GNB® Industrial Power - a Division of Exide Technologies (booth # 2814)

Summary of Innovation

We are living in the era of the battery. With major advances in lead and lithium technologies being announced one after another, there are more options for electric forklift fleets than ever before. But making sense of this new world can be difficult. Advanced charging strategies combined with new battery offerings have made it nearly impossible to consider all of these choices, until now. GNB Cloud™ enables end users to model all available options to design “best fit” solutions for their unique fleet profile. By simulating performance before deployment, dealers and end users can make data-driven decisions to optimize performance and value.

GNB Cloud is comprised of three software modules with data shared across them. Measure automates fleet power studies, critical for determining the baseline energy data needed to design forklift power systems. Model leverages this data, showing you all power system options - from lead to lithium and from conventional to fast charging. With our advanced models, “what if” scenarios for growth (and more) can be simulated to demonstrate impact on operational and financial performance and to ensure “best fit” for the customer. Once these solutions are deployed, our end users and dealers can track their performance in Monitor, a real-time data analysis software that delivers customized key performance indicators (KPIs) for fleet management based on the anticipated usage profile. Together, Measure, Model and Monitor form a powerful, data-driven process to design and manage advanced motive power solutions.

Innovation Statement

Designing battery and charger systems for material handling is harder than ever due to the number of choices and the pressure to design cost-effective, energy-efficient systems. GNB Cloud simplifies the system design and management process with advanced models and monitoring software that work together to ensure optimal asset utilization.

Applicability

If you design, sell or service forklift battery and charger solutions for end users in the material handling industry, GNB Cloud enables you to leverage system performance analytics to make data-driven decisions to optimize system design, service and management.

 

Posted Date	12/20/19
Contact	Dawn Fitzgerald
Contact Email	dawn.fitzgerald[at]exide.com
Category	Best IT Innovation

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