InTech Innovator’s Award

Candidates must have made significant and unique contributions to any field in the Automation profession. This includes, but is not limited to the design, development, and construction of tools, equipment, technical services, instrumentation, and/or an innovative service or contribution in Automation. A Gold, Silver and Bronze award winner selected by the editors of InTech and an independent committee comprised of industry professionals that will evaluate the written abstract and any art submitted with the application.

Innovator's Award Entries include:

Apprion: Huntsman solution

Huntsman’s operating mission is a “project Zero” approach. This means Zero process safety related incidents, injuries, environmental releases, and defects. Huntsman partnered with Industrial Mobility and Apprion to build a completely mobile solution, empowering operations and maintenance personnel to capture defects, track work progress, and make real-time process and safety-related decisions.

Apprion, Booth: 1311

 

ARC Advisory Group: Market Intelligence Service

ARC’s Market Intelligence Service is a business knowledge base containing market data on manufacturing automation and supply chain management suppliers and solutions. Market Intelligence puts ARC data into a powerful relational database, supporting over 40 product categories in over 20 vertical markets in all regions of the world.

ARC Advisory Group, Booth: 2655

 

AVEVA: Instrumentation solution

Instrumentation and control engineering in any given project requires a high degree of flexibility and dependability due to the volatile and dynamic nature in designing process facilities. The value gained by investing in a software solution that increases consistency and dependability while staying on budget makes for successful project.

AVEVA, Booth: 2649

 

CONCOA: Gas distribution and management system

CONCOA introduced an advanced gas distribution and management system that provides interchangeable service and continuous supply. Featuring an onboard web server with embedded software for remote monitoring and integral Ethernet connectivity, the Intelliswitch II system offers remote diagnostics and e-mail notification of real-time system status and events.

CONCOA, Booth: 2049

 

Eltav: Wireless monitoring of valves

Eltav’s wireless system is an end-to-end solution used to monitor various types of valves, operating in the process plant. Eltav’s system provides operators with a comprehensive picture of the valves’ performance status in real time.

Eltav, Booth: 1431

 

exida: Applying IEC 61508 and IEC 61511/ISA84 safety standards

The goal of the IEC/ISA functional safety standards is to increase plant and process safety. But a safety standard does not by itself make the world a safer place. To achieve widespread adoption, it takes innovators like exida to embrace the standard and help end users, suppliers, and integrators put standards into practice.

exida, Booth: 2717

 

ILS Technology: deviceWISE Device Gateway

The deviceWISE Device Gateway is an integration appliance that maps data between different devices seamlessly without requiring any configuration changes in either device. The Device Gateway helps users pick best in class hardware components and integrate them without requiring special programming.

ILS Technology, Booth: 2744

 

National Instruments: Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are an emerging technology, and National Instruments just released the NI WSN platform, which can reduce installation costs, simplify system deployments, and address new applications that were previously challenging or even impossible with wires. 

National Instruments, Booth: 2043

 

Palmer Wahl: RTD Temperature-Indicating Device

The Wahl DST600 RTD Thermometer System utilizes the latest technology in temperature measurement for food canning retorts, dairy, USDA, pharmaceutical and other temperature critical applications. The DST600 replaces mercury-in-glass thermometers, which have been the standard of the industry for years.

Palmer Wahl, Booth: 1727

 

Panasonic: Toughbook solution

Mobile workers rely either on handhelds or laptops. Handhelds, although small and highly mobile, are expensive to manage and deploy. Commercial-grade laptops run a full Windows OS but are too cumbersome to be effective. With the Panasonic Toughbook U1, workers can connect to critical information in real time.

Panasonic, Booth: 1901

 

Senscient: Hazardous gas sensing technology

Senscient developed the first new hazardous gas sensing technology in 20 years for industrial safety applications. Using the patented Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy (ELDS) technology, Series 1000 and Series 2000 ELDS Open Path Gas Detection Systems, among the benefits, provide the first and only open path system for toxic gas detection.

Senscient, Booth: 1821

 

Servomex: Hummingbird Paracube Micro

In combining world-leading gas analysis technologies with cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, Servomex’s design team established a new standard for oxygen sensors for users of critical care medical applications. The Paracube Micro delivers a “next-generation” design with system integration, flexibility, compliance, and reliability.

Servomex, Booth: OS1

 

Weidmuller: SAI Bluetooth solution

Weidmuller introduces their Bluetooth system, providing economical and secure wireless communication for sensors and actuators. The Weidmuller Bluetooth Sensor Actuator Interface (SAI) modules form a wireless I/O network that replaces bus cables in physically challenging areas.

Weidmuller, Booth: 1949