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Electrical automation and digitalization equally in focus: From 2020, the Automation Award will be presented in two categories:

• TECHNOLOGY (Solution Offers):
  By this we mean the components and system solutions of the suppliers of automation technology, which are recently also summarized under the term Operational Technology (OT). With control technology as well as actuators and sensors, automation technology lays the foundation for the implementation of digitalization – meaning Industry 4.0 and the Smart Factory.
• DIGITALIZATION (Digitalization Scenarios):
  Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) are only two of the areas with which manufacturing processes can be made much more efficient and, last but not least, more resource-saving today. The aim here is to award a prize to a practical application that demonstrates how the advantages of digitalization can be used efficiently.

In retrospect, the development of fieldbuses and, based on this, of Industrial Ethernet communication solutions alone clearly shows the dynamics of electrical automation technology. From the very beginning, the aim of the Automation Award, which is awarded annually by elektro AUTOMATION and wirautomatisierer.de from the Konradin Media Group, was therefore to honor particularly innovative products and increasingly solution offerings. With the digitalization scenarios, we also want to honor topics such as Industry 4.0, Smart Factory and digitalization in the future – because not least in view of the challenges posed by climate change, automation and digitalization are to be seen as the key to mastering the future.

Every reader can vote twice, once for the category

• TECHNOLOGY (Solution Offers) and the category
• DIGITALIZATION (Digitalization Scenarios).

The jury will nominate three candidates for each category in advance.

You can vote anonymously.