PHS 4-Way Shuttle
Store deep without the aisles a forklift needs. The PHS 4-Way Shuttle travels along and across your racking, carries up to 2 tonnes, and comes in a cold store build rated to minus 25 degrees. Built with Globl, specified and supported by our own engineers.
- 2.0 tMax payload
- −25°CCold store build
- 2 sLift and turn
- ±2 mmPositioning
- 6–8 hPer charge
It moves in both directions, so your racking does not have to
High and low rails let the shuttle run along or across the rack and change rails on the spot. It reaches any location on a level without a transfer car and without the aisles a forklift needs.
Polyurethane wheels keep it quiet and stop it jumping the rail, and barcode positioning holds it to within two millimetres.
Specified for the freezer, not adapted to it
The cold store version is rated from minus 25 to zero degrees, so it works in a hard-frozen store rather than a chiller. Charging is contactless, which matters at these temperatures because there are no exposed contacts to ice up or corrode.
It also takes people out of the coldest part of your operation. The shuttle stays in the rack and the pallets come to the door.
Six to eight hours of work, then it charges itself
Lithium iron phosphate batteries give a full shift on a charge and last two thousand cycles. Below twenty percent the control system sends the shuttle to charge on its own, so nobody has to plan around it.
Obstacle radar on all four sides, pallet presence and tilt detection, sleep mode between tasks, and a charge-level light strip you can read from the floor.
Specifications
Three models, each available as an ambient or a cold store build. Tell us your pallet weight, store temperature and throughput and we will tell you which one fits.
| PTR-HT | PTR-HS | PTR-HW | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rated load | 0.8 t | 1.5 t | 2.0 t |
| Shuttle weight | 350 kg | 350 kg | 450 kg |
| Dimensions (L x W x H) | 1135 x 980 x 126 mm | 1135 x 980 x 126 mm | 1135 x 980 x 180 mm |
| Performance | |||
| Max travel speed | 2 m/s | 2 m/s | 2 m/s |
| Max acceleration | 1.1 m/s² | 1.1 m/s² | 1.1 m/s² |
| Lift time | 2 s | 2 s | 2 s |
| Direction change | 2 s | 2 s | 2 s |
| Positioning accuracy | ±2 mm | ±2 mm | ±2 mm |
| Battery and charging | |||
| Battery type | Lithium iron phosphate | Lithium iron phosphate | Lithium iron phosphate |
| Battery energy | ≥2.8 kWh | ≥2.8 kWh | ≥2.3 kWh |
| Run time per charge | 6–8 h | 6–8 h | 6–8 h |
| Charge time | ≤2 h | ≤2 h | ≤3 h |
| Charge cycles | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Charging method | Contactless | Contactless | Contactless |
| Operating temperature | |||
| Ambient build | −10 to +45°C | −10 to +45°C | −10 to +45°C |
| Cold store build | −25 to 0°C | −25 to 0°C | −25 to 0°C |
Where it earns its keep
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Cold and frozen storage
Hold more pallets in the space you already refrigerate, and keep people out of the freezer.
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Food and beverage
High volumes of uniform pallets, first in first out, with full traceability on every movement.
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Deep lane bulk storage
Deep lanes without the aisles. Density rises without extending the building.
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Buffer and dispatch
Stage outbound loads in sequence so trucks are turned around faster.
Why we build it with Globl
Globl built the world’s first four-way pallet shuttle in 2012 and has spent the years since refining it, with 97 patents behind the current range and three manufacturing sites covering more than ninety thousand square metres.
The shuttle arrives in PHS colours because we specify it, commission it and support it. You deal with our engineers in New Zealand and Australia, not with a factory on the other side of the world.
We have already done this at minus 25 degrees
PHS Innovate delivered the lights-out, hypoxic frozen distribution centre for Foodstuffs South Island in Hornby, Christchurch, running at minus 25 degrees with high-density pallet storage and SAP integration. Cold store automation is not new ground for us.
Tell us what you are storing
Send us your pallet weight, store temperature, lane depth and daily throughput. We will come back with the model that fits and an honest view of what it will take.