Partteam & Oemkiosks Brand Guidelines: Kiosks and Digital Mupis From Famalicão

A Portuguese maker with two names.

Partteam & Oemkiosks is a kiosk and digital-signage manufacturer based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, in northern Portugal. It uses its two names together, Partteam and OEMKIOSKS, on a Portuguese-language website and an English-language one, and presents them as one company. In August 2018 the trade publication Kiosk Marketplace described it as a Portugal-based manufacturer of interactive kiosks and digital billboards and named Miguel Soares as its chief executive and founder.

The company dates itself by experience rather than by a founding year. In 2022 it credited a national innovation status to its team’s work over the previous 22 years; its websites now say it has more than 26 years of experience, has produced more than 15,000 units for more than 35 countries and offers more than 100 standard models, some of them in their seventh generation. It names markets including the United Kingdom, Spain, Saudi Arabia, France, Israel, Turkey and the Czech Republic. These figures are the company’s own.

Growth has come through manufacturing capacity. In August 2018 Kiosk Marketplace, citing a company press release, reported that Partteam & Oemkiosks planned a new production facility expected to triple its production capacity. The company says it builds most of its equipment by hand, that its own technical team assembles every component and product at its premises, with quality tests before delivery, and that combining in-house production with other production lines lets it handle both small and large runs.

Kiosks, mupis and two design awards.

The range covers indoor, outdoor and wall-mounted multimedia kiosks, transactional and payment kiosks, restaurant ordering kiosks, hotel kiosks, queue-management kiosks, ticket-vending machines, a supermarket self-checkout line called SelfCashy, interactive tables and directories, and digital “mupis,” the company’s term for its free-standing digital display panels for indoor and outdoor use. Named mupi models include Nomyu, Avenuxys, Cupertino and DOOHLE. The company pitches the newer DOOHLE at municipalities, advertising operators and managers of public spaces, as a unit with minimal lines for streets, squares, shopping areas, airports, railway stations and campuses.

Design awards are part of how the company presents those products. It says its ONGON self-service kiosk won a European Product Design Award in 2021, in the category for event supplies and kiosks. The company describes the ONGON as an airport check-in kiosk on which passengers find their booking, check in and print boarding passes, with a motorised camera that rises and falls to suit the user’s height and a mechanically raised frame for the components. It says the Cupertino digital mupi won a European Product Design Award in 2023, and describes it as an interactive outdoor unit with simple, modern lines and a two-screen option so that several people can use it at once.

An earlier product had already brought the company to an international shortlist. Partteam says its Nomyu kiosk was a finalist in the Interactive Display Product of the Year category of the AV Awards 2017 in London, where Miguel Soares represented the company at the ceremony that September, and that it was the only Portuguese company selected in that category.

It also reports Portuguese business recognitions: the PME Líder and PME Excelência labels for 2016, which recognise small and medium-sized firms for management performance, and the Inovadora COTEC innovation status, which it says it received again in 2022.

Public-sector work is documented in the trade press. In October 2020 Digital AV Magazine reported that the municipality of Lousada had installed the company’s Zytab Wall, an interactive wall kiosk with a 55-inch touchscreen that gives citizens notices and documents from the council. The magazine described it as an electronic notice board for the town hall’s mandatory information, built for indoor use and able to take different touchscreens, and noted a ticket dispenser for queue management alongside it. The company’s own news pages list further installations, from shopping-centre directories to payment kiosks at a citizens’ service office in Santo Tirso.

Self-service hardware.

Self-service kiosk makers sell machines that most people meet without ever learning who built them. The tall touchscreen totem in a fast-food restaurant, the check-in unit in a hotel lobby or an airport hall, the ticket machine at a station and the self-checkout lane in a shop usually carry the name of the restaurant, hotel or retailer, not the maker. Acrelec’s own range, for example, is named by screen size and use, from a 22-inch counter-top unit to 27-inch floor-standing and outdoor kiosks.

So the makers present themselves to buyers rather than to the public. Their websites lead with markets — restaurants, retail, hospitality, healthcare, transport, government — and with the parts of a job they can take on: enclosure design, payment terminals and receipt printers, cash handling, software, installation, remote monitoring and field service. Counts of installed machines and the quality and environmental standards they say they are certified to are common, and are given here only as each company states them.

Trade fairs are where the products are shown. Retail-technology shows such as the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York and EuroShop in Düsseldorf draw kiosk and self-checkout makers alongside point-of-sale suppliers, and the trade title Kiosk Marketplace promotes an automated-retail and kiosk show of its own in Miami Beach. Trade titles such as Kiosk Marketplace and QSR Web also report the makers’ acquisitions and moves.

The companies in this group range from founder-built firms in France, Portugal, Germany and the United States to subsidiaries of larger Asian technology groups. This guide sets out what can be checked about each — who founded it, who owns it now and what it says about where its kiosks are made — and marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

Standard models and made-to-order designs.

The company describes itself in large terms. Its about page calls Partteam & Oemkiosks a world reference in developing and manufacturing kiosks, digital mupis and interactive tables, and says its engineers and designers aim for a distinctive mark in design, usability and ergonomics as well as technology. It also says its in-house product-design department can develop custom equipment with personalised design for each client and project.

That pairing of a long catalogue of standard models with made-to-order designs is the core of what the company sells. Its website invites customers to configure a solution from standard options or to request a custom one, and its downloads section offers datasheets, white papers and catalogues for the range. On the technology side, the company says it joined the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, which it describes as a group of Intel and more than 250 companies offering modular components for ready-to-market systems, and that it uses the membership to share information about its products and services.

For a design guide, Partteam & Oemkiosks shows a Portuguese manufacturer using design awards and a long model line to present kiosks and digital signage to export markets. Compare Pyramid Computer, a German kiosk maker, and Acrelec, a French self-service specialist. For this guide we use a deep Atlantic teal, cork and a pale stone with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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