In the beginning, you stacked wooden blocks then knocked them over. Later, you snapped together Lego pieces to make spaceships and ray guns. You tore the wrapping off your first Erector Set one Christmas and lost yourself......In the beginning, you stacked wooden blocks then knocked them over. Later, you snapped together Lego pieces to make spaceships and ray guns. You tore the wrapping off your first Erector Set one Christmas and lost yourself in assembling, step by careful step, the metal girders and gears that became a skyscraper, a spinning Ferris Wheel, a walking robot. Then one weekend your dad taught you how to use his tools. You spent whole days at his workbench that summer. You carved, sanded, and painted a pinewood derby racer. You built a go-cart that you and your friends took turns coasting down hills in your neighborhood. You built a tree house thats still standing. You build things. You always have. And thats what youre doing today. Building machines isnt just a living to you its what gets you up in the morning. Its what youve loved ever since the day you said to someone who cared for you,"I made this and heard him or her respond with,"Well done.You Create the Future The creativity of machine builders has markedly changed the fields of mining, harvesting, manufacturing, processing even packaging and distribution, which in turn has transformed the common life of people worldwide by making available higher quality, less costly, safer goods. But most people dont fully appreciate how the quality of life has improved let alone give thought to itsome things people believed were strictly the stuff of science fiction as little as a decade ago are now considered commonplace. In a way, many of the things you create are hidden in plain sight from most of us. In another decade well be living in the midst of realities that dont yet exist realities that exist now only as ideas in the imaginations of people like you as you mull over how to better support the needs of your customers. And these ideas, too, are hiding in plain sight, scribbled on a paper napkin you stuffed in a coat pocket at a lunch counter scrawled on a white board in an office at the end of a hall a few sentences buried deep in a white paper waiting to be recognized for what it is: an innovation that might improve in some small way how your customers work or revolutionize it. We get what youre about. At c3controls we dont just supply things. We make things.