Award-winning.

Prizes and awards.

EAO just keeps winning prizes and awards – including at international level. We have won recognition for everything from customer-friendly solutions and entrepreneurial achievements, to fantastic design.

HMI design.

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EAO sets the benchmark for design. And it does so in an industry that is almost entirely built on function and technology. Our innovational strength, as well as the functionality, ergonomics, and aesthetics of our HMI Components and Systems, have been honoured with design prizes from international institutions time and time again.

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Good Design Award 2025

Seat reservation system wins the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in the “transportation” category

Railway Technology Excellence Award 2025

Seat reservation system wins Railway Technology Excellence Award

iF Design Award 2025

EAO wins 2025 iF DESIGN AWARD for Online Product Configurator

EcoVadis Silver Medal 2023

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating – Recognition of Sustainability Achievement

Canne Blanche 2023

Award from SZBlind for the integration of an acoustic feedback into a ‘contactless door opening pushbutton’

iF Design Award 2022

The world’s oldest independent design institution, iF International Forum Design, honoured the Series 09 Rugged Keypads in the “Product” discipline of the “1.01 Automobiles/Vehicles” category

Good Design Award 2021

The Rugged Keypads Series 09 win the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in the ‘Industrial’ category

UX Design Awards 2021

The Series 09 Rugged Keypads from EAO won the UX Design Award in the “Products” category. This international competition celebrates fantastic user experiences 

iF Product Design Award 2013

The Series 57 door opening pushbuttons from EAO won the prize in the “Transportation Design” category 

Good Design Award 2013

The Series 57 Door opening push buttons win the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in the ‘Hardware’ category

HMI Services

Best of Swiss Web Award 2021

The 3D configurator from EAO was honoured as the best Swiss web project in 2021. It was recognised with four awards in total: gold in the “Productivity” category, silver in the “Digital Commerce” and “Business” categories, and bronze in the “Usability” category.

Entrepreneurial performance

Swiss entrepreneur prize 2018, Canton of Solothurn

EAO as a company received the Swiss Solothurn Entrepreneur Prize 2018. The judging panel for this annual competition focuses on products and services which are used reliably worldwide.

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Why EAO?

Expertise that moves you forward.

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Award winning.

EAO just keeps winning prizes and awards – including at international level. We have won recognition for everything from customer-friendly solutions and entrepreneurial achievements, to fantastic design.

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Certificates and approvals.

EAO fulfils all the key international standards, as well as performing extensive product testing. This makes EAO your reliable partner for the planning, development and implementation of your HMI Solutions.

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Green Touch.

Focusing on future generations: Green Touch is an elementary component of EAO’s corporate policy. As a company with global production, we are proactively engaged in the implementation of a sustainable environmental policy.

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HMI expertise.

Your comprehensive provider of industrial HMI Series: EAO can develop and produce almost everything for you, including custom products on request. So that your business can take off.

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The Human Touch®.

The best for intuitiveness, haptics and design: EAO is your leading expert for touchpoints between humans vehicles and machines – a task that has fascinated us since 1947.

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Industrial and UX-Design.

With design thinking for even better innovations and products: EAO supports you in your search for optimal, specific HMIs – thanks to additional competences in industrial and user experience design.

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Value Added Services.

EAO offers a range of practical additional services that make your life even easier. And it always does so with the option of individual adaptation.

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Swiss Touch®.

Typically Swiss: innovation combined with high design standards. Embodying these values has been decisive for EAO’s continuous growth – and is still our approach today, with benefits for you.

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Technical expertise.

See the world through different eyes - with us as your expert partner: EAO has been offering unique HMI expertise since 1947. That is how we have become a partner to many renowned developers, manufacturers and operators of vehicles, plants and machines.

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Mission.

With our products and solutions, we, EAO, enable people to operate means of transportation and machines reliably and intuitively – for more than 75 years.

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Vision.

With our products and solutions for human-machine interfaces, we are a leading, internationally active Swiss family-owned company with above-average profitable growth in the industry.

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Values & Inclusion.

Welcome to EAO - where "The Human Touch®" and thus the human-being with his or her needs is the focus. Both in the use of our products and in the way we work together. It is our goal and a matter of course to create an environment in which all employees can work according to their personalities and abilities and make a large contribution in our customers success. We believe that every person is unique. For us, diversity is a source of strength and inspiration.

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Contact us.

Globally active – with local points of contact.

Contact: Do you have questions about EAO, our products and our solutions? We will be happy to help – after all, we know that working closely with our customers alongside excellent service are key to our success.

Contact

EAO Corporation

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+1 203 951 4600sales.eus@eao.com

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