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Leading publishing and communications organizations bestowed the awards, including the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE), the Business Marketing Association (BMA), and the Communication Concepts, Inc. Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX).
The Journal from Rockwell Automation and Our Partners, a bimonthly custom magazine published for Rockwell Automation, won the BMA Bell Award of Excellence from the BMA Milwaukee Chapter for Outstanding Custom Magazine. The award recognizes the magazine for overall content, design and fulfillment of its mission for its targeted business audience.
The Journal also won the 2009 APEX Award of Excellence for Feature Writing for “Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice” in the June 2008 issue.
Control magazine was honored by being named one of 2009 National ASBPE Azbee Award top 10 finalists for Magazine of the Year. Control is dedicated to excellence in process automation.
Other National Azbee Award winners include Control Design, which won the Gold Award for design, Front Cover: Illustration, “Will This Machine Work?” in the June 2008 issue. Control Design is dedicated to the special information needs of industrial machine builders.
The Journal was bestowed a design National Azbee Silver Award for Contents Page or Pages in the August 2008 issue. Food Processing won a design National Bronze Award for Opening Page/Spread:
Plant Services Editor in Chief Paul Studebaker was honored with the 2009 National Azbee Bronze Award for editorial achievement for Signed Editorial, “From the Editor” column, “The Nudge,” August 2008 issue and “Golden Rule,” October 2008 issue. Plant Services is dedicated to excellence in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
Additional awards presented to Putman Media are:
Control:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for editorial excellence, Technical Article, “Is PAT a Silver Bullet” by Executive Editor Jim Montague, June 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for design excellence, Front Cover: Computer-Generated, “Why is Safety So Hard?” May 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for design excellence, Opening Page/Spread:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for design excellence, Front Cover: Photo, “The One Network?” October 2008 issue.
Control Design:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for editorial excellence, Regular Column: Staff-Written, “Live Wire” by Managing Editor Mike Bacidore, “Kids Change the Channels,” April 2008 issue and “Where’s the Remote?” November 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for design excellence, Front Cover: Photo, “Easier Pieces,” October 2008 issue.
Plant Services:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for editorial excellence, Company Profile, “A Model for American Manufacturing”
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for editorial excellence, Contributed Column, “Crisis Corner” by Joel Leonard, “Insiders, Outsiders,” May 2008 issue and “Washington Gets an Aha Moment,” July 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for design excellence, Opening Page/Spread:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for editorial excellence, Contributed Column, “Energy Expert” by Peter Garforth, “Energy, Climate and Food,” February 2008 issue and “Energy Versus Economics,” November 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for editorial excellence, Staff-Written Column, “PS Files” by Lisa Towers, “Addicts and Accidents,” July 2008 issue and “Pickens in Our Pockets,” November 2008 issue.
Chemical Processing, covering U.S. chemical manufacturing processing operations:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for editorial excellence, Feature Article, “Protect Your Plant,” August 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for editorial excellence, Technical Article, “Watch Out with Variable Speed Pumping,” May 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for design excellence, Opening Page/Spread Photo, “Who’s a Big Hit?” July 2008 issue.
Food Processing, dedicated to the food and beverage industry:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for editorial excellence, Individual/Organization Profile, “Comfort Food in a Time of Anxiety,” Editor in Chief Dave Fusaro, December 2008 issue.
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for design excellence, Opening Page/Spread:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Bronze Award for design excellence, Front Cover: Computer-Generated, “Love at First Bite,” November 2008 issue.
The Journal from Rockwell Automation and Our Partners:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Gold Award for design excellence, Opening Page/Spread:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for design excellence, Front Cover: Photo, “Productivity Checkmate,” August 2008 issue.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, devoted exclusively to help drug industry professionals:
• 2009 ASBPE Regional Azbee Silver Award for design excellence, Feature Article-Design, “PAT-ology, A Spectroscopy Field Guide for the Pharma Professional,”
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Putman Media, Inc. (www.putman.net)
The ASBPE (www.asbpe.org)
Sponsored by the editors of the Writing That Works, a division of Communications Concepts, Inc., the APEX Awards (www.apexawards.com)
The BMA (www.bma-milwaukee.org)
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