7 Automatic Floor Cleaning Machine Manufacturers - What is an Autonomous Scrubber?
Stop worrying about floor cleanliness. With the right autonomous floor scrubber, you can save your business an endless amount of time, money and energy.
TOP Autonomouos Floor Scrubber Manufacturers
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This map indicates the manufacturers by country of origin. You are welcome to contact them to undertstand their export markets.
If your target is to sell more and better, you must enhance your brand's image. Cleanliness is one of the main ways to sell image and reputation so autonomous cleaning robot are the best equipment to keep your floor immaculate.
There is nothing worse than having a potential customer visit and find sticky floors or greasy drips.
Clean floors do not only enhance your brand, they also avoid Safety Risks and improves overall Quality of your production or service.
Moreover, in this pandemic period, businesses are more and more conscious about keeping their environments clean, safe, and compliant, likely with fewer cleaning staff.
Humans are the best way to infect other humans, thus, headcount reduction for non-value-added tasks is becoming a safety concern further than the traditional economic approach.
Robotic floor cleaning machines together with other cleaning robots such as UVC Disinfection Robots are simply booming.
These new applications are possible thanks to the latest developments in the autonomous mobile robots (AMR) industry where we have smarter and user friendly techonologies rising up everyday.
Cleaningness and disinfection sensibility, technology evolution, new suppliers and more competitive prices are leading to these outstanding numbers:
- Accordingly with Persistance Market, Ultraviolet light robots are expected to surge at around 15% CAGR to reach around 38,846 units by 2031
- Autonomous commercial floor scrubbers are new in the floor cleaning market and over the next 7 years they are expected to be in trend all over the market. Goldstein Market Intelligence analyst forecast that the global autonomous scrubbers market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.7% during 2017-2030.
In this article I will explain you what is an automated floor scrubber, its specifications and who are the main companies manufacturing robotic floor cleaning machines .
So, take a good autonomous floor cleaning robot with the latest contour based robot navigation technology, and you will have your floor always clean. A high-quality machine will last many years, so what you spend now will be saved tenfold in the long run.
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Who are the main autonomous automatic floor cleaning machine manufacturers?
The main floor scrubbing robot brands are:
This article lists some of the main Floor Cleaning Autonomous Robots AGV, if you want to know everything about automated cleaning vehicles, you are welcome to contact each supplier for further details about their capacities.
AVIDBOTS
from Canada
Meet Neo, the Autonomous Floor Scrubbing Robot
BRAINCORP
from the USA
Brain Corp is transforming the cleaning industry with its intelligent, self-driving technology. BrainOS enables commercial cleaning machines to work seamlessly alongside teammates. Machines powered by BrainOS are capable of autonomously navigating complex and dynamic environments, ensuring the highest level of safety and cleaning performance.
CLEANFIX
from SWITZERLAND
Get to know the best autonomous industrial cleaning robot in the world. More than 40 years of experience in developing and producing cleaning systems result in the RA660 Navi.
Cleaning should be easy, intelligent and efficient. With the RA660 it is also autonomous. It scrubs and vacuums independently in your defined cleaning zones whenever you want and you receive a cleaning report when the job is done.
Find out, what makes the RA660 so special.
DDROBO
from China
DDROBO Robotics is the preferred supplier of smart city cleaning system solutions and aims to replace the traditional physical labor with intelligent cleaning machines.
The products include G70 autonomous floor scrubber, E60 street vacuum cleaner and S50 carpet cleaner, which can cover roads, squares, airports, high-speed rail, subway, commercial centers, office environment and provide comprehensive intelligent solutions for urban management, property, and sanitation industries.
GAUSSIAN ROBOTICS
from China
Our autonomous robots automate cleaning tasks to achieve improved productivity and performance.
The close international collaboration between Gaussian Robotics (Shanghai) and IFSC (Singapore) have yield unrivalled robotic solutions grounded on more than 100 years of combined domain expertise.
iCLEAN
from China
NILFISK
from Malaysia
Designed with some of the world’s foremost developers of autonomous technology, it helps your cleaning staff accomplish more by handling the most time-consuming tasks with less effort and more impact. From high-traffic warehouses and airports, to schools and supermarkets, the Liberty SC50 makes it easy to keep floors clean and safe at any time of day, all on its own.
How do Autonomous Floor Scrubbers work?
1. About the Self-driving soul of the Scrubber
The Autonomous Software the "Brain" is the King
Autonomous Scrubber Robots are great! They are incredibly flexible during their cleaning tasks, and they can adapt to changing environmental and workforce needs.
Adaptability is given by cutting-edge contour based navigation, a specific characteristic of Autonomous Mobile Robots. Thanks to the natural navigation, these robots can map the surrounding environment and navigate and localize themselves using walls, columns, etc.
Autonomous cleaning robots are able to redefine routes or paths and avoid obstacles. An AMR doesn't require predefined fixed paths. It can define its route on-the-fly. If an obstacle is detected, the robot adjusts its path to navigate around the object.
The best autonomous floor scrubbers run with advanced management and AI systems. Tipically they are web-based software. All the robots are connected to a cloud-based reporting system that allows to monitor, manage and track your entire fleet of robots remotely and in real time.
These advanced systems provide highly-detailed reports of every cleaning operation, including precision productivity metrics and coverage maps.
