Only 12 Days Left to Enter the Industrial Innovation Awards
Submissions for the Industrial Innovation Awards close on May 27, and if you've been sitting on an entry, now is the time to move!
For those who followed the NED Innovation Awards in previous years, this program will feel familiar—but there are a few structural changes worth knowing about before you submit.
The most visible change is the removal of product categories. In past years, entrants selected a category bucket to submit into, which gave us a framework for recognizing up to 15 winners across the range of equipment and technology we cover. It worked, but it had one built-in limitation: if your product didn't fit cleanly into one of those buckets, you had to pick the closest match and hope for the best.
This year, every product is evaluated on its own merits—what it does, what problem it solves, how well it performs, and what it delivers relative to everything else available. No forced fit required.
Judging is handled by a panel, and honorees will be recognized across three tiers: Silver, Gold, and Platinum, based on scoring. That means more products have a better path to recognition than in previous years. We're also planning a People's Choice voting component, which gives honorees an additional opportunity to earn visibility with their customers and peers.
What we're looking for hasn't changed in spirit. We want products that do something meaningful—that improve performance, reliability, safety, or efficiency in ways that matter to the people running and maintaining industrial operations.
If your product hit the market between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025, and you believe it belongs in that conversation, we want to hear about it!
The program is open to any product, solution, technology, tool, or equipment made by a manufacturer for a manufacturer—OEM equipment, automation, controls, MRO, safety systems, software, and everything in between.
Submissions close May 27, 2026.
About the Author
Laura Davis
Editor-in-Chief, New Equipment Digest
Laura Davis is the editor in chief of New Equipment Digest (NED), a brand part of the Manufacturing Group at EndeavorB2B. NED covers all products, equipment, solutions, and technology related to the broad scope of manufacturing, from mops and buckets to robots and automation. Laura has been a manufacturing product writer for eight years, knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry, along with what readers are looking for when wanting to learn about the latest products on the market.