Ed Kompass, former Editorial Director, retired (1987)

50th Anniversary: We never could have dreamed

Control Engineering begins its 51st year of publication with this issue. How much has changed in those first 50 years is hard to believe. Since most industrial controllers, whether for machine control, process control, or whole plant or enterprise control, are really dedicated computers, consider then a few of the changes in computer-based control over the past 50 years: Up next: multidimension...