DHL Freight is building a new terminal in Berlin-Marienfelde. With the new building on a former Brenner site, the company is expanding its German and European network.

As the year draws to a close, Michael Schreckenberg, Professor of Physics of Transport and Traffic at the University of Duisburg-Essen, notes an astonishing trend in the year 2023, which is almost over - and not just in logistics, but also in the trendy AI sector.

The item Railing System 8 D8 guides materials of all kinds up to 250 N on the conveyor belts provided.

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The Belgian company Lecot, a national supplier to the construction industry, commissioned Knapp to automate its distribution center in Heule.

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B&R Industrie-Elektronik GmbH has relocated its German headquarters from Bad Homburg to Friedberg in Hesse, where ABB's Robotics Division in Germany is based.

If you look at the average warehouse of a logistics service provider (3PL), you will not only find a remarkably low level of mechanization, but often also extremely mediocre software and plenty of room for improvement.

Omron Robotics and Lowpad have entered into a strategic partnership to complement Omron's mobile robots with Lowpad's ultra-low profile solutions.

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Companies want to calculate their_{CO2 emissions} correctly. Taking into account everyone involved along the supply chain and the emissions of the goods produced is challenging. But there are solutions.

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Clark presents a completely newly developed electric pallet truck with lithium-ion technology (Li-Ion).

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The KontaktCharger is the solution for efficient and economical conductive charging of lithium-ion vehicle batteries in intralogistics.

The installation of SSI Logimat storage lifts at the customer WFL Millturn Technologies in Linz (Austria) has resulted in 110 m2 more storage space and increased picking performance by 50 percent. The solution is controlled from SAP.

The world's first micro-fulfillment solution with two combined AutoStore systems for dry and chilled goods for the online supermarket Flaschenpost.

With the "contecline compact", the manufacturer bekuplast combines the design advantages of a rigid miniload container with the logistical benefits of a volume-reducible container for the first time.

The Kubo, short for plastic box, is the perfect alternative to the DB Europool lattice box (Gibo) often used for heavy goods and components.

Advastore celebrates the move into its first fully automated warehouse in Niederaula, Hesse, with a world record: the world's longest row of packed donation boxes at 427 meters and 1,220 donation boxes.

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In the networked factory, everything has to mesh seamlessly and quickly. This also applies to the transportation and positioning of products and materials. The linear motion system ctrlX Flow HS achieves this through flexibility and high speed with reduced space requirements.

Assuming an average machine hourly rate of 2,500 euros, the failure of an industrial robot is associated with high costs. For the first time, local AI makes it possible to reliably implement predictive maintenance from the gearbox to the gripper without expensive industrial PCs, as well as to take the collaboration, safety and intelligence of automated guided vehicles and cobots to the next evolutionary stage.

Linde MH and the TH Aschaffenburg presented the results of the research project "KAnIS - Cooperative Autonomous Intralogistics Systems" in Aschaffenburg.

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With around 200 employees, AMI Förder- und Lagertechnik produces complete solutions for intralogistics and corresponding components in Luckenbach (Westerwald).

In the northern Italian municipality of Stradella, TGW Logistics has built a highly automated fulfillment center for the book wholesaler Messaggerie Libri in recent months. The solution is one of the most modern intralogistics systems for books in Europe.

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