Emerson Technologies Win MVP and Gold Medals in 2023 Control Engineering Product of the Year Awards

Among the Emerson winners based on reader votes are PACSystems and Movicon technologies 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (July 26, 2023) – Emerson today announced that its PACSystems™ and Movicon™ technologies were awarded Most Valuable Product and two gold medals in the Control Engineering 2023 Product of the Year awards. The awards highlight the best new control, instrumentation and automation products as chosen by the publication’s readers based on technology advancement, service to the industry and market impact.

The highly intuitive  was named MVP since it received more votes than any other product in all categories, and unlike traditional resistive displays, it is designed with projective capacitive touchscreen technology. This meets the needs of the rapidly changing industrial workforce by allowing users to interact with the visual display with 10-point multitouch capabilities like swipe, pinch or zoom, enabling easy operation by a wide range of personnel. 

Showing similar innovative advances, the open programming, open communications PACSystems RSTi-EP CPE200 compact controller, the Programmable Automation Controller category gold medal winner, helps original equipment manufacturers meet customer requirements by minimizing the need for specialized software engineering talent.

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, providing local human machine interfaces, supervision and analytics that scale from small IIoT or WebHMI applications on embedded Linux devices to large Windows server systems.

Last year, more than 1,300 Emerson employees from 43 different countries participated, saving an estimated 500 kg of CO2 emissions, conducting 59 energy audits and ensuring that over 3,000 meals were zero-waste, by serving them in reusable or recyclable packaging with no discarded food.  

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Supporting Ecochallenge.org and their Earth Day Month Ecochallenge is an example of Emerson’s “Greening With” sustainability strategy, to share its expertise, global reach and the passion of its employees in fostering collaboration beyond its four walls with suppliers, customers, communities, industry groups, research institutions, government policymakers, and non-governmental organizations. 

Last year, Emerson was among 280 participating companies and is serving as the presenting sponsor of the 2023 Earth Day Month Ecochallenge.

Registration is open today. The challenge begins the first day of Earth Month, April 1, and ends April 30. Visit earthmonth.ecochallenge.org to register and learn more.