Honorable mentions for 2011 Engineers’ Choice Awards
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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.
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