2007 Readers' Choice Awards

Resistance Temperature Detector
1. Emerson Process Management 31%
2. Pyromation 16%
3. Omega Engineering 12%

Safety/Emergency Shutdown System
1. Invensys Triconex 25%
2. Rockwell Automation 20%
3. Emerson Process Management 9%
    Honeywell 8%
    Siemens Energy & Automation 6%

Signal Conditioner
1. Moore Industries 26%
2. Invensys Eurotherm/Action 18%
3. Acromag 11%
4. Phoenix Contact 7%
    Absolute Process Instruments 6%
    Omega Engineering 6%

Software, Advanced Process Control
1. Emerson Process Management 22%
2. Rockwell Automation 18%
3. Invensys 13%
4. Aspen Tech 9%
    Honeywell 9%

Software, Alarm Management
1. Emerson Process Management 21%
2. Invensys 18%
3. Honeywell 10%
    Rockwell Automation 10%
5. Matrikon 6%

Software, Asset Management
1. Emerson Process Management 32%
2. Rockwell Automation 12%
    Invensys 10%
    SAP 10%
5. Honeywell 8%

Software, Batch Control
1. Emerson Process Management 29%
2. Rockwell Automation 19%
    Invensys 17%
4. Honeywell 10%

Software, Calibration Management
1. Emerson Process Management 28%
2. Fluke 9%
    Rockwell Automation 9%
    Honeywell 7%
5. AST/Cornerstone 5%

Software, Design/Documentation
1. Rockwell Automation 22%
2. AutoDesk 14%
3. Emerson Process Management 10%
4. ECT 6%

Software, HMI
1. Invensys Wonderware 29%
2. Rockwell Automation 24%
3. Emerson Process Management 12%
4. GE Fanuc 6%
    Honeywell 6%

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Software, Loop Tuning
1. Emerson Process Management 31%
2. Rockwell Automation 14%
3. Expertune 10%
    Invensys 10%
5. Honeywell 6%
    Siemens Energy & Automation 6%

Software, Neural Network
1. Emerson Process Management 37%
2. Pavilion 13%
3. Invensys 10%

Software, Process Control
1. Emerson Process Management 29%
2. Rockwell Automation 21%
3. Invensys 12%
4. Honeywell 6%
    Siemens Energy & Automation 6%

Software, PLC Programming
1. Rockwell Automation 73%
2. Schneider Electric 8%

Software, SCADA
1. (tie) Rockwell Automation 24%
    Invensys Wonderware 22%
3. GE Fanuc 18%
4. Emerson Process Management 10%
5. Citect 6%

Software, Simulation
1. (tie) Emerson Process Management 19%
    Rockwell Automation 17%
3. Mynah 10%
    Invensys 8%

Temperature Sensor, Infrared
1. Fluke/Raytek 23%
2. Mikron 13%
3. Ircon 10%

Temperature Transmitter
1. Emerson Process Management 63%
2. Honeywell  6%
    Omega Engineering  5%

Terminal Block
1. Rockwell Automation 39%
2. Phoenix Contact 25%
3. Weidmuller 12%
4. Wago 8%

Thermal Imaging/Thermography
1. FLIR Systems 36%
2. Fluke/Raytek 23%

Thermocouple
1. Omega Engineering 26%
2. Emerson Process Management 15%
3. Pyromation 9%
4. Sandelius 6%

Valve Actuator, Electric
1. Emerson Process Management 18%
2. Limitorque 11%
    Rotork 11%
4. Flowserve 9%
    ASCO 7%
    Beck 7%

Valve Actuator, Pneumatic
1. Emerson Process Management 60%
2. Flowserve 6%

Variable Speed Drive
1. Rockwell Automation 60%
2. ABB 12%
3. Baldor Electric 5%

Vibration Sensor
1.  GE Energy 45%

Weighing System, Load Cell
1. Mettler-Toledo 30%
2. Hardy Instruments 18%
3. Rice-Lake Weighing Systems 10%
4.  Vishay BLH 8%

Weighing Systems, Inline
1. K-Tron 20%
2. Rice Lake Weighing Systems 15%
3. Hardy Instruments 6%
    Acrison 5%
    Siemens Energy & Automation 5%

Wire & Cable
1. Belden 70%

Vendors Offering
Exceptional Service

In addition to selecting the best technology providers, survey respondents to the 2007 Readers' Choice Awards ballots were asked to evaluate the customer service performance of their favored technology providers on a scale of 1 to 5, poor to outstanding.