Intralogistics 4.0

The future demands changeable, flexible systems for competitiveness, and this equally from companies and from Germany as a technology and logistics location as a whole.

Visitors to the 14th International Trade Fair for Distribution, Materials Handling and Information Flow will get a foretaste of the products and solutions on offer and the approaches to them.

Exhibitors across all industry segments explicitly address Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things in the orientation of their product developments.

"Alongside e-commerce, the two megatrends are the main drivers for the fields of action and solution developments in intralogistics"

says trade show manager Peter Kazander.

"They are designated as future projects and will still shape some development cycles. LogiMat is regarded as a trend barometer, information and contact platform for customer care as well as an important working trade fair"

Kazander explains.

The IT offering presented at LogiMat ranges from material flow control and resource and fleet management to warehouse management systems.

"The two segments of materials handling technology and software and the area of industrial trucks, including driverless transport vehicles and systems, are seeing the greatest exhibitor demand at LogiMat 2016"

Kazander explains.

Exhibitors from the labeling and identification technologies as well as the packaging industry and packaging systems will also be a special focus.

In addition, new mobile devices for industrial direct marking, coding and signing and ergonomically designed workstation systems for packing stations (industrial-grade NFC printers) will be on display.

The TradeWorld trade platform will be presented for the third time at LogiMat, offering a wide range of information on solutions for designing, managing and digitizing the areas of purchasing, marketing, sales, payment, distribution, returns management and aftersales. The topics of intralogistics at LogiMat 2016 will once again be supplemented and deepened by specialist forums and live events.

"Globally networked systems will continue to drive process automation"

sums up Kazander.

"Each exhibit shown at LogiMat should be seen as a mosaic piece of the technological developments and system concepts of an increasingly dynamic whole."

Retailers and service providers are increasingly relying on automation and the linking of their system worlds with production. The associated investments in IT as well as identification, warehousing and materials handling technology will strengthen the competitiveness of companies.