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P-Fold nominated for the state award of innovation 2016

May 08, 2016 Warehousing Ireland Materials Handling, News Comments Off on P-Fold nominated for the state award of innovation 2016

PALFINGER was nominated for the state award of innovation 2016 for its P-Fold assistance system by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. This placed the system among the top six vying for the award. In total, 524 innovations were submitted.

The state award of innovation has been presented for the 36th time. In total, 524 submission had competed in 2016, including PALFINGER. At the award ceremony, Reinhold Mitterlehner, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy, nominated six companies for the state award of innovation throughout the ceremony. Each company has developed one of the top six innovations of the last year. One of the projects, which got nominated was the P-Fold assistance system developed by PALFINGER. The state award of innovation was eventually awarded to ams AG for their implementation of optical sensors for contactless gesture recognition. PALFINGER congratulates warmly.

P-Fold assistance system
The P-Fold project recognised at the award is an innovative assistance system that makes it easier for customers to fold and unfold their cranes. The crane operator activates the P-Fold control via the PALcom P7 operating menu. The intelligent P-Fold control takes over coordination of all crane movements until a defined working position is reached and can easily fold it again from any working position. P-Fold takes over the coordination of all crane movements as well as controlling the fly jib and cable winch. The operator controls the innovative system just with one control lever throughout the entire process. Set-up time is kept to a minimum, which saves time and money for the operator.