EXTON, PA, June 7, 2005 – Ray Bachelor, P.E., president of Sabetha, Kansas-based Bachelor Controls, Inc., is the new chairman of CONTROL AND INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATORS ASSOCIATION (CSIA). He assumed his role at the recently concluded 12th Annual CSIA Executive Conference, held at Memphis, Tennessee.
At that meeting, four members were elected to the association’s executive council.Bachelor, who has served on the association’s executive council since 2003, begins a two-year term as chairman of CSIA, the largest association of control and information system integrators in the world.New executive council members are: Jim Campbell, Viewpoint Systems, Inc., Rochester, NY; Tom Nelson, FluidIQs, Napa, CA; Dean Streck, VI Engineering, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI; and Bob Zeigenfuse, Advanced Automation Associates, Inc., Exton, PA.They join Bob Adams, Revere Control Systems, Birmingham, AL, and Bill Pollock, Optimation Technology, Inc., Rush, NY, whose terms on the council continue.
Walt Kozikowski of Rosslyn, VA-based National Electrical Manufacturers Association, serves as CSIA secretary. Norman O’Leary is the association’s executive director, based in Exton, PA.Bachelor, who established his namesake company in 1983, is a graduate of West Virginia University Institute of Technology (B.S. Mechanical Engineering).
Bachelor Controls is a Charter Rockwell Automation Solution Provider.CONTROL AND INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATORS ASSOCIATION is in its second decade of "helping better system integrators – its members, become better business managers."
Members gain the power of the association's broader presence and its insights into the best business and project management practices for the automation and IT domains.CSIA's trademark REGISTERED MEMBER program provides an industry-specific means for end users to identify areas of importance and minimize the uncertainties in selecting a system integrator, while also offering a framework for integrators to evaluate and continuously improve their own businesses.For more information, Visit: www.controlsys.org .