We link logistics with IT.
The Center of Excellence Logistics and IT combines the leading research institutions in Dortmund as a scientific location to form an ecosystem for innovation with international appeal: We are making logistics the key scientific discipline of the industrial future.Topics
Transfer
Community
Our work is on the latest topics of our times.
Applied cognitive ergonomics
Generalisation of previous field and laboratory studies for transfer into practice.
Autonomous logistic systems
Management and control of independently acting elements in logistics systems.
Digital Health Care
Human-centered implementation of new control and communication concepts.
Business models & innovation transfer
Exploitation of technical developments and development of competencies for the transfer of innovation.
Information Logistics
Conceptualization and implementation of information logistics processes.
Machine Learning
Machine learning in logistics as the key to new products and processes.
Human-Technology Interaction
Basics for the new generation of Human-Technology-Interaction.
Software engineering in intralogistics
Use of architectural concepts for the software development of cyber-physical systems.
We do research for the benefit of people, the economy and society.
Heads
Excellent research and teaching by linking people with expertise.
Society
Applying and using research in new contexts.
Business
Innovation guide and companion for new technologies.
Licences
New ways to license software and data.
Spin-offs
Nucleus for technology and knowledge-intensive spin-offs.
Teaching
Fostering the next generation of scientists in logistics.
Cooperation and collaboration – our driving force.
Researchers BBQ
Discussions about research and results with a series of workshops.
Research infrastructure
Inter-organizational use of all service facilities.
PhD School
Summer School für Promovierende der Logistik.
Associations
Partnerships at strategic and operational level.
Series of publications
Whitepapers outline the future of logistics.
Conferences and congresses
Participation in national and international events.
News and events
XR – Mixed Reality in logistics
The Workstream Virtual Reality (VR) of the Research Clan Human-Technology-Interaction pursues the goal of collecting, analyzing and uniformly merging existing...
Second exchange between researchers from the Netherlands and the Center of Excellence
On 12 May, a presence day in the Rotterdam Sharehouse between researchers from the Netherlands and Dortmund was originally planned. Due to the corona pandemic...
Two-part webinar: Basics of machine learning
In the research clan "Machine Learning (ML)", researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), the Fraunhofer Institute for...
Two-part webinar: Basics of machine learning
In the research clan "Machine Learning (ML)", researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), the Fraunhofer Institute for...
From our work
Research clans rely even more on collaborative research and transfer
For the second funding phase, the Center of Excellence had called on researchers at the science location Dortmund to apply for admission to the research clans with creative and future-oriented projects - with great success.
»E-RIDDL« – Weiterbildung für die digitale Transformation
Mit einem Escape Room schafft das Projekt »E-RIDDL« einen innovativen Lernort für ein disziplinübergreifendes und transferorientiertes Weiterbildungsangebot. Unternehmen können das Angebot buchen.
Complementary links increase the quality of research
The research infrastructure, the workshops and the researcher meetings at the barbecues: it is thanks to these community formats at the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT, that the developers of the intelligent small load carrier “Emili” can push their project forward even more intensively.
Success stories
“Emili”, look over here: Study provides better interaction with autonomous container
Communication between people and technology plays a decisive role in the success of the social networked industry. How people can communicate intuitively with automated transport vehicles was the subject of a recent study by the ”Human-Technology Interaction” research clan at the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT.
Research clan implements new chatbot
With the C3DLO, the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Technology ISST has developed a chat bot that allows information to be retrieved in large volumes of data in natural language dialogues, even if the user does not know the filing structures. The Center of Excellence Logistics and IT was responsible for implementing the prototype.
First results from field study: Picking made easy
Smart technologies can be used in the picking areas at companies to help employees to pick different articles. The “Cognitive Ergonomy” research clan has carried out a field study and is still looking for companies for further investigations.
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Dr. -Ing. Christoph Besenfelder
Frederik Möller
Christoph Pott 
Dr. -Ing. Michael Schmidt