To recognize the outstanding innovations in product design and function for the manufacturing sector, Hydraulics & Pneumaticsand Machine Design will present the 2021 IDEA! Awards.
IDEA! Award winners will be chosen by the top industry experts on innovation—the readers of Hydraulics & Pneumatics and Machine Design, 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 Mid-Year report of Hydraulics & Pneumatics and the August issue of Machine Design. 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.
One of the outcomes of our shared pandemic experience is that we don’t see too many people in three dimensions these days. With our time together limited and at a distance, we’ve resorted to business video calls to keep touch with those we work with—and many times with those we love.
Even in our free time, we’re not able to experience much beyond a screen. Our halting return to sports is viewed solely on television—complete with cutout fan images in the otherwise empty seats. We’ve binge-watched streaming series and relived some classics, but it all remains a 2D world for the most part.
It’s ironic (if there actually is any irony left in the world) because we have worked so hard over the last decade to add real dimension to our work. From 3D visions of manufacturing plants and the products they produce to the additive manufacturing of printed products from those visions, we have transformed the way we create and build products and systems. From idea to reality, the 3D processes we’ve created have helped us bring better products to our customers in less time and with less waste.
We have used that technology effectively during the pandemic to keep the fires of innovation burning. Perhaps our greatest achievement in the last year is that amid all the turmoil, we have adapted and continued to grow. Technology has enabled that adaptive spirit, but so has the nimble minds that take that technology and spin it into solutions.
Hydraulics & Pneumatics will celebrate that innovative spirit with our new IDEA! Awards, which are being launched this year. New products from around the world will be nominated to receive the IDEA! Awards, and then we will present the nominees to our engineering experts—you—to select the best of these solutions to receive the prizes.
The award luncheon will take place at the IDEA! Conference Nov. 10 in Cleveland, and that will be the end of the process. But that process doesn’t start with the nominations, which are open now, or with the announcement of our finalists in 14 categories, or with the reader voting that will select the winners.
Innovation begin with one person’s idea and the imagination and talent to turn that idea into something that serves others. The great ideas are multi-faceted and, of course, multi-dimensional. We haven’t lost the dimension of innovation in the past year, and all of us at Hydraulics & Pneumatics are excited to showcase it with the IDEA! Awards.
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