Events Archive

May 22, 2025, BIBA

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Discover the innovative interaction between humans and artificial intelligence in the logistics of the future! The lab tour in the BIBA Shop Floor Lab provides insights into the latest technologies and innovations in logistics and offers plenty of space to touch and try them out. Among other things, you can look forward to a drone for order picking and quality inspection in the warehouse, intelligent augmented reality assistance systems in intralogistics, applications of human-robot collaboration and AI assistance in assembly, as well as solutions for intelligent work ergonomics in automobile handling. Join us and exchange ideas with experts and like-minded people!

The lab tour “Humans and AI in the Logistics of the Future” is offered in cooperation with the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Bremen-Oldenburg and the BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH with the BVL Regionalgruppe Weser-Ems.

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May 13, 2025, Nordenham

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The digital future is coming to your region - with the Digital Tour 2025 from the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Bremen-Oldenburg. Under the motto “Opportunities for SMEs: AI, tools and trends”, this time the digital tour will make a stop in the districts of Wesermarsch, Ammerland and the Friesland/Wilhelmshaven area and bring along various applications for digital practice in your company.

There will once again be a mix of presentations, demonstrators and networking, highlighting the opportunities of artificial intelligence for SMEs. BIBA is contributing to the event with the demonstrator “AI-supported HRC assembly workstation” and the presentation “Resource-efficient energy production in SMEs” by Markus Trapp.

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May 22, 2025, Bremerhaven

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Advancing the ports of Bremen through digitalization and automation - this is the aim of the “Smartport Transfer” (SPorT) innovation community, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). On May 22, it will celebrate its kick-off event at the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven and is aimed at both experts and interested members of the public. The event will provide information on the objectives and further planning as well as funding opportunities for individual community projects. In addition, the aim of the kick-off meeting is to recruit as many additional members as possible from and around the ports in order to grow the SPorT community and establish it as a permanent structure for knowledge transfer.

SPorT is a joint initiative of the University of Bremen (LogDynamics), the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) and the ports of Bremen, which is being carried out as part of the federal DATIpilot funding program. The planned community projects will focus on the planning, monitoring and control of handling processes for containers and vehicles as well as general and bulk cargo. The community also wants to address the question of how shipping traffic and hinterland transportation, such as freight trains, can be linked to port processes using information technology. These technologies are not intended to be an end in themselves, but rather to increase the competitiveness of German ports and their resilience to market fluctuations and disruptions in supply chains through cooperative and people-centered design.

Within the scope of SPorT, science and industry are not only to enter into an open exchange in a joint innovation community, but also pull together within the framework of mutually coordinated measures and projects - in line with the DATIpilot program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Its aim is to transfer knowledge from research to practical application - while at the same time creating scope for the implementation of innovative ideas. This is where the activities of the new SPorT community come in, which aims to bundle the region's great creative and innovative potential in the field of maritime business and logistics. The main idea behind it: The challenges posed by dynamic developments in particular can be mastered more easily and better in close cooperation between research, practice and authorities.

Press release of the University of Bremen

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April 10, 2025, BIBA

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On the nationwide Supply Chain Day, companies, organisations and institutes open their doors to the public and demonstrate how versatile and efficient logistics is.

In a collaborative event, the Mittelstand Digital Centres WertNetzWerke and Bremen-Oldenburg, together with the BIBA - Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics, are helping to shape this day and are focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and the circular economy. Other co-organisers are the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Hamburg, the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), the Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik (BME) and the Umwelt Unternehmen office.

We are delighted to invite you to experience innovative and sustainable technologies for logistics in the research hall of the BIBA - Bremen Institute of Production and Logistics. Join us and find out how AI can be used in logistics, what opportunities there are for the industry and what challenges need to be overcome. You will also learn how resources can be conserved and waste avoided through closed loops and how logistics can be made more energy-efficient. Look forward to keynote speeches, an expo with exciting demonstrators and the space to network!

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April 3, 2025, BIBA

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The nationwide Girls' Day is always an opportunity to give female pupils an insight into the world of engineering and to encourage them to study science or technology. BIBA will be there again on April 3, 2025 with low-threshold hands-on offers and shows how exciting technology can be. In our Hackspace in the BIBA research hall, students can experience technology up close: from product design for 3D printing to the production of small parts with the laser cutter to personalized give-aways - they can plan and implement all this themselves in our workshop.

