The European Materials Handling Federation (FEM) has announced that eight young people have won its young talent initiative.
The initiative, supported by Linde Material Handling, called on students across Europe to develop ideas that will help meet the challenges of the logistics sector.
571 students from 26 countries took part in “The Smart Logistics Challenge – How to Deliver, Tomorrow” competition.
In a multi-stage process, a jury of company representatives selected the best concepts submitted.
The award-winning participants from Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark and the Netherlands can now finalise their concepts during the course of paid traineeships with partner companies.
The official award ceremony took place on September 14 at the FEM Congress in Antwerp, Belgium, to which the winners are invited as VIP guests.
In addition, up until September 10, members of the public had the chance to vote for their choice of concept to be presented with the TrendSpotter Award: https://www.smartlogisticschalleng e.eu/submissions
Christophe Lautray, FEM President and chief sales officer at Linde Material Handling said: “The logistics sector needs young, creative minds who recognise the potential of digitisation, automation and networking and develop ideas for innovative solutions and business models.
Therefore, we are delighted with the large number of participants. “This shows that our efforts are bearing fruit and that students from all over Europe see the material handling sector as an attractive field of work with exciting topics and personal opportunities.”
Entries could be submitted for three different topics. For example, in the “Logistics in a Sharing Economy” category, a student team convinced the jury with their idea of accelerating the procurement of spare parts for ships via a decentralised network of 3D printers.
In the category “Cobots in Logistics 4.0”, one of the awardwinning entries selected by the jury was the concept of a robot that can autonomously remove palletised goods from wrapped film.
Furthermore, the proposal to optimise transport capacities over long distances by means of a network of autonomous electric trucks, which can also independently plan the loading and unloading processes, was identified as a possible “Enabler of e-commerce”.
More information about the competition is available at www.smartlogisticschallenge.eu; social media contributions can be found at #DeliverTomorrow.
LINDE MATERIAL HANDLING
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