Honorable mentions for 2011 Engineers’ Choice Awards

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By Control Engineering February 23, 2011

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.