system has been used successfully at the Münster/Osnabrück airport with an availability of almost 100 %. Other baggage handling systems, equipped with the BEUMER autover system, reliably perform their services at Toulouse airport as well as in Dubai, Montreal and soon also in Oujda.