2015 Engineers’ Choice Awards Finalists

2015 Engineers’ Choice Awards finalists

Below are the 94 finalists across 26 categories in the 2015 Engineers’ Choice Awards program. Voting closed on Dec. 31, 2014; Winners and honorable mentions will be notified by Jan. 19, 2015.

Details and photos are available for each product. For program FAQs, please click here. Winners and honorable mentions will be featured in the February 2015 issue.

Finalists by category

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Control Components

Control Security

  • mGuard Secure Cloud (mSC), Phoenix Contact, www.phoenixcontact.com
  • Tofino Xenon Security Appliance; Tofino Security, a Belden Brand; www.tofinosecurity.com

Hardware—HMI, Operator Interface, Thin-client

Hardware—Integrated HMI Controllers

Hardware—Test, Measurement, Calibration

  • DT9829 multi-sensor measurement module, Data Translation Inc., www.datatranslation.com
  • Fluke 714B Thermocouple Temperature Calibrator, Fluke Corp., www.fluke.com

Machine & Embedded Control—Machine Vision, Barcode Readers

Machine & Embedded Control—PLCs

  • Do-more T1H Series PLC; Host Engineering Inc., AutomationDirect; www.hosteng.com
  • Controller p300 PLC with visualization, Lenze Americas, www.lenze.com
  • MachineStruxure the NEXT generation compact logic-based controllers, Schneider Electric, www.schneider-electric.com

Machine & Embedded Control—PACs, IPCs

  • UNO-2362G embedded automation computer, Advantech, www.advantech.com
  • Productivity3000 P3-SCM Serial Communications Module; Facts Engineering, AutomationDirect; www.facts-eng.com
  • NI sbRIO-9651 System on Module integrates FPGA, middleware, Linux Real-Time; National Instruments; www.ni.com
  • Modicon M580 ePAC automation controller, Schneider Electric, www.schneider-electric.com

Motion Control

Motion Control—Drives

  • PowerXL DG1 Adjustable Frequency Drive, Eaton, www.eaton.com
  • 3890 CR DC Motor; Micromo, Faulhaber Group; www.micromo.com

Motion Control—Servo Drives

Network Integration—Ethernet Hardware

Network Integration—I/O Systems

Network Integration—Network Hardware

Network Integration—Signal Conditioning, Diagnostics

Network Integration—Wireless Products

Power—Energy, Power Protection

Process Control Systems

Safety—Machine Safety

Safety—Process Safety, Intrinsic Safety

Sensors

  • Rosemount 3051S MultiVariable  Wireless Transmitter, Emerson Process Management, www.emersonprocess.com
  • Rosemount 5300 Series Guided Wave Radar Transmitter Verification Reflector, Emerson Process Management, www.emersonprocess.com
  • Honeywell SmartLine Temperature Transmitters, Honeywell Process Solutions, www.honeywellprocess.com
  • LEDDAR M16—Multi-Element Sensing Module, LeddarTech, www.leddartech.com
  • THZ3 & TDZ3 Dual Input SmartHART Temperature Transmitter, Moore Industries-International Inc., www.miinet.com
  • Tracerco Profiler for real time vertical distribution of multiple phases in gravity separators at high temperature, Tracerco, www.tracerco.com

Software—Applications

  • KEPServerEX software communications platform V5.15, Kepware Technologies, www.kepware.com
  • ProSys SLM process safety management software, Mangan Software Solutions, www.mangansoftwaresolutions.com
  • Dream Report compliance and performance reports and web dashboards, Ocean Data Systems, www.dreamreport.net
  • SimSci APC 2014 for building/maintaining advanced process control applications, Schneider Electric, www.schneider-electric.com
  • SIMIT—Simulation Software for I/O and signals, sensors and actuators, and plant equipment and processes; Siemens; https://usa.siemens.com

Software—Control Design

Software—Diagnostics

  • Honeywell DynAMo Alarm Suite, Honeywell Process Solutions, www.honeywellprocess.com
  • PlantTriage V12: MPC Monitoring for assessing advanced control performance, Metso ExperTune, www.expertune.com

Software—HMI Software

Software—Mobile Apps for Controls, Automation, Instrumentation

  • INTUNE+ I&C INSIGHT for power plants messages diagnostics on process controllers and final elements for corrective action, ControlSoft Inc., www.controlsoftinc.com
  • EZ-RMC Mobile HMI real-time mobile access to the HMI, EZAutomation, www.ezautomation.net
  • Fluke Connect for wirelessly transmitting measurement data from test tools to smart phones, Fluke Corp., www.fluke.com
  • MobileHMI secure enterprise mobile application, Iconics, www.iconics.com
  • GROOV-AR1 web-based, no-programming way to create and deploy operator interfaces on smart phones and tablets; Opto 22; www.groov.com