LogiMat announces ‘Digital Summer Summit’

Program highlights include: the Best Product Awards Ceremony, IFT Day, and lecture series on today’s challenges with real-world tips.

The first day includes a Daily Roundtable and a series of lectures focusing on AGVs before presenting the Best Product Awards Ceremony.

Industry journalist Anja Seemann will moderate the three-day program and present the winners from 2020—which included two startups—with the award that they were unfortunately not able to receive live last year.

The winners include; Kern from Switzerland with ‘PackOnTime 2box’ in the category of “Identification, Packaging and Loading Technology, Load Securing”; Wiferion ‘etaLINK 12000’ in the category of “Picking, Conveying, Lifting, and Storing Technology”; and MotionMiners ‘Manual Process Intelligence’, in the category of “Software, Communications, IT”. 

The gala Awards Ceremony for Best Product 2021 with this year’s winners follows on June 22 at 7pm (Central European Summer Time). This year, LogiMAT exhibitors were once again called upon to submit their innovative products and solutions that have made a contribution to streamlining processes, cutting costs, and enhancing productivity in intralogistics. 

Over 100 businesses responded to the event organizer’s invitation—giving the jury the challenge of reviewing and critically evaluating the submissions.

“It was a great pleasure for us to see that, especially or perhaps even more so in these times, the industry’s enthusiasm for innovation is unbridled. Those who identify critical disruptions as vulnerabilities and find solutions will move the industry forward. This gives us the courage to cast our gaze forward,” said Dr. Johannes Fottner, professor and chair of the Institute for Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics at the Technical University of Munich and president of the jury.

The award-winning companies, through their products, are helping to make processes more stable yet flexible in adapting to changes. By improving efficiency, they are boosting the productivity of the intralogistics industry.

June 23 and 24, will feature a mix of roundtables and lecture series with experts from the academic and business communities. Topics range from “Presentation of the New VDI Guide to AGV Planning” and “Agility in Selecting and Implementing a WMS” to “Digital Twins and Go-Live,” “Value Stream–Oriented Production Logistics” and “Optimizing the Digital Supply Chain through Auto ID Technologies.”

There will also be time set aside for the IFT Day sessions with the theme; “Intralogistics – Future – Technology.”

IFT Day is traditionally hosted each year at LogiMAT Stuttgart by the Institute of Mechanical Handling and Logistics (IFT) of the University of Stuttgart, with a focus on industrial and research-driven solutions. The digital event on Wednesday, June 23, features a one-hour lecture series on “Innovative Techniques for Decentralized Material Staging” and a panel discussion on “Plug & Supply in Intralogistics: Vision of the Future or Living Reality?”

Most of the events at the LogiMAT.digital Summer Summit will be simultaneously interpreted into English.

“Even though we won’t be able to greet any industry professionals on site this year, we’ll at least be livestreaming from the Messe Stuttgart convention center. That’s our way of transmitting the LogiMAT feeling to those who tune in over the three-day event. It serves as a digital bridge to LogiMAT: from Bangkok in November 2021 to Stuttgart in March 2022, which we are working very hard to present as live events,” added Peter Kazander, MD, EuroExpo Messe- und Kongress.