1999-08-01 : Father of Programmable Controller, Richard E. Morley, to Serve on Board of Directors
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'Father of Programmable Controller,' Richard E. Morley, to Serve on Board of Directors Design and Automation Pioneer Brings Industry Experience, Vision to Leadership Role for Atlanta-Based Developer of Factory Scheduling Software
August 1999 - Inventor, consultant, and engineer Richard E. Morley has joined the board of directors of advanced factory scheduling software company Taylor Manufacturing Systems, Inc.
Morley, who is best known as the father of the programmable logic controller for use on the shop floor, invented the hand-held terminals used by policemen for checking car tags, the controls used for independent zones in heating and air conditioning systems, and was on the team that invented the magnetic thin film used on credit cards and floppy disks.
Taylor President Neil Taylor calls Morley an “industry visionary,” the kind of individual who challenges one's thinking and serves as a catalyst for change.
For Morley, that change includes distributed factories, robust systems, value pricing, and increased development of predictive sensing, monitoring, and scheduling.
“The people at Taylor impressed me with minds agile enough and experience applicable enough to significantly address the scheduling problem in the market place,” said Morley.
“We can, in our business and with the ideas presented by Taylor and its people, substantially improve our implementation of the future vision through adaptive and progressive scheduling technology,” he said. “I am sincerely glad to be aboard for this exciting ride into the future.”
However, Morley has mixed emotions about being described as a visionary. He calls it an exaggeration, for--as he says--everyone plans for mortgages, children, credit purchases and other long term goals.
“Vision is the ability to plan into the future. We seem to be visionaries in our personal lives, but not in our corporate lives. 'Visionaries,' just apply the same principles to technology,” said Morley.
“As Taylor Manufacturing Systems charts the future course of its TESS scheduling solutions, we feel that Dick Morley will provide strong, high-level support for our recently expanded management team,” said Taylor. “We are very pleased he has accepted the post on our board.”
Morley, who is president of R. Morley, Inc., a New Hampshire based consulting firm specializing in application technologies, joins Neil Taylor, President, William Arnold, CFO, and Richard Barno on Taylor Manufacturing System's board of directors.