Machine Design is proud to reveal the winners of the 2025 EDGE Awards, celebrating pioneers and innovation in design and engineering, as chosen by readers like you.
Machine Design, along with affiliate brands Power & Motion, Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, Automation World, Control Design and Control, helped select this year’s winners and honorees in 12 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 2025 EDGE Awards.
Leading EDGE Award Winner
Marvell Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform from Marvell Technology
Pluggable optical transceivers play a vital role in data centers by converting electrical signals into photons for high-speed data transfer between server racks, then converting them back to electrical signals. Central to these transceivers is a high-performance digital signal processor (DSP).
Marvell Technology has launched a PAM4 DSP (digital signal processor) that could reduce power by more than 20% for 1.6-Tb/s optical transceivers, due in part to the use of a more advanced 3-nm manufacturing process. Marvell’s Ara chip integrates eight electrical lanes and eight optical channels, each capable of 200 gigabits per second, to deliver 1.6 Tb/s of throughput in a small, standardized module.
AI Data Analytics
Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) hardware and software that incorporates—or is designed to improve—product quality, supply chain management and production throughput.
Winner:
TMS320F28P550SJ C2000™ 32-bit MCU with integrated NPU from Texas Instruments
Honorees:
AI Dashboard Vision from Arch Systems
Cabling & 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.
Winner:
Honorees:
Enclosure Protector Attachment (EPA) from Inventive Resources, Inc.
Communications & Networks
Wireless and wired systems, modules, and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules, and systems, including I/O modules, cloud communications.
Winner:
Morse Micro MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow SoC from Morse Micro
Honorees:
Computing Hardware, Software and Systems
Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as associated compute, storage, design, and analysis systems.
Winner:
OPDPRO.CARE from Opdenhoff Technologie GmbH
Honorees:
Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform from Ambiq.com
Lattice Nexus™ 2 FPGA Platform from Lattice Semiconductor
Electronic Components
Passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas, and switches.
Winner:
SCi Blocks SiP block converters from Spectrum Control
Honorees:
ACS37030 from Allegro MicroSystems
RES60A-Q1 integrated 1.4kV precision resistor divider from Texas Instruments
Industrial Controllers
PLCs, PACs, IPCs.
Winner:
Failsafe Virtual PLC S7- 1517V F from Siemens
Honorees:
Allen-Bradley Logix SIS safety instrumented system from Rockwell Automation
Innovated SIMATIC S7- 1516T/1517/1518 Technology Controllers from Siemens
Machine Vision and Optical Components & Systems
This category 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.
Winner:
LMH13000 integrated high-speed lidar laser driver from Texas Instruments
Honorees:
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.
Winner:
SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 from Siemens
Honorees:
HTI BIMORPH™ µ-Actuators from TDK Hutchison Technology Inc.
ENERGEN™ from Sun Hydraulics, LLC
Production Tools and Systems
This category 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.
Winner:
THERMOMARK E.300 DOUBLE from Phoenix Contact [Missing link on spreadsheet]
Honorees:
Wafer-Scale SWIR Photodetector Platform from Aeluma [Missing link on spreadsheet]
Varistat Benchtop Ionizer, 230V from EXAIR
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.
Winner:
SIMATIC Robot Pick AI PRO from Siemens
Honorees:
KR 1205 Edge Edition from Kassow Robots
SIMATIC Robot Simulator from Siemens
Visualization
HMI, SCADA, dashboards
Winner:
SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 NFC iOS App from Siemens
Honorees:
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