Winners have been selected for the 2024 EDGE Awards, celebrating innovation across many facets of the design and engineering industry.
Readers of Power & Motion — as well as affiliate brands Machine Design, Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, Laser Focus World, Military + Aerospace Electronics, and Vision Systems Design — helped choose this year’s winners and honorees in eight categories as well as an overall Leading EDGE Winner which was the innovation with the most votes.
Below are winners and honorees by category; winners will receive a physical award honoring their achievement in the 2024 EDGE Awards.
READ MORE about the EDGE Awards and the nominees in each of the categories.
Leading EDGE Winner
48V Industrial Swappable Battery from Green Cubes Technology
The 48V Industrial Swappable Battery was nominated under the Electronic Components and Enclosures category. Green Cubes Technology developed this battery to provide fast or hot-swapping capabilities for various applications including mobile workstations and industrial mobile robots.
Learn more about Green Cubes Technology’s swappable battery.
Automation and Controls
Technologies included PLC, SCADA, and networks and software used to manage control systems and data.
Winner: PICO Nexμs Jetting System from Nordson EFD
Honorees
Stratix 5200 fully managed Ethernet switches from Rockwell Automation
ModSort Large Format System from Regal Rexnord
Communication
Wireless and wired systems, modules, and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules, and systems were among the technologies included in this category.
Winner: Wi-Fi HaLow Portfolio from Morse Micro
Honorees
AI+5G O-RAN Solution from SynaXG
Filogic 860 and Filogic 360 from MediaTek
Computing Hardware, Software and Systems
Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as the compute, storage, and communication modules and systems used to analyze data and assist design engineers were included in this category.
Winner: N1 SoC Series from Ambarella
Honorees
DA-1200, a Rugged & Cost-effective Intel Alder Lake-N Computer from Cincoze Co., Ltd.
Electronic Components & Enclosures
Applicable technologies included passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas, and switches.
Winner: 224G Product Portfolio from Molex
Honorees
EC1005P from Empower Semiconductor
IHPT Series Haptic Feedback Actuators With Immersion Licenses from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.*
TRIO POWER Third Generation from Phoenix Contact *
Editor's note: products with an asterisk were tied for third place in this category.
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
This category featured hardware and software that incorporates or is designed to improve product quality, supply chain management, and production throughput.
Winner: Astra AI-Native Edge IoT Platform from Synaptics
Honorees
SEERai from Galorath Incorporated
Machine Vision & Inspection
Cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software, and systems were among the eligible technologies in this category.
Winner: In-Sight L38 from Cognex
Honorees
Robotics & Motion Control
Included technologies were pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric motion control components and systems including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, belts, and chains, as well as fluids, filters, and compressed air systems.
Winner: PixONE from Bota Systems
Honorees
ArmorKinetix Distributed Servo Drives from Rockwell Automation
OilN2 from Inventive Resources, Inc.
Optical & Photonics
This category included adaptive optics, optical materials (such as metamaterials), optical coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms, and freeform optics as well as lighting products for machine vision applications.
Winner: Tunable Laser System from Spectrolight, Inc.
Honorees
TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator driver from TeraSignal
DP50 High Pulse Energy DPSS Nanosecond Lasers from Photonics Industries International, Inc.
