IFOY is looking for the year’s best forklift trucks and intralogistics products in eight categories It’s once again time to start the search for the winners of the 2016 "Intralogistics Oscars". The entrant portal for the leading intralogistics award opened its doors today, and manufacturers of MHE vehicles as well as providers of intralogistics solutions in all fields can now register. "This year’s vote will be more exciting than ever before. The entrants who will be nominated in one of the categories in a CeMAT year really are leaders in innovation", says Anita Würmser, Executive Jury Chairperson of the IFOY organisation. The chances of a nomination are good this year, because the international jury has included new product segments and increased the number of categories from five to eight. The new categories have been selected to reflect the high number of innovations in widely varying fields. Invitation for the IFOY Award in eight categories The two traditional forklift categories "Counter Balanced Trucks up to 3.5 tons" and "over 3.5 tons" have now been joined by the "Special Vehicle" category for special-purpose vehicles, container stackers, transportable forklifts or heavy-load forklifts with capacities of over eight tons. The "Warehouse Truck" category has been divided into "Warehouse Truck highlifters" and "Warehouse Truck lowlifters" for trucks with a lifting height up to the 1st shelving level and from the 2nd shelving level. In addition, shuttle vehicles are now admitted to the category "Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)". The category "Intralogistics Solutions" does not focus on the vehicles but on planning and implementation expertise. The competition is open to a successfully implemented integrated warehouse concept or intralogistics systems or software solutions, such as warehouse management systems, logistics software, forklift guidance, driver assistant or fleet management systems, always within the context of a specific application. Another […]