The LEAP Awards (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. This dynamic competition honors the most innovative engineered products/components across several of our flagship brands:Design World,Fluid Power World,Fastener Engineering， 和EE World.
Submissions for the 2022 LEAP Awards program are being accepted starting today, May 2, 2022, atthis site.
今年的类别是：
Additive Manufacturing
高级材料
连接性
嵌入式计算
Fastener Technology
Hydraulics
工业自动化
Mechanical
Motion Control
Pneumatics
Power Electronics
软件
开关和传感器，以及
Test & Measurement.
Entries submitted must be new products that are commercially available in the United States and have been released since January 1, 2021 and not previously entered in the LEAP Awards. If the product is a derivation of a past component, the updates made to the design and function must be significant. All submissions become the property of WTWH Media LLC, and the company reserves the right to publish information in any of its media outlets.入口截止日期为2022年6月24日，入场费为325美元。
Late entries (please note that the fee jumps to $450 for late entries) will be accepted until July 22, 2022.
最佳提交将包括或解决以下内容：
• A basic description of the product in 250 words.
•高分辨率（300 dpi）产品照片和伴侣数据表。
• A list of ideal applications for the product.
• Details on any patents.
• Description of the product’s purpose. What problem does it solve? How does it improve on older products/what it evolved from? How is it different from competitive products? What advantages does it have?
•有关开发过程的信息。是否涉及任何类型的客户输入或Beta测试？开发产品有技术创新吗？
• A description of the design aspects to the product. What were the engineering tools or processes used in the development?
•概述工程师将如何通过此组件或产品来推动其机械，设备或产品设计。它为最终用户或消费者提供什么样的价值？该产品如何改变行业或将自己设置为基准？
CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
Design World
添加剂制造：This category focuses on machines that build parts — typically with 3D printing layer by layer. Entries can include higher-end desktop varieties of these machines. Submissions can include technologies and machine that employ layer-by-layer builds via extrusion, vat photopolymerization, various forms of laser sintering, various forms of powder-bed, material jetting, and some forms of laminations.
Advanced materials:Enter innovative materials here that improve designs or increase design flexibility for engineers. This category also includes lubricants and additive materials.
Industrial automation:This category is for components and services that execute or prompt system-level functions and impart machines with advanced networking and connectivity; power management; safety; transmission and management of system and operation-level information; and other IoT capabilities. For motors, we recommend this automation category if the motor’s leading features are associated with ease of integration (with controls and drives); sophistication in flexibility (in terms of acceptable inputs and outputs); or support of centralized, decentralized, and distributed control.
机械的：This category includes bearings, gears, pulleys, clutches, brakes, sprockets, and other power-transmission components. We recommend entering motors in this category if their innovative features are mechanical in nature — pertaining to integrated gearing or sealing; advanced housing geometry or materials; compactness or specialization to enable creative installations; or other design features aimed at boosting efficiency, ruggedness, and serviceability.
Motion control:此类别用于改善移动机轴的组件。输入智能电子组件，例如控制器，编码器，驱动器，步进驱动器，伺服驱动器和其他电子控制是其操作不可或缺的组件。
软件:Submissions here should be for design automation software and not EE focused. Appropriate entries include CAD, CAM, simulation, and additive manufacturing software.
Switches & sensors:Entries in this category should be feedback devices including mechanical switches and photoelectric, proximity, reel, and hall-effect sensors. Submissions can include devices for pressure, speed, temperature, and vibration sensing, vision systems, and edge devices.
Fastener Engineering
Fastener technology:Enter products used specifically to fasten or join parts together in a system. This category includes ultrasonic welding technology, adhesives, fasteners, hinges, springs, sockets, washers, etc.
Fluid Power World
Hydraulics:This category focuses on hydraulic motion control components and subsystems including but not limited to pumps, motors, cylinders, valves, hose assemblies, sensing technologies, HPUs, accumulators, filtration and sealing technologies. Please do not enter process control componentry.
Pneumatics:This category focuses on pneumatic motion control components and subsystems including but not limited to air compressors, cylinders, valves, hose assemblies, sensing technologies, FRLs, vacuum grippers, suction cups, pumps and other lifting devices. Please do not enter process control componentry.
EE World
连接性:在此类别中，输入从电线，电缆和连接器到的互连技术。电缆：工业运动控制电缆，光纤电缆，数据，电源和网络设计。连接器：从板级设计到坚固的工业圆，矩形插头和插座类型。它还包括电缆组件，线束和保护设备，例如索环，电缆腺等。
Embedded computing:This category is for microcontrollers (MCUs) or microprocessors (MPUs) or other custom designed chips, and supporting software in ROM (Read Only Memory) that comprise embedded computing. Also included are development tools and operating systems, computer boards, systems, and components, storage and wired and wireless connectivity, including IoT and IIoT.
Power electronics:In this category, enter AC-DC, DC-DC power supplies, transistors and any other power electronic circuits, components or assemblies used in power electronics, including battery and battery management.
测试与测量：This category is for test and measurement equipment as typically used by design and development engineers engaged in product design and development. Do not enter equipment typically found only on production and assembly lines or that used outside of engineering settings.
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