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New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
" Fifty Shades of Grey " is a moderately boring movie about teen fantasies concerning first sexual experiences with the opposite sex. " Grey Orange " be more exciting for some: a global provider of AI-powered software for warehouse control and inventory management, whose " GreyMatter " software Dematic now wants to profit from.
Implemented step by step
" Iterative " is the magic word that the southern German supermarket chain V-Markt used to implement the Wamas Core WMS warehouse management system from SSI Schäfer for the smooth supply of its southern German branches. This minimized risks during ongoing operations.
Pallet market under pressure
Circulating in the millions, Euro pallets are an integral part of everyday life in industry, trade, and logistics. However, A and B grade pallets are becoming increasingly scarce, warns the logistics provider Dachser. This has repercussions for costs, planning reliability, and delivery capacity along the entire supply chain.
Air traffic control in the dark
Even after a malfunction was resolved on Wednesday, the screens at Swiss air traffic control remained fixed the technical problem at the
The true cost of fulfilling the order
Materials handling specialist Ferag focuses on a holistic approach to warehousing and the targeted use of technologies to automate defined fulfillment processes in order to improve order processing efficiency. The concept developed by Ferag Solutions is based on a new key performance indicator, " CoOF " (Cost of Order Fulfillment).
Federal Councillor Beat Jans in Rupperswil
The Swiss Logistics by ASFL SVBL training center in Rupperswil recently hosted visits from Federal Councillor Beat Jans, head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Jérôme Cosandey, head of the Directorate of Labour at SECO, and Aargau government councillor Dieter Egli.
Even better than lithium-ion
At the world's largest industrial trade fair in Hanover, with 3,000 exhibitors, a young company called BTRY from Dübendorf won a startup award sponsored by the logistics provider Hermes. The founders impressed the judges with an ultra-thin, fully flexible energy storage system that is intended to enable numerous new applications.
Large containers for the «Jaguar»
At Claas in Bad Saulgau, machines for forage harvesting and headers for the forage harvester, which proudly bears the name " Jaguar ," are developed, tested, and manufactured. More staging area was needed at the assembly lines. Bito assisted with the switch to the large SL 86 hoppers.
System change at the drying tower
Automation, as mentioned, doesn't have to be complicated. Even simple, repetitive logistical processes can be carried out automatically with high-lift pallet trucks like the EXV iGo. Forklift manufacturer Still successfully implemented this at DP-Supply, a subsidiary of Deutsche Milchkontor DMK.
«Logistics Townhouse» for the city
It was just one of the numerous presentations at the German Material Flow Congress, which took place in Dortmund these days in parallel with the IFOY Test Camp: It was dedicated to a concept by Carl-Friedrich Rico zu Knyphausen, Managing Director & Co-Founder of Logivalue GmbH in Berlin: A « Retail Town House » for the city center.
20 SwissSkills champions on the podium
20 SwissSkills champions on the podium
Photo: Swiss Skills (Pascal Barmettler, Automotive Mechatronics Technician EFZ)
The first 20 SwissSkills Champions have been announced. As planned, a third of this year's SwissSkills Championships 2020 took place remotely until last weekend. Another 40 Swiss championship titles will be awarded by the end of November. The 2021 championships will be held in Shanghai.
Young professionals from 19 different cantons won medals in this first part of this year's SwissSkills Championships. The championship titles went to the cantons of Bern (5), St. Gallen (4), Fribourg (3), Lucerne (2), Thurgau (2), Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Vaud, and Valais (1 each).
Under normal circumstances, last week in Bern, the next generation of skilled workers would have competed in 75 different trades at the SwissSkills competition, in front of an expected 120,000 visitors. This major event, considered a unique showcase of Swiss vocational training, had to be postponed to 2022 due to the coronavirus crisis. Instead, in 60 trades, the respective professional associations, with the support of the SwissSkills Foundation, are holding the decentralized SwissSkills Championships 2020 throughout this autumn, thus still crowning their Swiss champions. The remaining championships, most of which are being held behind closed doors in training centers, will continue until the end of November.
The grand stage in front of tens of thousands of visitors at the SwissSkills in Bern was denied to the young professionals due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, with the decentralized SwissSkills Championships 2020, held throughout the autumn, the professional associations, with the support of SwissSkills, created a worthy alternative. "It's fantastic to see the great passion with which the participants in the SwissSkills Championships compete for the medals. They demonstrate the outstanding professionals that vocational training in Switzerland produces year after year," says Reto Wyss, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of SwissSkills.
Photo: Swiss Skills
In approximately 40 of the 60 trades, SwissSkills 2020 will serve as part of the selection process for WorldSkills 2021 in Shanghai (September 22-27, 2021). Professional associations have until December to nominate their representative for next year's WorldSkills competition to SwissSkills. The final composition of the SwissSkills team for WorldSkills in Shanghai will be announced afterward.
