Daniel Radermacher

The future of intralogistics: IoT-Button & Co. in application

A key focus is on the IoT button, an innovative solution that significantly simplifies material requirements in production processes. Employees can reorder materials at the touch of a button without having to travel. This reduces downtime, increases productivity and ensures smooth coordination between production and logistics. In addition, the guests will explain how digital container labeling using e-ink displays and narrowband IoT technology is replacing paper-based processes. This changeover minimizes sources of error, saves resources and enables up-to-date information to be displayed directly on the corresponding small load carriers. Another focus is on technology. The partners rely on low-power wide-area network technologies such as NB-IoT and LTE Cat-M1 to make their solutions ready for immediate use without complex infrastructure. These technologies are a clear advantage, especially in large industrial halls with challenging environments such as lots of metal or separate factory halls. The guests also shed light on their customers’ business challenges, such as reducing paper processes, shortening search times and meeting sustainability targets such as CO₂ neutrality. One example shows how one customer replaced up to 90 pages of paper per order with digital solutions, which not only saves time but also reduces the susceptibility to errors. Simple residual API interfaces and modern no-code approaches are used for integration into existing systems such as ERP in order to keep the implementation effort as low as possible. ORGATEX and IOX combine their strengths in a hybrid development model: while ORGATEX contributes its expertise in intralogistics, IOX provides the technological know-how and relies on agile development methods such as Scrum. This collaboration makes it possible to develop customized solutions that are quickly tailored to the customer’s individual requirements. The episode concludes with valuable best practices: The success of such projects depends largely on involving all employees at an early stage and clearly communicating the added value of new technologies. This is the only way for companies to see digitalization as an opportunity and implement it successfully.