This is the logistics of the future
Chapter #02: "Factory Without People?"
What would a factory look like where machines, storage systems, and conveyor systems work together like clockwork?
What would a factory look like where machines, storage systems, and conveyor systems work together like clockwork? In the second chapter of the video "The Future of Logistics", LogistikPlan and the Ka.ira Future Service take a look at the production environments of 2050. Janos, questioning from the present day, is amazed: in the factory of the future, pallets, crates, and cartons seem to move like parts of a fully automated clockwork.
"The Future of Logistics"
How will our industrial sites be powered in 25 years? Can production and logistics run like clockwork by 2050? And will every parcel be delivered to us by drone in the future? A team of experts comprising renowned factory planners, logistics engineers, architects, and futurists has now explored these questions and presented their findings in a multimedia vision.
Ka.ira answers your questions
To validate whether the forecast will actually come true, the Saxon logistics specialists organised an exclusive interview and recorded it as a kind of "video proof". 13-year-old Janos asks razor-sharp questions from the present day. Science Agent Ka.ira, spokesperson for the Ka.ira Future Service, answers them live from the year 2050.
On the occasion of their 20th company anniversary, LogistikPlan is releasing the 3-part video "The Future of Logistics":
Chapter #01: "You're Still in Your Infancy"
Chapter #02: "A Factory Without People?"
Chapter #03: "Storage and Delivery Like Magic?"
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Yet the vision also shows: full automation does not mean "no people". Alongside assembly robots, autonomous guided vehicles, and dynamic storage systems, it is still engineers, skilled workers, and IT specialists who plan, commission, and maintain the complex system — with their expertise as much as with experience and common sense.
This is precisely where LogistikPlan's role lies, now and in the future: the Dresden-based factory and logistics planners have been developing tailored concepts for production, retail, and infrastructure since 2005 — from location strategy to the design of intralogistics. "More and more companies," says LogistikPlan project manager Wilko Taudor, "now want to automate completely. But our analyses almost always show that a mixed-system approach is more cost-effective." "As you can see in our video, small parts can be stored perfectly in an AutoStore, for example, while order picking can be handled both manually and with picking robots, with occasional support from AGVs."
The ultimate goal for companies is a production logistics setup that makes good use of resources, ensures short throughput times, and reduces the workload on employees. Whether a factory is truly fit for the future is determined not by robotics alone, but by the interconnection of intralogistics — which ideally orchestrates all interfaces from goods receipt through production and storage to dispatch.
In the video, Ka.ira explains what role robots, drones, and digital twins will play in 2050, for example. Her message: many of these future technologies are already available today. What is often missing is simply the courage to automate factory processes consistently and rethink them holistically.
