With the specialist laboratory »Blockchain in Supply Chain Management«, prospective industrial engineers at TU Dortmund University are now coming into direct contact with an important area of the Silicon Economy.

In the context of the pitches made by the most important logistics think tanks at the German Logistics Congress, Fraunhofer IML presented the LoadRunner as a contribution to the Silicon Economy.

As the winner of the NRW Innovation Prize 2020, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel presented a blockchain-capable IoT device for monitoring temperature-sensitive goods along global supply chains.

The first development projects in the »Silicon Economy Logistics Ecosystem« innovation project have got off to a good start. Solutions for the Silicon Economy infrastructure are developed on the basis of exemplary logistics use cases.

Only a few weeks after receiving the funding notification for the large-scale »Silicon Economy Logistics Ecosystem« research project, Fraunhofer IML marked the start of operational work with a visit by the lead partner.

The Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Andreas Scheuer handed over the funding decision for the large-scale »Silicon Economy Logistics Ecosystem (SELE)« project for about 25 million Euro to Fraunhofer IML digitally.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML will soon be advancing blockchain technology at the European Blockchain Institute EURO-CHAIN in North-Rhine Westphalia. Today, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, handed over the notification for 7.7 million Euro of funding to the directors of the institute.