Submit Your Latest Technological Developments for the 2025 EDGE Awards
It is time once again to submit entries for Power & Motion's EDGE Awards (formerly known as the IDEA Awards) which aim to highlight the influential and cutting-edge technological advancements taking place within the design and engineering space.
Those developing hydraulic, pneumatic, electromechanical and related technologies are encouraged to submit their latest product developments to showcase the various innovations taking place within the motion control space.
How to Participate in the EDGE Awards
Products, components, systems, solutions and services launched between May 27, 2024 and May 5, 2025 are eligible for submission for the 2025 EDGE Awards. This ensures the most recent technological developments are being recognized.
The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, May 16, 2025. Each entry is $695 and there is no limit to the number of submissions an individual or company can enter.
Visit the EDGE Awards submission page to start an entry now.
The EDGE Awards are supported by the engineering-centric brands of Endeavor Business Media which besides Power & Motion include Electronic Design, Machine Design, and Microwaves & RF. New for the 2025 edition of the awards is the inclusion of three more brands to help amplify the work being done in various engineering fields — Control Design, Control and Automation World.
With the addition of the three new brands, there are now 16 categories under which products can be submitted for the 2025 EDGE Awards:
- 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, 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: Passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas, and switches.
- Industrial Controllers: PLCs, PACs, 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, 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, dashboards.
Learn more about the EDGE Awards program and the various categories.
The Benefits of Participating in the EDGE Awards
Participants of the EDGE Award program receive coverage on the websites of the supporting brands, as well as exposure in the brands' various newsletters and recognition on social media. Winners and honorees of each category receive additional promotion upon the award program’s conclusion and announcement in mid-September.
The submission that gets the most overall votes across all categories will receive the Leading Edge Award, our top designation.
All submissions are reviewed and voted on by the engineering audience of Power & Motion, Electronic Design, Machine Design, Microwaves & RF, Control Design, Control, and Automation World. Any votes submitted by non-industry members are excluded from the final results.
About the Author
Sara Jensen
Executive Editor, Power & Motion
Sara Jensen is executive editor of Power & Motion, directing expanded coverage into the modern fluid power space, as well as mechatronic and smart technologies. She has over 15 years of publishing experience. Prior to Power & Motion she spent 11 years with a trade publication for engineers of heavy-duty equipment, the last 3 of which were as the editor and brand lead. Over the course of her time in the B2B industry, Sara has gained an extensive knowledge of various heavy-duty equipment industries — including construction, agriculture, mining and on-road trucks —along with the systems and market trends which impact them such as fluid power and electronic motion control technologies.
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