The LGR is the machine-tending answer inside the modular FLT axis and gantry kit: two axes of rack-and-pinion driven travel on aluminium and steel beams, sized in classes rather than custom weldments. The largest LGR-5 handles up to 1400 kg at the Efficient class - 1 m/s - and still moves 1000 kg at 3 m/s with 6 m/s2 acceleration, all referenced to a 1.5 m vertical stroke.

Why a gantry above the machine tool?

A gantry set up over the machine keeps the work area free and the floor clear - the reason FLT fits fail-safe brakes to the vertical axis, so a power cut or emergency stop leaves the axis held exactly where it stopped, even over areas where people work. Vertical strokes reach about 3.5 m, and with rack-and-pinion transmission the horizontal axis extends past 100 m overall by joining 40 m carriage runs, far beyond any articulated robot reach.

New modular kit or previous KL and LP platforms?

The LGR generation combines what FLT learned from its earlier KL and LP series - standardized components, dovetail guides that let the rack and attached parts be positioned flexibly during assembly, and one construction kit shared with the LFA floor axis, AGR area gantry, AGC boom robot and LHA horizontal axis. For a shop automating machine loading station by station, that means spare parts, spares knowledge and programming carry across instead of multiplying.