Awards - Congrats to the winners of the IFOY Awards 2022

IFOY AWARDs 2022 presented to six intralogistics companies

*Jungheinrich, Locus Robotics, Noyes Technologies, robominds, SSI SCHÄFER and SYNAOS proudly receive coveted intralogistics awards

Around 200 guests from business, science, politics and the media gathered at Munich’s BMW Welt for the live and in person announcements and presentations of the six IFOY AWARds 2022. Executives from Jungheinrich, locus Robotics, Noyes Technologies, robominds, SSI SCHÄFER and SYNAOS were present to accept the award trophies, also known as the “Oscars of intralogistics”.

In 2022, twelve international companies with 14 products and solutions competed in the tenth round of the awards programme. “Ten years of the IFOY Awards stand for ten years of outstanding innovations,” emphasised jury chair Anita Würmser, at the ceremony. “In 2022, the finalists have once again presented top products in the competition that will shape the future of intralogistics in the long term,” she continued.

Jungheinrich won an IFOY AWARd in the ‘Special Vehicle’ category with its ERd 220i double-deck stacker. The forklift truck sets new standards for a safe, optimally protected and yet super-compact electric pallet truck, according to the jury. The performance was first-class and challenged the competition, the jurors remarked. The winner in the category ‘Automated guided Vehicle (AgV/AMR)’ was locus Robotics with its locus Robotics AMR Solution. The collaborative AMR, with which retailers, contract

Locus-Robotics AMR Solution

logistics companies, but also industrial companies can greatly improve their efficiency, scored points with the testers and innovation checkers due to its high degree of innovation and its high market relevance in the light of the rapidly growing online trade and the demand for cost-effective solutions to increase throughput.

A total of three fledgling companies qualified for the final round in the ‘Start-up of the Year’ category this year with their innovative products and solutions. The winner was the Munich-based start-up Noyes Technologies with its first robotically operated, automated and highly flexible nano-logistics system Noyes Storage for urban logistics. The IFOY Innovation Checkers awarded the solution the highest possible number of points in the categories of market relevance, customer benefit, degree of innovation and functionality/type of implementation. The fact that customers from almost all industries can benefit from significantly improved space utilisation with the help of the system also impressed the test team and the jury.

For the tenth round of the global competition, the Robotics + Automation Association within the VdMA entered the ‘Robot’ category at the IFOY AWARd 2022 as a sponsor. Here, the Munichbased company robominds won with its AI-based robobrain.NEUROS – an industrialised operating system for intelligent robotics. According to the jury, the market relevance of a manufacturer-neutral and reliable robotics operating system with support for AI-based processes can be classified as very high. The ‘Integrated Warehouse Solutions’ category is one of the top categories in this competition. In the final, SSI SCHÄFER prevailed with its IkEA Project Flat Pack Picking, an automated and turnkey system solution for the safe and volume-optimised palletising of heavy and large items. The use of gantry robots enables the efficient handling of a broad range range of articles. The IFOY testers rated the solution as well engineered and also interesting for other industries.

This year’s winner in the category ‘Special of the Year’ was SYNAOS with its SYNAOS IMS – Vehicle localization for the complete localisa-

tion of transport vehicles. “The simple real-time localisation of all types of industrial trucks with the help of this very convincing localisation system helps customers on their way to the complete digitalisation of intralogistics,” judged the IFOY testers. In the IFOY Innovation Check, the solution scored points for its high market relevance.

The International Intralogistics & Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) AWARd honours the best intralogistics products and solutions of the year. It has established itself as an indicator of cost-effectiveness and innovation and is considered the definitive international innovation award in intralogistics due to its technical expertise. The basis for the decision is the three-stage audit consisting of the IFOY test protocol

robobrain.NEUROS, robominds

IKEA Project Flat Pack Picking, SSI SCHÄFER

comprising around 80 criteria, the scientific IFOY Innovation Check and the jury test. The decisive factor is that the nominees are not compared with each other, but with their competitor devices on the market.

On the occasion of the IFOY TEST dAYS, all nominees went through the IFOY test series in March at the Messe dortmund exhibition centre. For the third year in a row, numerous 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 Fleet Transport/Handling Network’s Jarlath Sweeney. The IFOY AWARd is sponsored by the Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association and the Robotics + Automation Association within the VdMA. IFOY partners are Messe dortmund and the world’s leading forklift attachment manufacturer Cascade. The IFOY AWARd’s pallet partner is CHEP, the world market leader in the pooling of pallets and containers. The logistics real estate partner is gARBE, the logistics partner is lTg. Trailer partner is Fliegl Fahrzeugbau. IFOY AWARDS: ALL WInnERS 2022 AT A GLAnCE

n ERd 220i, Jungheinrich

n locus Robotics AMR Solution, locus Robotics

n Noyes Storage, Noyes Technologies

n robobrain.NEUROS, robominds

n IkEA Project Flat Pack Picking,

SSI SCHÄFER

n SYNAOS IMS – Vehicle localization, SYNAOS