To recognize the outstanding innovations in product design and function for the manufacturing sector, Machine Design and Hydraulics & Pneumaticswill present the 2021 IDEA! Awards.
IDEA! Award winners will be chosen by the top industry experts on innovation—the readers of Machine Design and Hydraulics & Pneumatics, who will cast their votes online from entries in 14 categories:
- 3D Printing
- Motors & Drives
- Robotics
- Motion Control
- Electrical Components
- Fastening and Joining
- Fluid Power Components
- Automation
- Design Software
- Sensors
- Machine Tools
- Mechanical Components
- Fluid Power
- Cloud and Computing
“We developed the IDEA! Awards to celebrate the tremendous progress in product development that has taken place in the last year,” said Bob Vavra, senior content director. “Despite the pandemic, we have seen great new ideas continue to be presented to solve problems faced by our readers. The IDEA! Awards are a way to bring all of those great new products together, and to recognize those our audience believes provide the most important solutions.”
The IDEA! Awards will be presented at a Nov. 10 luncheon as part of the Industrial Design, Engineering & Automation (IDEA!) Conference, to be held Nov. 9-12 in Cleveland. The IDEA! Conference will be part of the larger Manufacturing & Technology Conference, presented by Endeavor Business Media.
Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies will be presented to the products that receive the highest percentage of votes in each category. In addition, the product that receives the most votes among all categories will be presented with the BIG IDEA! Award.
This is a contest for new products. All products must have been introduced for the first time within a 12-month period beginning Oct. 1, 2020 and ending Sept. 30, 2021. The entry fee is $500, and there is no limit to the number of new products submitted by any company. Entry deadline is July 9, 2021.
Finalists will be featured in the August issue of Machine Design and the Mid-Year report of Hydraulics & Pneumatics. Finalists also will be featured online, and voting will begin Aug. 1. Winners will be notified in mid-September and invited to attend the awards luncheon in November.
Submissions are now being accepted here.
Manufacturing growth surged again in February as continued strength in new orders and production drove the continuing rebound from the pandemic collapse.
The Institute for Supply Management PMI Index grew 2.1 percentage points to 60.8% in February. That puts the index 20% above the 50% base level that indicates growth in the index. It’s the second time in three months the index has topped 60%, and it is nearly 50% above the 41.7% reading in April 2020, at the height of the initial COVID-19 pandemic disruption of manufacturing.
Those days are in the past, said Timothy Fiore, chairman of the ISM’s Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, as optimism among the committee members abounds. “The manufacturing economy continued its recovery in February. Survey Committee members reported that their companies and suppliers continue to operate in reconfigured factories,” Fiore said in a press release. “Issues with absenteeism, short-term shutdowns to sanitize facilities and difficulties in hiring workers remain challenges, and continue to cause strains that limit manufacturing-growth potential. Optimistic panel sentiment increased, with five positive comments for every cautious comment.”
PMI component areas continued a strong showing. The New Orders Index was up 3.7 percentage points to 64.8%, the Production Index rose 2.5 percentage points to 63.2% and the Employment Index was up 1.8 percentage points to 54.4%.
Labor is the only issue that continues to restrain the manufacturing index, Fiore said.
“The Employment Index expanded for the third straight month, but panelists continue to note significant difficulties in attracting and retaining labor at their companies and supplier facilities,” he said in the release. “Labor-market difficulties at panelists’ companies and their suppliers continued to restrict manufacturing-economy expansion and will remain the primary headwind to production growth until employment levels and factory operations can return to normal across the entire supply chain.”
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