The 35 winners of Control Engineering's 16th annual Editors' Choice Awards delivered innovative and useful solutions to customers and readers, even while facing 2002's ongoing economic challenges. These winners and their solutions are featured in half-page articles in an 18-page supplement accompanying this issue.

''Even faced with 2002's ongoing economic challenges, control and automation professionals and companies work with customers to create new innovations. And, as always, choosing the 2002 Editors' Choice Award winners was extremely difficult,'' says Mark Hoske, Control Engineering's editor-in-chief. ''Our editorial team selected this year's 35 award winners from among products featured in the 2002 issues of Control Engineering and Control Engineering Online, including Control Engineering's topical e-mailed newsletters.

''Each month, Control Engineering's editors review hundreds of new product releases-only the best of which are published in print and electronically. Among those, editors select winners by these criteria: service to the industry, technological advancement, and market impact. As an award winner, these products are among the most significant innovations featured in Control Engineering during the past year.''

Areas of editorial product coverage represented are: process and advanced control; instrumentation and process sensors; software and information integration; machine control and discrete sensors; human-machine interface; motors, drives, and motion control; embedded control; and networks and communications.

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