Los Angeles, CA – Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) today announced the winners of the 19th annual IBO Design Awards for excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. The winners of the 2013 Awards demonstrate how industrial design can improve a product’s functionality and the end-user’s experience. The winners are:
Bronze: Bruker’s EVOQ Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Silver: Shimadzu’s HMV-G Series Micro Vickers Hardness Testers
Gold: Fluidigm’s C1 Single-Cell AutoPrep System
Analytical Instrument Industrial Design
Gold Award: Fluidigm’s C1 Single-Cell AutoPrep System
Silver Award: Shimadzu’s HMV-G Series Micro Vickers Hardness Testers
Bronze Award: Bruker’s EVOQ Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Bronze: Spectro Analytical Instruments’ SPECTROSCOUT ED-XRF
Silver: Smith Detection’s HazMatID Elite
Gold: Lasersec’s Laser Elemental Analyzer
Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design
Gold Award: Lasersec’s Laser Elemental Analyzer
Silver Award: Smith Detection’s HazMatID Elite
Bronze Award: Spectro Analytical Instruments’ SPECTROSCOUT ED-XRF
Bronze: Andrew Alliance’s Andrew liquid handler
Silver: IKA’s Tube Mill control
Gold: Containment Technology’s Lab Bubble
Laboratory Equipment Industrial Design
Gold Award: Containment Technology’s Lab Bubble
Silver Award: IKA’s Tube Mill control
Bronze Award: Andrew Alliance’s Andrew liquid handler
To be eligible for a Design Award, a product must have begun shipping between August 2012 and July 2013. Award candidates are chosen from the new products that IBO monitors through trade shows, trade publications, press releases and the Internet. Award winners are selected solely based on their industrial design, not on technical capabilities or performance. Criteria include innovation, aesthetics, functionality and features.
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