Honorable mentions for 2011 Engineers' Choice Awards

HONORABLE MENTIONS - click on the link for each product to learn more.

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Machine and motion control, controllers

Machine and Embedded Control - machine vision

• Intelligent Compact Vision System SBOC-Q/SBOI-Q from Festo Corporation

Machine and Embedded Control – PACs - tie

• CX5000 Embedded PC from Beckhoff Automation
• Foxboro PAC System from Invensys Operations Management

Machine and Embedded Control - PACs – motion

• IndraMotion MTX Micro CNC from Bosch Rexroth Corporation

Machine and Embedded Control – PLCs

• CoDeSys Embedded Controller CPX-CEC from Festo Corporation

Motion Control – drives

• Baldor Dirty Duty NEMA 4X Drives from Baldor Electric Company

Motion Control – motors

• HF-JP series servo motors from Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.

Motion Control – robotics

• Pronto4 Agnostic Autonomy System Series 4 from Kairos Autonomi Inc.

Motion Control - servo drives

• Allen-Bradley Kinetix 3 component servo drive from Rockwell Automation

Networks, power, process

Network Integration - data acquisition, integration

• DT9824/DT8824 Instrument Module from Data Translation Inc.

Network Integration - Ethernet hardware

• EDR-G903 Industrial Firewall Router from Moxa

Network Integration - I/O systems

• Electronic Marshalling from Emerson Process Management

Network Integration - signal conditioning/diagnostics

• ACT20P Bridge Signal Converter/Isolator from Weidmuller

Network Integration - wireless

• Zlinx Xtreme from B&B Electronics

Network Integration -wire, cable, cordsets, connectors - tie

• Skintop Cube from Lapp Group
• D-Size powerfast from Turck Incorporated

Power - monitoring, protection

• C440 Electronic Overload Relay from Eaton Corporation

Process Control - analysis, optimization, tuning

• Intune Valve Diagnostics from ControlSoft Inc.

Process control systems

• FactoryTalk Batch software from Rockwell Automation

Process Sensors – flowmeters

• MassTracker Insertion Turbine Mass Flow Meter, Spirax Sarco Inc.

Process sensors - other

• TP Series Temperature Transmitter, ifm efector inc.

Safety, hardware, software

Safety sensor

• miniTwin Safety Light Curtain from Sick

Safety System Software

• SILAlarm from exida.com LLC

Safety controller

• EL6900 Safety PLC Terminal from Beckhoff Automation

Hardware - Handheld testing, calibration

• DPI 620 IS from GE Measurement & Control Solutions

Hardware - HMI, operator interface, displays

• Control Panels and Panel PCs from Beckhoff Automation

Hardware - industrial PCs - tie

• Allen-Bradley Extreme Environment Panel PC from Rockwell Automation
• Stealth Ultra Compact Industrial PC from Stealth.com Inc.

Hardware HMI - bar code and ID readers

• iVu Bar Code Reader from Banner Engineering

Software - application software

• Proficy Workflow from GE Intelligent Platforms

Software - connectivity, integration software

• FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition from Rockwell Automation

Software - design, simulation, diagnostics

• MapleSim 4 from Maplesoft

Software - HMI software

• InduSoft Web Studio v7.0 from InduSoft Inc.

Return to www.controleng.com/awards to see the 2011 Engineers' Choice Award winners.