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Mike Bacidore

Schaumburg

Editor-in-Chief at Control Design

Control Design editor in chief

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  • 2 weeks ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

    A Control Design reader writes: Here we go again. It was just a year or so ago that we’d recovered from the supply-chain shortage caused by the COVID shutdown. Now we’re looking at a different kind of potential shortage with tariffs about to raise the price of foreign components. We already diversified our supply chain as a result of the COVID backlog. What type of supplier assistance will be available for components and materials?

  • 2 weeks ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

    Rareș Curatu, manager, Industrial Automation & Machinery Industry, MathWorks: Software-defined automation (SDA) increases industrial automation systems' flexibility, adaptability and intelligence, as described by concepts such as flexible manufacturing, autonomous automation and Industry 4.0. By decoupling automation logic from task-specific, fixed-configuration hardware, SDA allows production processes and workflows to be updated in software, with minimal manual intervention to reconfigure...

  • 3 weeks ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

    Sean Saul is the vice president of product at Emerson’s process systems and solutions business, where he is responsible for leading the overall product direction for the DeltaV distributed control system and safety instrumented system platforms. Since joining Emerson in 2012, Saul has held multiple leadership roles across sales, marketing and strategy functions.

  • 1 month ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

    Mike Bacidore is chief editor of Control Design and has been an integral part of the Endeavor Business Media editorial team since 2007. Previously, he was editorial director at Hughes Communications and a portfolio manager of the human resources and labor law areas at Wolters Kluwer. Bacidore holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

  • 1 month ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

    Dr. Peter Corke, distinguished professor emeritus at Queensland University of Technology, is the 2025 recipient of the Joseph F. Engelberger Award in the Education category. Known for his open-source Robotics Toolbox software, "Robotics, Vision and Control" books and the Robot Academy online video series, Corke has empowered generations of engineers with accessible robotics education and groundbreaking research. The Engelberger Robotics Awards are named after the late Joseph F.

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