The People Behind BC Automation

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Meet the engineers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders driving innovation across industrial automation, AI, and advanced manufacturing.

Founder

Meet Tom.

Thomas Schwiters — Chief Technologist & Founder

Innovator. Disrupter. Faith-based entrepreneur.

Tom has a lifetime of experience in industrial automation and advanced manufacturing and is working at the forefront of Industry 4.0 and IoT technology.

A serial entrepreneur, Tom's inclination towards cross-industry solutions means he has the combination of veteran knowledge and passion to solve emerging challenges in innovative ways.

With a mission of philanthropy and serving God, Tom strives to live generously and humbly by mentoring and sharing his knowledge with others.

"My curiosity for modifying existing tools and building my first machines started when I was young. As a child working at my family's resort, my father frequently lamented that I would spend more effort developing alternatives than simply applying the manual effort required to finish my tasks. Little did we realize, I was on a lifelong path of fascination with the physical universe, mathematics, spectrometry, and philosophy."

Work Experience

  • Chief Technologist, BC Automation — 2022 – Present
  • Principal, ReEnergy LLC — 2023 – Present
  • Principal, CanAm SpacePort — 2022 – Present
  • Founder & Manager, Wunderlich-Malec Advanced Automation Business Unit — 2019 – 2021
  • President & CEO, StoreMore Inc. — 2004 – 2022
  • President & CEO, Automation & Control System Solutions Inc. — 2001 – 2020

Industry Involvement

  • Global Director, Automatic Controls & Robotics Division, International Society of Automation — 2011 – 2013
  • Contributor, US Department of Labor
  • Contributor, Formation of the Automation Federation
  • Certified Automation Professional (CAP)
  • Published Author, ISA "The Final Say" — 2010

Speaking Engagements

  • ConAgra Foods Plant Manager & Operations Conference — Irvine, CA — 2004
  • ConAgra Foods Plant Manager & Operations Conference — Las Vegas, NV — 2006
  • Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference & Expo — Bonita Springs, FL — 2005
  • ISA A&T Department Division Leadership — Research Triangle Park, NC — 2007
  • International Society of Automation Expo — Houston, TX — 2008

Civic & Volunteer

  • Chair, Government Affairs Committee, Eden Prairie, MN Chamber of Commerce — 2010 – 2012
  • Donor & Volunteer, Adopt-A-Family Christmas Gift Drive at Dorothy Day Place — Ongoing

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