Automated Guided Vehicles for Sri Lankan Factories
Cerox Engineering designs and builds AGV solutions in Sri Lanka — tugger, unit-load, and forklift AGVs for garment plants, warehouses, food and beverage, and tea exporters. Local engineering. Same-day support across the country.
Built in Sri Lanka. Supported in Sri Lanka.
Imported AGVs (from MiR, Geek+, Hikrobot, and others) are well-built — and they arrive on a container, get installed by a flown-in technician, and any service call after that means a multi-week email chain with someone in another time zone. Cerox AGVs are designed, built, and serviced by a Sri Lankan engineering team.
Local design & build
Every AGV is engineered in our Sri Lankan workshop, not imported off a catalogue.
Same-day support
When something needs attention, we are on-site within hours — not waiting on a vendor in another time zone.
Local spare parts
Critical spares stocked locally. Motor, battery, sensor failures resolved in 24-48 hours.
No vendor lock-in
You own the asset, the integration, and the relationship. No proprietary cloud subscription required.
The right form factor for your workflow
We don't push you to one shape. We size and build to match what your plant actually moves — bundles, totes, pallets, racks, or cart trains.
Tugger AGV
Pulls a train of carts on milk-run routes. Best for garment bundle delivery, multi-stop parts feeding.
Unit-Load AGV (WEASEL-class)
Carries a tote, bin, or small pallet on a low deck. Best for cutting-room to sewing line, finished-goods to dispatch.
Forklift AGV
Same form factor as a manual reach truck. Best for warehouse putaway, cold storage, heavy pallet movement.
Conveyor-Top AGV
Flat-top with powered rollers. Auto-loads/unloads at fixed stations. Best for high-speed packing lines.
Where AGVs are paying back in Sri Lanka
Garment & Apparel
Cutting room to sewing line bundle delivery, finished-goods to dispatch. Buyer audit requirement (M&S, Next, GAP, Ralph Lauren) increasingly references modern material handling.
Warehousing & 3PL
Putaway, replenishment, picking support. Particularly strong fit for Free Trade Zone warehouses, export consolidation centres, and bonded warehouses.
Food & Beverage
Pallet movement from production to staging, full-pallet load-out, cold-room access via forklift AGV. Common in dairy, beverage, and FMCG factories.
Tea & Spice Export
Bag and pouch movement between filling and packaging lines. Particularly relevant where multi-SKU runs need separation of routes.
Pharma & Healthcare
Audit-grade material movement with full logging, sterile-zone delivery, regulated-route compliance.
Heavy Manufacturing
Component and WIP movement between stations. Common in metals fabrication, plastics, and rubber goods manufacturers.
End-to-end AGV delivery — design to support
- 01Site survey & process mapping
Walk your plant, time the current trips, document routes and pain points before proposing anything.
- 02Solution design
AGV type, fleet size, charging strategy, layout drawing showing every route and stop.
- 03Build & integrate
Mechanical fabrication, BLDC drive, sensors, controller, fleet manager software, MES/WMS hooks.
- 04Install & commission
Floor prep, magnetic tape lay, charging dock install, full system commissioning on your floor.
- 05Training & local support
Operator training, supervisor training, spares on hand. Same-day response across Sri Lanka.
Want an AGV proposal for your Sri Lankan plant?
Send us a quick note about your facility and what you're moving today. We'll come back within 48 hours with a recommendation and a site-visit plan.
Common questions from Sri Lankan manufacturers
Are AGVs available in Sri Lanka?+
Yes. Cerox Engineering designs and builds AGVs in Sri Lanka — we are not a reseller of imported units. We use proven BLDC drive components, magnetic-tape navigation, and safety LIDAR, assembled and supported locally. This gives Sri Lankan manufacturers same-day support without waiting weeks for an overseas vendor technician.
How much does an AGV cost in Sri Lanka?+
AGV cost depends on payload class, fleet size, navigation, and integration. For a small unit-load AGV (50-150 kg), expect LKR 400,000–700,000. For a medium-class AGV (200-500 kg), LKR 1.5M–3M. For pallet-class (700-1500 kg), LKR 3M–6M. Cerox sizes each deployment to the actual workflow — contact us for an indicative range on your specific use case.
How long does AGV deployment take in Sri Lanka?+
Typical contract-to-live timeline for a Cerox-built AGV in Sri Lanka is 10–16 weeks: 2 weeks discovery and site survey, 6–8 weeks build and integration, 1 week install and floor prep, 1 week commissioning and operator training. Fleet expansion units take 3–4 weeks each.
Which Sri Lankan industries are using AGVs?+
AGVs are deployed in Sri Lankan garment plants (cutting-room-to-sewing bundle delivery), warehousing and 3PL (putaway, picking), food and beverage (pallet movement), and tea/spice exporters (bagging-line material flow). Adoption is accelerating in 2025-2026 as labour costs rise and buyer audits increasingly require modern material handling.
Do you support AGVs after installation?+
Yes. Cerox is a local engineering team — we offer same-day on-site response across Sri Lanka, an annual maintenance contract option, and stock spare parts locally. No multi-week wait for overseas technicians.