Control Engineering 2025 editorial calendar insights
- Control Engineering research determines 2025 editorial topics; share your knowledge with your peers.
- Link to the Control Engineering media kit and locations on controleng.com where content appears.
To determine 2025 coverage, Control Engineering asked subscribers what they need to do their jobs better. Research results create the annual editorial calendar list in this document: Thank you to those who participated. Control Engineering focuses on the control loop (sense, decide, actuate) to help others measure, make decisions and improve operations and facilities with automation, controls and instrumentation. The Control Engineering niche statement and media kit are available: https://marketing.wtwhmedia.com/2025-control-engineering-media-guide
Submitted and created content may be used:
- Online controleng.com
- Print/digital edition controleng.com/magazine
- Newsletters https://cfe.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=CTLE_prefs_2020&pk=2CWEBSITE2020ENEWS
- EBooks https://www.controleng.com/ebooks
- Webcasts https://www.controleng.com/webcasts/ AND on demand at https://www.controleng.com/webcasts/past Note: Webcast instructors must be system integrators, consultants, from an association, research or training firm (not an automation vendor, supplier or distributor).
- For international editions: https://www.controleng.com/magazine/international-editions
The following calendar is organized based on topic pages at www.controleng.com. Not every topical area has an article topic every month. Coverage is not limited to topics and months here. More than one article may be submitted per topic. Next to each month is the editorial deadline (webcast, research and advertising deadlines differ). Research, metrics and awards articles* are staff written. Gary Cohen is senior editor, Control Engineering, WTWH Media, [email protected]. Amanda Pelliccione, marketing research manager, WTWH Media and Control Engineering, helped gather the research for the 2025 Control Engineering editorial calendar.
2025 Control Engineering editorial calendar topics
JANUARY – Oct. 1 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: System Integrator of the Year winners look ahead
Motors and drives: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Control systems – Centralized monitoring and control
AI and machine learning
Motors and drives industries, applications
Process instrumentation
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Digital transformation
Resilience for automation systems
Best of 2024: CE July-December
FEBRUARY – Nov. 1 editorial deadline
Webcast: Industrial cybersecurity: Impacts on safety
Controllers (PLCs, PACs, IPC): metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
CE: Best of 2024: Metrics of top articles of 2024
Automation applications
Edge or cloud computing using AI
Energy efficiency for motor-drive systems
Mechatronics and motion control
Process sensors, applications
System integration
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Industrial networks and Industrial IIoT for Engineers
Automation for made in America, reshoring
CE Roundtable: Discrete control systems: PLCs, PACs, HMIs and IPCs
AutomatedWarehouse https://theautomatedwarehouse.com
Packaging OEM https://www.packagingoem.com
MARCH – Dec. 2 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Automation programming tips
Research: AI in control systems*
DCS/SCADA: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
PLCs, PACs: Hardware trends, programming help
Artificial intelligence tutorial
Motors and drives tutorials
Project management for automation
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Best automation topics from Engineering.com
APRIL – Jan. 6 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Motor management troubleshooting and diagnostics*
Edge computing : metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Open automation, process control, next-generation DCS
Industrial PCs
GenAI for automation, programming
UPS sizing for automation systems
Robotics: Next generation
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Industrial Ethernet; Single-pair Ethernet (SPE)
Analytics for control systems
Automation quality, economic justification
CE Roundtable: Discrete Manufacturing: Motors, drives and robotics
Automated Warehouse
Packaging OEM
MAY – Feb. 3 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: SCADA application, benefits*
IIoT/Industry 4.0: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
SCADA
Machine learning applications
Motors and drives
Data acquisition, data optimization
System integration applications
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Best automation topics from Design World
JUNE – March 3 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Industrial cybersecurity: Integration with security
Research: Salary and career survey*
Robotics: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Controller applications
IIoT for Engineers, Industry 4.0, Smart manufacturing
Motors and drives application examples
Machine vision systems
Process safety
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Salary, career survey
Workforce development spotlight: Automation differences by industry
Industrial wireless
Digital twins
Automation purchasing
CE Roundtable: Industrial Networking: Ethernet, wireless, protocols and more
AutomatedWarehouse
Packaging OEM
JULY – April 1 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Motor replacement criteria
Industrial networks: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Programming basics
Artificial intelligence applications
Power quality with motors and drives
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Best of Collaborative Robotics
AUGUST – May 1 editorial submission deadline
HMIs: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
HMI/OI: Local and global
Intrinsic safety for control systems
Manufacturing IT
Motors and drives: Selection, configuration, programming
Discrete sensors: Trends, applications
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
I/O and I/O systems for automation
Virtualization, cloud analytics
CE Roundtable: Process control systems: DCS, SCADA, instrumentation and safety
AutomatedWarehouse
Packaging OEM
SEPTEMBER – June 2 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Select the right controller type for the application
Research: PLCs, PACs*
Virtualization and digital transformation: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
PID/APC
Advanced programming tips
Machine learning
Energy, power, sustainability
How simulators help automation, operations
System integrators
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Information management for automation
Automation resiliency advice
Best of Mobile Robotics
OCTOBER – July 7 editorial submission deadline
Discrete and process sensors: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Automation specifications
Manufacturing execution systems
Motors and drives trends
Machine safety
Process instrumentation, sensors
Automation workforce development
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Industrial networking applications
Engineering Leaders Under 40
CE Roundtable: Digital transformation: AI/ML, IIoT for Engineers and Industry 4.0/5.0
Automated Warehouse; Packaging OEM
NOVEMBER – Aug. 1 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Digital transformation
Machine and process safety: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
Control systems applications
AI and machine learning in the automation/control system lifecycle
Motors and drives efficiency examples
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Best of the Advanced Automation Forum
DECEMBER – Sept. 1 editorial submission deadline
Webcast: Energy management using variable speed drives
Research: Motors and drives*
System integration: metrics, top 5 articles in last 12 months*
PLC/control design, programming integration
Controls and AI integration
Motors and drives specification
Discrete manufacturing applications
Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse (ICSP) topics
Mobility: Mobile versus remote, how to choose
CE Roundtable: System integration: Cybersecurity, project management and workforce development
Product of the Year https://www.controleng.com/events-and-awards/product-of-the-year
AutomatedWarehouse
Packaging OEM
The Global System Integrator Report (GSIR), supplement to November/December Control Engineering and Plant Engineering – Oct. 15 – This collection of articles, research and awards, included with this issue, tops off each year’s coverage of system integration topics.
System Integrator of the Year https://www.controleng.com/events-and-awards/system-integrator-of-the-year-program
System Integrator Giants https://www.controleng.com/events-and-awards/system-integrator-giants
System integrators: Specific project advice on how to automate
How to find a system integrator
Quantified benefits of how to automate from system integrators
https://www.controleng.com/supplement/global-system-integrator-report-digital-supplement
Learn more about how to contribute articles or to be a webcast instructor.
https://www.controleng.com/connect/how-to-contribute
Mark T. Hoske is editor-in-chief, Control Engineering, WTWH Media, [email protected].
