Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML

Plan logistics – guarantee mobility – design the future

Logistics consulting by specialists: Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics advises companies of all industries and sizes in all questions about material flow and logistics. For our customers we offer widespread services:

As consultants we support in fulfilling new tasks and meeting requirements, as researchers we work out new solutions together with our customers, as planners we help to optimize the internal and external logistics and as developers we realize solutions in soft- and hardware. In the process, Fraunhofer IML focuses on company-specific, made-to-measure solutions and accompanies its customers from planning to implementation.

 

News

 

Whitepaper

Pallet Flow and Pallet Shuttle Rack Systems

 

Forest protection/supply chains

Open source technologies for deforestation-free supply chains

 

All-rounder brings smart factory to next level

“O³dyn”: simulation-based artificial intelligence

 

Bringing papers into the digital age

eCMR – the electronic consignment note

 

Newsletter “logistics ahead”

The international newsletter of Fraunhofer IML “logistics ahead” updates about news of the institute as well as current research results.

 

News-archive

Find more international news of Fraunhofer IML in the archive.

More information

 

International Activities

“A strong international network with excellent partners has the potential to boost innovation in logistics.”

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director at Fraunhofer IML

 

Projects

With large-scale research projects and initiatives with different orientations, Fraunhofer IML bundles numerous competencies in one place – and thus covers the entire innovation chain from basic research to the market launch of products.