Guide
How to design a booth for heavy machinery
Heavy machinery turns a booth into a logistics and safety project. The design has to start from the machine's reality, not a pretty layout.
Guide
How to design a booth for heavy machinery
Heavy machinery turns a booth into a logistics and safety project. The design has to start from the machine's reality, not a pretty layout.
Here's what actually matters.
Start with floor-load and access
Confirm the venue can bear the machine and that it can physically get in. This constrains everything else.
Plan craning and positioning
Heavy machines need craning and careful positioning, scheduled into move-in.
Design around service access
Leave room to power, run and service the machine safely throughout the show.
Make the demo safe and visible
Guarding, swarf and coolant management, and venue safety sign-off - with the machine visible from the aisle.
Build a fallback
If shipping is at risk, have a fabricated representation so the stand is never empty.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Can any venue take a heavy machine?
Not always - floor-load and access vary. We confirm this before designing, so the layout is feasible, not aspirational.
Capture & pipeline
A booth is only worth what you do with the leads.
The most expensive mistake at any show is a stack of visiting cards that never gets worked. We design the capture into the stand.
Visiting card to worked pipeline, without the spreadsheet graveyard
Design the booth. Capture the visitor. Move the deal.
Quiamo builds the booth as a temporary sales environment - positioning, flow and storytelling working together.
CardToDeal turns every visiting card into a structured lead record at the stand - no manual typing.
VynDeal moves each lead into a pipeline with follow-up rhythm, quotes and opportunity tracking.
Booth design by Quiamo - lead capture with CardToDeal - pipeline follow-up with VynDeal.
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Karuna Waghmare
We design booths for manufacturers across India's major exhibition venues, and work with international exhibitors well before the show opens.