2027 EDGE Awards: Call for Submissions

Honor your best and brightest engineering product innovations from the past year.

Oct. 27, 2026

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Once again, the EDGE Awards will showcase the most innovative engineering tools and industrial technologies from the prior year across 16 categories.

Don’t miss this opportunity to identify your company as a leader in the design and engineering market.

All submissions are reviewed and voted on by the collective engineering audience of Automation World, Control Global, Control Design, Electronic Design, Machine Design, Microwaves & RF and Power & Motion.

In addition to individual category winners, the submission that gets the most overall votes, across all categories, will receive the our top designation, the Leading Edge Award. There is no limit to the number of submissions an individual or company can enter. Complete details, including submission rules, are available on the EndeavorB2B website.

EDGE Award winners in each category will be announced at Automate 2027 (May-13, 2027) in Las Vegas. Winners will also be interviewed on the Code The Future Podcast with our sponsor QNX to discuss their product in more detail. They will also receive coverage on our brand websites, exposure in our newsletters and recognition on our social platforms.

If you have a product, solution or service that has or will launch between May 2026 and May 2027, don’t miss this opportunity to nominate a product for consideration in any of the categories specified below.

Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping. 3D printing machines, materials and software, as well as interfaces to CAD and machine tools for post-processing.
AI Data Analytics. Machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) hardware and software that incorporates or is designed to improve product quality, supply chain management and production throughput.
Cabling and Enclosures. Hardware meant to hold controls and electronics as well as monitor the temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. inside the enclosure, such as terminal blocks and cabinet coolers.
Communications & Networks. Wireless and wired systems, modules, and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules and systems, including I/O modules and cloud communications.
Computing Hardware, Software and Systems. Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as the compute, storage and communication modules and systems used to analyze data and assist design engineers.
Design Tools & Software. EDA, CAD, CAM, CAE, Digital Twin, modeling and simulation software as well as application tools and operating systems to assist the design engineer. This category also includes IDEs, compilers and middleware.
Electronic Components. Electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas and switches.
Industrial Controllers. PLCs, PACs and IPCs.
Machine Vision & Inspection. Cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software and systems.
Motion Control Components. Pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric motion control components and systems including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, gears, belts, and chains, as well as fluids, filters and compressed air systems.
Operations Software. MES, Maintenance, Connected worker/workflow and ERP.
Optical Components and Systems. This includes adaptive optics, optical materials (such as metamaterials), optical coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms and freeform optics. This category also includes lighting products for machine vision applications.
Production Tools and Systems. This includes creation of chips, printed circuit boards, components and systems as well as all mechanical and machine tool operations, welding, soldering and adhesives focused on metal or component joining as well as materials used to fasten and secure components.
Robotics. Single-axis and multi-axis robots for assembly, product inspection and supply chain use as well as cobots, AGVs and other robotic transport vehicles. This also includes software related to robotics including fleet management and robot operating systems.
Test, Measurement, Sensors and Software. Test and measurement equipment and sensors that measure things including electrical, photons, speed, temperature, vibration, positioning, dimensional accuracy, defect detection and other operational parameters, as well as the software needed to effectively analyze the sensor data.
Visualization. HMI, SCADA and dashboards.