Detailed performance and usage metrics for each robot, with fundamentals such running time, time needed to clean a defined surface, heat maps indicating the areas cleaned, etc.
Anomalies, robot failures, battery level, etc.
All these data can be used to optimize performance and improve floor cleaning results.
Reports can be viewed by users in cloud systems with friendly user interfaces.
2. Cleanliness Requirements... as much as possible... of course
Investing in an industrial autonomous floor scrubber will save you time, money and effort.
In order to get the best value out of your machine, you need to find the one best suited to your specific needs.
So… what are your specific needs?
How large is the surface that you want to clean?
Automatic Floor Scrubbers come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The type of your machine will depend on how big is the surface that you have to clean.
Take your time to carefully evaluate all the areas where the robotic floor scrubber could be used.
Consid er the total square footage of the area, the cleanable square footage, the presence of aisles, ramps and doorways.
Of course, for large areas, it is better to have big autonomous floor scrubbers.
There are two key factors to be taken into consideration:
Tank Capacity... at least 29 gal (110 l)
Battery Capacity
If you have a machine that can go further with one tank, and you can save one dump and refill a day, thus you can save around half an hour a day of unproductive task. Over several years, that half hour saving could be enough to pay off the machine. So look at the total cost of ownership, not just the initial purchase price.
What kind of surfaces do you need to clean?
Some scrubbers are more powerful than others so it is important to consider the type of floor that your robot scrubber will be cleaning.
Industrial floors in manufacturing and warehousing environments can probably handle something more powerful and robust whereas hardwood floors may require something a little more gentle.
Typically a floor scrubber should be used when you have no debris on the floor. Nevertheless, in warehouse floors, for example, it could small solid debris, in this case, the use of a cylindrical scrubber dryer simplifies the collection while scrubbing the floor.
How much cleaning is required?
Some industries and businesses may require a more robust and regular clean than others.
For example, hospitals, food and beverage industry or pharma businessess will require thorough and regular cleaning to a higher standard than perhaps an automotive plant.
They need to make sure that all surfaces are always completely hygienic and free of germs, but they will also most likely require the removal of all sorts of sticky substances that other industries or businesses might not encounter.
Thinking about exactly how much cleaning is required will therefore help you to narrow down the type of machine you need.
By the way, follow this link if you AGV applications in Hospitals.
3. Autonomous Floor scrubber deck type
Basically, there are 3 different deck types: Disc, Cylindrical, Orbital
1. Self driving floor scrubber with Disc Deck
The most common is the single disc as its pad are easy to find on the market.
The double disc version has the peculiarity of directing water in the centre of the machine where there is the maximum suction power, reducing the creation of lateral splashes.
Disk scrubbers wash, or strip wax from the floor. Disk machines offer easy to change, variably aggressive, pads or brushes.
These features make scrubbers ideal for retail applications where pads are not only inexpensive but offer a great deal of surface contact for scuff mark control and floor shine.
For industrial applications, disk brushes accept greater down pressure than cylindrical brooms, and heavily soiled floors benefit from heavy down pressure.
2. Autonomous Scrubber with Cylindrical Deck
Cylindrical deck is recommended for the collection of small debris as the brushes usually turn faster removing floor sweepings much better.
The deck equipped with 2 cylindrical brushes is much more effective than the single brush deck.
A cylindrical scrub brush system will (wet) sweep small amounts of solid debris into a removable tray while also washing the floor.
Cylindrical scrubbers usually turn their brushes at a speed that is three times the rotation of a disk brush.
This will often offset the greater surface area advantage that disk scrub decks offer.
There are three key factors of cylindrical cleaning that make it a more effective method for deep scrubbing of these floors.
Firstly, cylindrical scrubber dryers feature an increased brush speed. Some scrubbers has a brush speed of 750rpm compared to the average rotary brush speed of 200rpm or 400rpm.
Secondly, cylindrical brushes provide increased contact pressure with the floor, providing a deeper scrubbing action.
Lastly, pads used with disc cleaning rotaries pass over grout lines and crevices; whilst cylindrical brushes reach down to clean the dirt and debris, providing improved cleaning results of these areas.
Although cylindrical cleaning machines such as scrubber dryers may be more suitable for the uneven and ‘difficult’ floors mentioned above, both disc and cylindrical cleaning offer great cleaning results and cost-effective benefits.
Cylindrical and Disc decks info source:
https://www.caliberequipment.com/floor-cleaning-FAQ.html
https://www.truvox.com/news/what-is-the-difference-between-cylindrical-and-disc-cleaning
3. Floor scrubbing robots with Orbital deck
Orbital deck technology offers great performances and less consumptions, saving solution and energy.
The pad action, that oscillates at around 2000 RPM, grants excellent cleaning results, and using proper accessories can also keep the floor shiny.
The orbital scrubbing technology uses a rectangular scrub head that easily reaches into corners, along edges and into other hard-to-reach areas while leaving a clearly defined cut line.
Combine the high down pressure of orbital scrubbing technology with the best pad for the job to maximize productivity and save on labor costs.
Robotic scrubbers are proliferating, and even becoming the new commercial cleaning standard, because they serve a straightforward purpose. Robots are good at tackling dull, repetitive, labor-intensive tasks, and floor care is one of them.
Rising labor costs, increasing health and safety concerns, and limited resources are other factors contributing to the rapid implementation of robot cleaners, including autonomous floor scrubbers.
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