Continental, Jungheinrich, Still, Aisle-Master and Crown have been nominated in a global awards showcase, with the awards set to be presented later this week.
The developers of 25 different products and solutions will compete for the International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) awards in Germany, set to be awarded later this week.
All nominees will complete a three stage audit, comprising a functional test, an innovation check by academics and testing by a jury of trade journalists before the award is announced.
Continental Automotive has been nominated in the automated guided vehicle category for its AMR IL 1200 – designed for use in warehouses or logistics centres, as well as for production logistics with heavy pallets, as in the automotive and metalworking industries.
With its integrated lifting system and various body options, the AMR IL 1200 can transport pallets weighing up to 1.09 tonnes at two metres per second.
“The IFOY Award is considered the definitive innovation award in intralogistics,” the company says.
“The bandwidth of IFOY applicants is traditionally large and very international in the field of automated guided vehicles, which for some years now have not only come from the intralogistics sector.”
Other nominees are Hikorobot for its F4- 100C forklift mobile robot for narrow aisle applications, China’s Youibot for its AT-100 autonomous mobile robot and Agilox’s Omnidirectional Dolly Mover.
There are awards for high and low lift warehouse trucks, software, intralogistics robots and “start-up of the year” and a special award for other features.
UAE-based Al Shirawi Enterprises’ forklift brand Still secured nominations in both warehouse truck categories, with its EXH 14-20 Plus series hand pallet truck to contend against US-based Raymond’s End Rider electric pallet jack for the low lift award.
The high lift award will be between Still’s PXV vertical order picker, which offers a picking height of up to 14.5m; the SP1500 from Crown with its redesigned operator platform and 10.2m lift height; and the stand-on, articulated Aisle-Master OP Combilift, which has a 12.1m lift height.
Award nominees in the Intralogistics Robot category are China’s Zhejiang Libiao Robots for its Airrob container handing robotic system and German companies Volume Lagersysteme for the Volume Dive container warehouse system and Jungheinrich for its PowerCube automated compact storage system for containers.
Jungheinrich was also nominated for a special award for its addedView fork camera, which scans barcodes in warehouses while a vehicle operator is moving, telling them if they are going the wrong way.
Its competitors for that award are the Swiss-made Kemaro 900 industrial dry-cleaning robot, which cleans large areas under machines and equipment; and the Nimmsta light tag, which lights up when a worker tasked with finding an item approaches.
Software award nominations went to DS Automation for the Arcos package; IdentPro for its Warehouse Execution System; and Mobile Easykey.
The nominated start-ups are: 1MRobotics, Loady, ff Fördersysteme, Hunic, Predimo, Sentics and sereact.