Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL)
Focus on cash, data and automation: these are the trends in the industrial supply chain
The automotive industry is in crisis – and not just in Germany. Many suppliers are tied to the large manufacturers. What can they do now to guide their companies safely through the crisis? The 'Trends in Automotive Logistics' (TAL) conference of Aimtec, the digitalisation specialist, which took place in Pilsen in the summer of 2024, provided food for thought and inspiration on how the industry could prepare for the future.
Thilo Jörgl joins TAL 2025 as a speaker – watch his interview
Thilo Jörgl, a prominent figure in intralogistics, is the manager of the IFOY Award and the TEST CAMP INTRALOGISTICS event. During the 24th Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL) conference, organised by Aimtec, he sat down for an interview regarding his expertise and experience.
Digitalisation and Its Human Dimension
The digital transformation is a present challenge for many companies in a variety of fields. As Michal Fichtner, Head of Digitalization Operations at Continental Automotive emphasised at Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL 2024), you need to thoroughly understand this process, and above all win over your people for it.
Interview with prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Klepzig: Companies need cash!
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Klepzig, who teaches at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and mainly focuses on business economics and logistics, assessed the German and European automotive industry’s challenges and trends in an interview at the Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL) 2024 conference, organised by Aimtec.
Interview with Prof. Dr. Nils Finger: What does the new normal mean in the logistics?
The interview with Prof. Dr. Nils Finger, a renowned supply chain expert and regional spokesperson for the German Logistics Association (BVL), sheds light on the current challenges and changes in the logistics industry. Speaking at the Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL) 2024 conference organised by Aimtec, Nils Finger emphasises that the world has changed significantly since the pandemic and that we are now living in the ‘new normal’.
Simulation Tools: The key to efficient process planning in manufacturing and logistics
How can you ensure effective evaluation during the planning processes in a project’s opening phases? Can advanced add-ons like virtual reality and artificial intelligence tools make simulation models more effective? And how necessary are comprehensive simulations of production and logistics systems for proper estimation, process planning and better awareness? Tomáš Sauer, Global Competence Field Leader at FORVIA HELLA, answered all this for us at the Trens in Automotive Logistics (TAL) 2024 conference.
“People and data are worth their weight in gold.” The best quotes from the Trends in Automotive Logistics Conference 2024
People, data and sustainability: these are the topics that resounded at the Trends in Automotive Logistics Conference 2024, subtitled Driving the Digital Fast Lane. How can you drive safely in digitalisation’s fast lane while still transforming quickly enough? Nearly 400 experts in logistics, manufacturing and IT from the European automotive sector came to the conference to explore this question. Ten inspiring speakers rotated on the stage throughout the day. What were the most interesting quotes at this conference? Read our picks below.
The Trends in Automotive Logistics Conference 2024: In the fast lane of the digitalisation highway
Digital transformation is like a road that enterprises drive down to adapt to changing conditions and gain a competitive advantage. What do the “drivers” – CEOs, logisticians and IT experts – need so they can enter the fast lane of the digitalisation highway? What abilities, platforms and technologies are necessary to ensure they and their teams are confidently pointed towards their goals? We spoke with Roman Žák, co- founder of the conference organiser Aimtec, on the topics for the next TAL conference, which will take place in Pilsen on 18 June.
Scherdel - Flexibility as a key goal of automation
Inhouse logistics starts to be a difficult issue from companies of medium size. One such company is SCHERDEL, whose Czech division has embarked on a project to automate and digitalize logistics, specifically by implementing a fully automated warehouse full of self-driving robots. During the work, the entire concept changed several times, because one of the key conditions of the whole solution was flexibility, which is not easy to provide through automation. The experience of building an automated warehouse was submitted by the company's managers in a presentation at the TAL 2023 conference.
Driving manufacturing change with Tom Bianculli, CTO of Zebra Technologies
Thomas Bianculli, CTO of Zebra Technologies, shared his insights at the TAL2023 Conference organized by Aimtec. He delivered a presentation titled “Driving Manufacturing Change: Disrupt or Be Disrupted” (more about his presentation here ), but there’s more – an exclusive video interview with Petr Stejskal, our CTO in Aimtec, which we would like to share with you.
TAL 2023: The future belongs to the flexible and resilient, says Zebra CTO Tom Bianculli
By the end of this decade, a number of technological phenomena, such as artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, will influence many already mature markets. Of the greatest importance, however, will be the ability to deliver the right product in the right quantity to the right place at the right time, said Tom Bianculli, Chief Technology Officer at Zebra Technologies, in his presentation at the TAL 2023 conference.
Brano - the path to 21st century logistics
From complete locking mechanisms, other mechanical parts, door handles to fuel tank caps for Skoda Auto and other car companies. This is the business of Brano, which has recently committed to a change in logistics and invested in digitizing its warehouse to minimize the role of humans. At the TAL 2023 conference, Denis Kittrich, a technologist from Brano, together with Jiří Žižka, project manager at Aimtec, explained how the project was carried out.
Klaus Straub: Key factors of digital transformation at TAL2023 Conference
Klaus Straub, Co-CEO of xelerate.tech and former CIO & SVP at BMW Group, shared insights at the TAL2023 conference organized by AIMTEC. He delivered an engaging lecture titled "Digital Transformation in a Changing World" and also discussed his experiences with Tereza Čechová, Communication specialist in Aimtec, in a video interview which we would like to share with you.
TAL 2023: What Safran's digital transformation looks like
The purpose of any change in company operation should be to improve, whether in terms of efficiency, cost or workflow. Ideally this is an upgrade that brings positive benefits in all areas. This may not be easy for large companies operating in different industries. At technology company Safran, they have done just that, relying on four key pillars of digital transformation, as explained by executives Frédéric Vétil and Bindioa Ouali at the TAL 2023 conference.
Behind the scenes: how new resilient logistics is being built at Skoda Auto
The demands on manufacturing logistics change over time, and this change has accelerated at an unprecedented rate in recent years with the accompanying phenomena of the Covid-19 pandemic. David Strnad, Head of Logistics at Škoda Auto, presented how these challenges are being dealt with and how they are preparing for the next ones in the largest domestic automotive company at the Trends in Automotive Logistics 2023 conference.
