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!
