Inland ports and inland navigation have rarely been perceived as digital pioneers so far. This is about to change: "The great interest in the project activities, which we have experienced during the past 3 years by the local industry and from public administrations, makes us very optimistic, that we can expect a significant increase of using innovative IT solutions in inland navigation in the future", is the positive conclusion of ISL project manager Patrick Specht.
Contact: Patrick Specht, Aaron Heuermann
The goal of the project is to examine Bremen's school selection process for admission to lower secondary school. For the transition from grade 4 to 5, students in Bremen can indicate three schools of choice. A centralized procedure allocates available school places to students according to their preferences and taking school priorities into account. In a pilot study for the Senator for Children and Education of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the group of Prof. Dr. Nicole Megow analyzed the currently used allocation procedure as well as alternatives with regard to several (quantitative) criteria, such as wish fulfillment, stability and fairness, strategic manipulability.
Conact: Prof. Dr. Nicole MegowContact: Michael Teucke
The BreLogIK project, which aims to create sustainable added value for Bremen's logistics industry, provides a new tool that simplifies the collaboration between science and business. The 15 innovation ambassadors have each summarized profiled their main focus areas, what innovation potential they see in the industry and what they would like to achieve in the future. In combination with the project database, the profiles help to link the interested parties in Bremen's logistics sector with scientific experts. Get to know the innovation ambassadors of BreLogIK.
Contact: Wiebke Duhme, Dr.- Ing. Matthias Burwinkel
Production facilities in Europe are highly automated with minimum touch on pallets from production to the docks, but the last step, i.e. loading, is still completely manual. Therefore, the PaLA project at BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik aims to extend an existing automatic loading solution in order to be able to cope with the challenges of automatic loading of curtainsided trailers.
Contact: Lennart Rolfs
At the same time, ongoing digitalization is accompanied by low participation in continuing education. There is a lack of training formats that take into account both company and career biographical perspectives. Eight partners from science and industry have now launched a research and development project on this under the leadership of the Economic and Social Academy of the Bremen Chamber of Employees (wisoak): "SMALO" (Smart Learning in Logistics). The BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik and the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) of the University of Bremen act as research partners.
Contact: Heiko Duin
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TRICK will provide a complete, affordable and standardized platform for SMEs to support the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches: This will enable companies to collect product data and access required services in a dedicated marketplace that is open to third-party solutions. The demo will be conducted in 2 highly complex and environmentally sensitive areas: Textile Clothing as the main pilot and Perishable Food for replication. The focus of the project at BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik is to adapt the B2B marketplace to the needs of a Circular Information Management (CIM).
Contact: Marco Franke
As a partner in the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Bremen, BIBA has supported the company Peper & Söhne Gruppe - project developer in the field of commercial real estate - in the digitalization project "Logistics Factory of the Future". The developed contents and a prototypical solution for condition monitoring have provided valuable impulses for the further development of the business model. An important aspect is the reduction of C02 emissions in new logistics properties in order to ensure environmentally friendly operations in the future. An all-around successful digitalization project that brings the sustainable development of logistics real estate of the future within reach.
Digitalization has changed the world of work dramatically in almost all areas. It is enormously demanding, but it also offers more and diverse options for the participation of people with disabilities in working life. New technologies open up opportunities to provide support in the case of impairments of the most diverse kind and thus enable integration. The BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik and the Bremer Berufsbildungswerk (BBW) are now jointly researching this in the project "Realization of a barrier-free assistance system for the step-by-step execution of work tasks" (BASDA).
Contact: Benjamin Knoke
They were visionaries in what was then still a young field of research: more than ten years ago, a student project on quantum computers was launched at the University of Bremen under the direction of Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler. A scientific paper written during that time has now been honored with a "10-year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award" at the ASP Design Automation Conference. This is because its results have laid important foundations for today's software solutions for quantum computers. To this day, the work still has great influence in this field of research.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler
The International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC) is an established conference series initiated by LogDynamics. The 8th edition of LDIC will be held online from February 23-25, 2022. The dynamics of logistics processes and networks will be the focus of the conference. We invite you to attend empirical, theoretical, methodological, and practice-oriented papers dealing with modeling, planning, optimization, and control of processes in supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and material flow systems and facilities. LDIC 2022 provides a forum for discussion of advances in the field.
The research initiatives LogDynamics and Diginomics of the University of Bremen jointly organize a "PhD Field Day" accompanying the LDIC 2022 conference. The event creates a scientific forum and enables discourse between PhD students and their respective peers about their research. The goal of the PhD Field Day is to help young scientists communicate their research, receive feedback on their projects, and develop publication skills.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Aseem Kinra
April 21, 2022, 15:00h, Bremen
On April 21 is ne next Supply Chain Day. The LogDynamics research cluster has been helping to shape this day for 15 years. Also this year - together with the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Bremen and BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, we invite you to an on-site event "Artificial Intelligence in Production and Logistics". Look into the future with us and be inspired. Learn in keynote speeches from business and science, a panel discussion as well as in the guided tour in the BIBA Shop Floor Lab examples and possible applications of AI in production and logistics and which advantages - also for your processes - AI offers.
Contact: Aleksandra Himstedt
June 24, 2022, 11:00h, online
The next Digital Day will take place on June 26, 2022. The action day offers a platform to highlight various aspects of digitalization, to discuss opportunities and challenges and to initiate a broad social dialog. BIBA is once again helping to shape the Digital Day and, in cooperation with the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Bremen, is presenting exciting demonstrators on the topic of digitalization for sustainable production.
Contact: Dr.- Ing. Matthias Burwinkel
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of LogDynamics, the lecture series "Dynamics in Logistics - 25 years of logistics research in Bremen" was launched, in which LogDynamics scientists presented their research activities. On the first Wednesday of each month, around 90 participants learned about various aspects of logistics research at the University of Bremen. The topics ranged from container logistics and digitalization to sustainability issues. This was well received by the public in the region and beyond.
In December, a group from the ECG Academy again visited the BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik to learn about the advancing digitalization in the field of finished vehicle logistics. The ECG Academy teaches management trainees important management skills in the field of vehicle distribution. The program of the Digitalization Day at BIBA included presentations on the use of current digital technologies in finished vehicle logistics and their further development in the context of ongoing research and development projects, as well as demonstrations of hardware and software solutions developed at BIBA.
In a contribution to the commemorative publication "LogDynamics Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany", recently published by Springer-Verlag, ISL colleagues have been engaged in identifying the external effects of ULCV's in relation to seaport systems as well as environmental aspects, shedding light on both the scientific and practical discourse.
The article aims at identifying these external effects as related to seaport systems as well as environmental considerations by consolidating insights from the scientific and professional discourse.
Contact: Hendrik Jungen, Patrick Specht, Jakob Ovens, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Lemper
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