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According to a survey among experts in the logistics industry in Germany who work in logistics practice or IT services, the majority of 38% stated that automation and robotics are very relevant for their own company and a further 24% said that they are very relevant contains. It only has little to very little relevance for 9% and 4% respectively.
Expert survey on automation in the logistics industry: How do you rate the relevance of automation / robotics for your company?
- 1 Very high relevance – 24%
- 2 Great relevance – 38%
- 3 Moderate relevance – 22%
- 4 Low relevance – 9%
- 5 Very low relevance – 4%
- Don’t know – 1%
- No information – 1%
Relevance of automation / robotics in the logistics industry in Germany – Image: Xpert.Digital
Another example is the relevance of drones in logistics. For 36%, drones have a very low relevance, for 21% and 22%, respectively, they have a moderate to low relevance. You should always keep an eye on technologies such as RFID, drones or other ideas, some of which are certainly innovative, but you should also be able to assess whether they make sense for your company and provide added value. It also depends on the question and, above all, on the industry or product type.
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Automation and robotics are an ongoing topic in logistics
Automation is only part of the solution. The global markets are also constantly changing. A fixed strategy and long-term logistical planning is not possible without modular and flexible agitation models.
Smart Storage: The race of logistics robots
Smart Storage: Warehouse Robots – Logistics robots in the factory or warehouse – Phonlamai Photo|Shutterstock.com
Optimizing your own warehouse logistics is part of the core business for most companies, not just in the mail order business - and at the same time it is also usually one of the largest cost factors. Due to its complexity, improvements in this area are one of the most difficult and often cost-intensive tasks that companies have to face. In order to trim the processes for efficiency, one option is to automate the warehouse using automatic material flow and conveyor systems, in which the goods are stored in state-of-the-art rack warehouses.
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Smart Factory – the future of production logistics
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Fully automatic high-bay warehouses, robots that navigate independently through the warehouse and technically sophisticated conveyor systems – in warehouse logistics, permanent technical progress is tangible at every point.
But what about production logistics, in which a significant part of industrial value creation takes place? According to a number of manufacturers, there is still a lot of untapped potential to be exploited here. One approach is the intelligent automation of the material flow, with the help of which goods can be moved even more quickly from the warehouse to the workplace and production sites. And this is exactly where the two companies Kardex Remstar and Servus Intralogistics come in. Under the keyword Smart Factory they have developed a new solution to optimize their customers' internal production logistics. The primary goal is to intelligently interlink the storage and provision of goods as well as assembly and production and thereby realize a consistently automated material flow between all storage, production and assembly areas.
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Same Day Delivery (SDD) is a form of courier express parcel service that delivers packages more quickly, ideally within a calendar day, or within a scheduled time slot.
The supply chain of a courier express parcel service usually requires an overnight jump in order to deliver shipments as groupage in planned routes in a sensible onward journey. Same Day Delivery offers direct tours, whereby the primary goal is not ideal transport network structures, but rather adherence to delivery dates. Since long national journeys are not possible, same day delivery is only offered within city logistics in large cities and is more expensive than normal delivery. Above all, food, medicines, spare parts and other urgently needed goods should be sent this way.
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Robotics in warehouse logistics – why it’s not (quite) ready yet
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For some time now, the intralogistics world has been gripped by a wave of automation that has its origins in the beginnings of Industry 4.0 . There is a lot of talk about robots, which is often used as a synonym for automation. That's not entirely true, because the most important prerequisite for robotics is that the systems have artificial intelligence. Where automation relies on standardized processes, robotics also includes variable processes. Processes that are particularly important when storing and picking heterogeneous product ranges. But there is still a long way to go before the challenges of handling differently sized items with different textures are solved and picking by robots runs smoothly.
At least the first steps have been taken successfully. Dynamic storage systems already offer the best conditions for later full automation. So far, it has mostly been the case that goods are delivered automatically using conveyor technology and are then placed in the assigned trays by order pickers. From there they are transported and stored by the control software to their intended location in the vertical or horizontal storage lift. If the item is called up, the system makes it available to the warehouse worker at his central work area according to the ergonomic goods-to-person principle. Long distances are no longer necessary and the modern software ensures that the correct parts are always outsourced. With support techniques such as Pick by Light, the precision of access is increased to almost one hundred percent and at the same time accelerated. The order picker removes the item and prepares it for shipping or further processing.
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Industry 4.0 – Transport logistics is changing
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Industry 4.0 – a term that has been a buzzword for some time and has been the subject of much discussion in industry and politics. In the actual sense, Industry 4.0 refers to a future project of the federal government, which envisages the close integration of IT and manufacturing technology in order to make the local industry fit for future challenges.
Accordingly, the fourth industrial revolution proclaimed in the strategy paper, driven by the extremely rapid development of the Internet, will lead to the merging of the real and virtual worlds, which will ultimately lead to an Internet of Things (IoT). Here it is the products or components themselves that network and communicate with other items, users or means of transport in order to generate trouble-free and even more efficient processes.
A sign of the change towards Industry 4.0 is the increasing importance of networking IT systems embedded in production and logistics processes, both with each other and with the Internet in general (so-called cyber-physical systems, CPS). The ever greater and faster development of automation and interconnection in industry is accompanied by the creation of ever more intelligent monitoring and control technologies with which companies can control and optimize the entire value creation network in almost real time. A development that will initially result in the implementation of completely autonomous decision-making processes in production and transport.
One step towards this is the self-learning, intelligent factory ( Smart Factory ). The focus there is on the development of intelligent, self-regulating production systems and processes as well as on the implementation of networked, independently communicating production facilities.
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