A key objective of Germany’s Society for Labour Sciences (GfA) is to promote dialogue between the worlds of research and industry. Maintaining close dialogue with research institutes is also a top priority at item. As a new GfA...

Back pain is the number one medical complaint. An average of 2.82 sick days – and thus the majority of them – are attributed to musculoskeletal complaints. One cause of this high illness rate is work benches that do not meet...

The digital revolution has held sway over the mechanical engineering sector for quite some time now. There is certainly no shortage of big and bold predictions and large-scale case studies, but they are of limited help to small and...

item is everywhere – besides being widely used in industrial environments, the Solingen-based company’s aluminium profiles are making their way into the world of leisure, too. Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG., for instance, uses item...

Digital engineering processes have firmly taken root in the mechanical engineering sector. For example, CAD data is now available to download across the board. It’s also getting easier and easier to create 3D designs using...

Designing solutions for lean production operations just got a whole lot easier and more intuitive – thanks to the item Engineeringtool. But how does this engineering program work? item is at LogiMAT 2019 to showcase its enhanced...