St. Louis, Missouri, USA – January 7, 2026 – Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today announced that it has been named 2026 Industrial IoT Company of the Year in the 10th Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program.

Following its 2025 acquisition of Aspen Technology, Emerson has completed its transformation into a leading global automation enterprise, building a future-ready technology portfolio that spans intelligent devices, secure control systems, and enterprise optimization software.

With a comprehensive industrial IoT technology stack, Emerson enables fast, safe, reliable and confident operations across critical global industries, including energy, LNG, power, life sciences, chemicals, aerospace, and semiconductors. Looking ahead, Emerson will shape the new paradigm of automation through its innovative software-defined, data-centric automation platform – delivering seamless modernization, accelerating the deployment of new technologies and AI-driven optimization, and paving a clear path toward autonomous operations.

“Emerson’s software-defined automation portfolio is focused on key growth engines addressing critical global challenges, including digital transformation, electrification, energy security and reshoring,” said Lal Karsanbhai, president and chief executive officer of Emerson. “This award recognizes our investments in innovation and transformative technologies that help our customers achieve operational excellence and lay the foundation for their autonomous operations future.”

This marks the seventh time Emerson has received the Industrial IoT Company of the Year honor from the IoT Breakthrough program. The company has also been previously recognized with IoT Breakthrough Awards including Industrial Innovation of the Year and Analytics Platform of the Year. Over the past decade, IoT Breakthrough has celebrated excellence, innovation and success among IoT companies, technologies and products worldwide. This year, the program received more than 4,000 nominations from organizations across the globe.

“Emerson is one of the few companies in the world to receive this prestigious title consecutively,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director of Tech Breakthrough. “Emerson’s innovation, advanced technologies and forward-thinking vision are enabling digital operational transformation across critical global industries to meet their future demands.”