The Logistics Tribe

Ho do you orchestrate your intralogistics operations when you have AGVs and AMRs from different vendors, traditional forklifts, conveyor belts and people working side-by-side in your warehouse and production facilities?

Our guest today is Wolfgang Hackenberg, one of the founders of Synaos, a startup based in Germany that is building a hardware-agnostic intralogistics management platform.

Together with our hosts Boris Felgendreher and Marco Prüglmeier talk about the following topics:

- The short version of what Synaos is trying to accomplish with their integrated software platform to manage intralogistics operations

- Wolfgang's background in the automotive industry and as a startup...

Today we will take a deep dive into the world of route planning and route optimization. Our guest Florian Merget is co-founder of Greenplan, a startup that was recently spun out of DHL. Greenplan’s algorithm promises to do a better job at planning and optimizing routes for last mile, road freight and even field service management.

Together with our host Boris Felgendreher, Florian talked about the following topics:

- The origins and founding story of Greenplan. The recent Management Buyout and new setup for Greenplan outside of DHL

- How route planning/optimization has evolved over the years

- What factors...

In today's episode we will take a deep dive into the topic of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).

SLAM is a method used for autonomous vehicles such as AMRs in logistics for example that lets you build a map and localize your vehicles in that map at the same time. SLAM algorithms allow vehicles to map out unknown environments.

It’s one of those things we should all know about in more detail in order to understand how autonomous vehicles in logistics are able to do what they do.

Today's guest is a leading expert in the field of SLAM.

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Steve Viscelli is a political sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania where he studies freight transportation and autonomous trucks.

He's also the author of the book "The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream" in which he explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs in the US to one of the toughest.

His current book project "Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker" explores self-driving trucks and their potential impacts on labor and the environment.

Steve has appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes and most recently on an...