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Inductive Automation cofounders Colby Clegg and Carl Gould go deep on the origins of Ignition, the road to 8.3, and what AI means for industrial automation.Vlad and Dave host Colby Clegg, CEO, and Carl Gould, CTO, of Inductive Automation together for the first time to trace the full arc of the company. The story begins in 2003, when Sacramento systems integrator Steve Heckman brought Colby and Carl in to build the missing glue layer between OT data and modern IT tooling. What began as logging values into SQL databases became Factory PMI and eventually Ignition.A key thread is why Ignition broke through when larger automation vendors had superior distribution. Colby points to Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma. Incumbents could not match Inductive's unlimited per gateway pricing or partner with integrators because their own services groups competed with them. Carl adds the culture piece. Inductive refused to gate downloads, kept the module SDK open, made education free, and ran a public forum when competitors called it reckless, a posture they once called innovation without permission.Ignition 8.3 takes center stage, arriving after a deliberate five year gap from 8.1. Carl frames it as the completion of work that began with 8.0 in 2018. Gateway configuration is now stored in open, readable formats on disk, the gateway web interface was rewritten, and the platform supports orchestration, environmental separation, and infrastructure as code workflows Carl expects to become table stakes. The release also adds event streams, a revamped historian, and perspective drawing tools. For integrators still on 8.1, 8.3 is the version built for distributed deployments across many gateways.On AI, Carl is candid that the new MCP server module is intentionally a minimum viable product. It ships as a raw toolkit for integrators to author MCP primitives that expose Ignition data to agentic systems like Claude Code. First party MCP tools are coming, but Inductive wants to define the guardrails before shipping an API surface they will support for years. Carl frames AI as a new axis of software possibility, comparable to the shift from DOS to Windows. Colby ties it back to legacy SCADA conversion, framing the security and reliability gains as a national security issue. The episode closes with notes on the Inductive ecosystem, including a new collaboration with Tiger Data behind TimescaleDB, plus career advice on soft skills, context, and agentic coding tools.About Colby Clegg and Carl GouldColby Clegg is the CEO and cofounder of Inductive Automation, the California based company behind Ignition, the cross platform SCADA, MES, and IIoT software used by manufacturers and integrators worldwide. Carl Gould is the CTO and cofounder, leading product and engineering direction across Ignition. Both joined founder Steve Heckman in 2003 and have shaped the platform's open, integrator first philosophy ever since.Inductive Automation: https://www.inductiveautomation.comTimestamps0:00 Introduction1:00 Meet Colby Clegg and Carl Gould2:00 The origins of Inductive Automation in 20038:00 Going to market and the Innovator's Dilemma10:30 Innovation without permission as company culture18:50 Ignition 8.0 and the leap to Perspective26:00 The five year journey to 8.338:00 The MCP server module and AI in Ignition45:30 AI in the control plane and guardrails52:30 Tiger Data and the technology ecosystem1:02:30 Career advice for the next generation1:06:40 What is ripe for innovationReferencesIgnition Community Conference: https://icc.inductiveautomation.comAbout Your HostsVladimir Romanov is a cohost of The Manufacturing Hub Podcast and the founder of Joltek, an independent manufacturing and industrial automation consulting firm specializing in modernization strategy, digital transformation, and workforce development. Joltek works with manufacturers and investors to reduce the risk of modernization and build the internal capability to sustain results.Connect with Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladromanov/Want to go deeper? Vlad and the team at Joltek have covered related topics here:Colby Clegg on Ignition 8.3 and Industrial Automation: https://www.joltek.com/blog/industrial-automation-colby-clegg-ignition-8-3Connecting Allen Bradley PLCs to Ignition: https://www.joltek.com/blog/connecting-allen-bradley-plc-ignitionDave Griffith is a cohost of The Manufacturing Hub Podcast and founder of Capelin Solutions, an industrial automation firm helping manufacturers adopt smart manufacturing technology. He brings 15 years of experience in industrial automation and digital transformation.Connect with Dave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegriffith23/Subscribe to Manufacturing Hub: https://www.manufacturinghub.liveLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manufacturing-hub-networkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ManufacturingHub

