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Industry Awards & Recognition

Progressive Manufacturing Awards

The Progressive Manufacturing Awards program recognizes manufacturing companies that have clearly demonstrated mastery of one or more of eight disciplines that will be keys to the success and prosperity of manufacturing companies in the coming years.

"The Progressive Manufacturing idea has captured the spirit of an industry that is in the throes of dramatic change," says David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation and a Progressive Manufacturing judge. "Innovation, invention, and new ways of thinking about the business of manufacturing are picking up steam everywhere. The expansion of the Progressive Manufacturing Awards Program pays tribute to this important trend."

Rockwell Automation Customer Garners "High Achiever" Award for Data & Integration Mastery

For the second year in a row, Rockwell Automation bested a talented field of more than 100 nominees to win the High Achiever award in Data & Integration Mastery category of the Managing Automation Progressive Manufacturing competition.

Rockwell Automation customer KLA-Tencor Corp. earned the honors following the implementation of FactoryTalk Production Centre, which delivered the most significant return on investment of any KLA-Tencor IT project in the past 15 years.


To view all the award winners, visit the awards page.

Control Readers' Choice Awards

Control Readers Report Their Solution Provider Preferences in More than 100 Process Automation Technology Categories

Once again, the end users have spoken. Process control professionals assess the best technologies and vote on who best meets their needs in the 17th annual CONTROL Readers’ Choice Awards. Rockwell Automation received awards in 2009, 2008, 2007, 2004 and 2003.See the software categories in which Rockwell Automation ranked first place.

Rockwell Automation ranked first in the following categories in 2009 Rockwell Automation appeared as a ranked company in over 90 percent of the software categories in 2009
Software, Human-Machine Interface Software, Design/Documentation
Software, PLC Programming Software, SCADA
  Software, Advanced Process Control Software, Neural Network
  Software, Alarm Management Software, PLC Programming
  Software, Loop Tuning
  Software, Simulation

Manufacturing Business Technology 2008 Innovation Insights Award

Incuity Software receives Honorable Mention in the Product Category of the Manufacturing Business Technology 2008 Innovation Insights Awards. Spotlighting two companies who turned to Incuity Software for Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions, MBT noted that Incuity’s solution converts production data into actionable intelligence.

International Paint

International Paint needed more capacity to handle its growing business and sought ways to improve productivity or face the need to expand. By implementing end-to-end operations analysis and adopting EMI solutions offered by Incuity Software, the company dramatically reduced the process cycle times and increased overall output, thus eliminating an entire production shift.

Hexion Specialty Chemicals

Hexion Specialty Chemicals sought help from Incuity Software with gathering and sharing data for real-time feeds to reports and KPI dashboards. This initial implementation netted a first-year savings of $300,000, leading to a planned rollout to the 100-plus facilities worldwide.

"Incuity's value is in providing a visual unification layer through an underlying data model — its secret sauce," says Alison Smith, a director with Boston-AMR Research. "The ease with which it can be created and extended is phenomenal. Its connectivity power distinguishes it from other products."

Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Awards

Control Engineering has named two Rockwell Software products as 2008 reader's choice award recipients. Receiving first place in the HMI Software category for FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition and honorable mention for FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

The Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Awards highlight the most notable new products from the previous year. This year's competition names winners and honorable mentions in 25 product categories, from a field of 85 nominees.

To view all the award winners, visit the awards page.

Plant Engineering Awards Bronze Product of the Year to FactoryTalk AssetCentre

Leading industry magazine Plant Engineering recently awarded FactoryTalk AssetCentre "Product of the Year" recognition. FactoryTalk AssetCentre was awarded a Bronze medal in the Maintenance Software category. The full results of the competition are shared on the Plant Engineering web site: www.plantengineering.com.

Control Design Readers' Choice Awards

Every supplier in the automation and control space wants to be recognized as the best. Rockwell Automation not only proves that it has a standing tradition of receiving awards for the Control Design Readers’ Choice Awards for 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005, but Rockwell Automation also carries a high-scored service ranking annually.

In 2008, Rockwell Automation won or tied for first place in 20 hardware and software categories but it also was among three other companies that had the highest service score ranking. Below are the software categories in which Rockwell Automation ranked first place. See the software categories in which Rockwell Automation ranked first place.

2008 2007 2006 2005
Software, HMI Software, HMI Software, HMI Software, HMI
Software, Motion Control Software, Motion Control Software, Motion Control Software, Motion Control
Software, PC-Based Machine Control Software, PC-Based Machine Control Software, PC-Based Machine Control Software, PC-Based Machine Control
Software, PLC Programming Software, PLC Programming Software, PLC Programming Software, PLC Programming
      Safety Network Components

To view all the award winners, visit the awards page.