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Award Selection Methodology

This methodology will result in the selection of 6 category winners plus one overall winner. Category winners will be selected for their mastery of one of the six disciplines of Progressive Manufacturers. The overall winner will be the company that has demonstrated broad mastery of these disciplines.

Winners will be selected from a pool of candidates nominated in response to invitations from Managing Automation. Managing Automation editors will perform an initial screening of candidates, selecting those that will be reviewed by the full panel. Editors will finalize which category each candidate company will be considered for and which candidates will be considered for the overall award.

Evaluation of award candidates and selection of winners will be performed by a panel of Managing Automation editors and manufacturing, automation and IT experts. Panelists will evaluate candidate companies submitted for all six category awards as well as the overall award.

After reviewing materials submitted for each candidate company, panel members will score candidates based on the following system:

Category competition
Panelists will evaluate and score candidates for the six category awards using the following criteria:

  • Scope of Mastery: Has the candidate company demonstrated discipline mastery broadly, across several business functions, for example? Has mastery of the discipline resulted in a significant transformation in the way the company does business?
  • Business Impact: What bottom line business benefit has resulted from mastery of this discipline?
  • Use of Technology: To what extent was the use of technology key to enabling mastery of the discipline? Was the appropriate technology used? Was it deployed in a way that delivered maximum value to the business?

For each of these criteria, panelists will award candidate companies points on a scale from one to five. A score of 1 for the Business Impact criteria, for example, would indicate little or no bottom line benefits. A score of five would indicate highly significant business impact.

Winners will be those companies receiving the highest total score.

Overall competition
Panelists will evaluate and score candidates for the overall award based on their demonstrated mastery of all six disciplines. For each overall award candidate, panelists will consider the scope, business impact and use of technology related to each discipline. Based on those criteria, panelists will award each candidate a single score, from one to five, for each discipline.

Winners will be those companies receiving the highest total score.

Ties will be resolved by Managing Automation editors.

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