Winners have been selected for the 2024 EDGE Awards, celebrating innovation across many facets of the design and engineering industry.
Readers of Machine Design—as well as affiliate brands Power & Motion, 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, recognizing 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.
Leading Edge Winner
48V Industrial Swappable Battery (1000) 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.
Automation and Controls
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
Mod-Sort Large Format System from Regal Rexnord
Communication
Wireless and wired systems, modules and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules and systems.
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.
WINNER
HONOREES
DA-1200, a Rugged & Cost-effective Intel Alder Lake-N Computer from Cincoze Co., Ltd.
SiFive Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 from SiFive
Electronic Components & Enclosures
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
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
WINNER
HONOREES
Lattice sensAI solution stack from Lattice Semiconductor
Theia IQ Lens System from Theia Technologies
Robotics & Motion Control
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
HONOREES
ArmorKinetix Distributed Servo Drives from Rockwell Automation
OilN2 from Inventive Resources, Inc.
Optical & Photonics
This includes adaptive optics, optical materials (such as metamaterials), optical coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms and freeform optics. This category also includes 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.