It’s pretty great when the Emerson team has worked hard to advance technology and innovate new solutions for our customers – and the customers give us a huge pat on the back!
We’ve just learned that the Control Engineering 2023 Product of the Year Awards Most Valuable Product winner, the product that received more votes than any other in all categories, is the PACSystemsTM RXi HMI! To top it off, the gold medal winner in Programmable Automation Controllers is the unique, compact PACSystems RSTi-EP CPE200 series controllers, and the gold medal winner in Software is the highly flexible Movicon.NExTTM 4.2 platform. What a great vote of confidence to receive these prestigious awards.
The Control Engineering Product of the Year awards highlight some of the best new control, instrumentation, and automation products as chosen by Control Engineering‘s readers who are asked to select products based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact. The winning products are celebrated in this Control Engineering Product of the Year 2023 eBook.
It’s easy to understand why readers resonated with and voted for the PACSystems RXi HMI. The system easily helps users overcome the limitations of lower budgets, fewer people and higher productivity demands. This highly intuitive HMI addresses the needs of today's industrial workforce with easy-to-use, smartphone-like graphical displays without sacrificing rugged. industrial performance.
Unlike traditional resistive displays, the PACSystems RXi HMI is designed with projective capacitive touchscreen technology that allows users to interact with the visual display with 10-point multitouch capabilities like swipe, pinch or zoom to move to the next screen or expand a chart, enabling easy operation by a wide range of personnel with varying levels of training and experience.
The PACSystems RXi HMI comes pre-loaded and pre-licensed with the advanced MoviconTM WebHMI software, so the device is conveniently ready to operate out of the box, saving customers time. PACSystems RXi HMI is HTML5-ready, which allows users to collaborate from anywhere, so that the operations, management and maintenance teams can all view the same screen at the same time, no matter the distance. This immediate sharing of information and access to expertise reduces maintenance costs and improves productivity.
Showing similar innovative advances, the PAC gold medal winner, the PACSystems RSTi-EP CPE200 compact controller helps original equipment manufacturers successfully meet customer requirements by minimizing the need for specialized software engineering talent. The PACSystems CPE200 controllers deliver large programmable logic controller capability in a small, cost-effective lloT-ready form factor so machine manufacturers do not need to sacrifice performance for price. The controllers offer open communications through native, pre-licensed support for OPC UA Secure and other common industrial protocols for flexible connectivity over highspeed Gigabit Ethernet.
The Software category gold medalist, the Movicon.NExT 4.2 platform, is designed to easily interface with any field device and control or enterprise system. It connects users and OEMs with the data and insights needed to achieve operational excellence across a wide range of applications, including discrete and hybrid manufacturing, such as food and beverage and packaged consumer goods, as well as energy, infrastructure, building automation and machine automation. The Movicon.NExT 4.2 solution is a flexible, modular platform that provides local human machine interfaces, supervision and analytics that scale from small IIoT or WebHMI applications on embedded Linux devices to large Windows server systems.
Our sincerest thanks to all of our customers, friends, and the Control Engineering audience who made these amazing awards possible. On to the next innovations!