Swisslog Holding AG is a globally active Swiss company specializing in integrated automation solutions for

warehouse A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities, ...

distribution center A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers, or directly to c ...

s and hospitals. It is headquartered in Buchs/Aarau, Switzerland. Swisslog has 2,500 employees in approximately 20 countries and had revenues of 620.8 million euros in 2015. The company is part of the KUKA Group, a Chinese robotics and automation solutions supplier. Until July 2015, Swisslog was listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Area of operations

Swisslog is organized into two divisions: *Warehouse & Distribution Solutions *Healthcare Solution ''Warehouse & Distribution Solutions'' supplies industry-specific solutions for automated

s and distribution centers. Its core industries are retail and e-commerce, food and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. ''Healthcare Solutions'' specializes in logistics

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

solutions and is focused primarily on hospital logistics. Products and services for automated goods transport include pneumatic tube systems, automated guided vehicle systems,

electric track vehicle system ETV system at University library Regensburg, Germany An electric track vehicle system (ETV) is a conveyor system for light goods transport. The system uses independently driven vehicles traveling on a monorail track network, consisting of straig ...

s as well as pharmaceutical logistics systems.

History

Swisslog traces its roots back to ''Sprecher + Schuh AG'', founded in Aarau in 1900 and split into two separate entities in 1985. After a successful public tender offer by

KUKA KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. It has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016. The KUKA Robotics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries, mostly sales and servi ...

, Swisslog merged with a KUKA subsidiary at the end of July 2015 and was delisted from the Swiss stock exchange. Swisslog is now part of the KUKA Group.Swisslog General Meeting approves merger with cash compensation
dated July 28, 2015 on swisslog.com, retrieved October 1, 2015

References

{{Swiss logistics Logistics companies of Switzerland Construction and civil engineering companies of Switzerland International information technology consulting firms Aargau 1900 establishments in Switzerland Swiss brands