Control Design

4 days 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 week 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.

2 weeks ago | controldesign.com | Juan Martinez |Juan Martínez

Key highlightsImplementing robust logical access control, including role-based access and passwordless authentication, is crucial for mitigating costly cyberattacks and unauthorized modifications that lead to significant production downtime. A unified access control system that integrates physical and logical access points provides the necessary audit trail to improve root-cause analysis of equipment issues and ensure compliance with industry standards like ISO 27001 and ISA/IEC 62443.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | controldesign.com | Mike Bacidore

Stuart "Stu" C. Shepherd, co-founder and president of Shepherd Solutions, was selected as the winner of the 2025 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership. He will be recognized for more than 46 years of transforming manufacturing in the Americas through robotic automation and capital equipment-related new business development, including past service as chairperson of the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) and the Association for Advancing Automation (A3).