Ho do you orchestrate your intralogistics operations when you have AGVs and AMRs from different vendors, traditional forklifts, conveyor belts and people working side-by-side in your warehouse and production facilities?

Our guest today is Wolfgang Hackenberg, one of the founders of Synaos, a startup based in Germany that is building a hardware-agnostic intralogistics management platform.

Together with our hosts Boris Felgendreher and Marco Prüglmeier talk about the following topics:

- The short version of what Synaos is trying to accomplish with their integrated software platform to manage intralogistics operations

- Wolfgang's background in the automotive industry and as a startup founder

- The VDA 5050 interface standard and the role the automotive OEMs played in the development

- Continuous realt-time optimization: How to calculation 250.000 solutions per second

- The typical situation in toady's intralogistics operations with a very heterogenous landscape of hardware

- The current and future capabilities of the VDA 5050 standard. How global is the standard and how does it compete internationally?

- What criteria buyers should use to evaluate systems like the one Synaos develops

- How much of intralogistics will be automated in the future vs. requiring manual intervention?

- What the challenges are around integrating manual, analog systems and personnel with automation

- Wolfgang's vision for logistics in the future

- And much more

Helpful links:

Our supporters GreyOrange: https://www.greyorange.com/

Synaos: https://www.synaos.com

Dr. Wolfgang Hackenberg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-hackenberg/

Boris Felgendreher on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borisfelgendreher/

Marco Prüglmeier on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prueglmeier/