2016 Engineers’ Choice Awards winners

2016 Engineers’ Choice Awards: Spotlight on innovation

Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 27 categories.

The 29th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 27 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2015 as chosen by you, Control Engineering’s print and digital audience. Review the winners and honorable mentions here to see if their innovative solutions can help you solve one of your most pressing problems.

Also, join us in congratulating these technological innovators. Let them know you learned about their solutions in Control Engineering, and tell them what problems you need solutions for next. Their continuous improvement ensures that manufacturers, machine builders, and automation system integrators can achieve the levels of agility, efficiency, and effectiveness necessary to compete—and win—in today’s global economy.

More than 100 finalists from 60 companies were listed on ballots for evaluation. Automation professionals from Control Engineering’s subscriber lists—all of whom are responsible for or influence technology purchases, or have hands-on day-to-day interaction with the technologies in each category—then voted to identify the products they felt were the most exceptional based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact. The result is a short list of Engineers’ Choice Awards winners and honorable mentions in 27 categories. A total of 27 winners and 27 honorable mentions were named for 2016.

Control Engineering staff extends appreciation to all who nominated products and took the time to vote. The 2016 Engineers’ Choice Awards will be presented to the winners on March 21, 2016, in Chicago.

– Amanda Pelliccione is the project manager of events and awards programs for Control Engineering, CFE Media. Contact her with questions about these programs at apelliccione@cfemedia.com.


2016 Engineers’ Choice Awards winners

 


Hardware — Handheld Test, Measurement, Calibration

TiX560
Fluke Corp.

Hardware — HMI,
Operator Interface, Thin-client
Wonderware InTouch Panel PC
Schneider Electric


Hardware — Industrial PCs

EXPC-1519

Moxa Inc.

Hardware — Integrated
HMI Controllers

Unistream 15″
Unitronics Inc.

Machine & Embedded Control — CNCs, Board-level ProductsIndraMotion MTX
Bosch Rexroth Corp.

Machine & Embedded Control — Discrete SensorsEZProx
EZAutomation

Machine & Embedded Control — Machine Vision, Barcode ReadersIn-Sight 8405
Cognex

Machine & Embedded Control — PACs, PLCsPLC Logic
Phoenix Contact
 

Motion — Motors
Extreme Duck Ultra
Leeson Electric

 

Motion Control
UR3
Universal Robots


Motion Control —
Drives, Servo Drives
U1000 Industrial Matrix Drive
Yaskawa America Inc.

Network Integration —
Ethernet Hardware
Allen-Bradley Stratix 5400
Rockwell Automation

Network Integration —
Network Hardware
MGate W5208
Moxa Inc.

Network Integration —
Wireless Products

IW3700 Series
Cisco Systems

Network Integration I/O —
Ethernet, Wireless

ioLogik 2542-HSPA-T
Moxa Inc.
 

Power — Energy, Power Protection
PACT RCP Rogowski Coil Solution
Phoenix Contact

 

Process Control — Flowmeters
Model 5700
Micro Motion Inc.

 

Process Control SystemsIPC620 Migration System
Weidmuller

 

Safety — Machine SafetyAllen-Bradley
Guardmaster 440C-CR30

Rockwell Automation


Safety — Process Safety, Intrinsic SafetyOptiSIS
Rockwell Automation

Software — Alarm Management

Wonderware Alarm Adviser

Schneider Electric

Software — Applications

KEPServerEX v5.18

Kepware Technologies

Software — Control Design

Studio 5000 Logix Designer v24.0

Rockwell Automation

Software — DiagnosticsFactoryTalk VantagePoint 6.0
Rockwell Automation
 

Software — HMI SoftwareInduSoft Web Studio 8.0
Schneider Electric Software


Software — Mobile Apps for Controls, Automation, InstrumentationKPIWorX v10.9
Iconics
 

Software — Process ApplicationsWonderware Recipe Manager Plus
Schneider Electric

View the 2016
Engineers’ Choice
Honorable Mentions