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Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics
Basic and applied research in logistics engineering
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The Chair for Materials Handling, Material Flow and Logistics perceives itself as an
open research institution aiming to contribute to the scientific progress in the areas of
material flow technology and logistics engineering.
Digitalization and automation are two mega trends in
logistics. Rapid progress in digitalization enables a deep
link of information between production and supply. There-
fore, optimized systems which dynamically consider more
accurate location, state and demand data in real time
and without failure can be achieved even under volatile
circumstances. A broad study conducted by the chair fml
In-plant milk-run systems will play an important role in tomorrow’s digitalized production and supply
shows that static control approaches are predominant in
present systems and, moreover, that automated in-plant
milk-runs are exceptional cases, though discussed a
lot. The chair fml therefore develops dynamic algorithms
implemented in a control system and sets up a modular
prototype showing different automated handling units
which merge to form an autonomous in-plant milk-run.