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Our 13th Annual Readers' Choice Awards

Find out who won as readers broadcast their opinions on the best suppliers in the process control and automation industry in CONTROL magazine's 13th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.

12/17/2004

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SOFTWARE, DESIGN/DOCUMENTATION
1. AutoDesk AutoCAD - 36%
2. Microsoft Visio - 8%
    Intergraph - 7%
SOFTWARE, HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE
1. 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
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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%
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