For long-term industrial material handling scenarios including manufacturing workshops, public warehouses and distribution centers, stable operation of forklift fleets is the core support for normal operation of the whole link. Many operation teams intend to upgrade their on-site handling capabilities, but often turn to high-cost large-scale transformation plans at the very beginning, ignoring that forklift driver assistance is a very practical, low input and fast output starting point to realize performance improvement.

Forklift driver assistance does not mean replacing the manual operation of drivers, but provides multi-dimensional redundant guarantee for drivers in the whole operation process. The basic configurations of mature driver assistance systems include blind spot reminder for narrow channel driving, safety distance warning between forklifts and surrounding pedestrians, prompt of safe load limit at different lifting heights, and automatic speed limit when entering pedestrian intensive areas. These functions can effectively reduce the risk of misoperation caused by long-time work fatigue or temporary negligence of drivers, without changing the original operation habits of the team.

For electric forklift users, the matching degree between driver assistance functions and the inherent stable, low energy consumption operation characteristics of electric models is very high. It will not bring extra high load to the power system of the forklift, nor will it cause obvious increase of daily use cost. Many teams that have introduced relevant configurations show that the frequency of minor collision accidents in daily operation drops significantly after the application of driver assistance, and the average daily handling volume of a single forklift also gets steady growth, as drivers no longer need to disperse too much energy to observe the surrounding complex environment all the time.

As an entry-level optimization direction, forklift driver assistance also lays a good foundation for the subsequent promotion of whole site operation management. The system can record the non-sensitive operation data of the fleet in real time, help the management team to sort out the actual bottleneck points in the existing handling flow, and then make targeted optimization for channel planning, personnel scheduling and task allocation. Jianshu New Energy, which focuses on BYD electric forklift, has rich practical experience in matching applicable driver assistance configurations for different operation scenarios of different sizes. If you have related demands for electric forklift operation optimization, you can contact us via [email protected] for more detailed consultation and supporting solutions.