Fraunhofer Austria Research
Center for Sustainable Production and Logistics
The Center NPL (Sustainable Production and Logistics) designs and optimizes value creation processes in production networks for companies of all sizes – from start-ups to global corporations. Competitiveness, sustainability, and digitalization form the key objectives of its application-oriented research and development. The focus is on two flagship topics that are central to the Center NPL’s strategic direction: Positive Impact Production and Shared Logistics. The team at Fraunhofer Austria’s Center NPL brings outstanding methodological and practical expertise from all areas of digital transformation in industrial value creation.
Key areas include:
- AI-driven sustainable logistics planning (supply chain and network optimization)
- designing collaborative logistics networks
- data-driven inventory planning and optimization
- location-based material flow analysis via the FhA-duck box
- warehouse planning and automation
- data-driven spare parts and maintenance management.
Kontakt
Dr. Sandra Stein
Leistungsbereiche
Application Areas of Fraunhofer Austria Research
Competences of Fraunhofer Austria Research
LRA Projects of Fraunhofer Austria Research
- IMAMTU – Impact of autonomous, modular transport units
- PhysICAL – Physical Internet through Collaboration in Austrian Logistics
- IPPO – Intelligent networking of forecasting, planning and optimization for shaping sustainable transport chains
- ProKapa – Dynamic forecast-based capacity management for implementing framework conditions of the Physical Internet