SOFTWARE, DESIGN/DOCUMENTATION1. AutoDesk AutoCAD - 36%
2. Microsoft Visio - 8%
Intergraph - 7%
SOFTWARE, HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE1. Invensys Wonderware - 32%
2. Rockwell Automation - 24%
3. GE Infrastructure - 12%
SOFTWARE LOOP TUNING
1. Expertune - 20%
2. Emerson Process Management - 16%
3. Rockwell - 7%
Honeywell - 6%
SOFTWARE, NEURAL NETWORKS
1. Emerson Process Management - 15%
2. Pavillion Technologies - 10%
SOFTWARE, PROCESS CONTROL
1. Emerson Process Management - 27%
2. Rockwell Automation - 18%
3. Honeywell - 10%
4. Invensys Wonderware - 7%
Invensys Foxboro - 7%
SOFTWARE, PLC PROGRAMMING
1. Rockwell Automation - 68%
2. Schneider Electric - 6%
SOFTWARE, SCADA
1. Invensys Wonderware - 21%
2. GE Infrastructure - 12%
Rockwell Automation - 11%
4. Emerson Process Management - 6%
National Instruments - 6%
OSISoft - 5%
SOFTWARE, SIMULATION
1. Aspentech - 20%
2. Mynah Technologies - 10%
Rockwell Automation - 10%
Invensys - 9%
TEMPERATURE SENSORS, INFRARED
1. Danaher Fluke- Raytek - 24%
2. IRCON - 13%
TEMPERATURE TRANSMITTERS
1. Emerson Process-Rosemount - 60%
2. Honeywell - 8%
3. Invensys Foxboro - 5%
Omega Engineering - 5%
TERMINAL BLOCKS
1. Rockwell Automation - 26%
Phoenix Contact - 24%
2. Weidmuller - 17%
3. Entrelec - 7%
THERMOCOUPLES
1. Omega Engineering - 23%
Emerson Process- Rosemount - 21%
3. Pyromation - 7%
JMS Southeast - 5%
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company - 5%
VALVE ACTUATORS, ELECTRIC
1. Flowserve-Limitorque - 13%
Rotork - 12%
3. Emerson Process-Fisher Controls - 10%
Flowserve-Valtek - 8%
5. Beck - 6%
VALVE ACTUATORS, PNEUMATIC
1. Emerson Process-Fisher Controls - 54%
2. Flowserve-Valtek - 12%
VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES
1. Rockwell Automation - 58%
2. ABB - 6%
Toshiba - 6%
VIBRATION SENSORS
1. GE Energy (Bently Nevada) - 57%
VISUAL LEVEL INDICATOR
1. Magnetrol-Orion - 18%
K-Tek - 16%
3. Penberthy - 11%
4. Clark-Reliance (Jerguson) - 8%
Emerson Process-Brooks - 8%
WEIGHING SYSTEMS, LOAD CELL
1. Mettler Toledo - 35%
2. Vishay BLH - 13%
3. Hardy Instruments - 10%
4. Danaher Venture Measurement (Kistler Morse) - 7%
WEIGHING SYSTEMS, INLINE
1. Mettler Toledo-Hispeed - 20%
2. Thermo Electron-Ramsey - 9%
Siemens-Milltronics - 9%
WIRE & CABLE
1. Belden - 56%
Notes:
Differences of less than 3% are ties.
Company divisions are shown: "Emerson Process-Rosemount"
Trade names or former names are shown: "Thermo Electron (Polysonics)"
Service scores are rounded to a single decimal.
Readers' Choice Awards survey demographics
Demographics: Total 555 responses
- System integrator/design firm - 34%
- Chemicals - 20%
- Food - 9%
- Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services - 8%
- Refining - 8%
- Paper - 7%
- Rubber and Plastic - 5%
- Primary Metals - 4%
- Stone, clay glass and concrete - 3%
- Textile - 1%