The standard is the shortcut: Automating multiple sites without starting from scratch each time. Live with SYNAOS

What is it about?

The pilot is running and the first mobile robots are operating reliably. Now it is time to scale: more halls, more sites, more vehicles. This is exactly the point at which it becomes clear whether the initial setup was scalable. Every manufacturer brings its own control system, and before long a site has ten robots from two manufacturers, the next has thirty from five, each with its own software. Cross-site control becomes nearly impossible, and every new site turns into its own project. Standardization is still often seen as a brake, because it sounds like bureaucracy and lengthy coordination. With Steffen Strickrodt from SYNAOS we discuss how you can bring vehicles from different manufacturers together under a shared control system, what role open standards such as VDA 5050 play in this, and what you should already be thinking about during your first pilot so that the rollout to additional sites is not held back later.

This webinar is part of the series "Internal Transports". An overview of the webinars:

• The standard is the shortcut: Automating multiple sites without starting from scratch each time. Live with SYNAOS (Monday, 02.11.2026): How to control mobile robots from different manufacturers together and what you should already be thinking about during the pilot so that the rollout to additional sites is not held back later.
• WMS, WCS or both: What do you need to avoid congestion in the warehouse? Live with infios (Tuesday, 03.11.2026): Which system decides which transport moves next, and when a WCS is needed alongside the WMS.
• Order surge overnight: How The Quality Group handles peaks with mobile robots. Live with Locus Robotics (Wednesday, 04.11.2026): How The Quality Group manages order peaks in picking with 440 mobile robots.
• Narrow aisles, steep ramps: Do pallet robots fit in your existing warehouse? Live with Robotize (Thursday, 05.11.2026): What a pallet robot really needs in an established warehouse and where the limits lie.
• Mobile robots or conveyor technology? How to choose the right Solution. Live with GEBHARDT (Friday, 06.11.2026): Which transport tasks are suited to conveyor technology, when mobile robots are the answer, and when both make sense.

Why you should attend

• you are planning to roll out automation to additional halls or sites
• you are responsible for multiple sites and want to prevent each one from building its own Solution
• you are using vehicles from different manufacturers, each controlled by their own software
• you already have the first mobile robots in operation and want to take the next step without blocking further expansion

What you will take away from the webinar

• Why the step from pilot to rollout is often harder than the initial launch
• What it means in day-to-day operations when every manufacturer brings its own fleet control system, and when a manufacturer-independent control system pays off
• What a shared standard for multiple sites can look like, even when each site is set up differently
• What role VDA 5050 plays in this and what the standard delivers in practice
• What you should already define during the first pilot so that new sites can get up and running faster later on

Speaker

• Steffen Strickrodt, Vice President of Customer Success at SYNAOS
• Moderator: Andreas Löwe, Founder & CEO of even