ExperTune Receives 2011 Engineer's Choice Award

February 23, 2011

ExperTune's PlantTriage has won an "Engineer's Choice Award" from Control Engineering magazine. The award recognizes the Root Cause problem-solving capability of PlantTriage. In the announcement, Control Engineering says "Because most process plants are very complex, these tools can provide an insight into plant performance that was previously impossible." Click Here to Read the Full Article.

ExperTune Receives Control Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for 15 years straight!

ExperTune was once again selected to receive a Control Magazine Reader's Choice Award in the January 2011 issue of Control Magazine. This marks the 15th straight year of recognition. ExperTune is particularly proud of this recognition because the awards are based on the write-in votes of end-users.

What Is the Meaning of All These Awards?

ExperTune's strong history of innovation has helped to drive a string of awards stretching over decades. By continually responding to customer input, ExperTune has continued to deliver bottom-line results to customers, year after year. ExperTune continue to remain dedicated to finding more ways to help our customers improve their process control systems and to deliver bottom-line profit improvements.

More of ExperTune's Awards are shown below:

2007: ExperTune won again. Over 700 automation professionals voted in the 2007 survey. Control magazine says "Once again, the end users have spoken."

2006: ExperTune won. According to Walt Boyes at Control Magazine, says the Reader's Choice survey is "an exercise in grading how well vendors deliver on this marketing message, on their products, and on their service promises."

For 2005:

ExperTune placed first with 20% of the vote
Emerson Process Management 16%
Rockwell 7% (Rockwell's RSTune and RS Loop Optimizer is written by ExperTune)
Honeywell 6%

"What our readers’ opinions do reveal is that year-after-year, certain companies have, through good technology and good service, been able to retain that key "front-of-mind" awareness. In other words, a positive presence that is readily recalled when the CONTROL's Readers’ Choice Awards survey lands in the inbox and asks readers to name the vendors delivering the best technologies across 71 categories."

For 2004:

ExperTune won in clear first place with a majority of the vote

"As we have since the awards' inception, CONTROL magazine asked its readers to rate the products and services of process control suppliers. These are the people whose opinions really count. They have the first-hand experience with how these instruments function, and they carefully spend their companies' currently scarce funds for instrumentation and control. Any supplier who finds its name on the following pages—even fourth or fifth in a hotly contested category—can rightfully be proud of the accolade that implies.

This year, the former mail ballots were replaced with electronic survey forms. E-mails were sent in November to about 24,000 selected CONTROL readers."

For 2003:

ExperTune tied with Emerson Process Management with 31% of the vote

"As we have since the awards' inception, CONTROL magazine asked its readers to rate the products and services of process control suppliers. These are the people whose opinions really count. They have the first-hand experience with how these instruments function, and they carefully spend their companies' currently scarce funds for instrumentation and control. Any supplier who finds its name on the following pages—even fourth or fifth in a hotly contested category—can rightfully be proud of the accolade that implies.

This year, the former mail ballots were replaced with electronic survey forms. E-mails were sent in November to about 24,000 selected CONTROL readers."

For 2002:

ExperTune placed first with 41% of the vote
Emerson Process Management 20%

"As we have since the awards' inception, CONTROL magazine asked its readers to rate the products and services of process control suppliers. These are the people whose opinions really count. They have the first-hand experience with how these instruments function, and they carefully spend their companies' currently scarce funds for instrumentation and control. Any supplier who finds its name on the following pages—even fourth or fifth in a hotly contested category--can rightfully be proud of the accolade that implies.

Write-in ballots were mailed last October to 5,000 randomly selected readers of CONTROL magazine. Responses were received from about 500 of them. The prime directive is: "Please identify by name the best supplier, in your opinion, in each of the following technology categories."

Product selection is a very personal process. It involves the inevitable analysis of cost versus benefit, ease of use, performance, reliability, service life, and so forth. Furthermore, it depends heavily on the particular application. The same product, although it performed well in previous applications, may not be selected the next time if the application requirements change. Every customer's list of critical specifications or features and their priority of importance may differ. Thus, rather than try to set up criteria for the Readers' Choice Awards, CONTROL simply asked its readers to tell us whose technologies work best in their particular process applications."

