Intralogistics

Also called: internal logistics, in-plant logistics, intralogistics safety platform

Intralogistics is the flow of materials inside a single site, such as receiving, storage, picking, transfer to production lines and shipping, carried out by forklifts, tuggers, conveyors, automated vehicles and people.

The term is common in European and manufacturing buyer language, where an intralogistics safety platform usually means one system that covers all moving equipment in a plant rather than forklifts alone: forklifts, tow tractors, pallet trucks, automated guided vehicles and their interaction with pedestrians and fixed machines. In US warehousing the same scope is often described as material handling or powered industrial truck safety.

Thinking in intralogistics terms helps where hazards cross equipment types, such as conveyor transfer points, automated storage interfaces, docks and routes shared by tuggers and pedestrians. OSHA lists powered industrial trucks, material handling and robotics among the main warehousing hazards. A platform described this way still has to prove each function separately: detection on each vehicle type, zone rules that match the layout and data that someone acts on. The warehouse traffic management plan guide covers how to organise shared routes.