Electric forklift manufacturers understand that with the rapid development of global intelligent manufacturing, many governments have introduced policies to promote the development of intelligent manufacturing. For example, in the Chinese government's Made in China 2025 plan, robotics is listed as one of the top 10 priority areas.

As an extremely important part of intelligent manufacturing, unmanned forklift, the most advanced electric forklift, has an important development position.

Compared with ordinary electric forklifts, unmanned forklifts do not require manual driving. It combines bar code technology, wireless local area network technology and data acquisition technology, and uses electromagnetic induction as a navigation method to assist RFID recognition. It can run on complex paths, reliably track across multiple sites, and is easy to operate.

This kind of unmanned forklift truck is more intelligent, flexible, and has the basic characteristics of low cost, high efficiency and safe operation. These advantages are not comparable to internal combustion forklifts, manual forklifts and ordinary electric forklifts. It can solve the problem of traditional electric forklifts operating in bad weather and dangerous environments, and can reduce exhaust gas and reduce noise.

Electric forklift manufacturers can also customize unmanned forklifts to meet the individual needs of enterprises.

According to data, the total sales of forklifts in the world reached 1.33 million units last year, a record high. According to the industrial chain survey, electric forklift manufacturers learned that before 2014, few enterprises sold unmanned forklifts in the market.

After 2014, electric forklift manufacturers producing unmanned forklifts have emerged, and more and more forklift manufacturers have entered the market. Some industry giants have set up special intelligent subsidiaries and business units to carry out the research and development and production of this intelligent electric forklift.

At present, many large express delivery companies have begun to lay out unmanned warehouses. Unmanned forklifts have huge advantages in terms of sorting speed, management software platform, station entry and exit speed, management efficiency and user experience. In recent years, the rapid development of e-commerce logistics industry has introduced unmanned forklifts into the layout of unmanned warehouses.

However, the global electric forklift industry is seriously homogenized competition and lacks standards. Some forklift manufacturers that produce diesel forklifts have begun to get involved in smart forklifts, but there are few innovations, and the products they produce are to a large extent imitating existing products on the market.

In the industry, some small electric forklift manufacturers in order to strengthen their competitiveness, a large number of manufacturing and abuse of unmanned forklifts. This low price competition creates a vicious circle among companies.

Very importantly, there is currently a lack of relevant industry standards in the industry, resulting in uneven product quality. This is not conducive to the good development of the unmanned forklift industry and the establishment of a localized brand image.

Nevertheless, electric forklift manufacturers believe that the wide application of unmanned forklifts in the future is the trend of The Times.