Simpler, Less Frequent Maintenance Lowers Ownership Costs

The ACR System can significantly lower your ownership costs. Compared to DC-powered trucks, trucks equipped with the ACR System have lower maintenance and parts costs, fewer and less frequent maintenance needs.

Simpler maintenance

With the ACR System, the entire truck is engineered to make maintenance simpler and to eliminate failure-prone parts, which means that ACR System-powered trucks need less maintenance than comparable DC trucks.

Less Frequent Maintenance

Unlike DC motors, AC motors have no brushes, spring sets or commutators that require regular maintenance and periodic replacement. Motor brushes have to be change regularly and cause messy carbon dust that needs regular cleaning to prevent dust buildup in the motor compartment. And replacing or adjusting a commutator is a labor-intensive process that requires disassembling the motor. With the ACR System, these maintenance issues are eliminated.

Bottom Line:

• ACR System-equipped trucks spend less time being serviced and more time moving pallets
   
• Parts and labor costs are reduced

Increase runtime per battery charge.

With the ACR System, you’ll save on batteries, chargers and downtime. AC motors deliver more runtime per battery charge, so operators will change batteries less often. In most applications, trucks equipped with the ACR System are getting a full shift out of a single battery charge.

You’ll also see cost savings because you can use smaller, less expensive batteries than a DC-powered truck uses in a similar application. And with the extended use you get from each of these smaller batteries, you reduce the number of batteries and chargers you need to keep on hand, and spend less time recharging.

Bottom Line:

• Fewer battery changes means less downtime and higher truck utilization rates
  
• Extended battery performance means moving more pallets per battery charge
  
• Costs are reduced with less wasted labor and fewer, smaller batteries

AC motors have at least 10% higher operating efficiency than DC motors.

This benefits you in two ways. Unlike DC-powered trucks that lose performance as batteries discharge, trucks with the ACR System maintain a high level of performance throughout the battery cycle. This extends the truck’s peak performance longer into the shift and lets operators move more pallets per battery charge.

Bottom Line:

• Extended battery performance means moving more pallets per battery charge
• You’ll get more work done and spend less on your lift trucks

Storing and retrieving materials involves a lot of stops, turns and accelerations. The ACR System helps operators get to and from storage locations faster by providing quicker acceleration, smoother direction changes and better load handling.

The truck accelerates faster, so operators get up to top speed faster. DC trucks experience a time delay when changing speed or direction, a delay that is most noticeable when the operator plugs to a stop and reverses direction. ACR System -equipped trucks don’t have this delay, so they respond instantly to control inputs for acceleration, stops and direction changes. The truck’s instant response also enhances the operator’s control of the load, making pallet positioning more precise. This precision is especially important when handling loads at higher elevations.

With improved acceleration and control, operators of AC lift trucks can shave seconds off each cycle. Considering the number of cycles that are completed by each operator, each day, each year, that adds up to a lot of additional productivity that a DC lift truck can’t provide.

Bottom Line:

• Faster acceleration lets operators move pallets more quickly
• Enhanced control of the load reduces positioning time and decreases the likelihood of product damage