System Integrator of the Year

For the 21^st System Integrator of the Year program, Control Engineering and Plant Engineering are looking for the best integrators in the automation business to feature on the cover of the Global System Integrator Report in December 2024.

Nominate for the 2025 System Integrator of the Year!

1. Create/update your company’s profile in the Global System Integrator Database
   • This database is accessible to Control Engineering’s and Plant Engineering’s global audience throughout China, Europe, and North America.
2. Nominate your company!
   • Access the nomination form beginning Monday, June 3, 2024; Nomination deadline is Friday, August 30, 2024 (5 p.m. CT).
     • Nomination deadline extended to Friday, September 13, 2024, at 5 p.m. CT
   • The nomination form is now available!
   • Looking for a PDF copy of the form for reference purposes only? Download here.
3. Document your company’s level of achievement in each of the following areas, focusing on qualities, strategies, and procedures that differentiate your company from other integrators:
   • Business Skills
     • What are your company’s written policies that detail financial, human resources, management and other business procedures?
     • From which automation vendors or other third parties qualified to assess your business skills does your company hold professional certifications? e.g. International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Control System Integrators Association (CSIA)
     • What in-house initiatives are in place to formalize your company’s business procedures?
   • Technical Competence
     • How many degreed engineers, Professional Engineers, Certified Automation Professionals or other technical personnel with professional credentials does your company employ?
     • Please provide a brief success story outlining a difficult automation problem that you were able to solve for a client. What was anything particularly innovative about your solution?
     • Provide an example of a successfully completed a project that had previously proven too difficult for the client’s in-house engineers or another system integrator.
   • Customer Satisfaction
     • Please upload at least two examples of awards or letters of commendation your company has received.
     • What are you company’s procedures for tracking customer satisfaction and redressing their grievances?
     • Provide up to three (3) references that Control Engineering and Plant Engineering editors may contact in support of your company’s nomination for the 2025 System Integrator of the Year program.
       • First name, last name, company name, job title, email address, phone number, relation to your company
4. Upload your documents from Step 3 to the Supporting Materials collection form.
   • Access the supporting materials submission form beginning Monday, June 3, 2024.
   • The supporting materials submission form is now available!
   • Looking for a PDF copy of the form for reference purposes only? Download here.
   • Supporting materials are due September 13, 2024 (5 p.m. CT). DEADLINE EXTENSION NOT AVAILABLE.
   • For questions related to this form, contact Amanda Pelliccione at apelliccione@wtwhmedia.com.

For the purposes of this competition, a “system integrator” is a contract engineering firm or an engineering division of a larger company that can design and implement computerized control systems for industrial machinery, manufacturing lines or other automated facilities that produce either a commodity or a finished product. Examples would include automation, control, robotic and test system integrators as well as automation contractors, automated machine builders, multi-disciplinary engineering firms with instrumentation and automation divisions, and product vendors that also offer application engineering services.

A system integrator may or may not provide the automation products required for a particular project but must be capable of integrating both the hardware and the software with the client’s existing facilities. Companies that provide individual elements of an automation project such as consulting, programming, electrical contracting, or panel construction are not considered “system integrators” unless they also offer the remaining services required for a complete turnkey installation.

Past System Integrator of the Year winners: Class of 2024, Class of 2023, and Class of 2022 are not eligible to enter the 2025 System Integrator of the Year program.

For more information about this program, please contact Judy Pinsel at jpinsel@wtwhmedia.com or (847) 624-8418.