Peter Martin is member of Bedrock Automation’s advisory board. He is an Industrial Performance Consultant specializing on measurably improving operational profitability of industrial companies. He has over 40 years of industrial experience.
 
Martin, well-known throughout the industrial automation world for his pioneering applications of control theory to business profitability. Dr. Martin served as vice president of innovation & marketing for Schneider Electric Process Automation until his retirement in 2019. The International Society for Automation (ISA), has named him an industry fellow, recognizing his innovations in real-time, sensor-based dynamic performance measures, which they say, “has improved process tuning and profitability control for industrial operations across the globe."
 
ISA also named him one of InTech magazine's 50 most influential innovators of all time in instrumentation and controls and gave him a Life Achievement Award for his work in “integrating financial and production measures that improve the profitability and performance of industrial processes.” Control magazine named him to its Process Automation Hall of Fame and Fortune magazine has named him a Hero of U.S. Manufacturing. He was also named to the Measurement, Control & Automation Association (MCAA) Hall of Fame.
 
Martin has published numerous articles and technical papers and has authored or co-authored five books: Bottom Line Automation; Dynamic Performance Management: The Pathway to World-Class Manufacturing; Real-Time Control of the Industrial Enterprise; The Value of Automation; and Automation Made Easy: Everything You Wanted to Know About Automation–and need to ask.
 
Dr. Martin has BA and MS degrees in Mathematics, an MA degree in Administration and Management, a PhD in Industrial Engineering, and an MA and PhD in Biblical Studies.