Intralogistics

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As intralogistics is called the logistic materials and goods that are within a curtilage play. The term was defined to distinguish it from the transport of goods outside a plant, e.g. B. by a shipping company .

The Intralogistics Forum in the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering defines intralogistics as the organization, control, implementation and optimization of the internal flow of goods and materials and logistics , the flow of information and the handling of goods in industry, trade or public facilities.

Intralogistics is also the economic branch of internal material flow and logistics, which aims to increase performance and reduce costs.

Interdisciplinary interaction

Intralogistics is a term that describes the internal flow of materials such as E.g. general cargo, bulk cargo or liquids and describes the company's internal logistics. This area includes storage and buffer technology, mechanical and pneumatic conveyors, pneumatic tube systems , hoists , industrial trucks , buffer technology, continuous conveyors , cranes , telematics , actuators , sensors , robotics , logistics software , control , identification, image processing , sorting, Picking , palletizing , packaging and data technology through to providers of complete systems. An original feature of the intralogistics industry is the interdisciplinary cooperation between providers and experts from these various disciplines.

history

From the history of the in-house material flow, a close connection with the logistical idea can be derived: logistics scientists see the emergence of automated high-bay warehouse and goods distribution systems in the middle of the 20th century as the point at which simple transport, transshipment and storage became a logistical service.

The ongoing globalization of the markets has moved more and more German companies to develop technical solutions and concepts in the field of automation in order to protect themselves from manufacturers from low-wage countries . This growing degree of automation in intralogistics was mainly achieved through increasing performance (speed and compatibility) in computers and controls. The first area of ​​application for computers in logistics was warehouse management. The task of the first EDP-supported warehouse management systems was similar to that of an accountant, who only books incoming and outgoing goods and does not intervene in the process sequences.

Newer generations of warehouse management systems have been shaped by technical innovations in the field of

  • Relational databases,
  • More powerful hardware and operating systems,
  • Networking techniques (e.g. with workpiece conveyor ),
  • Barcode as well as barcode-capable printers and barcode scanners,
  • Mobile peripherals and in
  • high availability systems with low failure rates.

Along with this gradual technical development, the degree of automation adapts to the requirement profile of the user or operator of the intralogistics system. The throughput requirements for a high variety of articles are closely related to the degree of automation. If the analysis is based on the business processes of a distribution center, there are always the processes of storage, transport, and order processing between goods receipt and goods issue. The development of object-oriented software technology achieved today and the increasing penetration of industrial software production enable a high degree of reuse and a high degree of adaptability with regard to future requirements.

See also

literature

  • Dieter Arnold: Intralogistics Springer, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-540-29657-3
  • Horst Krampe, Hans-Joachim Lucke, Michael Schenk: Basics of logistics. Theory and practice of logistic systems. HUSS-Verlag, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941418-80-6

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