Gefco has expanded its automotive service parts warehouse in Wiesbaden, Germany to 10,000 sq.m and plans to roll out industry 4.0 technologies there in the coming months. This month the company has also made investments in finished vehicle compounds in Austria and France.

The logistics provider said it was looking to make service parts logistics more efficient by testing warehouse management systems and digitalising workflows, with the Wiesbaden parts centre acting as a testing ground for machine learning, artificial intelligence and internet-of-things (IoT) technology. Central to these plans is the introduction of collaborative robots (cobots) developed to work with warehouse operatives and manage repetitive tasks as well as enhancing safety.