To all interested young female scientists: Join us, unfold your creativity and discover how much fun technology can be! Register for the BIBA workshop on February 8, 2025!

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March 31- April 4, 2025, Hannover

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It's time again for the Hannover Messe in spring! At the world's most important industrial trade fair, companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical and digital industries as well as the energy sector will jointly present solutions for an equally efficient and sustainable industry.

BIBA will also be there with the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Bremen-Oldenburg and is participating with a demonstrator in the joint area of the umbrella initiative Mittelstand-Digital, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).

Our demonstrator is a mobile assembly workstation that uses human-robot collaboration (HRC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to support people in production environments and optimise assembly processes. The collaborative robot (cobot) provides the required parts, while a central IoT control system visualises the warehouse stock. Sensors and cameras are used to ensure the safety of the collaboration and collect process data. The mobile assembly workstation therefore stands for intelligent automation of manufacturing processes that can be achieved with low financial and retrofitting costs.

Visit us at booth F40 in hall 17!

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March 6-7, 2025, Bremen

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LogisticsConnect, an innovative congress trade fair for the port and logistics industry, will take place for the first time on the 6th and 7th of March 2025 in the halls of MESSE BREMEN and the Congress Centrum Bremen. The event is aimed at experts from breakbulk and project logistics and combines a top-class congress programme with a trade exhibition. The aim is to create a platform for networking, knowledge transfer and industry innovations - in line with the National Ports Strategy.

Together with the LogDynamics research network, BIBA will be represented at the trade exhibition and will be presenting the topic of ‘Digitalisation in logistics’. We sincerely invite you to visit us at the joint ‘Bremen/Bremerhaven’ stand. You can look forward to learning about innovative logistics projects and being inspired by examples of digitalisation in the port.

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February 18-19, 2025, Dresden

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We are glad to invite you to the Forum Automotive Logistics in Dresden. Visit us from February 18 to 19, 2025 at our booth 8+13.

Together with our partners, we will be presenting the AutoLog project. Take the opportunity to talk to our experts from Volkswagen Group Logistics, Unikie, Telekom and the BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik and immerse yourself in the latest developments and potentials of automated driving in finished vehicle logistics.

We would particularly like to draw your attention to our presentation:
Title: Automated driving on automotive terminals - the future of vehicle logistics and beyond?
Date and time: 18.02.2025, 15:15 - 15:30 p.m.
Location: ”Open Stage” on the exhibition area

Visit our booth and feel free to ask your individual questions. We will be happy to discuss your specific requirements. We look forward to meeting you at the Forum Automotive Logistics 2025!

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December 4, 2024, Bremen

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The Digitalisation Dialogue is an event format organised by BHV - Bremische Hafen- und Logistikvertretung for a professional exchange on digitalisation topics in logistics. On December 4th 2024, the use of a helium drone for inventory management from the BIBA project DroneStock will be presented in this context. Together with our partner Nagel-Group, we will present how a helium drone is used for automatic pallet inventory in high-bay warehouses. Based on tests at Nagel-Group, we will demonstrate the functionality and results of this innovative solution.

Let yourself be inspired by the possibilities that technologies like this can offer your company! Discuss with experts and exchange ideas with like-minded people about the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in logistics.

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November 26, 2024, Bremerhaven

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In light of current economic and political developments, industrial SMEs are facing a wide range of challenges: A shortage of skilled labour, the energy transition, digital change and global crises must be mastered with limited resources. The aim of the event ‘Digital Innovation in Industry and SMEs: Artificial Intelligence as a Locational Advantage’ on November 26 in Bremerhaven is to initiate the transformation to a sustainable and resilient corporate structure by discussing strategies for dealing with these challenges and highlighting visions for the future through digitalisation and artificial intelligence.

The event is being organised by the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Bremen-Oldenburg (partner of BIBA) together with BIS Bremerhaven and the Bremen Chamber of Commerce. Co-operation partners are: Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Rheinland, #MOIN - MOdellregion INdustriemathematik, Transfer Centre for Artificial Intelligence - Bremen.AI and Regionales Zukunftszentrum Nord. Join the discussion and develop a competitive advantage for your company through digitalisation and AI!

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