Dan Jones, president and owner of Incremotion Associates, recently received the EMERF 2014 award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Electric Machines Industry.”

Jones, an electric motor and generator design engineer, was presented the lifetime achievement award from EMERF (Electric Motor Education and Research Foundation) and SMMA-Motors and Motion Association, during their annual fall conference awards dinner last month.

Jones has worked in the motion control industry for over 54 years and has owned his own consulting company, Incremotion Associates, for over 32 years, where he specialized in designing high-torque and high-power density brushless PM and brush PM motors, as well as high-efficiency AC induction motors and generators. Jones has written and presented over 265 articles and papers on various elements in motion control in the U.S. Europe and Asia.