OREANDA-NEWS. Konecranes' Agilon material management solution has won the Quality Innovation award in the Large companies series in The Quality Innovation Award of the Year competition, arranged by Laatukeskus Excellence Finland. Agilon brings industrial internet to material logistics and enables a new flexible way to manage material and information flow.

Introduced in 2013, Agilon is an innovative materials inventory and management system that rapidly and automatically stores, picks, and replenishes items weighing up to 25 kg, using a robot to handle component transfers. Inventories stay up to date and the right components find their ways to the right places at the right time, thereby improving productivity and work satisfaction.

In 2014, Konecranes' Agilon also won the "Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014" for its design quality, as well as the Fennia Prize Honorary Mention 2014 for its innovative and responsible design.

The Quality Innovation of the Year competition has been arranged yearly since 2007. It started as a Finnish national competition, but has since then grown and expanded to become an international event. Its purpose is to increase the amount and level of innovations. The competition is arranged by Laatukeskus Excellence Finland, a national non-profit organization dedicated to performance improvement.

The certificates of the winners are signed by the President of the Republic of Finland and are powerful symbols of recognition and visibility.