Forklift Tracking
Live Position Movement Heatmap Travel History Retrofit Capability
Your forklifts are continuously recorded and thus visible in real time. This creates transparency regarding movements, travel paths, and material flows – the foundation for transparent and efficient intralogistics processes.
An economically sensible way to achieve a noticeable gain in efficiency with minimal effort.
What is Forklift Tracking?
Forklift Tracking is the continuous, automatic localization of transport vehicles within the warehouse. Position data is recorded ongoingly and provides an up-to-date picture of the fleet at all times. In addition to the exact position, speed, load status, and the condition of the transport vehicle are recorded in real time.
The result: An anonymously moved forklift becomes a transparent, traceable resource. Average transport times, empty runs, and bottlenecks are clearly displayed – an absolute game changer for your fleet management.
Are you wondering
- How are movements and traffic distributed across the warehouse?
- Which travel paths are actually being used?
- Where do movements concentrate into bottlenecks?
- What does utilization look like across shifts and time periods?
With Forklift Tracking, you know
- Traffic is concentrated on a few main axes, while individual areas are hardly visited.
- Travel path R32 is used little to not at all.
- A bottleneck regularly forms at the transfer zone to the high-bay warehouse at the start of a shift.
- Fleet utilization is significantly lower in the late shift than in the early shift.
Instead of estimates, a reliable database is available for decisions – from layout planning and fleet sizing to shift design.
Discover your optimization potential:
Forklift Tracking or Forklift Guidance System?
Both solutions have their use cases – not every company requires a full Forklift Guidance System.
Forklift Tracking is suitable if...
- transparency regarding movements, travel paths, and material flows is the primary focus
- the fleet should be made visible without interfering with existing processes
- a database for upcoming decisions needs to be created
- an economically lean path to more efficiency is sought
A Forklift Guidance System is suitable if...
- the fleet needs to be actively controlled (automatic transport order assignment, priority-controlled, paperless)
- material movements should be automatically booked without scanning
- a digital twin of the warehouse with 3D visualization is desired
- functions such as route optimization, dual cycles, or mixed fleet operation are required
Flexibly Expandable
Forklift Tracking uses vehicle localization (RTLS) as a central foundation and is the ideal entry point into digital intralogistics for many companies.
Since vehicle localization also forms the technological basis of the ABF Forklift Guidance System, Forklift Tracking can be expanded to full material flow control with transport orders if needed, without a change in technology. Thus, the solution grows step by step with your company’s requirements.
3D Forklift Guidance System
- Paperless Order Processing
- Efficient Putaway, Relocation, and Retrieval
- Real-time tracking with RTLS
- Completely without barcode scans
Your warehouse also has enormous savings potential. We will show you where.
Your investment pays off – and faster than you think: Amortization in under 2 years.
Request your individual potential analysis today. Our experts will provide you with:
- a thorough assessment of your current processes
- specific savings potential in time & costs
- comprehensive ROI calculation for your warehouse
Case Studies
Read through our Forklift Tracking projects
Forklift Guidance System and Warehouse Management for Hans Zipperle AG
Robert Bosch Sistemas Automotrices S.A. de C.v.
3D forklift guidance system in high-bay warehouse with SAP WM connection
Find answers to frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Forklift Tracking and a Forklift Guidance System?
Forklift Tracking records and visualizes the position of transport vehicles in real time, creating transparency regarding movements, travel paths, and material flows.
A Forklift Guidance System (FGS) additionally controls the fleet actively – with automatic, priority-controlled transport order assignment, scan-free material booking, and 3D warehouse visualization. Both solutions have their use cases.
Which localization technology is used?
ABF works technology-independently and uses GNSS, Radar, UWB, or LiDAR depending on the environment – whichever technology delivers the best performance in the specific setting. More on this under RTLS.
Does Forklift Tracking replace my WMS?
Can I expand Forklift Tracking to a Forklift Guidance System later?
Yes. ABF relies on a consistent, scalable solution. Localization technologies can be flexibly integrated via open standards such as omlox (incl. omlox v2), and localization also forms the basis for a future Forklift Guidance System.