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One alternative is two options. So if a trainee sends me a press release that says: "The user has two alternatives: either he receives the picking instructions on the screen or via a light display", then...
read more...I give my business partners presents at Christmas. Nothing huge, more of a gift. Three gingerbread cookies as a small thank you. So far I've received emails saying they're the best gingerbread in the world. In February, a parcel came back with the note, I...
read more...Editorial Material Flow 03/2017
It was our newly elected Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, among others, who once again brought up the term "echo chamber" when he introduced himself before his election in the Bavarian state parliament at the beginning of February. He was worried about...
read more...The sky is the limit - the intralogistics trade fair LogiMAT is growing so strongly that the organizer already reported "sold out" in autumn. Materialfluss asked trade fair director Peter Kazander.
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Nobody really has it that easy these days, least of all the marketing people. On the one hand, the cliché that they spend all day playing table football has long since become obsolete. On the other hand, just before the...
read more...Throw a frog into boiling water. It will jump out. Put it in cold water and heat it up slowly, and after ten minutes you will have a boiled frog. Everyone knows this. It's a similar story with innovation. The...
read more...In order to achieve efficient processing of the data flow, it is the task of IT to integrate all components into a harmonious, efficient and user-friendly system.
read more...How e-commerce and the evolution of sales channels through to omni-channel are shaping intralogistics and what impact new trends are having were the topics at the Material Flow Round Table on the subject of e-commerce. Two logistics experts from SSI Schaefer and a university expert ventured an outlook on future developments.
read more..."But here, as everywhere else, things turn out differently than you think" wrote Wilhelm Busch in 1882 in the third chapter of the poem "Plisch und Plum". The sentence should not be missing from any article about Logistics 4.0 and certainly not from any article about e-commerce.
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Give me a crystal ball and I'll tell you the future. If it's the wrong future, then you've given me the wrong crystal ball. This is the principle according to which wise men, researchers, associations and entrepreneurs overturn themselves at the end of the year with...
read more...Editorial Material Flow Market 2017
The word turbulent can be used to describe a great deal of confusion, but also liveliness. In this respect, the word fits 2016 quite well: confusion? Yes, if you consider the expansion of the digitalization of our lives and the...
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If the letter carrier rings earlier and women scream with happiness, it's not his fault. Because the man in yellow and red or brown doesn't get through traffic any faster in his Sprinter than before. On the contrary. The only reason they can be women's heroes...
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Kion buys Dematic, Körber Inconso. Kion buys Egemin, Körber Aberle. Kuka buys Swisslog, Körber Qubiqa. Kion buys Retrotech, Midea buys Kuka. What does this show us? Intralogistics is an industry of the future, otherwise so many would not be investing such horrendous sums...
read more...We have come to stay, sang the German band Wir sind Helden once. While the Berlin musicians have long since deservedly disappeared into oblivion, they have come to stay: Sustainability as an elementary...
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This year's CeMAT was a bit like the Olympic women's soccer tournament: hard-working, not very dynamic, but with fairly politically correct commentary, and in the stands the free ticket holders were competing to see who could stifle a yawn better.
read more...So, IT nerds are doing away with shipping. And very quickly. Said a professor from TU Berlin recently at the 6th National Conference on Freight Transport and Logistics in Neuss. They are pierced and tattooed, young and, of course, ingenious - just as you would imagine a nerd to be.
read more...Dear readers, I'm sure you already have your opinion on the meaning or nonsense, the success or failure of the recently concluded CeMAT, the world's leading trade fair for intralogistics. Either on site as...
read more...Dear readers, many a marketing department is groaning and cracking: LogiMAT is barely over and the industry is already calling for CeMAT in Hanover. The coming together of the two top intralogistics trade fairs in one year comes at the...
read more...Dear Readers, Air freight is in turmoil. Freight rates are falling and the long overdue digitalization of the industry is coming up short in many areas. Alexis von Hoensbroech, Chief Sales Officer at Lufthansa Cargo ... ... let himself...
read more...Munich, 02.03.2016 - Large, medium-sized and small companies all require different types of storage space. The focus is always on a cost-effective and practical solution so that storage does not cost money unnecessarily or involve long...
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