GRAM at Advanced Factories 2026: When the Data Speaks for Itself

We brought a real industrial challenge to one of Europe’s most important Industry 4.0 stages — and left no doubt about where GRAM stands.

Advanced Factories is not a trade show where you blend in. It is where the industrial sector comes to look at itself critically — where automation leaders, integrators, and engineers ask the hard questions about what is actually working, and what is still holding operations back.

This year, GRAM was part of that conversation. Not as a spectator, but as a contributor.

The problem nobody wants to name out loud

At the Factory Innovation Theatre, Albert Fuentes took the stage to address something that affects a significant share of modern industrial operations: physical data — weight, dimensions, volume — remains the weakest link in automation. Investments in software, ERP systems, and logistics platforms keep growing, while the physical measurement layer underneath them stays fragmented, unreliable, or simply absent.

The result is not just inefficiency. It is operational decisions being made on incomplete or inaccurate data, every single day.

“The gap is not in the technology. It is in how physical measurement data is captured, structured, and made available to the rest of the system.”

Albert Fuentes Foraster

GRAM’s answer: connected measurement intelligence

At Stand B349, visitors saw live what this looks like in practice. GRAM presented two complementary solutions — each addressing a distinct layer of the measurement challenge, and both built around the same principle: physical data should enter your systems correctly, at the moment it is captured.

GRAM Dimensioning™ — powered by MetriXFreight

At the stand, visitors saw live what automated dimensioning looks like in practice. GRAM Dimensioning™ combines 3D vision technology with precision weighing to capture weight, volume, and master data simultaneously — in milliseconds, without manual intervention.

Two configurations were on show, each built for a specific operational reality. The L235 handles pallets and bulky goods — high throughput, certified for trade applications. The S140 is designed for warehouse small-item flows, where speed and alignment-free operation make the difference at scale.

The result in both cases is the same: clean, structured physical data, captured at the source and ready to feed your systems the moment the measurement is taken.

GRAM Control™ + Z8i terminal

The second solution at the stand completed the picture. GRAM Control™ is the software layer that turns weighing into a connected, intelligent process. Paired with the Z8i terminal, every measurement is captured, structured, and integrated in real time — feeding ERP, MES, and WMS platforms via API, without manual steps in between.

Full traceability. Automated workflows. Industrial process control from a single platform. All powered by Xtrem™ Technology, the digital core behind GRAM’s connected ecosystem.

Stand B349: conversations over pitches

Beyond the conference stage, GRAM’s stand at B349 was a working space. The team demonstrated GRAM’s dimensioning solutions live, running real scenarios with visitors who brought their own operational questions to the table.

That is the spirit Advanced Factories rewards — and the kind of engagement GRAM is built for. The conversations at the stand confirmed what the presentation argued from the stage: the demand for reliable, integrated physical data is real, and it is accelerating.

What comes next

Advanced Factories 2026 was one stop on a broader trajectory. GRAM will continue building the partnerships and conversations that connect precision measurement to the intelligence that drives industrial performance.

If you were at the event and want to continue the conversation — or if you missed it and want to understand what connected measurement can do for your operation — we are ready to talk.