IFOY winners are announced
IFOY winners are announced
The winners of the 2021 International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) Award have been announced!
This week, representatives of arculus, Cargotec, idealworks, Interroll Group, STILL and Volume Lagersysteme received the “Oscar of intralogistics” at an awards ceremony at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
Now in its ninth year, the IFOY Award is the most important intralogistics award in the world. In 2021, 14 international companies entered 17 products and solutions. “The winners of the IFOY Award 2021 have once again demonstrated that businesses can be innovative and forward-thinking even in persistent pandemic times. They are bringing top products to the market that have a significant effect on the future of intralogistics,” says jury chairwoman Anita Würmser.
Forklift specialist Cargotec won its first IFOY Award in the “Special Vehicle” category with the second generation of its Moffett E4-25.3NX, the world’s first fully electric truck-mounted forklift. According to the jury, the emission-free and low-noise truck is unique in its class. It has three-wheel drive as well as numerous safety features and it impressed the jury in the IFOY test, for example, with its economic efficiency and high performance.
The category “Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)” was won by the BMW subsidiary idealworks with its iw.hub. Originally developed for in-house use, the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) is now freely available on the market and can be implemented very easily in just two days without any structural adjustments. The AMR, which set the benchmark at the IFOY Test Days with its flexibility and other features, also scored points with its competitive price.
In the “Special of the Year” category, the IFOY Award went to the Smart Pallet Mover from the Swiss Interroll Group. The new, mobile robot solution for the automation of pallet transport in the areas of production machines and order picking impressed testers and the jury not only with its high degree of innovation but also with an outstanding cost-benefit advantage.
An IFOY Award was also won by arculus. In the category “Intralogistics Software”, the manufacturer-independent fleet management system arculus Fleet impressed the jury with its many features. The system enables the operation of AGVs from different manufacturers in one area via a VDA5050 interface and opens up new possibilities for the mixed operation of automated warehouse vehicles, which were unthinkable not long ago.
In the “Integrated Warehouse Solutions” category, this year’s award went to STILL. The Hamburg-based intralogistics company made it to the top of the podium with its Danfoss project. For the new Danfoss Power Electronics production warehouse, STILL implemented a perfectly coordinated solution consisting of three automated series industrial trucks, the smart iGo insights tool and the ELOshield safety system for its Danish customer. According to the jury, the project is an impressive example of how automated warehouses will be controlled, monitored and analysed in the future.
No fewer than five companies qualified for the final round in the “Start-up of the Year” category this year with very different innovative solutions. In the end, Volume Wave from Volume Lagersysteme came out on top. The world’s first fully automated pallet shuttle warehouse with individual access to each storage location got the thumbs up from the jury thanks to its fundamentally new design principle as well as its professional implementation. During the IFOY Innovation Check, technical experts described the space-saving solution as “impressive”.
The IFOY Awards recognise the best intralogistics products and solutions of the year. The competition has established itself as an indicator of cost-effectiveness and innovation and is regarded as the leading award in intralogistics due to its technical expertise. The basis for the decision is a three-stage audit (consisting of the IFOY test protocol with around 80 criteria), the scientific IFOY Innovation Check and the jury test. The nominees are not compared with one another, but with their competitors’ products on the market.
At the IFOY Test Days in March at the Messe Dortmund exhibition centre, all nominees went through the IFOY testing process. For the second year in a row, around 100 potential buyers were also on site at the Test Camp Intralogistics.
The winners of the IFOY Award are chosen annually by an international jury of trade journalists, including Charleen Clarke, editorial director of FOCUS.
The IFOY Award is sponsored by the Association for Materials Handling and Intralogistics. Messe Dortmund and the world’s leading forklift attachment manufacturer Cascade are IFOY partners. The IFOY Award’s pallet partner is CHEP, the global market leader in the pooling of pallets and containers. The logistics real estate partner is GARBE, the trailer partner is Kögel and the logistics partner is LTG. The application phase for the IFOY Award 2022 starts on August 1, 2021.
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