Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 26 categories.
The 31st annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 26 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2017 as chosen by the Control Engineering print and digital audience. Review the winners and honorable mentions here to see if their innovative solutions can help resolve one of your most pressing problems.
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A total of 88 finalists from 44 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 26 categories. A total of 1 grand winner, 26 winners, and 29 honorable mentions were named for 2018.
Control Engineering staff extends appreciation to all who nominated products and took the time to vote. Find more product innovations in the New Products for Engineers Database. The 2018 Engineers’ Choice Awards will be presented to the winners on April 16, 2018, in Chicago.
Amanda Pelliccione is the project manager of events and awards programs for Control Engineering, CFE Media, apelliccione@cfemedia.com.
The UniStream Multi-Touch programmable logic controller (PLC) with a 10.4-in. multi-touch human-machine interface (HMI) panel enables the use of gestures using two or more points of contact via mobile device. Multi-touch and two-hand gestures—including Pinch and Zoom, Press and Hold, Double-Tap, and Swipe–offer increased operating safety and an improved user experience. Features of this all-in-one PLC include media viewers, Real Time Streaming Protocol, a built-in webserver, a variety of I/O options, auto-tune proportional-integral-derivative (PID), and recipe programs and data logging via data tables and sampling. UniStream provides completely modular and scalable hardware for customizable control, backed by efficient programming software.
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The Grand Award—first introduced with the 2017 program—is bestowed upon the product that received the most overall votes in the 2018 program. This year’s Grand Award recipient is the UniStream Multi-Touch PLC from Unitronics.
