[BUYING GUIDES] Forklift, Pallet Truck, Conveyor, AGV: How to Choose the Right Logistics Equipment?

How to move heavy products and goods inside a facility? Different solutions are available. Since it is not always easy to choose the right logistics equipment in front of a multitude of manufacturers, we have produced several buying guides with tips and recommendations to help you make the right purchasing decision.

Hicham Dhouibi, Vincent Vilarrasa, Francesco D’Amore, Monica Hutchings, and Camille Rustici contributed to these buying guides.

DirectIndustry offers a free online buying guide service to advise you on what you need to know before you buy a product or request a quote. The goal is to give business leaders, industrial buyers, and decision-makers detailed descriptions, key criteria, standards, and prices of industrial products to facilitate your comparison of quotes and your choice of suppliers in order to make the right purchasing decision. Our buying guides are written by our professional journalists and in-house industry analysts in an independent and impartial way. None of the content is sponsored or promotional.

How to Choose the Right Forklift?

• HOW TO CHOOSE A FORKLIFT?
• WHY USE AN ELECTRIC FORKLIFT?
• WHY USE A DIESEL FORKLIFT?
• WHY USE A GAS FORKLIFT?
• MOTOR COMPARISON TABLE
• SHOULD YOU CHOOSE A REACH OR A COUNTERBALANCE FORKLIFT?
• HOW TO CHOOSE FROM AMONG THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FORKLIFTS?
• HOW TO CHOOSE THE MAXIMUM LIFTING CAPACITY FOR YOUR FORKLIFT?
• HOW TO CHOOSE THE NUMBER OF WHEELS?
• WHAT OTHER CRITERIA ARE IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A FORKLIFT?

How to Choose the Right Pallet Truck?

• HOW TO CHOOSE A PALLET TRUCK?
• WHY CHOOSE A HAND PALLET TRUCK?
• WHY CHOOSE A SEMI-ELECTRIC PALLET TRUCK?
• WHY CHOOSE AN ELECTRIC PALLET TRUCK?
• HOW TO CALCULATE THE DIMENSIONS OF A PALLET TRUCK?
• WHAT TYPE OF WHEELS OR ROLLERS SHOULD YOU CHOOSE FOR YOUR PALLET TRUCK?
• WHAT TYPE OF FORKS SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
• WHAT OPERATING TYPE SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?

How to Choose the Right AGV?

• WHAT IS AN AGV?
• HOW TO CHOOSE AN AGV?
• WHY SHOULD YOU PURCHASE AN AGV SYSTEM?
• WHAT TYPE OF NAVIGATION SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
• WHAT DIFFERENT TYPES OF AGVs ARE THERE?
• WHAT ARE THE MAIN USES OF AGVS?
• WHAT ARE THE LATEST AGV TRENDS?

How to Choose the Right Conveyor?

• HOW TO CHOOSE A CONVEYOR?
• WHY CHOOSE A BELT CONVEYOR?
• WHAT TYPE OF BELT CONVEYOR SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
• WHY CHOOSE A ROLLER CONVEYOR?
• WHAT TYPE OF ROLLER CONVEYOR SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
• WHY CHOOSE A CHAIN CONVEYOR?
• WHY CHOOSE AN OVERHEAD CONVEYOR?