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Edgewater Automation Announces Executive Changes

ST. JOSEPH, Michigan, January 9, 2024 – Edgewater Automation, a family owned business has announced that founder and president, Rick Blake has been named as Chief Executive Officer and Tim Tate as President. Tim is a seasoned and highly successful leader with a deep background in industrial automation industry. In 2006, Tim joined the company [...]

By |2024-01-10T16:32:42-05:00January 10th, 2024|News|Comments Off on Edgewater Automation Announces Executive Changes

Three Oaks Native Recalls Career with Iconic Automation Shops

Just as Greg Klann marks his 20 years with Edgewater Automation, the veteran manufacturing and automation professional is retiring from a nearly 50-year career with some of Southwest Michigan’s iconic automation and manufacturing companies.  “I started at Vickers Engineering in Harbert in 1974. I was an apprentice when it was a five-man shop, graduating Lake [...]

By |2023-03-29T16:02:19-04:00March 29th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Three Oaks Native Recalls Career with Iconic Automation Shops

Scott McNabb – Applications Engineer

“That same family culture Rick established at Edgewater St. Joseph applies here, too.” - Scott McNabb, Edgewater Automation SC Not many can say they’ve worked with both their father and their son, but Scott McNabb can, and he’s happy to say it’s been enjoyable. He and dad Steve – who was “employee number 3” at [...]

By |2023-03-16T15:50:31-04:00March 16th, 2023|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Scott McNabb – Applications Engineer

Rick Orsillo – Supply Chain Manager

When he was a kid, taking things apart and putting them back together again used to get Rick Orsillo in trouble. Later, he’d make a successful career doing just that.   Born and raised in Grove City, PA, with older and younger sisters, Rick excelled at all things mechanical early on. Fixing the lawn mower, [...]

By |2022-08-04T13:43:37-04:00July 26th, 2022|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Rick Orsillo – Supply Chain Manager

Steve McNabb – Mechanical Machine Builder

But I will miss the people…good people. And the work. It’s good work. It’s been challenging, it’s been fun. A different culture right from the start. These days at Edgewater, having a stack of RFPs in the pipeline is a sign that business is good. But Steve McNabb, who is “Edgewater Employee No. 3,” remembers [...]

By |2022-06-30T14:40:26-04:00June 30th, 2022|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Steve McNabb – Mechanical Machine Builder

Rich Cole – Mechanical Engineer

“When you’re born you create a path. How do you educate yourself? Who do you hang with? These are important choices.” - Rich Cole Growing up in the shadow of Notre Dame’s Golden Dome in South Bend, Indiana, a young Rich Cole was never far from his Lego or motorized erector kits. That doesn’t surprise anyone who’s [...]

By |2022-06-30T13:36:22-04:00June 30th, 2022|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Rich Cole – Mechanical Engineer

Rick Blake TV Appearance on “Business First AM”

Edgewater Automation founder Rick Blake recently appeared on the long-running, nationally-syndicated business series Business First AM to discuss how his company is helping keep jobs in America. Host Angela Miles also posed the question: don’t robots take away jobs from people?   To hear Rick’s answers to these questions, and to hear about his path [...]

By |2022-05-11T20:42:56-04:00May 11th, 2022|News|Comments Off on Rick Blake TV Appearance on “Business First AM”

Todd & Ashley Tanksley

The first father-daughter team on staff at Edgewater. Todd Tanksley is a farm-out fabrication and machining purchaser who started as a lead machine builder eight years ago. His daughter Ashley is a third-year apprentice machine builder studying in the four-year journeyman program. They’re Edgewater’s first staff father-daughter team, and they’re really happy about it. “The [...]

By |2022-05-11T18:06:51-04:00May 11th, 2022|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Todd & Ashley Tanksley

Jayna Hardy – Mechanical Design Engineer

“I could do this for the rest of my life and be happy with it.”   Jayna Hardy was always good at math. At Lakeshore High School in Stevensville, Michigan, she’d already set her sights on being an engineer. “I didn’t give my career choice a second thought. About half my Math and Science Center [...]

By |2022-05-11T15:41:09-04:00May 11th, 2022|Employee Profiles|Comments Off on Jayna Hardy – Mechanical Design Engineer

Tim Guitar joins as Regional Sales Manager

Edgewater Automation is pleased to announce Tim Guitar joining as a Regional Sales Manager. Tim brings with him more than 30 years of experience in the assembly automation industry, with emphasis on electrochemical energy storage, powertrain assembly systems, general assembly machines, machining centers, MIG welding cells, and resistance welding cells. For over 30 years Tim [...]

By |2021-01-08T22:18:24-05:00January 8th, 2021|News|Comments Off on Tim Guitar joins as Regional Sales Manager
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