UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry, has named Stockholmsmässan as winner of the UFI Operations & Services Award 2018, for their “Roboplotter” project.
This year’s award focused on smart and innovative technologies that deliver benefits and facilitate the work of venues, exhibitors and event managers.
Roboplotter is a robotised floor-marker system, transforming physically demanding labour into an easy task managed by an operator.
Every entry showcased a valuable project and the shortlist included: IFEMA (Spain), Corferias (Colombia), Milton Exhibits (China), EACA (Oregon) and Stockholmsmässan (Sweden). However, after thorough consideration, Stockholmsmässan was chosen as the winner.
Giacomo Lucchini, chair of the UFI operation & services committee, said: “All the entries shared experiences and best practices that bring innovation and efficiency to our industry. However, Roboplotter demonstrated a real increase in measurable productivity for exhibition operations.”
Andreas Holmgren, IT director at Stockholmsmässan, said: “We are honoured to receive this award. Together with our partner Intelligent Machines, we have spent many years fine-tuning this concept to arrive at the robust and stable product you see today.
“Roboplotter massively facilitates lean production processes and we are happy to have this opportunity to inspire the entire UFI community with this solution.”
UFI will share the chosen projects at the 85th UFI Global Congress in Saint Petersburg (Russia). For more details on the UFI Global Congress that will take place from 31 October to 3 November 2018, please visit: www.ufi.org/stpetersburg2018.
