COLUMAT NEWS

This article highlights the implementation of a new smart locker system in the Pharmacy Department at Madrid's Hospital Clínico San Carlos. Through this initiative, over 100 outpatients with stable chronic treatments have successfully collected their medication autonomously, quickly, and with flexible hours. The project eliminates waiting times and improves work-life balance while maintaining strict pharmaceutical oversight and patient monitoring.

The interview delves into how Carmen Velasco explains that data analytics applied to smart lockers enables optimized reception management in hotels and corporate buildings. The publication emphasizes that basing operations on real metrics avoids overstaffing, adjusts service hours effectively, and ensures a much smoother user experience

The report addresses how Renfe has managed to substantially cut incident resolution times across its workshop network by digitizing and automating maintenance. The text highlights that optimizing workflows and tool tracking accelerates repairs, maximizes rolling stock availability, and boosts overall operational efficiency.

The analysis outlines Carmen Velasco's vision on the transformation of the smart locker, which has shifted from an optional accessory to a core structural asset in corporate buildings and logistics hubs. The piece emphasizes that this technology has become a critical component for streamlining internal logistics, digitizing front-desk operations, and ensuring long-term operational efficiency.

The analysis examines how the real estate sector is turning to building and process automation to maximize property operational efficiency. The publication highlights that integrating smart technology reduces management costs, optimizes energy consumption, and boosts asset valuation by meeting the rising demand for sustainability.

The article reviews the presentation of Catalonia's public housing investment opportunities and policies at The District real estate event held in Madrid. The piece highlights how Catalan institutions aim to attract private capital and foster public-private partnerships to accelerate affordable housing construction and meet high residential demand.

The piece analyzes the need to design smart locker networks across Europe that prioritize modular flexibility and carrier interoperability. The article emphasizes that, in light of rapid e-commerce growth and changing consumer habits, last-mile infrastructure must swiftly adapt to diverse locations, volumes, and cargo types to remain economically viable.

The piece inform that most logistics companies operate with limited modernization budgets, prompting Columat to propose a pragmatic automation approach focused on eliminating everyday operational friction. The publication emphasizes how optimizing equipment management (such as scanners and handheld devices) through smart lockers boosts productivity with lower capital expenditure and a quick return on investment.

The article highlights that minor disruptions in the availability of warehouse devices (such as uncharged or misplaced scanners) generate significant and recurring operational costs. To mitigate these inefficiencies and safeguard staff productivity, the publication advocates for implementing smart lockers that automate equipment tracking, charging, and control.

The piece highlights that real estate properties capable of adapting, attracting, and retaining tenants significantly increase their market value. It emphasizes how flexibility, energy efficiency, and architectural quality have become key pillars for ensuring the profitability and long-term resilience of modern real estate assets.

The piece summarizes Columat's presentation at The District real estate summit regarding corporate property devaluation caused by obsolete operational practices. The publication focuses on how automating reception and internal logistics eliminates daily inefficiencies and hidden expenses, preserving asset profitability and market appeal.

The report outlines how Columat has tailored its smart lockers to meet the stringent thermal and operational standards of the pharmaceutical sector for corporate meal delivery. Accordingly, the publication underscores how automated drop-offs preserve cold-chain integrity and streamline internal catering services, providing enhanced flexibility for employees.

The piece highlights that A Logista Strator has integrated Columat’s smart lockers into its technology solutions catalog for SMEs and local shops. The publication emphasizes that this agreement enables businesses to offer 24/7 automated pickup and delivery services, boosting their digitalization and diversifying the services provided to their customers.

The article reports that the Central Food Market of Jerez de la Frontera has installed refrigerated lockers to modernize traditional trade. With this free system, customers can order fresh produce by phone or WhatsApp and pick it up using a QR code until nine in the evening, making shopping easier for those whose schedules are incompatible with morning hours.

The article explains how leading retail companies are automating end-to-end operations within their distribution centers through technologies such as Columat's Smart Lockers. The solution enables automated management, return, and traceability of handheld devices, tools, PPE, and other operational assets, reducing downtime, preventing equipment losses, eliminating manual processes, and improving efficiency across the entire logistics value chain.

The article reports that Barcelona City Council is expanding the "Markets at a click" program to 29 municipal markets and 169 shops in its sixth phase. This measure aims to boost the digitalization of local commerce through training and tools that facilitate online sales and channels such as WhatsApp.

The article explains that as warehouses become automated, inefficiencies in the manual management of tools and devices (such as terminals or scanners) become more costly. To avoid losses of time and money, the text advocates for the need to also optimize the management of the equipment used by operators.

The article reports on the implementation of a Smart Locker system at Inca Regional Hospital, enabling outpatients to collect hospital-dispensed medication 24 hours a day. Integrated into the hospital's telepharmacy model, the solution includes 39 smart compartments (25 ambient and 14 refrigerated), ensures full medication traceability and proper storage conditions, and improves patient convenience by reducing waiting times and allowing medication pickup outside pharmacy opening hours.

The report examines advanced talks between Ceva Logistics and Paack to absorb its last-mile operations in the Iberian Peninsula and France through its subsidiary Colis Privé. The publication emphasizes that this transaction aims to consolidate the multinational's footprint in Southern European e-commerce by integrating Paack's express delivery network and technology.

The piece highlights the strategic partnership reached between Columat and Logista aimed at scaling smart locker presence across multiple market sectors. The publication emphasizes how this synergy combines Columat’s technological innovation in pickup point management with Logista’s extensive distribution network to accelerate national rollout

The article announces the strategic partnership between Logista Strator and Columat to integrate Columat's Smart Lockers into Logista Strator's technology portfolio. The collaboration combines Logista Strator's commercial network of more than 8,000 points of sale across the Iberian market with Columat's Smart Locker technology to automate deliveries, collections, returns, and equipment exchanges for retail, corporate, and industrial environments, improving operational efficiency, traceability, and 24/7 availability.

The article explains how companies such ID Logistics, Renfe, and Calsina Carré use Columat's Smart Locker technology to automate the delivery, return, and management of operational assets including PDAs, scanners, tools, and personal protective equipment (PPE). The solution improves end-to-end traceability, reduces asset losses, eliminates manual handover processes between shifts, and lowers operational costs associated with managing physical equipment across logistics and industrial facilities.

The article explains how collective catering providers can profitably serve companies with 50–400 employees by combining centralized cold-chain meal production, app-based pre-ordering, and Columat's refrigerated Smart Lockers. The solution removes the need for an on-site cafeteria, reduces food waste, ensures full traceability, and extends catering services to logistics hubs, industrial facilities, and medium-sized workplaces.

The article explains how collective catering operators can profitably serve workplaces with fewer than 200 employees by using refrigerated Smart Lockers and automated food distribution. Columat's solution reduces operating costs, minimizes food waste, and provides a flexible meal service without the need for a traditional cafeteria.