NECA Show Coverage

2023 EC&M Product of the Year Platinum Award Winner Honored at NECA Show

Sept. 30, 2023

ABB takes home overall top honor for its MegaFlex UL UPS in this year's Product of the Year competition.

The EC&M editorial team was on hand at the NECA 2023 Show in Philadelphia today to honor this year's Product of the Year Platinum winner. The top award in the 2023 competition goes to ABB for its MegaFlex UL.

This 3-phase, 480V double-conversion uninterruptible power supply is designed for critical high-density computing environments, such as data centers for colocation, hosting, cloud and telecommunication centers. Its monolithic topology uses 400kW power modules with power availability from 1,200kW to 1,600kW in one UPS cabinet configuration. Flexible system architecture ready, the MegaFlex UL supports N+1, 2N, 2N+1, N+N, 3N/2 and catcher system configurations. It also provides easy front and top access, modular sub-assemblies, fast replacement of consumable components and remote monitoring.

The photo below shows EC&M's Group Editorial Director Mike Eby (second from left) and Editor-in-Chief Ellen Parson (far right) presenting Bill Stewart, product marketing director, ABB Smart Power (far left) and Norm Sowards, senior vice president of marketing and strategy, ABB Electrification (second from right) with the trophy.

This year’s competition featured products introduced to the market between Jan. 1, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2022. A hand-picked panel of judges narrowed down the 110 entries to 34 category winners for the first phase of the competition. These category winners were then narrowed down to our three finalists through an online poll available to EC&M readers, who cast their votes to determine the three award-winning products.

About the Author

Ellen Parson | Editor-in-Chief - EC&M

Ellen Parson is the Editor-in-Chief for EC&M. She has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She's been a business-to-business writer and editor for more than 25 years, most of which have been covering the construction and electrical industries. Contact her at [email protected].