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With highly customized services, we provide tailored autonomous solutions for industrial mobile vehicles, precisely tailored to meet unique operational needs and process flows. Our systems have been deployed in major steel mills, thermal power plants, mines, ports, and chemical and cement plants. We deliver reliable autonomous solutions that ensure workplace safety, maximize productivity, and fully comply with international industry standards.

Unmanned Bridge Crane System

The unmanned steel coil warehouse system launched by Wuhan Zhengxiang Technology Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive intelligent warehouse management system integrating precise positioning, intelligent collision avoidance, real-time inventory inventory, and automated scheduling. Leveraging multiple independently developed core technologies, the system enables unmanned and intelligent management of the entire steel coil warehouse process, significantly improving the safety, accuracy, and efficiency of warehouse operations.
  Unmanned Overhead Crane Core Operation
The system utilizes a high-precision unmanned overhead crane as its core, enabling automated lifting, storage, retrieval, and inventory management of steel coils.
  Intelligent Scheduling and Precise Positioning
Integrating an intelligent warehouse management system and visual recognition technology enables intelligent allocation of storage locations and millimeter-level precision lifting by the overhead crane.
  Fully Unmanned Process
From vehicle guidance and information integration to loading and unloading, the entire process is automated and requires no human intervention.
  Multiple Safety Protections
Equipped with multiple safety mechanisms, including intelligent coil anti-sway, obstacle avoidance, and collision prevention, ensuring the safety of personnel, equipment, and materials.

Unmanned Stacker-reclaimer System

Our company's unmanned stacker-reclaimer system is a core solution designed specifically for the intelligent upgrade of large-scale open-pit and indoor bulk material yards. Integrating high-precision positioning, 3D scanning, intelligent control, and coordinated scheduling technologies, the system enables round-the-clock automated stacking and reclaiming of bulk materials such as coal, ore, and slag. This revolutionizes traditional operations that rely on manual control, operate in harsh environments, and experience high efficiency fluctuations. It is a key component in developing "unmanned material yards" and realizing intelligent manufacturing.
  Fully Automatic Unmanned Operation
The system enables the stacker/reclaimer to automatically wake up, travel, position, stack, and reclaim materials, completing the entire unmanned operation process.
  Precise Positioning and Control
The core system utilizes a Gray bus absolute positioning system, enabling continuous, high-precision detection and control of the gantry's travel and boom pitch and rotation.
  3D Intelligent Scanning and Modeling
Laser scanning reconstructs a 3D model of the material yard in real time, providing an accurate data foundation for automatically planning the optimal operating path.
  Intelligent Collaboration and Safety Protection
The system seamlessly integrates with higher-level management software, automatically receiving and executing commands, and provides comprehensive safety protection such as anti-collision and anti-rollover measures.

Gray Bus Positioning System

Gray code-based crane positioning system | Ensuring absolute precision & reliability.
Our Gray Bus Positioning System is key to fully automating industrial vehicles. Designed for bridge cranes, trolleys, and other industrial vehicles, it provides continuous, highly accurate position data even in the harshest conditions. This enables precise positioning, automated operation, and increased safety without the worry of maintenance.
  Robust Technology for Industrial Environments
Using non-contact electromagnetic induction, our system reads absolute position directly from a coded cable. This means no cumulative error, no need to re-home after power loss, and unwavering accuracy along the entire travel path. It is inherently immune to dirt, dust, moisture, and optical obstructions that plague other technologies.
  Why It's the Superior Choice?
  • Maximize Uptime & Reduce TCO.
  • Enable Automation with Confidence.
  • Built Rugged for Real Industry.
  • Global Standards & Easy Integration.
  Engineered for Your Industry
This system is a proven precision positioning solution across various industries:
  • Steel & Metals
  • Ports & Terminals
  • Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS)
  • Railway Infrastructure
  • Mining & Energy
  Ready to Automate with Precision?
Contact our engineering team today to discuss your specific application needs and request a quote.

