German group Dehn SE, a global specialist in lightning, surge and electrical safety protection, has reached a significant milestone three years into its deployment of Agilox autonomous mobile robots (AMR). At its industrial site in Mühlhausen, central Germany, the company is now running a fleet of 21 AMRs supplied by the Austrian manufacturer, with intralogistics flows automated to a level the company puts at around 98 percent.
Fleet Configuration
The deployment, in production since 2023, mixes two Agilox models tailored to different load profiles. Fifteen Agilox ODM (Omnidirectional Dolly Mover) units, designed for small carriers under 300 kg, feed materials to workstations on a just-in-time basis. Six Agilox ONE units, capable of moving up to 1,000 kg per trip, then take finished goods automatically toward shipping zones. The combined fleet now handles up to 2,000 transport movements per day inside an environment shared with manual forklifts and human operators.
Operational Impact
Dehn confirmed that the fleet has just crossed the threshold of one million completed AMR trips. The robots serve roughly 500 employees spread across two floors of the production facility, autonomously managing lift access between levels. “With Agilox, we have automated our intralogistics for the long term and lifted it to a new level,” said Dominik Meier, Logistics Coordinator at Dehn SE.
Industry Read-Across
Dehn’s three-year case study highlights how mid-sized European industrial players are increasingly relying on AMR fleets rather than fixed conveyors or AGVs to absorb production variability and free up shop-floor staff for higher-value tasks. The combination of omnidirectional movement, autonomous lift handling and mixed-traffic safety makes such deployments well suited to multi-storey legacy plants where heavier automation retrofits would be prohibitively expensive. Sustained adoption at this scale also signals growing confidence among European manufacturers in the operational maturity of AMR platforms.
