For example, the metal structure factory of caterpillar company in the United States, which produces engineering machinery, purchased an automatic material handling system mainly composed of bridge crane, which is used for the automatic loading and unloading operations of shot peening, cutting and warehousing of steel plates. The working efficiency of the system is 65% higher than that of the single machine. The material conveying system composed of full-automatic bridge crane is used in Kawasaki factory in Toshiba, Japan, to carry the clamps and workpieces on the flexible processing line, to transport the workpieces for the machine tool or send the processed parts to the next process or warehouse. These crane handling systems which move in the space replace the automatic guided vehicles which are usually used in the past, so that the floor area of the workshop can be fully utilized.
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