Modern Materials Handling, Material Handling Product News and Material Handling 24/7 are proud to announce the winners of our fifth-annual Readers’ Choice Products of the Year Awards. Winning products will be featured in the MHPN publication’s December issue and online at MaterialHandling247.com.

These awards honor the achievements of companies for advances in materials handling systems and equipment within manufacturing, distribution centers and warehouses. Companies were invited to submit the products they felt were worthy of product of the year honors, and MHPN readers decided the winners in 13 categories. In total, we received 3,750 responses in an e-mail survey to our readers. We’re proud to announce our Readers’ Choice Material Handling Product News Products of the Year.

The editorial teams at Modern Materials Handling and MHPN congratulate the award recipients, but the real winners are their customers, who have access to some of the best tools ever for improving safety, efficiency and productivity.

Winners for each Category:

AGVs

• SICK, Inc. OutdoorScan3 safety scanner
• FlexQube Inc Smart and motorized eQart
• Yale Materials Handling Corporation Yale robotic reach truck (Winner!)
• Rite-Hite PitMaster V Dock Face Sealing System
• GreyOrange Flexo Fleet of Modular Sortation Robots

Automated Storage

• AutoStore Black Line (Winner!)
• Vanderlande ADAPTO storage, retrieval and transportation system
• Kardex Remstar Color Picking pick-to-light technology
• Leuze electronic IPS 400i Positioning Sensor for High Bay Storage Systems

Automatic Data Capture

• TVH GEM One Sapphire V2
• Hyster Company Hyster Tracker (Winner!)
• Rite-Hite Opti-Vu
• Access Control Group Asset Pro 360
• SICK Inc. Lector621 compact image-based code reader

Conveyors and Sortation

• 6 River Systems Mobile Sort collaborative sortation system
• Exair Large Type 316 Line Vac Air Operated Conveyors
• Eurosort Cross Tray high-speed unit sorter
• Material Handling Systems, Inc. HC-Loop Sorter (Winner!)

Dock Equipment

• Systems, LLC iDock Connect (Winner!)
• Keith Manufacturing Co. Freight Runner dock-to-trailer conveying system
• Rite-Hite PitMaster V Dock Face Sealing System
• Rite-Hite Rite-Vu Hazard Recognition System
• Micanan VFD Series of industrial garage door automation systems

Ergonomics and Safety

• BHS, Inc. Spool Winding Trolley
• The Elokon Group ELOprotect
• Adrian’s Safety Solutions Pallet Rack Strap and Safety Netting Products
• OKO Cart Standard
• CSF Inc. Pallet Return Device Assembly for ASRS Application (Winner!)
• OKO Cart Prime
• OKO Cart OKO Pallet Lift
• Carron Net Company Protective Guard Netting

Lift Trucks and Accessories

• Raymond Model 8250 AC walkie pallet truck, powered by lithium-ion
• Hyster Company B60-80ZHD2 end rider
• Raymond Corporation 3030 Raymond Courier Automated Stacker (Winner!)
• Douglas Battery Legacy High Performance Battery

Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO)

• Yale Materials Handling Corporation Yale Vision telemetry solution (Winner!)
• National Fleet Products UFO+ SLAM Exterior Vehicle Lock
• Texas Refinery Corp. Food Machinery Grease EP
• ITT PRO Services Sentinel 1 Onboard Monitoring System

Overhead Handling

• Columbus McKinnon ProPath Automated Workstation Crane by Unified Industries (Winner!)
• Advance Lifts Mechanical Vertical Reciprocating Conveyors (VRC)
• Verti-Lift Standard Duty Lifts
• Custom Equipment ZT-1630 Electric Scissor Lift

Packaging and Pallets

• ORBIS Corporation XpressBulk Bulk Merchandising System
• Quadient CVP Automated Packaging Solution (Winner!)
• TAB Wrapper Tornado Orbital Stretch Wrap Machine
• Packsize M1™ On Demand Packaging® system
• A-B-C Packaging Machine Corporation Model 601 Pallet Dispenser
• Aigner Label Holder Corp. Bin•Buddy Label Holder

Robotic Piece Picking

• Vanderlande Smart Item Robotics (SIR) (Winner!)
• Robotiq Robotic Vacuum Grippers
• Productive Robotics OB7 Collaborative robot
• Geek+ Robotics Robotic system for sorting

Supply Chain Software

• MagicLogic Optimization Inc. Cube-IQ BlackBox
• Softeon Warehouse Execution System
• Honeywell Intelligrated TechSight (Winner!)
• Rite-Hite Dok-Vu
• Vecna Robotics Pivot.al orchestration engine
• Pimcore Open-Source Product Information Management Software
• Logistyx Technologies TMS for parcel shipping

Tuggers, Casters and Carts

• Newcastle Systems QC Series Mobile Powered Workstations (Winner!)
• Newcastle Systems Apex Series Mobile Powered Workstations
• Rotacaster Wheel 50mm Omni Wheels and Mounts
• Vestil Manufacturing Line of machinery skates for moving heavy equipment