About JBT Automated Systems
JBT Automated Systems is a global leader in automated guided vehicles (AGVs), supporting a wide spectrum of industrial operations—from food processing and logistics to hospitals, manufacturing, and warehousing. As a trusted global OEM, JBT Automated Systems delivers high performance AGV solutions that keep mission critical materials moving around the clock. Built for reliability in the toughest environments, their mobile automation systems help customers stay productive, efficient, and always on schedule.
Customers rely on these systems to operate with exceptional reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. That’s why JBT Automated Systems is highly selective about every component that goes into its fleets. The choice of batteries, chargers, and power conversion technologies is central to overall performance, making power system decisions a critical factor in delivering long term customer value.
JBT Automated System's Challenge
JBT Automated Systems' customers operate AGV fleets where uptime, throughput, and total cost of ownership are the primary measures of success. As a leading OEM, they continuously evaluate how component-level decisions can enhance fleet-level performance.
Their AGVs rely on advanced technology, controls and sensors that all must work together to deliver the results expected. As new technology is identified, it is qualified and tested to verify it can improve system performance. For many years, the mobile automation industry relied on older battery technology with long charging times. Some customers tried to squeeze more productivity by shortening battery maintenance cycles all at the expense of battery life. Other battery solutions were not very scalable to meet JBT’s diverse set of standard vehicle types.
These challenges and commitment to customers led them to Micropower: a partner with proven technology, deep application expertise, and long-term engineering commitment to deliver a better solution at the fleet level.
Why Micropower?
JBT Automated Systems' evaluation process identified several capabilities as essential to a successful long-term partnership:
As AGV adoption continues to expand and fleet performance requirements intensify, Micropower and JBT Automated Systems remain committed to the continued joint efforts, ensuring that their customers benefit from a power solution backed by deep engineering expertise, a long-term support commitment, and a partner whose success is directly tied to the performance of every vehicle in their fleet.
JBT Automated Systems is a global leader in automated guided vehicles (AGVs), supporting a wide spectrum of industrial operations—from food processing and logistics to hospitals, manufacturing, and warehousing. As a trusted global OEM, JBT Automated Systems delivers high performance AGV solutions that keep mission critical materials moving around the clock. Built for reliability in the toughest environments, their mobile automation systems help customers stay productive, efficient, and always on schedule.
Customers rely on these systems to operate with exceptional reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. That’s why JBT Automated Systems is highly selective about every component that goes into its fleets. The choice of batteries, chargers, and power conversion technologies is central to overall performance, making power system decisions a critical factor in delivering long term customer value.
JBT Automated System's Challenge
JBT Automated Systems' customers operate AGV fleets where uptime, throughput, and total cost of ownership are the primary measures of success. As a leading OEM, they continuously evaluate how component-level decisions can enhance fleet-level performance.
Their AGVs rely on advanced technology, controls and sensors that all must work together to deliver the results expected. As new technology is identified, it is qualified and tested to verify it can improve system performance. For many years, the mobile automation industry relied on older battery technology with long charging times. Some customers tried to squeeze more productivity by shortening battery maintenance cycles all at the expense of battery life. Other battery solutions were not very scalable to meet JBT’s diverse set of standard vehicle types.
These challenges and commitment to customers led them to Micropower: a partner with proven technology, deep application expertise, and long-term engineering commitment to deliver a better solution at the fleet level.
Why Micropower?
JBT Automated Systems' evaluation process identified several capabilities as essential to a successful long-term partnership:
- Proven technology at scale. With over two million battery modules deployed globally, Micropower's lithium-ion battery systems are validated across the full range of industrial operating conditions. Their battery systems are engineered specifically for the continuous, high-demand cycles characteristic of AGV operations.
- Modular, configurable architecture. Micropower's modular LionBRIX platform enables seamless integration across JBT Automated Systems' diverse product range, from standard, small deployments to high-demand custom configurations.
- Direct engineering collaboration. Micropower's R&D-led partnership model enables application-specific system design, iterative performance optimization, and alignment to real-world duty cycles, ensuring that each battery system is appropriately specified for how the vehicle is actually used.
- Long-term support commitment. A reliable lifecycle projection, supported by rigorous testing and field-validated longevity data, provided them with the confidence to recommend Micropower across their customer base. And JBT Automated Systems' mot.OS software tracks battery cycles and maintains battery levels at the optimum condition to maximize life.
"We expect advancements in battery and charging technology to continue to help our systems deliver more value to our customers in terms of productivity, reliability and total cost of ownership. Partnering with a power industry leader such as Micropower shows our firm commitment to achieving that goal." - JBT Automated Systems
Fleet Level Outcomes
With Micropower's power solutions integrated into their AGV systems, JBT Automated Systems' customers experience measurable improvements across every dimension of fleet performance:
With Micropower's power solutions integrated into their AGV systems, JBT Automated Systems' customers experience measurable improvements across every dimension of fleet performance:
- Higher vehicle productivity through opportunity charging and optimized charge cycles, with less time on the charger and more time operating.
- Fleet rightsizing: A fleet previously requiring 10 vehicles to sustain throughput now operates at full capacity with 9, freeing capital and reducing ongoing maintenance costs.
- Reduced battery storage/charging infrastructure footprint, there’s no need for offline equalization or cell balancing, freeing valuable facility space
- Design flexibility and performance benefits for future AGV vehicle development
- Predictive maintenance enabled by real-time analytics that identify degradation before failure
- Total cost of ownership reduction over the full battery lifecycle, with payback achieved a full year sooner, based on a customer’s current data.
- Transparent lifecycle modeling that enables accurate long-term cost forecasting prior to investment
The partnership between Micropower and JBT Automated Systems demonstrates the operational value of integrating purpose-built lithium-ion technology into a world-class AGV platform. By combining Micropower's power system expertise with their system engineering and global support capabilities, both organizations are delivering fleet performance outcomes that neither could achieve independently.
As AGV adoption continues to expand and fleet performance requirements intensify, Micropower and JBT Automated Systems remain committed to the continued joint efforts, ensuring that their customers benefit from a power solution backed by deep engineering expertise, a long-term support commitment, and a partner whose success is directly tied to the performance of every vehicle in their fleet.
