
Dual leadership in Shanghai
Stefan Becker has been appointed Managing Director of Eckelmann Automation Technology in Shanghai and will manage the subsidiary together with Zhongwei Huang.

Ankush Malhotra has been appointed as the new Group CEO of the technology and automation company Element Logic. He succeeds Dag-Adler Blakseth, who co-founded the company almost 40 years ago.
Incoming goods, material flow, order picking, storage, shipping - processes that need to be coordinated in intralogistics. The right machine vision concept can help plant operators to save time and reduce the susceptibility to errors.

Siemens, Universal Robots (UR) and Zivid have jointly developed an AI-based solution to automate picking work in fulfillment centers and improve processes.

System developers are increasingly focusing on the integration of artificial intelligence. At Logimat 2024, they will be showcasing their new developments to demonstrate how AI algorithms can be used to further automate many processes and increase their efficiency.

The 'Pal2Rec' project, which was launched in February 2024, is investigating how (Euro) pallets can be independently integrated into logistics processes using sensor-based activity recognition.

Zebra has taken a closer look at the supply chain for the coming year: According to this, sensors and fixed infrastructures will play a decisive role in data collection and thus in the supply chain, and investments in automation solutions are also expected.

The European Supply Chain Act is about to be voted on in the European Parliament. VDMA Managing Director Thilo Brodtmann appeals to the members of parliament not to vote in favor of the law.

The stainless steel IPCs in protection class IP69k from the pro-V-pad Steel series were specially developed by proLogistik for hygienically sensitive use in food processing as well as for pharmaceutical and clinical applications.

The Coscom ECO system for the machining industry with its central database platform supports all production-relevant data in a common knowledge source.
The four pillars of the smart factory - digitalization, intralogistics, IT-OT integration and industry ecosystems - will determine the automotive production of the future. What matters now when it comes to 'environmental mobility'.