Remote Control System for Belt Tripper

Our company's Remote Control System for Belt Tripper is a comprehensive automation solution integrating high-precision positioning, intelligent control, wireless communication, and material management. Based on Gray busbar absolute positioning technology, the system seamlessly integrates PLC control, industrial wireless communication, and host computer intelligent scheduling software to enable remote manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic control of unloading trolleys in power plants, steel mills, cement plants, and other locations. This system revolutionizes the traditional, inefficient, and error-prone manual operation model, helping customers achieve unmanned, intelligent, and integrated bulk material handling.
  Gray Bus High-Precision Positioning Technology
Provides ±1mm absolute position detection, providing core data support for automatic bin change and precise docking, with zero cumulative error and strong anti-interference capabilities.
  Intelligent PLC Control and Scheduling Algorithm
Utilizing an industrial-grade PLC as the core control system, it integrates advanced scheduling algorithms to automatically plan the optimal travel path and unloading sequence based on task instructions.
  Industrial-Grade Wireless Communication Network
Building a highly reliable wireless network (IP67 protection rating) ensures real-time, stable, and seamless data transmission between the onboard system and the ground control room, achieving zero packet loss.
  Host Computer Intelligent Monitoring and Management Software
Centralized display of real-time trolley position, bin status, equipment status, task queue, and other information.
Supports one-click task issuance, bin management, automatic/manual mode switching, fault alarms, and historical data query, providing a clear and intuitive human-computer interface.

Intelligent Stereoscopic Warehouse System

Our company's intelligent high-bay warehouse system is a modern warehousing solution that integrates high-bay racking, rail-guided stacker cranes (STLs), RGV (rail-guided vehicle) shuttles, and an intelligent management system (WMS/WCS). Through highly automated material handling and information management, the system enables efficient, accurate, and unmanned storage and retrieval of goods, significantly improving space utilization and operational efficiency. It serves as the core infrastructure for modern enterprises to achieve intelligent and digital warehousing.
  Intelligent Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS)
The intelligent storage and retrieval system consists of high-rise racks, rail-guided stacker cranes, inbound and outbound conveying systems, an automated control system (WCS), and a warehouse management system (WMS), forming a complete automated material storage and retrieval system.
  Rail-mounted aisle stacker crane (Stacker Crane)
The stacker crane is the core handling equipment of the high-bay warehouse, responsible for precise storage and retrieval operations in the aisles of the shelves. Our company provides two series of straight rail type and curved rail type to meet the needs of different scenarios.
  RGV (Rail Guided Vehicle)
The RGV is an automated transport vehicle that runs on fixed tracks. In high-bay warehouses, it is primarily used to transport goods between loading and unloading platforms and rack aisles, seamlessly integrating with stacker cranes and conveyor lines.

Coke Oven Machinery Coordination Systems

By integrating Gray Code precise positioning,wireless data transmission,

and intelligent computer control, our Coke Oven Machinery 

Coordination System ensures the safe and efficient operation of coke oven vehicles as a specialized industrial solution. 

 

The system is designed to provide real-time, precise position detection and safety interlocking control for the four major coke oven vehicles (Pusher Machine, Coke Guide Machine, Quenching Car, Larry Car) and the guide car.

 

 It ensures that all vehicles operate in strict accordance with predefined schedules and safety protocols, thereby effectively preventing production safety incidents and significantly enhancing the automation level and operational efficiency of the entire coking process.

  Gray Bus High-Precision Positioning Technology
Utilizing a Gray bus absolute positioning system, the system detects the precise position of each locomotive in real time, achieving a positioning accuracy of up to ±1mm, providing reliable position data for safety interlocking.
The system boasts strong anti-interference capabilities, unaffected by the harsh coke oven environment, such as smoke, high temperatures, and steam, ensuring stability and reliability.
  Industrial-Grade Wireless Communication Network
A wireless spread spectrum communication network covering the coke oven area enables high-speed, stable, and real-time data transmission between the onboard system and the ground control center, ensuring accurate synchronization of each vehicle's position and status information.
  Intelligent Interlocking Control Algorithm
Based on real-time position information and key motion signals from each vehicle, the system incorporates an advanced interlocking logic algorithm to automatically determine interlocking conditions and output "allow/disable" commands, ensuring absolute safety in production operations.
  Centralized Monitoring and Management System
The ground server provides centralized monitoring and system management for all locomotives in the plant, including operation planning and performance management, interlocking control, and safety control.
Each vehicle is equipped with an on-board touch screen monitoring system, which displays the vehicle's position, interlocking status, plan information and system instructions in real time to guide the driver in safe operation.

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