Linde Material Handling: Safety wins

This year’s winner in the warehouse technology category of the “Best of Industry Award” was not a vehicle, but an assistance system: The “Linde Motion Detection” solution from the goods handling specialist Linde Material Handling (MH) protects pedestrians by registering movements behind a stationary forklift and preventing it from starting up. In this way, both operational safety and a productive operating process are taken into account, so that in the end forklift drivers, warehouse personnel and fleet operators benefit.

Since the competition began in 2016, there have never been so many participants in the “Best of Industry Award”. A total of 190 entries in 24 categories were received by the organiser, MM Maschinenmarkt, a brand of the Vogel Communications Group based in Würzburg. This year, the winners were decided exclusively by online voting, which ran for five months and involved almost 20,000 votes. Innovations or further developed solutions that were launched on the market between June 2021 and March 2022 could be submitted.

“The fact that accidents, some of them serious, occur time and again in plant transport is a truism,” said Bernd Maienschein, trade editor of MM Logistik, at the online awards ceremony on 12 December. “Linde Motion Detection focuses in particular on the movements behind the truck. If the system detects movement, it automatically prevents the truck from moving backwards and warns the driver on the display. Optionally, this warning can also be given acoustically. The vehicle can only be driven off once the hazardous situation has been resolved and the accelerator pedal has been actively returned to the starting position. The result of this safety measure achieved by Linde Motion Detection is fewer accidents and – also not to be neglected – higher productivity with the implement,” he adds.

“We are delighted about the selection of the Linde assistance system and see this as confirmation of our efforts for more safety in in-plant material flow,” said Fabian Zimmermann, Product Manager Safety, enthusiastically about the award. “This recognition from customers and industry experts motivates us to continue on our chosen path and makes it clear how important the topic of safety is for operations. Many thanks to everyone who voted for Linde Motion Detection.”

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