About JBT Automated Systems
JBT Automated Systems is a global leader in AGVs, serving a broad base of industrial customers across food processing, logistics, hospital systems, manufacturing, and warehousing. As a large-scale OEM with a worldwide installed fleet, JBT designs and deploys AGV systems that successfully complete mission-critical material deliveries around the clock in some of the most demanding production and operating environments.
Their customers depend on those systems running reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively. For JBT, the components they choose are critical to how their systems operate, making the choice of battery, charger, and power conversion technology one that is extremely important for every fleet they support.
JBT Automated System's Challenge
JBT’s 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.
JBT’s 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 JBT 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's evaluation process identified several capabilities as essential to a successful long-term partnership:
The partnership between Micropower and JBT 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 JBT's 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 remain committed to the continued joint efforts, ensuring that JBT's 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 AGVs, serving a broad base of industrial customers across food processing, logistics, hospital systems, manufacturing, and warehousing. As a large-scale OEM with a worldwide installed fleet, JBT designs and deploys AGV systems that successfully complete mission-critical material deliveries around the clock in some of the most demanding production and operating environments.
Their customers depend on those systems running reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively. For JBT, the components they choose are critical to how their systems operate, making the choice of battery, charger, and power conversion technology one that is extremely important for every fleet they support.
JBT Automated System's Challenge
JBT’s 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.
JBT’s 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 JBT 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's 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's 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 JBT with the confidence to recommend Micropower across their customer base. And JBT’s mot.OS software tracks battery cycles and maintains battery levels at the optimum condition to maximize life.
Fleet Level Outcomes
With Micropower's power solutions integrated into their AGV systems, JBT's customers experience measurable improvements across every dimension of fleet performance:
With Micropower's power solutions integrated into their AGV systems, JBT's 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 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 JBT's 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 remain committed to the continued joint efforts, ensuring that JBT's 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.
