Open and federated platforms are the basis for the economic use of AI solutions and for new services, technologies and applications in logistics and supply chain management. As part of the Silicon Economy large-scale research project – funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs – scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML develop highly scalable solutions for widespread logistics applications and processes. They make these basic principles available to the logistics industry as open source. Open source – both the active development and the pure use of software – is now hugely important in logistics.

The three Silicon Economy communities – “Transport Information”, “Computer Vision” and “Automation & IoT” – offer companies and scientific organizations a wide range of opportunities to collaborate on solutions for the future of logistics.