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    Voting is now open for the 2025 EDGE Awards

    Cast Your Vote for the Best New Products in the 2025 EDGE Awards

    June 5, 2025
    Help choose the best engineering innovations from the past year by casting your vote now for the 2025 EDGE Awards.

    Voting is now open for the 2025 EDGE Awards which aims to spotlight the cutting-edge technological advancements taking place within the design and engineering space. New products, components, systems, solutions and services launched in the past year — including hydraulic, pneumatic and electromechanical motion control technologies — are in the running to win an EDGE Award.

    Winners will be chosen by you, the engineers working with these technologies in various capacities. You can submit your vote here through June 21. 

    This year, there are 66 submissions across 11 categories. By submitting your vote now, you can help decide which product launched in the past year is the most innovative in each category. Winners and honorees will be chosen for each category, and the submission that receives the most votes overall will be awarded the Leading Edge Award.

    Below you can learn about each submission in the various categories for the 2025 EDGE Awards to help inform your voting decision. Product information is posted on Power & Motion's website as well as the other engineering-focused brands at Endeavor Business Media hosting the EDGE Awards: Automation World, Control, Control Design, Electronic Design, Machine Design, and Microwaves & RF.  

    AI Data Analytics: Machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) hardware and software that incorporates or is designed to improve product quality, supply chain management and production throughput. 

    Cabling and Enclosures: Hardware meant to hold controls and electronics as well as monitor the temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. inside the enclosure, such as terminal blocks and cabinet coolers. 

    Communications and Networks: Wireless and wired systems, modules and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules and systems, including I/O modules and cloud communications. 

    Computing Hardware, Software and Systems: Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as associated compute, storage, design and analysis systems. 

    Electronic Components: Passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas and switches. 

    Industrial Controllers: PLCs, PACs and IPCs. 

    Motion Control Components: Pneumatic, hydraulic and electric motion control components and systems, including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, gears, belts, and chains, as well as fluids, filters and compressed air systems. 

    Machine Vision and Optical Components & Systems: This includes adaptive optics, optical materials, coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms and freeform optics. This category also considers lighting products for machine vision applications, cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software and systems. 

    Production Tools and Systems: This includes creation of chips, printed circuit boards, components and systems, as well as all mechanical and machine tool operations, welding, soldering and adhesives focused on metal or component joining, as well as materials used to fasten and secure components. 

    Robotics: Single-axis and multi-axis robots for assembly, product inspection and supply chain use, as well as cobots, AGVs and other robotic transport vehicles. This also involves software related to robotics, including fleet management and robot operating systems. 

    Visualization: HMI, SCADA, dashboards

    About the Author

    Sara Jensen | Executive Editor, Power & Motion

    Sara Jensen is executive editor of Power & Motion, directing expanded coverage into the modern fluid power space, as well as mechatronic and smart technologies. She has over 15 years of publishing experience. Prior to Power & Motion she spent 11 years with a trade publication for engineers of heavy-duty equipment, the last 3 of which were as the editor and brand lead. Over the course of her time in the B2B industry, Sara has gained an extensive knowledge of various heavy-duty equipment industries — including construction, agriculture, mining and on-road trucks —along with the systems and market trends which impact them such as fluid power and electronic motion control technologies. 

    You can follow Sara and Power & Motion via the following social media handles:

    X (formerly Twitter): @TechnlgyEditor and @PowerMotionTech

    LinkedIn: @SaraJensen and @Power&Motion

    Facebook: @PowerMotionTech

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