The new CS Random HS case sealer combines flexibility with speed and is also suitable for applications where several packaging lines are brought together for sealing.

ZG Raiffeisen, a renowned trading and service company with a cooperative tradition, is modernizing its warehouse management system at its Kehl site.

On May 29, the Annual General Meeting of the Kion Group took place at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main. There, the company took stock of the financial year and resolved, among other things, to distribute a dividend.

Repetitive tasks, low productivity, a shortage of skilled workers - many factors speak in favor of automation. The scales and systems specialist Bizerba is also aware of this and has therefore installed a smart picking solution at a Spanish meat processor. Thanks to the powerful vacuum technology from Schmalz, up to 96 picks per minute are now possible.

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The expansion of a highly dynamic multi-temperature logistics center for around 1,200 stores during ongoing operations with an increase in picking performance from 480,000 retail units to almost 625,000 retail units is a real challenge. Witron and the Norwegian food retailer Coop have shown the way.

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Order picking beverages is a daily challenge and puts enormous strain on employees' backs. The Riegele brewery uses the Bionic Back exoskeleton from Htrius to relieve its employees and improve working conditions.

IGZ Move-by-Robots was awarded the German Innovation Award 2024 on 14.05.2024. The expert jury evaluates the submissions according to the criteria of degree of innovation, user benefit and cost-effectiveness.

In the distribution center of the production and trading company Hisert, the implementation of the PSIwms warehouse management system has halved the throughput times for picking and shipping processes.

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According to the Open Logistics Foundation, it has published the world's first collection of open source projects in logistics.

The Beumer Group presents its view of the dark warehouse. The company is already developing the innovative systems and services that will support the transition to "lights-out" operations.

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The Bluhm Weber Group will be exhibiting with a mobile showroom at all about automation in Straubing: From 26 to 27 June 2024, the coding and marking specialist will be showcasing the latest technology with labels, ink and lasers specifically for industrial automation.

Albert Kerbl GmbH is expanding its logistics center in the Bavarian municipality of Ampfing by October 2025. The family-owned company, which produces and distributes products for animal breeding and husbandry, relies on the experience and expertise of TGW Logistics.

The Safelog L2 is specially designed for transporting pallets and pallet cages. Four independently steered and driven wheels enable it to move omnidirectionally. This allows the robot to operate in confined spaces without any problems.

The KMP 3000P mobile robotics platform from Kuka is ready for operation 24/7 thanks to its inductive charging concept and brings a new dimension of flow to intralogistics.

In the pharmaceutical industry, the legal requirements for stocktaking are particularly strict: there must be no deviations in the stocks of medicines.

Proglove is cooperating with Topsystem, a division of the Ehrhardt Partner Group (EPG), to meet the industry's high demand for mobile logistics solutions.

Jungheinrich presented its new electric pallet trucks from the EJC 1i series at Logimat 2024 in Stuttgart. For the first time, the company is also consistently using lithium-ion technology in this truck class.

Where complex products are manufactured from many different and small components, the material flow between warehousing and production often requires additional effort. One example is EA Elektro-Automatik in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, whose intralogistics were practically completely revolutionized with the support of Logber.

Mobile robotic systems are being used in more and more areas of work. However, their widespread use on the market is often prohibitively expensive for small and medium-sized companies. Igus wants to change this with new low-cost robotics products and presented a series of affordable mobile plastic robots at the Hannover Messe.

Next fall, the two companies will launch the second generation of their automated logistics platform based on automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for industrial companies with mixed traffic on their premises.