RiConnect DPP-Ready Pack Shortlisted for LEEA Award

RiConnect’s Digital Product Passport (DPP)-Ready Pack has been shortlisted in the Excellence in Product Innovation category at this year’s LEEA Awards, which will be presented at the Rum Warehouse in Liverpool, UK on 24 November.

The annual LEEA Awards, powered by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association, recognise and celebrate LEEA members who deliver excellence within the global lifting industry. They showcase organisations and innovations — like the DPP-Ready Pack — that embody the highest standards of safety, quality, professionalism, and integrity, aligned with the association’s mission to educate, enable and influence so that best practice becomes everyday action.

RiConnect is in esteemed company; leading industry brands including RUD Chains, WH Scott Group, pewag, Tiger Lifting, and William Hackett are shortlisted in the same category. Judges were looking for a product that demonstrates practical utility and effectiveness in solving a real-world problem; and has a measurable impact on its industry. Ease of use, intuitiveness, accessibility, and design aesthetics were also considered.

Rob Whitehurst-Maiden, sales director at RiConnect, said: “Excellence in Product Innovation was the perfect category for a concept that enables lifting slings, for example, to remain digitally connected to their corresponding inspection and traceability documents, even after leaving the factory and reaching the customer’s worksite. Users can access the relevant documentation directly through the sling itself, making it easier to identify and retrieve the correct records when needed. This addresses a common but often overlooked challenge in the delivery and use of lifting equipment.”

RiConnect’s Digital Product Passport (DPP)-Ready Pack has been shortlisted in the Excellence in Product Innovation category at this year’s LEEA Awards.

Transforming industry

Recognition from an illustrious panel of judges reflects that the lifting industry is increasingly identifying not only the value of digital asset identity, but also how it can transform equipment delivery, documentation management, and actual field operations. Twelve months ago, YOKE Industrial Corp. received the same award with its BlueSupra digital chips, while this year marks RiConnect’s first time being shortlisted with the DPP-Ready Pack.

As the entry covered, the DPP-Ready Pack is a solution within the Manufacture module of the RiConnect platform, built specifically for equipment manufacturers. It enables the issue of a single-item DPP for every product at the point of manufacture, registering a serial number to each item and embedding its certificate of conformity, Declaration of Conformity (DoC), material certificates and operating manuals into that passport. In short, DPP-Ready Pack makes manufacturers compliance-ready — turning conformity from paperwork into digital evidence that travels with every product.

Whitehurst-Maiden added: “Before adoption, a manufacturer’s product information was routinely lost once goods passed to distributors or end users, leaving no basis for downstream compliance or traceability and no way to prove a product was not at fault after an incident. Conventional systems track only by batch, not by single item, so a market recall or a regulatory change cannot be traced to the specific items affected. DPP-Ready Pack resolves these pain points with a clear step-change in how a manufacturer manages compliance.”

• The awards will be presented during a prestigious gala dinner, staged after the first day of LEEA’s flagship event, LiftEx, which takes place at the nearby Exhibition Centre Liverpool on 24-25 November.