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Rockwell Automation is Readers’ Choice for Process Control in CONTROL Magazine Awards
Growing recognition of Rockwell Automation capabilities helps make the company one of the top choices for process control
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 29, 2009 — Building on the 2008 selection of Rockwell Automation as readers’ favorite process control automation system, safety system and advanced process control provider in CONTROL magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards, the company takes top honors in 2009. The company’s commitment to a single, plant-wide control platform for process, discrete, batch, motion, safety and information disciplines helped secure more CONTROL Readers’ Choice votes than any other process automation supplier.
“Process manufacturers recognize that a unified control system provides huge business advantages,” said Steve Pulsifer, director of Process Market Development, Rockwell Automation. “By standardizing on the Integrated Architecture platform and then taking advantage of all the new features in the Rockwell Automation PlantPAx process automation system, our customers cut installation, maintenance, training and infrastructure costs, while leveraging the most fully featured and scalable control system on the market. We’re thrilled that the people who work in process industries realize just how much value our process automation platform provides their business.”
Rockwell Automation received 31 first-place finishes in CONTROL magazine, plus three awards for key instrumentation partner Endress+Hauser. Particularly noteworthy was the demonstrated preference for Rockwell Automation in several process industries, including:
- Food
- Beverage
- Metals, Minerals and Mining
- Power Generation
- Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
- Plastics and Rubber
- Water/Wastewater
In addition, the Readers’ Choice Awards clearly showed readers’ overall preference for the Rockwell Automation capabilities within the PlantPAx process automation system. For the first time, the company received more first through fourth place finishes than any other process automation supplier – finishing with 60 of such placements in categories such as software and I/O, among several others.
The CONTROL magazine Readers’ Choice Award is an unaided product poll, meaning that respondents select suppliers that are top-of-mind rather than choose from a pre-defined list. CONTROL magazine is dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of more than 65,000 engineering, operations and management professionals.
For more information on the process control system for Rockwell Automation, please visit www.ab.com/onecontact/process/checkur_process.html.
About Endress+Hauser
The Endress+Hauser Group is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. With over 8,000 employees worldwide, the Group generates annual net sales of more than 1.1 billion euros. Company-owned sales centers and a network of partners guarantee competent worldwide support. Production centers in 11 countries meet customers’ requirements quickly and effectively. Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement, as well as liquid analysis and data acquisition. As a successful family-owned business, Endress+Hauser is set for continued independence and self-reliance in the future.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) is a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions that help manufacturers achieve a competitive advantage for their businesses. The company brings together leading global brands in industrial automation that include Allen-Bradley controls and services, and Rockwell Software factory management software. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., the company employs about 20,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.
Allen-Bradley, Integrated Architecture, Listen.Think.Solve., PlantPAx and Rockwell Software are trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc.
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Rockwell Automation
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