
topsystem appoints new Sales Director Europe
Frank Rissler has been the new Sales Director Europe at voice specialist topsystem since January 1.

Frank Rissler has been the new Sales Director Europe at voice specialist topsystem since January 1.

Industrial wearables specialist ProGlove has announced a joint solution with Samsung Electronics America that addresses the growing need for wearable scanners in industries such as retail, transportation, logistics and manufacturing. The combined solution consists of ProGlove's Mark product family and Samsung's Galaxy XCover Pro.

Dr. Thomas Alt is now a member of the Ubimax advisory team and will support the company's strategic orientation and further growth plans.

Linde Material Handling and dealers from the eastern German region presented new order picker models and other innovations in the areas of digitalization and drive technologies at the Gläserne Manufaktur Dresden.

Plug&Play: The Relayport modular workstation increases picking performance in Autostore systems.

AutoStore system instead of AKL
Dematic installs an AutoStore system in the logistics center of S. Siedle & Söhne Telefon- und Telegrafenwerke OHG in Furtwangen. This will automate the storage and picking of products and components that Siedle either delivers directly to its customers in the field of building communication technology or processes in its own production facilities.

40 million US dollars in growth capital
ProGlove, a specialist in industrial wearables, has received an investment of 40 million US dollars from the international private equity firm Summit Partners. The company plans to use these funds to expand its international presence and drive forward the connection of human workers with the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

ProGlove, the specialist for industrial wearables, has a new addition at the top. Effective immediately, Eva Fischer will head the Human Resources department as Vice President Human Resources.

The Klosterfrau Healthcare Group has equipped another site with Picavi's pick-by-vision solution. The subsidiary Artesan Pharma in Lüchow, Lower Saxony, ordered ten smart glasses.

Dematic is automating the warehouse of laundry specialist Mireille NV with an AutoStore system in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. In future, the company will store personal protective equipment such as workwear, shoes and gloves for small and medium-sized companies in the facility, which measures just 186 square meters.

Flexible order picking solution
The Austrian intralogistics specialist TGW Logistics Group was honored with the German Innovation Award 2019 in the "Logistics & Infrastructure" category for its "Rovolution" single-item picking solution.

Picavi's Glass Enterprise Edition 2 data glasses are a revamped Google product designed to take assisted order picking to a new level using wearable data processing.

The focus of the first Dematic Customer Day for small and medium-sized companies was the compact AutoStore piece goods picking system.

AI software for robotics solutions
Vanderlande and Fizyr have entered into a strategic partnership. The aim is to further develop AI technology for Vanderlande's automated robotics solutions for picking, storage, unloading and palletizing.

Award ceremony at the 28th German Material...
At the "28th German Material Flow Congress" on March 21 and 22 in Garching, the VDI awarded the VDI Logistics Study Prize 2019 to a graduate of Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

Augmented reality in the industry
Body-worn computers, smart watches and data glasses (head-mounted displays, HMD) are now powerful enough to be used for innovative augmented reality applications.

Whitepaper on the e-grocery boom
The Japanese material handling expert Daifuku addresses issues relating to the e-grocery industry in its new white paper.

Picavi, pick-by-vision provider, presented its new "Cockpit" product at LogiMAT. It can be used to optimize the initialization of the pick-by-vision solution on the data glasses and the update of an entire fleet of glasses.

Automatic processing with more speed
SSI Schaefer implements a highly automated picking and dispatch system for Sanicare, one of the largest mail-order pharmacies in Germany. The new system can handle more than half of the picking processes automatically.

At the show, Vanderlande will present the next generation of scalable solutions for fashion and general merchandise - "Evolutions".