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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SAINT JOSEPH, April 27, 2020 - Moody on the Market names Edgewater Automation as one of the "20 Best Places to Work in Southwest Michigan." The following is an excerpt from Moody on the Market: Most of the products we buy or use on a daily basis have been produced by some form of automation [...]
Global Custom Automation Equipment Supplier Announces Some Exciting Staff Changes Saint Joseph, MI: Today, Edgewater Automation, a global custom automation equipment supplier, announced new roles for a group of employees: Tim Tate was promoted to be the Managing Director for the two Edgewater Automation facilities in Michigan: Saint Joseph and Buchanan. During Tim’s Senior year [...]
Edgewater Automation to host Manufacturing Day event on October 2, 2018 for the Southwest Michigan community Edgewater Automation will host Students and Community Members for a Manufacturing Day event on October 2, 2018, as part of an effort to draw greater attention to today’s manufacturing environment and the outstanding [...]
SAINT JOSEPH, JULY 31, 2018 - Edgewater Automation has achieved Robot Integrator Certification through the Robotic Industries Association (RIA). As part of the certification, several of the company's manufacturing technicians successfully completed the compliance program that recognizes high-level robotics capabilities and expertise. "My goal is to expand Edgewater Automation's expertise and knowledge in robotic integration. I [...]
SAINT JOSEPH, May 7, 2018 – EY today announced that Rick Blake, Founder and President of Edgewater Automation, is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award in the Michigan and Northwest Ohio Region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to [...]
Edgewater Development Helps Bring the Memesto Device to Reality ST JOSEPH, NOVEMBER 14, 2017 -- A new product has been brought to the market with the goal of providing improved care for a broad range of patients suffering from memory-loss. The Memesto is a portable device invented specifically to play music and custom messages, bringing comfort [...]
