Coats manufactures equipment used in automotive service and repair facilities and operates its Tennessee plant with a focus on low-cost, flexible manufacturing. Before automation, internal material delivery relied on forklifts, manual tuggers, and employees pushing carts across the facility, requiring about 1.5 full-time employees dedicated to delivering materials and returning empty bins.
To streamline this process, Coats deployed Cyngn’s DriveMod autonomous tugger, which now runs continuously across the plant with 5–10 delivery stops per route. The system replaced reactive supply runs with a predictable delivery loop and has completed nearly 4,000 autonomous missions serving production workstations.
In its first year, the vehicle logged 1,845 hours of autonomous operation and traveled more than 1,800 kilometers inside the facility, absorbing the workload of manual material runs. The result is more consistent material delivery and the ability to redeploy labor to higher-value production work while the facility continues to grow.
- 3,990 autonomous missions completed
- 1.5 material handling roles redeployed
- 1,815 km traveled
- ROI within 2 Years
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