DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf

28 Mar '07

3 min read

The projects at the DHL Innovation Center are being conducted jointly with partners. The innovation partners from the business world include IBM, Intel and SAP. The DHL Innovation Center also maintains research partnerships with the logistics institutes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and Zaragoza, and the German Fraunhofer institutes. About 20 permanent employees are working on innovation projects in the center. An additional 10 jobs are filled by employees from the innovation and research partners.

Besides serving as a laboratory of the future, the DHL Innovation Center performs two other functions. For visitors, the center has a showroom where they can see the interrelationship of global product streams and logistics networks. World-spanning networks can be visualized on a round table that serves as a projection screen, enabling customers to examine individual streams of goods and information.

In the exhibition area, prototypes of current development projects are set up. The projects include a robot that can unload delivery vehicles, and that can recognize different sized packages, pick them up and place them on a conveyor belt. In addition to the laboratory and showroom, the DHL Innovation Center has a conference area. With this concept, Deutsche Post World Net is breaking new ground. No other logistics company has a facility that can compare to the DHL Innovation Center.

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