For 2001:

ExperTune placed first with 28% of the vote
Fisher-Rosemount 13%
Foxboro 11%

"We don't set the criteria for how to select the winners. We simply send a survey to a list of 5,000 representative CONTROL readers and asked them to list the single most important supplier in each of more than 60 product categories. In marketing research parlance, this is called "unaided recall," and it is the most accurate way to determine which companies lead the industry. Responses were received from more than 600 readers.

For 2000:

ExperTune placed first with 25% of the vote
Fisher-Rosemount 9%
Other vendors received slight recognition

"The Reader's Choice survey was mailed to a controlled list of 5,000 representing a cross section of CONTROL's readership. Respondents were asked to write in the name of the most outstanding supplier in each category."

For 1999:

ExperTune placed first with 38% of the vote.
Fisher-Rosemount Systems was second with 12%.
Entech placed third with 9%

"During the month of November, we sent broadcast fax surveys to end users representing every process segment, and in all geographic regions in the U.S. We asked our readers to fill in the blanks and identify the manufacturers who have provided them with the best instrumentation and control products." "Specifically noted on the survey, we asked respondents to vote only in those areas in which they had experience. The margin of error of the survey, as indicated through the survey results, is an estimated 3% at a 90% confidence level."

For 1998:

ExperTune placed first with 17% of the vote.
Foxboro was second with 10%.
Rockwell Software tied for second with 9%. (Rockwell Software's RSTune is written by ExperTune)

"The 1998 Readers' Choice Award ballots were send in November via fax broadcast to approximately two-thirds of CONTROL's readers. The ballot asked each respondent to identify by name (fill in blank) the leading supplier in each product category." "The margin of error of the survey, as indicated through the survey results, is an estimated 3% at a 90% confidence level."

For 1997:

ExperTune placed first with 32% of the vote.
Foxboro was second with 16%.
Rockwell Software tied for third with 8%. (ExperTune created Rockwell Software's RSTune)

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ExperTune Wins Plant Services 2003 Problem Solver Award

According to Plant Services magazine ExperTune is a Bronze Winner:

A major multinational chemical processor with tens of thousands of instruments and valves is receiving the benefits of five times the manpower by using PlantTriage performance monitoring software. The system also helps double the life of the company's valves.

By looking at the most important areas listed in the "Biggest Payback Loop" list the same maintenance people can oversee 10 times as many controllers as before, since the controllers are prioritized based on importance to the business.

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ExperTune Wins Control Engineering's 2000 Editors Choice Award.

"For these prestigious, annual awards, Control Engineering editors select the best products of 2000 in all areas of coverage. ... Criteria for selection includes technological advancement, impact on the market, and service to the industry.", Antonia McBride, Control Engineering

ExperTune Wins Control Engineering's 1999 Editors Choice Award.

"Many useful and innovative new products burst into industrial automation, instrumentation, and control in 1999. From all products in print and online coverage during 1999, Editors of Control Engineering and Control Engineering Online chose 40 to honor with Editors' Choice Awards." Control Engineering March 2000, page 74.

This award again underscores ExperTune's 15 years of award winning excellence in PID analysis software.

ExperTune Wins Control Engineering's 1995 Product Recognition Award.

"In making the final winning selections, we judged products by several criteria: service to the industry, technological advancement, uniqueness, and market presence. As an award winner your product is among the truly outstanding innovations..."

ExperTune's PID Loop Analyzer, winner of Flow Control's 2001 Innovation Award!

According to Flow Control magazine: "The Flow Control Product Innovation Awards acknowledge and showcase the fluid handling industry's ongoing commitment to product innovation. Each year, five awards are presented recognizing innovative products." ExperTune's software was chosen by Flow Control magazine even though the competition was fierce. "Many of them huge corporations."

ExperTune, Winner of CONTROL Magazine's 1994 Readers' Choice Award.

"CONTROL did not count any vendor and/or anonymous ballots. All usable ballots originated from end-user companies and engineering and construction firms. Readers were instructed to vote only on the products they had experience with and not the most popular."

ExperTune wins Control Engineering's Engineer's Choice and Editor's Choice Awards

Control Engineering Magazine awarded ExperTune's the 2005 Editor's Choice Award. Control Engineering magazine says ExperTune's product is " ...among the most significant innovations featured in Control Engineering during the last year."

In addition, ExperTune was awarded the Engineer's Choice Award for the Process and Advanced Control category.

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