Top product provider picks of the Factory Automation Industry as chosen by Control Design readers.
Every year, we send out questionnaires to our subscribers who tell us they specify, recommend or buy industrial automation and control products. Vendors are not eligible to vote, and are excluded from our electronic ballot list. The voting is only for our machine-builder and system-integrator readers.
We use an unaided ballot, meaning we don't provide a list of vendors or product brands to choose from. We include 50-odd hardware and software categories and ask participants to name the companies that provide them the best technology value for the products with which they have experience. Once they chose the best providers, participants rate service and support they receive from them. Only companies that received at least 5% of their category vote are recognized in our awards.
Find out who has made history and received a Readers' Choice Award.
Top Product Providers of 2013: Readers' Choice Awards
Machine builders and system integrators vote on the best product providers and rate them on service and support.
Top Product Providers of 2012: Readers' Choice Awards
Machine builders that successfully landed on the list look for new ways to improve their performance to satisfy customer needs.
Top Product Providers of 2011: Readers' Choice Awards
Voters recognize companies with locomotive-like reliability and speeding bullet service in our 2011 Readers' Choice Awards.
Top Product Providers of 2010: Readers' Choice Awards
The 2010Â Readers' Choice Awards winners have what it takes to climb to the top.
Top Product Providers of 2009: Readers' Choice Awards
The 2009 Readers' Choice Awards winners soar high in a sometimes unsettled automation supplier sky.
Top Product Providers of 2008: Readers' Choice AwardsÂ
Machine builders and system integrators vote on the best product providers and rate them on service and support.
Top Product Providers of 2007: Readers' Choice Awards
These 2007 Readers' Choice Award results affirm continuing excellence from many suppliers, but suggest great service is not a given.
Top Product Providers of 2006: Readers' Choice Awards
Value rises above the rest as readers make known their choices among automation suppliers. Check out which companies they recognize for providing the best technology values, services and support.
Top Product Providers of 2005: Readers' Choice Awards
The results of the Fifth-Annual Readers' Choice Awards are in. Check out which companies have been recognized by our academy of readers for providing the best technology values, services and support.
Top Product Providers of 2004:Â Readers' Choice Awards
Learn which machine control design system vendors won the annual 2004 Readers' Choice Awards for the best values in machine automation technology, and which product suppliers to the machine building industry offer the best customer service and support.
Top Product Providers of 2003: Readers' Choice Awards
Machine builders and system integrators vote on the best product providers and rate them on service and support.
Top Product Providers of 2002: Readers' Choice Awards
Here are the winners of the 2002 Readers' Choice Awards for best products, service and support.
Top Product Providers of 2001: Readers' Choice Awards
The 2001 Readers' Choice Awards proclaim the best technology suppliers to industrial machine builders.
