Novel tool wins fifth design award
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LoggerHead Tools product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Nov 1, 2006
LoggerHead Tools has received a Chicago Innovation Award for its Bionic Wrench product line.
LoggerHead Tools has received a Chicago Innovation Award for its Bionic Wrench product line, a new class of adjustable hand tool that distributes force equally around a work surface.
This is LoggerHead Tools' fifth product design award since it launched the Bionic Wrench in May of last year.
Chicago Innovation Award winners were selected for their ability to uniquely fill unmet needs, generate a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations and achieve financial success.
Ten winners were selected from 227 nominees with national or divisional headquarters in northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin or southwestern Michigan.
The winners included some long-standing Chicago organisations such as Motorola and Sara Lee, as well as some newer companies like LoggerHead Tools.
The awards were sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times and Kuczmarski and Associates, a Chicago new product consultancy.
LoggerHead Tools also was recently nominated for the prestigious German Design Award, the official recognition of excellence in design offered by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Nominees are selected by the German Government, and they must have already been awarded a national or international prize.
No other design award limits its entrants to such a strict criterion, which is why it is called the "prize of prizes" by many opinion leaders in the world of design.
Winners will be announced in February 2007.
LoggerHead Tools qualified for the German Design Award by receiving the highest possible honours in two distinguished international product design competitions in March of this year: the Red Dot award and the iF product design award.
LoggerHead Tools and Apple Computer were the only U.S.
companies to receive the highest honours in both prestigious international competitions.
In 2005, LoggerHead Tools was awarded a Good Design award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and received an Editor's Choice award from Popular Mechanics for innovative product design.
"The best products provide a satisfying customer experience, are simple to understand and have universal appeal", said LoggerHead Tools President Dan Brown.
"These awards validate our mission to differentiate our products through innovation and design".
"Throughout our relationship with the customer, our goal is to blend form and function to create a unique problem-solving user experience", he said.
Brown added that product differentiation plays a role in the company's philosophy of manufacturing its products in the United States.
"Our business model is to commercialise an American-made product in a value-added market space", Brown said.
"Adding value through strategic design differentiation, built on intellectual property protection of our innovations, is our only opportunity to compete in the global marketplace of the foreseeable future".
LoggerHead Tools' patented product line includes the Bionic Wrench, Bionic Grip and ImmiX universal multitool.
Each has a simple, intuitive, universal design that is easy to use for people of all abilities.
The Bionic Wrench automatically adjusts to fit multiple sises of fasteners with the simple squeeze of a hand.
Together, the Bionic Wrench family of 6, 8 and 10in wrenches replaces 38 SAE and metric wrench sises.
The Bionic Grip has an open wrench head and internal locking mechanism.
It automatically adjusts to fit 13 sises of fasteners as well as pipes and tubes.
The ImmiX multi-tool series incorporates the functionality of up to 34 full-sised tools in a 6in, 227g package.
The ImmiX series combines a 6in Bionic Wrench head with screwdriver bits, blades and a magnetic bit holder.
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