Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML

Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen

Executive director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. h. c. Michael Henke

Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alice Kirchheim

Contact: Wolfgang Inninger

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML advises companies of all industries and sizes in all questions about material flow and logistics. For our customers we offer widespread services.

As consultants we support in fulfilling new tasks and meeting requirements, as researchers we work out new solutions together with our customers, as planners we help to optimize the internal and external logistics and as developers we realize solutions in soft- and hardware. In the process, Fraunhofer IML focuses on company-specific, made-to-measure solutions and accompanies its customers from planning to implementation.

Departments of the section Logistics, Traffic, Environment are

  • Environment and Resource Logistics
  • Transportation Logistics
  • Project Center Aviation Logistics
  • Project Center Traffic, Mobility and Environment
  • Health Care Logistics
  • Center for Maritime Logistics and Services

Further locations beside Dortmund are Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg, Prien at lake Chiemsee, Lisbon and Beijing.