Fig.: OLF
“There were a few lawyers who looked very closely to ensure the project complied with competition law,” says Dachser board member Stefan Hohm. “We had some very painful experiences,” adds Fraunhofer IML head Michael ten Hompel. But now the Open Logistics Foundation is making progress.
Carlo Gebhardt will be responsible for the digital transformation of existing business models, and especially for the core area of cybersecurity, at the Eraneos Group. The long-time cybersecurity thought leader joins the company as a partner.
This year's winner of the Swiss Logistics Award, Sevensense, has announced a collaboration with the Japanese robotics provider Rapyuta. Together, they will develop the next generation of autonomous forklifts based on Visual SLAM and cloud robotics.
At the world's leading trade fair for metalworking (EMO) in Hanover (September 18-23), sawing and storage technology specialist Kasto will debut a fully automated system for machining. It operates day and night (24/7), digitally and without personnel.
Supply chain management solutions provider Setlog is expanding the digital business for the fashion company founded by Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away in 2019. To equip itself for the future with transparent supply chains, the fashion brand is implementing Setlog's cloud-based software tool, OSCA.
Does ice cream need its own identity? Ice cream manufacturer Froneri says "yes," and not just for taste reasons. The company, which employs over 10,000 people, acquired five plants in the USA in the early 2020s, which have now been connected to the IT system with the help of the identification technology provider Aisci.
Fig.: OLF
“There were a few lawyers who looked very closely to ensure the project complied with competition law,” says Dachser board member Stefan Hohm. “We had some very painful experiences,” adds Fraunhofer IML head Michael ten Hompel. But now the Open Logistics Foundation is making progress.
Carlo Gebhardt will be responsible for the digital transformation of existing business models, and especially for the core area of cybersecurity, at the Eraneos Group. The long-time cybersecurity thought leader joins the company as a partner.
This year's winner of the Swiss Logistics Award, Sevensense, has announced a collaboration with the Japanese robotics provider Rapyuta. Together, they will develop the next generation of autonomous forklifts based on Visual SLAM and cloud robotics.
At the world's leading trade fair for metalworking (EMO) in Hanover (September 18-23), sawing and storage technology specialist Kasto will debut a fully automated system for machining. It operates day and night (24/7), digitally and without personnel.
Supply chain management solutions provider Setlog is expanding the digital business for the fashion company founded by Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away in 2019. To equip itself for the future with transparent supply chains, the fashion brand is implementing Setlog's cloud-based software tool, OSCA.
Does ice cream need its own identity? Ice cream manufacturer Froneri says "yes," and not just for taste reasons. The company, which employs over 10,000 people, acquired five plants in the USA in the early 2020s, which have now been connected to the IT system with the help of the identification technology provider Aisci.
Once the world's largest sewing thread manufacturer, A&E Gütermann, with 380 employees and €74 million in revenue, is now part of the US-based Elevate Textiles. Now, near Freiburg im Breisgau, the company has digitized its finished goods warehouse processes with the help of ZetesMedea.
Until now, intralogistics providers could consider themselves relatively safe from internet attacks. This is likely to remain the case. SSI Schäfer, however, was able to prevent a cyberattack in which hackers were about to encrypt company data and then presumably attempt to extort a ransom.
An overhead crane that autonomously travels to the storage location and supplies production with requested components from the steel construction department? At Kasto, a Warehouse Management System (WMS) not only controls and monitors the processes in the warehouse, but also upstream and downstream logistics and processing steps.
Life is a construction site – just like many logistics projects that Witron CEO Helmut Prieschenk is visiting these days to learn more about, among other things, "sustainability made in the USA." He explains why the topic is on the verge of a paradigm shift – and how seemingly incompatible things are not at all contradictory.
Viastore's software division has become the first intralogistics software provider to join the Open Logistics Foundation, aiming to promote transparency, efficiency and sustainability through unified logistics processes based on openly accessible, shared systems.
Photo: BMW Group
Digital twins in computers and warehouse management systems are not yet standard practice. However, a system that uses LiDAR in real time certainly deserves attention. IdentPro collaboratively controls manned and unmanned vehicles and can be used both indoors and outdoors.
The VDA 5050 standard for communication between autonomous and mobile robots has already proven successful. Now, a new VDMA working group called "Intralogistics-2X" aims to further advance interfaces and interoperability between driverless and intralogistics systems.
"Lora" is a popular name for parrots that mimic everything they hear. Therefore, it's also a fitting name for transceivers that, in the Internet of Things, are designed to ensure clear data communication with minimal power consumption and maximum range.
Excellent, and they even saved an "E": "More than half of our customers want to automate processes that are currently handled manually within the next three years," says Still's brand strategist Frank Müller. And he's also bringing the "Xcellence" and "Classic" lines to LogiMAT.
Fig.: AWKEraneos (formerly AWK) is an international management and technology consultancy that supports the development of digital business models and transformation projects in Switzerland, with approximately 550 partners to date – likely also with potential for the logistics industry. The management team has now been expanded.
