{"id":2210,"date":"2019-06-19T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:08:56","slug":"2019-mhi-innovation-awards-technological-marvels-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/2019-mhi-innovation-awards-technological-marvels-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500p_shutterstock_503854255_Liu_zishan_Shutterstock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2161\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500p_shutterstock_503854255_Liu_zishan_Shutterstock-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500p_shutterstock_503854255_Liu_zishan_Shutterstock-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500p_shutterstock_503854255_Liu_zishan_Shutterstock.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seventh annual Innovation Awards recognizes head-turning ProMat exhibitor products across three categories.<br \/>\n<em>* By Greg Baer *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the seventh year, an expert panel of industry insiders has evaluated and selected the most innovative products and solutions created in our industry. Prior to April\u2019s installment of ProMat 2019, exhibitors were invited to submit entries for consideration in the MHI Innovation awards across three different categories: Best New Innovation, Best Innovation of an Existing Product and Best IT Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>MHI received 108 total submissions spread among the three groupings. To narrow down each category to four finalists prior to the show, the submissions were evaluated by a committee of six volunteer judges.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s evaluators included representatives from Covenant Transport, Canada\u2019s Department of National Defense, Framebridge, IKEA, PharmaLink, and Steelcase Inc. On Monday at ProMat, finalists\u2019 exhibits were visited in person by the judges who selected the winners based on their ability to deliver quantifiable and sustainable return on investment (ROI), cost savings and customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Awards were presented to the winning products and technologies on Wednesday during MHI Industry Night with Craig Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutions-digital.com\/mhiq\/0319_volume_7__issue_3\/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&amp;folio=32#pg32\"><strong><em>Read More\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored The seventh annual Innovation Awards recognizes head-turning ProMat exhibitor products across three categories. * By Greg Baer * For the seventh year, an expert panel of industry insiders has evaluated and selected the most innovative products and solutions created in our industry. Prior to April\u2019s installment of ProMat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[339,326,332,205,331,325,330,351,37,336,327,328,344,345,333,334,346,342,335,280,204,341,210,337,338,348,329,343,340,347,349,350],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-trends","category-industry-trends","tag-artitalia-group","tag-canadas-department-of-national-defense","tag-cartconnect","tag-cmc-srl","tag-cmc-varytote","tag-covenant-transport","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-eagle-eye-yard-management-software","tag-fetch-robotics","tag-forklift-safety-device","tag-framebridge","tag-ikea","tag-itempiq","tag-knapp","tag-locus-robotics","tag-locusbot","tag-logistiview","tag-mark-2-smartglove","tag-oe-attachments","tag-pharmalink","tag-pick2pack","tag-proglove","tag-redpilot","tag-righthand-robotics","tag-rightpick","tag-schaefer-systems-international","tag-steelcase-inc","tag-swisslog-logistics-automation-americas","tag-versatile-nesting-cart","tag-vision-picking-and-put-wall","tag-wamas-lighthouse","tag-yard-management-solutions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored - MHI Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/2019-mhi-innovation-awards-technological-marvels-honored\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored - MHI Solutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2019 MHI Innovation Awards: Technological Marvels Honored The seventh annual Innovation Awards recognizes head-turning ProMat exhibitor products across three categories. * By Greg Baer * For the seventh year, an expert panel of industry insiders has evaluated and selected the most innovative products and solutions created in our industry. 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