In keeping with its sporty image, and thus also fitting its role as logistics partner for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Toyota MH will present itself at LogiMAT (March 19-21) in Stuttgart with a "Stadium of Intralogistics", an innovation camp, "top stacking athletes" and current concept studies.
Jan Lorenz, Managing Director of Toyota Material Handling Germany, sees the success of this strategy confirmed by the numerous positive responses received by Toyota Material Handling following their successful trade fair appearance last year. "We invite you to delve deeper into key topics such as innovative sustainability, automation, and system integration with our experts and guest speakers at our significantly expanded booth.".
J. Lorenz
The new "Innovation Camp" promises to be particularly exciting. It will focus on efficiency, structural costs in customer applications, future-oriented developments, and concept studies. As a highlight, the training center for cutting-edge technology will present the latest concepts for autonomous devices, which aim to impress through improved human-machine interaction and machine learning.
The «Innovation Camp» is also the right place to present next steps towards digitalization: A new customer portal offers operators of Toyota equipment access to informative overviews of their fleet and improves decision-making based on precise and accessible telematics data.
Photos: TMHDE
The portal optimizes cost control, monitoring of charging cycles, and the use of safety features, as well as the selection of new, used, or rental equipment tailored to the future user. A powerful update to the existing fleet management system "I_Site" will be available in the months following LogiMAT, coinciding with the portal's launch.
In line with the company's vision of "Zero Muda" (no waste), Toyota announces the unveiling of a prototype at the Innovation Camp, which is intended to illustrate an evolutionary use of production materials to increase the recycling rate.
At the heart of the Toyota exhibition stand, an "Automation Arena" is set up as a playing field where a logistics team demonstrates an intralogistics relay race.
M.Mareaux
The BT Reflex Autopilot driverless reach truck and the BT Staxio Autopilot pallet truck, working in conjunction with shuttle systems used in racking systems for high-density and space-saving storage, will demonstrate the capabilities of modern automation in a sustained and coordinated manner. A new technology for order picking solutions, the integration of which Toyota MH is currently driving forward, will also be incorporated.
In a "Coaching Zone," expert presentations are scheduled several times a day. Among others, attendees can look forward to presentations by Hans Larsson, Head of Innovation at Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE), and Marc Maureaux, Senior Sustainability Manager. "The logistics industry is changing faster than ever before. The coming years will bring numerous new risks, but also opportunities, driven by the ever-accelerating development of key technologies," says Larsson.
"It will be impossible for companies to manage everything alone, therefore new ways of collaborating through partnerships and alliances will be necessary."
Furthermore, the logistics sector makes a significant contribution to the European economy and is on the path to developing sustainable business models. “But how can this transition best be managed, and how is the sector responding to the growing need for transparency, carbon reduction, and a circular economy? How can the requirements of the Green Deal and its impacts best be anticipated? And, more importantly, how can sustainability and profit be reconciled?” asks Maureaux.
Meanwhile, Toyota equipment is being presented as "the true athletes for every camp discipline".
H. Larsson
To support customers in reducing CO2 emissions, Toyota Material Handling is increasingly focusing on lithium-ion and fuel cell technology. All industrial trucks exhibited in the "Energy & Product Park" will therefore be equipped with these energy-efficient and resource-saving drive solutions.
At LogiMAT in Hall 10, Stand G41
