“Economic Makers” with Thematic Issue on the Future of Logistics

The logistics initiative “Economic Makers” vividly illustrates how exciting the future of logistics is in their new thematic issue. From robotics to flying warehouses and autonomous driving, the issue touches on visionary topics. It is aimed at a broad audience and can be downloaded for free starting now.

(Bremen) In their new thematic issue “Logistics for Future,” published by the initiative “Economic Makers,” the authors take interested readers on a journey into the logistics of the future: humanoid robots, flying warehouses, and vehicles that drive as if by ghostly hands. The thematic issue looks at what logistics might look like in ten to twenty years. How it improves the supply of people through innovation, how work organization changes, how logistics contributes to climate protection, and what challenges are associated with it. In this way, it offers exciting insights for newcomers to logistics and provides an overview of how diverse and exciting the third-largest economic sector in Germany truly is.

Insights into Current Research Results

The publication provides insights into current research projects, for example, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), the Supply Chain working group of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), and the Institute for Logistics and Material Flow Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Additional exciting information comes from practice: from synthetic kerosene to exoskeletons that assist employees in lifting, stacking, and order picking, to self-driving inland vessels.

Download the Thematic Issue:

https://die-wirtschaftsmacher.de/themenhefte/

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