Emerson has won the “Industrial IoT Innovation of the Year” award for its DeltaV Workflow Management software at the ninth annual IoT Breakthrough Awards.

The award recognizes Emerson’s next generation, software-as-a-service solution to help life sciences companies more efficiently develop, scale and manufacture life-changing cell and gene therapies.

Designed specifically for companies in early-stage development with limited IT infrastructure, DeltaV Workflow Management provides a cloud-based solution that transitions drug recipe workflow data from paper-based records to digital records, providing a simple and scalable solution with no coding experience required.

“Life sciences companies have a crucial job: fighting disease by bringing new, safe medicines to market as fast as possible. To do that, they need more agile, flexible and scalable processes to quickly move products through the development pipeline to the commercial market,” said Nathan Pettus, president of process systems and solutions at Emerson. “Our new DeltaV Workflow Management software provides companies with simple recipe authoring, execution and electronic data capture, so they can focus on innovation.

Emerson has been recognized by the IoT Breakthrough Awards since its inception. The program recognizes innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the globe in a range of IoT categories, including Industrial IoT, Enterprise IoT, Consumer IoT, Connected Home and more. This year’s program attracted more than 3,850 nominations from companies all over the world.