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According to a survey of logistics experts in Germany, only around 5 percent rated their company's adaptability to autonomous self-driving vehicles as very high. That's low. Another 15% rated it as "High adaptability," while 23% and 22% rated it as "Medium adaptability" and "Low adaptability," respectively.
Similarly, while logistics experts from the field do not consider the relevance of autonomous self-driving trucks to be particularly high, a majority of 32% still rate it as having moderate relevance.
Expert survey on autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
Expert survey on adapting to autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
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This statistic shows the results of a survey among logistics experts in Germany, employed in logistics operations or IT services. The survey inquired about their company's ability to handle autonomous, self-driving land vehicles (e.g., driverless trucks). In 2018, approximately 5 percent of the surveyed experts rated their company's adaptability to autonomous, self-driving land vehicles as very high.
How do you assess your company's ability to handle autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g., driverless trucks)?
- 1 Very high adaptability – 5%
- 2. High adaptability – 15%
- 3 Moderate adaptability – 23%
- 4 Low adaptability – 22%
- 5 Very low adaptability – 22%
- I don't know – 5%
- No information provided – 10%
Expert survey on the relevance of autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry
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Expert survey on the relevance of autonomous vehicles in the logistics industry – Image: Xpert.Digital. This statistic shows the results of a survey among logistics industry experts in Germany who work in logistics operations or IT services. They were asked about the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g., driverless trucks) for their own companies. In 2018, approximately 13 percent of the experts surveyed rated the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles as very high for their own companies.
How do you assess the relevance of autonomous self-driving land vehicles (e.g., driverless trucks) for your company?
- 1 Very high relevance – 13%
- 2. High relevance – 18%
- 3 Moderate relevance – 32%
- 4 Low relevance – 16%
- 5 Very low relevance – 17%
- I don't know – 1%
- No information provided – 3%
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Other questions posed to logistics experts in logistics practice and IT services also highlight the need for innovation, even retrofitting . However, the increasing individualization of customer expectations and the high complexity of external influences raise many questions about how to achieve these changes.
For 45% of logistics experts, the complexity of external influences is highly relevant. For a further 31%, it is even very highly relevant.
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A storage and retrieval machine (SRM), also known as a stacker crane or STM, is a rail-guided, single-track vehicle used to handle goods in a high-bay warehouse. The height of an SRM starts at approximately 6 meters and extends to a maximum height of 46 meters. Some SRMs can serve the entire warehouse via a switching system (curve-traveling SRMs for lower throughput), while others use a transfer unit to change aisles, and still others operate only in a single aisle (aisle-bound SRMs for high throughput). The degree of automation ranges from manual to fully automated, depending on the application.
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Germany is one of the most important mechanical engineering countries on the international market. Only China and the USA recently generated higher sales in the sector. After a decline during the financial crisis of 2008/2009, sales in the German mechanical engineering sector have increased steadily again – most recently reaching around 229 billion euros.
Within the mechanical engineering sector, the most important sectors are machine tools, drive technology and conveyor systems, measured by annual turnover.
Regarding developments in international trade, the mechanical engineering sector is strongly export-oriented. Germany's export ratio has fluctuated between 74 and 80 percent in recent years. Among the most important countries for German machinery exports are the USA, China, and France
The mechanical and plant engineering sector in Germany is among the highest-grossing and most innovative industries. Since 2011, the sector's revenues have consistently exceeded €200 billion. Over one million people are employed in the German mechanical engineering industry. The export value of German mechanical engineering products far surpasses the import value. Germany's most important export markets include the USA, China, France, and Italy.
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Automation techniques involve the skills to design, create, develop and manage machines and systems, e.g. factory automation, process automation and warehouse automation (e.g. buffer storage).
Automation technology is the integration of standard engineering elements. It involves the automatic control of various control systems for the operation of different systems or machines, reducing human effort and time while increasing accuracy. Automation engineers design and maintain electromechanical devices and systems, ranging from high-speed robots to programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
Automation describes a broad range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes. Human intervention is reduced by predefining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and associated actions – and implementing these specifications in machines.
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Material handling plays a vital role in manufacturing and logistics. Nearly every item in physical commerce is moved on a conveyor belt, forklift, or some other type of material handling equipment within production facilities, warehouses, and retail stores. While material handling is typically required in intralogistics as part of every production worker's job, over 650,000 people in the United States work as dedicated "material handling machine operators," earning a median annual wage of $31,530 (May 2012). These operators use material handling equipment to move various goods in a wide range of industrial environments, including moving building materials to construction sites or transporting goods to and from ships.
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