Manufacturing Equipment

OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Manufacturing Business Technology, the leading source of information on the strategic use of information technology in manufacturing and distribution companies, has revealed the winners of its inaugural Innovation Insight Awards program.
All of the Innovation Insight Awards recipients are spotlighted in feature stories in the July/August issue of Manufacturing Business Technology magazine, as well as on the magazine’s Web site, www.mbtmag.com.
The awards recognize companies–both vendors and end users–that demonstrated creative use of information technology to solve real business problems.
The top four selections involved the implementation of wireless networks in industry settings where the use of such technology previously had been considered all but impossible.
For instance, the co-winners in the Innovative Product category–Honeywell Process Solutions and Emerson Process Management–have customers using wireless networks that function without error in paint-making plants, copper mines, and aboard ships.
In the innovative process category, Gardner Denver Inc., supplier of compressor and vacuum products and fluid transfer products, uses data collected via a wireless network to predict–and thus avoid–equipment failures could derail customers’ production schedules.
“In selecting the Innovation Award winners, we did not look for small companies or large companies. We looked for companies that were using information technology to significantly improve processes related to designing, building, and delivering products,” said Sidney Hill, executive editor of Manufacturing Business Technology. “The list of entries–and obviously the final list of winners–proved that the spirit of innovation is alive and well in the manufacturing and distribution sector.”
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