Always keen to promote and celebrate innovation and sustainability, we’re delighted to be able to announce that we’re sponsoring The BPX – Innovation in Sustainability Award, in the Research & Innovation Category, at the Robotics & Automation Awards 2023.
For over 58 years, we have been proudly stocking, selling, supporting and servicing automation and control components, devices and solutions, operating as technical distributors for many of the world’s leading electrical, electronic and pneumatic manufacturers.
Our guiding principle is to Help to Choose and Help to Use. We come to work each day determined to ensure that our customers have the most technically and commercially efficient solutions for their individual needs and applications.
More about the Robotics & Automation Awards 2023
Organised by Akabo Media, the Robotics & Automation Awards, in this, its inaugural year, celebrates the latest innovations and highest achievements to be found across the world of robotics and automation.
Including, but was not limited to, end-user buyers of robotics and automation, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, resellers and suppliers/vendors, entries were open to organisations working throughout the robotics and automation industry and within all parts of the related value chain.
Free to enter, entries opened on 5th May 2023 and closed on the 21st August 2023.
Each category had distinct entry criteria, and for the innovation-focused categories, any person or team working within or previously involved in the relevant academic field could of applied, regardless of their age or level of experience.
To help entrants with their entries, the awards panel outlined the following criteria:
- Quality of contribution
- Significance of innovation to the industry
- Extent to which the solution creates competitive advantage for the company
- Depth of application
- Evidence of business benefits
- Collaboration with others
The criteria for those who successfully reached the second stage presentation were:
- Enthusiasm and passion
- Commitment of senior management
- Communication with the wider organisation
- Scope/magnitude of change/achievement
- Evidence of results
Strictly confidential, with entries only shared with the judges who were listed on the Robotics & Automation website, entries were accepted from organisations in the UK and across Europe only, allowing entrants to submit entries into more than one category. However they were encouraged to keep each of their entries as unique as possible.
For those of you that need a reminder of the venue, date and timings for the Robotics & Automation Awards 2023, here they are as follows:
Robotics & Automation Awards 2023
De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London
31st October 2023
19:00 GMT – Official Welcome Drinks Reception
19:45 GMT – Three Course Dinner
21:30 GMT – Special Guest Host
21:45 GMT – Awards Ceremony
22:45 GMT – Evening Entertainment
02:00 GMT – Carriages
Robotics & Automation Awards Shortlists
The shortlists for each award were announced on the Robotics & Automation Awards website in late August.
The shortlist for The BPX – Innovation in Sustainability Award is as follows:
- Brilliant Planet with Platinum Electrical Engineering & Schneider Electric
- C.R.I.S.P. (Nottingham Trent University and PepsiCo International
- E-Nano
- FDP Recycling & ABB Robotics
A huge congratulations to all the nominees, in this and all of the categories.
We look forward to meeting you and all of the other nominees and attendees on the evening.
