Control Engineering announces winners
for EtherCAT
Control Engineering, one of the main North American automation magazines, announced the eight winners of its first “Engineers’ Choice Awards” at the recent National Manufacturing Week 2004 in Chicago. EtherCAT, the real-time Ethernet solution, came first in the “Networks and Communications” category.
The selection criteria for the “Engineers’ Choice Awards” were: service to the industry, technological advancement, and market impact. Seven editors used these criteria to compare and judge the thousands of products and solutions covered each year in Control Engineering’s print, web, and e-mail publications. A total of 35 products were nominated. The winners in the eight categories were then selected by subscribers to Control Engineering’s North American edition.
Graham Harris, general manager of Beckhoff Automation LLC, accepted the award for Beckhoff. He said: “Sense, decide, and act are the three cornerstones of the control and automation field and its many related industries and applications. Similarly, the three cornerstones of the “Engineers’ Choice Awards” are service to the industry, technological advancement, and market impact. We are therefore very proud to have received this award.”
