About the Author

Peter G. Martin, vice president of business value consulting at Schneider Electric, joined The Foxboro Company in the late 1970s and spent most of his career working at Foxboro, Siebe, Invensys and Schneider Electric in project engineering and management, training, marketing, consulting and strategic planning. He also worked for Intech Controls Corporation and Automation Research Corporation. He has authored or coauthored five books and has been a contributing author on three others. He has writ-ten dozens of published articles and papers on industrial control and automation. He has multiple patents related to real-time business measurement of industrial businesses. He is an ISA Fellow and received the ISA Life Achievement Award. He is a member of the Process Automation Hall of Fame. He was recognized as a Hero of U. S. Manufacturing by Fortune and as one of the Fifty Most Influential Influencers in Control by InTech magazine. He has a BA and MS in Mathematics, an MA in Administration and Management, a Master of Biblical Studies, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies.