The 7th Innovations Forum on October 19, 2017 in Kornwestheim near Stuttgart for the first time combines the main focus areas of project planning with those of factory and logistics planning. The K conference center is about the “digitization of cooperation”, the opportunities of which are presented to planners, IT managers and decision-makers in lectures, workshops and software presentations. The 7th … Read More
7th Innovation Forum 2017
The event for planners, project managers, decision-makers and IT managers The Digitization of the Cooperation – We cordially invite you to experience the opportunities and possibilities of digital cooperation at the 7th Innovation Forum and to gather new impulses for your daily work. For the first time, we are combining content from the areas of production and logistics as well … Read More
Integrated logistics and assembly planning in one software package
New IPO.Log 4 software ensures efficient production logistics and assembly Leonberg, 03.07.2017 (PresseBox) – The world of logistics depending on assembly is extraordinarily complex. An enormous number of interconnected processes and their specific restrictions are responsible for this complexity. For this reason, IPO.Plan GmbH, together with the technology pioneers Magna Steyr and Daimler, has developed a new generation of planning … Read More
A Platform for the Project Work of the Future
Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are bringing lasting changes to our working world. How can project-related collaboration between internal employees, freelancers, customers and suppliers be organized more effectively and efficiently moving forward? As provider of the leading project planning software RPLAN, Actano has developed a platform that deploys innovative concepts to fulfil the many and varied requirements placed on the … Read More
Idea generation as a part of the Continual Improvement Process (CIP)
Are you working ON the business or are you working IN the business? Working ON the business has to be the goal of working IN the business and as a way to achieve it, the continual improvement should be the approach we should take into consideration, but what is continual improvement? It is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, … Read More
Project planning of the future – already today
Interview with Holger Lörz, CEO of Actano, about the recently introduced cloud-based project planning solution RPlan 4D, which visualizes the project progress on the respective 3D models. Mr. Lörz, how does industrial project management have to adapt to the new framework conditions of IoT & Co.? The international perspective on German project management is characterized by the large projects Elbphilharmonie, … Read More
Workstreams introduces message menus
How we use Slack’s most recent update on interactive messages to massively improve our bot’s interaction design. The most recent big update to Slack’s interactive messages was the introduction of message menus. They are like the dropdown menus you know, but on steroids. When we built the Workstreams Slack app, users had to go through a long series of buttons … Read More
Before Artificial Intelligence takes over our jobs, it will organize our work.
It won’t be long until AI’s are better than humans at forecasting project success. In May of 2012, just 4 weeks before the official date, the opening of Berlin’s new international airport is announced to be delayed for another couple of weeks. Weeks became months and months became years. The latest prediction for its actual opening is late 2018. Read … Read More
Meet us at LogiMAT fair 2017!
SHAPING CHANGE Digital – Connected – Innovative Inventing production logistics within tugger trains and supermarkets efficiently as well as reliable. That is one of the planning tasks you will experience with our software at the LogiMAT fair. With IPO.Log assembly and logistics are integrated and continuously connected with your systems. Furthermore you can immerse yourself in virtual reality. Slip into … Read More
Collaboration 4.0 is only about transparency
Industry 4.0 extends the work in engineering by the level of networked data. To cope with this increase in complexity, engineering teams must acquire a workflow that places transparency at the forefront. How well does engineering work in German companies to meet the requirements of Industry 4.0? The results of the VDMA study “Industrie 4.0 in Anlagenbau 4.0” last year … Read More