Logistics
The Logistics research cluster has been created to substantiate a novel form of collaborative relationship between research and industry.
The cluster comprises three Innovation Labs with key research focuses on
- Enterprise Resource Planning (interoperability, standardization, system integration),
- Smart Objects (technology scouting and testing, information logistics, standardization of intelligent objects), and
- Services (modularization of customer-oriented service programs, cooperation effects in the provision of services).
The Innovation Labs will work on of research-oriented problems as well as provide solutions within industry-commissioned, collaborative projects.
A central element of the cluster is the so-called Logistics Theater. The Logistics Theater features a production line which serves to illustrate the interplay and interrelations of processes and systems through the example of a real life supply chain.
By means of the production line, the impact of innovative concepts and technologies can be directly assessed. Further, the facility serves as a demonstrator for professional education programs, providing demo cases as well as hands-on training scenarios.