Rockwell Automation Inc (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA), Royal Philips Electronics NV (Philips) (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Panduit Corp (Tinley Park, Illinois, USA) maintain their top positions on this week’s Industrial Components & Fixtures Patent Scorecard™ at 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd, respectively.  All three companies show stable indicators, with slight growth in patents granted.  Rockwell Automation consistently performs well across all indicators, with a large patent portfolio of 163 patents issued in the past year alone and an Industry Impact™ that is 1.7 times the industry average.  Additionally, Rockwell Automation’s portfolio is one of the most cutting-edge in the Industrial Components & Fixtures (ICF) industry, with both a close connection to scientific research and rapid innovation.  Rockwell Automation’s portfolio cites scientific research at a much higher rate than other patents in the ICF industry, as evidenced by its Research Intensity™ score that is over two and a half times the industry average.  Further, Rockwell Automation is innovating at a more rapid pace than the rest of the industry with an Innovation Cycle Time™ of 7.9 years – almost six years faster than the industry average of 13.7.  Philips also shows consistently strong indicators, which is impressive given that the ICF industry is only one of seven in which Philips patents.  Philips ranks highest on the ICF Patent Scorecard, but also appears in the top ten on the Consumer Electronics and Electronics & Instruments Patent Scorecards as well.  In fact, Philips’ electronics-related patents account for just over half of all of Philips’ patenting activity in the past year.  Comparing the impact of Philips’ respective industry portfolios, without normalizing to any base industry, it is Philips’ ICF portfolio that is the most influential, with the highest Current Impact™ score of Philip’s industry divisions.  Panduit, on the other hand, only patents in the ICF industry and holds the smallest portfolio of companies in the top ten.  However, Panduit also holds the highest Industry Impact™ at over three times the industry average.