MHI Innovation Award Finalists Announced
MHI announces the finalists for the MHI Innovation Award competition. The MHI Innovation Award serves to educate and provide valuable insights on the latest manufacturing and supply chain innovative products and services. This award will be given to winners in two categories: Best New Innovation and Best Innovation of an Existing Product.
Best New Product Finalists
Cisco-Eagle Inc.
Intralox
Magline, Inc.
PowerHandling, Inc.
Sentry Protection Products
Yale Materials Handling Corp.
Best Existing Product Finalists
Digital Lumens, Inc.
Hyster Company
Valley Craft, Inc.
McCue Corporation
Product Protector LLC
QTEK Design Ltd.
The contest defines innovation as a new product, product line, technology or service or new application of existing products or technology that create quantifiable and sustainable results in terms of ROI, cost savings and customer satisfaction. A total of 64 companies and 76 innovations were submitted by MODEX 2014 exhibitors for the competition. All innovation award submissions will be showcased on the show floor.
All submissions were reviewed by the following panel of judges who determined the six finalists in each category.
Dave Konopka, Sr Manager Distribution Technology
Spectrum Brands
John Stepney, DC Manager
Spectrum Brands
Dan Salsbury, Sr Director of Warehousing
Coca Cola Bottling Co. Consolidates
Greg Wolljung, VP of Supply Chain
Snyders-Lance Inc.
John Nofsinger, MHI CEO (Retired)
Mike Ogle, Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Finalists will be evaluated by the judging panel on the morning of Monday, March 17. The award winners will be announced on March 18 just prior to the MODEX keynote at 8:30 AM in the Georgia World Congress Center Room B 312-314.
MODEX is the industry’s newest expo for the manufacturing and supply chain industries. MODEX 2014 will feature the solutions of 800 of the leading providers as well as an Supply Chain Conference featuring three keynotes, show floor seminars, collocated partner event to total over 100 educational sessions. MODEX attracts visitors from across the U.S. over 100 countries, and will once again feature an International Visitors Center. The Center provides matchmaker services for interested buyers and sellers. International trade specialists will be on hand to provide expert counseling. MODEX is a United States Department of Commerce International Buyer Program Select event.
