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LEAP Awards finalists announced

By Paul Heney | November 2, 2018

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Today at 2:00 p.m., VP, Editorial Director Paul J. Heney and Senior Editor Lisa Eitel unveiled the much-anticipated finalists for the 2018 LEAP Awards. Between two and eight finalists were announced in each of the 11 categories:

Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Materials
Connectivity
Embedded Computing
Fluid Power
Industrial Automation
Mechanical
Motion Control
Power Electronics
Switches & Sensors, and
Test & Measurement.

One winner in each category will be honored at an awards dinner on December 11th in Costa Mesa, Calif.

A recording of the live video stream can be viewed here:

Here are the finalists by category, in alphabetical order by company name:

Additive manufacturing
3D Systems
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HP Inc.
Jet Fusion 300/500 Series

Advanced materials
Dura-Bar
Solution Strengthened Ductile Iron

L.J. Star Incorporated
MetaPlex Optical Grade Polymer Sanitary Sight Windows

Cicoil
Micro IDC Cable

Connectivity
Fischer Connectors
Fischer Freedom LP360

I-PEX Connectors
MHF I LK Micro RF Coaxial Connector

Silicon Labs
Wireless Gecko SoC

Embedded computing
Mentor, A Siemens Business
Mentor Embedded IoT Framework

Microchip Technology Inc.
SAM L11

RelChip, Inc.
Extreme Operating Microelectronics

Fluid power
Danfoss Power Solutions
D1 Pump

Eaton Corp.
Boom Stability Control System

FD-Groups America, Inc.
Auto-Steering Valve

Festo
Evolutionary Intelligent Pneumatics

Industrial automation
Cognex
DataMan 470

Littelfuse
MP8000 Bluetooth Enabled Motor Protection Relay

Omnify Software
Omnify Empower / 6 River’s Robot Chuck

Omron Automation Americas
CIP Safety Controller

Parker Hannifin
Universal Pneumatic Valve Manifold

Protolabs
Farmbot – humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine

Schneider Electric
EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor

Serapid
Telescopic Jib

Mechanical
Colder Products Company
Ultra-Compact LQ2 Quick Disconnects

R+W Coupling Technology
World’s Largest Ball-Detent Safety Coupling

Rolling Motion Industries
Traction Drive Technology

Twin Spring Coupling
TSC500 flexible coupling unit

WITTENSTEIN
Rack Assembly in Minutes, Chipless Pinning with INIRA

Motion control
AMETEK
Windjammer Pro Brushless Blowers

ElectroCraft
RPX and LRPX

GAM Enterprises
Zero backlash gearbox

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc.
15mm Linear Actuator

Kinitics Automation
KLA05 Linear Actuator

Lin Engineering
Miniature Hybrid Step Motor

maxon precision motors
Exoskeleton Joint Actuator

Oriental Motor USA Corp.
Battery-Free Multi-Rotation Absolute Mechanical Encoder

Power electronics
CUI Inc.
High Performance Peltier Modules with arcTEC Structure

Maxim Integrated
Himalaya uSLIC Solution

Mentor Graphics
MicReD Power Tester

Power Integrations
InnoSwitch 3-Pro

Switches & sensors
Omron Automation Americas
A2W Wireless Pushbutton

RAFI
RAMO Series Industrial Controls

Renesas Electronics
CMOS Image Sensor

Test & measurement
Anritsu
Signal Quality Analyzer-R MP1900A BERT

Keithley Instruments
DMM and DAQ

Mentor Graphics
T3Ster and FloTHERM and FloTHERM XT Calibration

Tektronix
6 Series MSO Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

Congratulations to all!


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About The Author

Paul Heney

Paul J. Heney, the VP, Editorial Director for Design World magazine, has a BS in Engineering Science & Mechanics and minors in Technical Communications and Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He has written about fluid power, aerospace, robotics, medical, green engineering, and general manufacturing topics for nearly 25 years. He has won numerous regional and national awards for his writing from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

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