Digital transformation

Through this project, in collaboration with the road haulage sector, VIL aims to design a costing model that reflects the actual profitability of every transport order performed.

With Crowd Logistics, entrepreneurs or semi-professionals are utilized to transport goods. What business models can be applied? What are the legal implications? How can this be integrated into business logistics and what is its added value, both for logistics operators and for society in general?

Flexible transport robots, or Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), show great potential. The new generation of transport robots are flexible and compact and have no impact on infrastructure. Some also have a fully autonomous location system on board. In which warehouse operations can they be used?

In recent months, parcel delivery by using drones has become a topic of discussion. However, the large-scale use of drones for this purpose remains a pipe dream. Drones that collect stock from a warehouse or monitor materials and equipment in a yard offer more opportunities in the short term. This leaves sufficient reasoning for VIL […]

Cobots are robots that will follow tasks easily for them to be deployed effortlessly and swiftly, at a low investment cost. Through the ‘Cobots in Logistics’ project, VIL aims to enable the logistics sector to acquire knowledge and practical experience on the possibilities of these flexible service robots.

The surge in wearable technologies, in particular smart glasses, offers opportunities for performing certain logistical tasks more efficiently and accurately, in a highly user-friendly manner. This project aims to identify the potential and opportunities of these technologies and to test them in a practical environment.