Strength In Numbers
This Year’s Readers’ Choice Award Results Affirm Continuing Excellence From Many Suppliers, but Suggest That Great Service Is Not a Given

The Invisible Threat
Many Users Don’t Trust an Industrial Wireless Network Solution. Some Concerns Are Real. Most Are Ethereal. It’s Important to Know the Differences.

Beyond the Wallet
According to our annual survey, money isn't everything. Keeping up with the latest technological innovations can be what financially separates machine control professionals in mid-career.

Product Roundups
CONTROL DESIGN is the only industrial automation magazine dedicated to the automation information needs of industrial machine builders, those original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that build the machines that make industry work.

In a flash: Innovator Awards 2007
Our second-annual Innovator Award winners and their machines were chosen based on end users who decided whether they caught lightning in a bottle for their applications or just a lightning bug.

More wired than before
Readers of Control Design explain their preferences and help to identify the newest trends in the annual study on how you research, specify and buy your automation and control products.

Results of our 2006 Readers' Choice Awards
Value rises above the rest as readers make known their choices among automation suppliers. Check out which companies they recognize for providing the best technology values, services and support.

2006 Salary Survey results show pay is up
Salary increases and a healthy optimism among machine control professionals are the highlights of our 2006 Salary and State-of-Mind Survey. Check out all the data and our series of interviews here.

CONTROL DESIGN Innovator Awards 2006
The winners of our 1st Annual Innovator Awards all built machines that represent significant departures from the past, and their customers bear witness to how these innovations improve their applications.

Your automation buying habits revealed
With lots of options available, nearly 500 readers explain their preferences in a new CONTROL DESIGN reader study on how you research, specify and buy your automation and control products.

CONTROL DESIGN's 2006 market update
Machine builders, associations and analysts say common-sense preparation can brighten uncertain futures. So if your silver lining has gotten a bit tarnished lately, now is a good time to shine it up!

2005 Readers' Choice Awards
The results of the Fifth-Annual Readers’ Choice Awards are in. Check out which companies have been recognized by our academy of readers for providing the best technology values, services and support.

Top technology trends of the future unveiled
Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert, PE, reports on the technology trends that are emerging today and how those trends will dictate the look and feel of the machine automation you'll be unveiling tomorrow.

Salary Survey: Money train doesn't curb job worries
CONTROL DESIGN's 2005 Salary and State-of-Mind Survey reveals pay for machine control professionals is on the rise, hands-on experience is on the decline, and jobs are in jeopardy from outsourcing.

Top picks: Readers choose best tech values
Joe Feeley, Editor in Chief
The ballots are in and counted! We don't have reds and blues, but tap into the collective mindset of CONTROL DESIGN readers to learn which companies won the annual 2004 Readers' Choice Awards for the best values in machine automation technology.

Leap of Faith?
Technology trends don't always lead to better machine design, but CONTROL DESIGN's Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert has found a few that could help you break away from the crowd.

2004 Readers' Choice Awards: Top picks of the industry's best technology values
Tap into the collective mindset of CONTROL DESIGN readers to learn which machine control design system vendors won the annual 2004 Readers' Choice Awards for the best values in machine automation technology, and which product suppliers to the machine building industry offer the best customer service and support.

The 2003 Readers' Choice Service and Support Leaders
Readers Tell Us 61 Companies Provide Very Good (4.0) to Excellent(5.0) Service

Toast of the Town: 2003 Readers' Choice Awards
We Celebrate This Year's Readers' Choice Award Winners

2002 Readers' Choice Awards--The Best in Customer Service
Readers rank their suppliers for customer service