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New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
" Fifty Shades of Grey " is a moderately boring movie about teen fantasies concerning first sexual experiences with the opposite sex. " Grey Orange " be more exciting for some: a global provider of AI-powered software for warehouse control and inventory management, whose " GreyMatter " software Dematic now wants to profit from.
Implemented step by step
" Iterative " is the magic word that the southern German supermarket chain V-Markt used to implement the Wamas Core WMS warehouse management system from SSI Schäfer for the smooth supply of its southern German branches. This minimized risks during ongoing operations.
Pallet market under pressure
Circulating in the millions, Euro pallets are an integral part of everyday life in industry, trade, and logistics. However, A and B grade pallets are becoming increasingly scarce, warns the logistics provider Dachser. This has repercussions for costs, planning reliability, and delivery capacity along the entire supply chain.
Air traffic control in the dark
Even after a malfunction was resolved on Wednesday, the screens at Swiss air traffic control remained fixed the technical problem at the
The true cost of fulfilling the order
Materials handling specialist Ferag focuses on a holistic approach to warehousing and the targeted use of technologies to automate defined fulfillment processes in order to improve order processing efficiency. The concept developed by Ferag Solutions is based on a new key performance indicator, " CoOF " (Cost of Order Fulfillment).
Federal Councillor Beat Jans in Rupperswil
The Swiss Logistics by ASFL SVBL training center in Rupperswil recently hosted visits from Federal Councillor Beat Jans, head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Jérôme Cosandey, head of the Directorate of Labour at SECO, and Aargau government councillor Dieter Egli.
Even better than lithium-ion
At the world's largest industrial trade fair in Hanover, with 3,000 exhibitors, a young company called BTRY from Dübendorf won a startup award sponsored by the logistics provider Hermes. The founders impressed the judges with an ultra-thin, fully flexible energy storage system that is intended to enable numerous new applications.
Large containers for the «Jaguar»
At Claas in Bad Saulgau, machines for forage harvesting and headers for the forage harvester, which proudly bears the name " Jaguar ," are developed, tested, and manufactured. More staging area was needed at the assembly lines. Bito assisted with the switch to the large SL 86 hoppers.
System change at the drying tower
Automation, as mentioned, doesn't have to be complicated. Even simple, repetitive logistical processes can be carried out automatically with high-lift pallet trucks like the EXV iGo. Forklift manufacturer Still successfully implemented this at DP-Supply, a subsidiary of Deutsche Milchkontor DMK.
«Logistics Townhouse» for the city
It was just one of the numerous presentations at the German Material Flow Congress, which took place in Dortmund these days in parallel with the IFOY Test Camp: It was dedicated to a concept by Carl-Friedrich Rico zu Knyphausen, Managing Director & Co-Founder of Logivalue GmbH in Berlin: A « Retail Town House » for the city center.
New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
" Fifty Shades of Grey " is a moderately boring movie about teen fantasies concerning first sexual experiences with the opposite sex. " Grey Orange " be more exciting for some: a global provider of AI-powered software for warehouse control and inventory management, whose " GreyMatter " software Dematic now wants to profit from.
The aim of the cooperation is to expand flexible automation solutions and provide scalable applications for distribution and fulfillment. As part of the collaboration, Dematic offers its customers GreyOrange's AI-powered GreyMatter platform, which coordinates robots and workflows, thereby improving speed and accuracy in warehouse processes.
“ Today’s warehouse environments are more complex than ever and require seamless coordination between people, robots, and systems ” says Mike Larsson, President of Dematic and member of the KION Executive Board. “ Our collaboration with GreyOrange underscores our commitment to flexible, high-performance solutions that enable our customers to adapt to changing warehouse operational requirements and scale safely. By integrating GreyMatter, we are expanding our approach to flexible automation toward a more interconnected, end-to-end solution that helps our customers maximize existing investments and achieve new levels of efficiency and agility . ”
Enhanced AI capabilities
The collaboration aims to expand and accelerate the Dematic software platform, enabling the deployment of flexible automation solutions. Integrating the GreyMatter platform into Dematic's existing software portfolio will allow for the networking of diverse systems and the coordination of processes in complex warehouse environments using multi-agent systems in warehouse logistics .
to manage stationary automation, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and manual workflows even more efficiently within a real-time process optimization, and the necessary flexibility to adapt to evolving fulfillment requirements – while simultaneously making optimal use of existing automation investments.
Fig.(2): Grey Orange
This collaboration creates a foundation for a shared vision at the network level that extends beyond the warehouse. It enables real-time, sensitive coordination of inventory, capacity , and order flows across distributed fulfillment nodes.
GreyMatter's key functions include unifying diverse automation technologies, robotic systems, and manual workflows within the warehouse, as well as integrating it into the Dematic software environment to enhance performance across all processes . Furthermore, its hardware-independent connectivity enables various fulfillment models.
Getting more out of the system
Akash Gupta, CEO of GreyOrange: “ Together, we empower customers to get more out of their existing automation investments by orchestrating every robot, system, and employee in their operation through a single AI-driven layer. ”
