Forklifts are the default workhorse of the manufacturing floor — but LEAN analysis reveals they spend less than 50% of their time actually moving material. The rest is deadheading, congestion, and idle waiting. The fix isn't a better forklift program. It's a smarter system.
Download Cyngn's white paper to learn how the Autonomous Dumbbell framework — combining spaghetti diagram analysis, forklift traffic quarantine, and an autonomous tugger with mother-daughter carts — transforms material flow from reactive and labor-dependent to continuous, precise, and fully optimized.
The paper walks through how facilities are achieving ROI in under two years by addressing the core challenges of modern manufacturing:
- Eliminating transport labor dependency
- Reducing safety incidents in the material corridor
- Cutting WIP inventory through takt-aligned autonomous delivery
- Right-sizing forklift fleets to lift-only functions
- Scaling operations without scaling headcount