The "old school" way was simple: a sensor sees a part, tells the controller, and the actuator moves. It was pure hardware logic, and it worked. But in today's smart factories, that's only half the story. Modern sensors aren't just on/off switches anymore—they are eyes and ears, and sometimes even the brains, of the automation. However, surprisingly few engineers really understand both the hardware and software sides of machine data. In this episode of the Moore's Lobby podcast, Control.com's David Peterson discusses sensors with Nils Beckmann, an expert with a background in both sensor hardware and IIoT software analytics. They explore the various solutions and best practices that ease the pathway to productively using sensor information. Emerson has been a leader in measurement instrumentation for over 50 years. They have a broad portfolio of measurement and analytical instrumentation, software, integrated systems, and services. Meet Nils Beckmann In his role as Director of Engineering, Intelligent Automation at Emerson, Nils Beckmann brings extensive industry experience in Digital Transformation, IIoT, and Software across a wide range of applications in the discrete manufacturing industry. He leads globally distributed team that supports Emerson's Discrete Automation group with hardware and software solutions designed to enhance productivity and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), while minimizing waste and promoting sustainability. The team also facilitates connectivity, AI and data analytics across all brands within the group. Nils previously served in various positions across IT, software, data analysis, AI, product management, and development. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Applied Computer Science from Fachhochschule Hannover.   

Carl Gould, CTO and co-founder of Inductive Automation, joins hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes for an in-person conversation recorded in Australia ahead of the Ignition Everywhere event in Brisbane.Carl traces Ignition's journey from FactorySQL in 2003 to the 8.3 release, which introduces file-based configuration, Git and GitOps compatibility, Perspective offline mode, and a new architecture for managing distributed OT systems at scale. He breaks down the three design principles that have guided the platform from day one (cost, convenience, and capability), shares his evolving take on AI in industrial automation, and explains why he calls the IT/OT divide "a fictional line."In this episode, we discuss:The 8.3 release: file-based config, GitOps, deployment modes, and Perspective offlineScaling from thousands of tags to millions with distributed, decoupled architecturesWhy AI in industrial automation is a means to an end, not a product in itselfThe community and culture behind Ignition's worldwide growth---------------------------This episode is proudly made possible by PLCnext TechnologyPLCnext Technology is the ecosystem for industrial automation consisting of open hardware, modular engineering software, a global community, and a digital software marketplace.Learn more at:⁠⁠⁠https://www.plcnext-community.net/news/synergy-edge-cloud/---------------------------FlowFuse at Hannover Messe 2026Discover how FlowFuse empowers you to build, deploy, and scale industrial automation -- your way. Visit FlowFuse at Hall 014, Stand K26 during Hannover Messe (April 20-24, 2026) and experience live demonstrations of FlowFuse connecting the entire industrial stack -- from PLCs on the shop floor to MES, ERP, and cloud services -- enabling real-time industrial connectivity, data integration, and AI-powered operations.Let's transform industrial data together -- live, integrated, and in real time.Claim your free pass and learn more: https://flowfuse.com/events/hannover-messe-2026/---------------------------Carl Gould is the CTO and co-founder of Inductive Automation. He has been building and guiding the Ignition platform since 2003. Under his leadership, Ignition has grown from a SQL connectivity tool into a comprehensive platform used across industries worldwide for SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT applications.Connect with Carl Gould on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-gouldLearn more about Inductive Automation: https://inductiveautomation.comConnect with Phil on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/philseboa/⁠Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/edfuentes/

Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians, joins us today to talk about the challenges facing industrial control system security. With increased attack surface areas and maintaining and updating decades-old systems, Justin's dedication to informing and educating newcomers and experts alike is more important now than ever before.As the Director of ICS Security at InGuardians, Justin specializes in ICS security architecture design and penetration testing. He led the Smart Grid Security Architecture group in creating the NIST Interagency Report 7628 and has played key roles in the Advanced Security Acceleration Project for the Smart Grid (ASAP-SG), National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization Resources (NESCOR), and Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). Justin is the owner of ControlThings LLC, a member of the SANS faculty, and an instructor at BlackHat. He has authored and taught numerous courses such as ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials, Assessing and Exploiting Control Systems and IIoT, Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications with SamuraiWTF, and SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. Justin also presents on a range of cybersecurity topics at leading security conferences across the globe.Learn more at: controlthings.ioSupport our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform. This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io

Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware The last time the channel faced a shift this fundamental was the rise of the hypervisor. That transition reshaped everything, but it happened inside the four walls of the data center. What’s different about the current moment, argues WanAware CEO Jeff Collins, is that AI workloads, inference nodes, IoT, and SCADA infrastructure are being bolted onto customer environments without the kind of formal network redesign that virtualization demanded. The result is a growing visibility gap that most MSPs don’t realize they have. Collins points to a striking finding from a WanAware survey conducted in late 2025: when business leaders were asked about their visibility gap, they rated it extremely high. When IT was asked the same question, they rated it low. Both were technically right. IT was measuring visibility against the machines in their purview – Active Directory, database servers, web front ends. The business was measuring it against everything else: Kubernetes workloads, cloud functions, agentic AI processes, and infrastructure that might not exist tomorrow. That disconnect is why MSPs can show perfect MTTR and SLA performance while the customer is saying you’re failing. The conversation covers where traditional monitoring breaks down, why 30% false positive rates persist even after major platform investments, and how ephemeral workloads designed to disappear create alerts that will never resolve. Collins makes a compelling case that MSPs need to push visibility up the OSI stack, from layers one through three into the application and business logic layers where margin is significantly higher. He shares a practical framework for how to start, using vertical industry knowledge – particularly in sectors like Canadian oil and gas, where SCADA networks and AWS IoT Core infrastructure represent opportunities to grow a $1,000-a-month customer into a $30,000-a-month engagement. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to the ChannelBuzz.ca podcast, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca and still your host for the show. Today we’re talking about a problem a lot of MSPs and channel partners are starting to feel, even if they don’t always have a name for it yet, and that’s visibility. As AI workloads, hybrid architectures and distributed endpoints become the norm, network traffic is changing faster than the tools that many partners rely on to understand what’s actually happening inside their customers’ environments. My guest today is Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware. Jeff spends a lot of time with service providers and enterprise teams dealing with this shift, where accountability for performance, security and uptime is increasing, even as environments become harder to see and harder to diagnose when something goes wrong. WanAware operates in the network and infrastructure visibility space, but this conversation isn’t about the tools, the dashboards. It’s about how blind spots form in modern networks, why they’re easy to miss until there’s an outage, a security issue, or an SLA failure, and what partners need to understand as AI-driven infrastructure quietly reshapes traffic patterns and dependencies. In this discussion, we’re going to explore where traditional monitoring starts to fall apart, how partners can rethink what good visibility really means today, and why the ability to see what’s happening across distributed environments is quickly becoming both a risk issue and a business opportunity for MSPs. If you’re responsible for customer outcomes, but you don’t always feel confident you can see everything that matters, this conversation is for you. [MUSIC] Robert Dutt: Jeff, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Jeff Collins: Thanks, Rob. Thanks for having me on. Robert Dutt: You’ve been advising partners, MSPs, VARs, these types of folks through a lot of change over time. Why does this moment with the rise of AI workloads and the continuing trend of hybrid networks feel like a real inflection point rather than sort of just the next evolution of the way things look? Jeff Collins: I think one of the biggest reasons why is because it’s so transformational to what MSPs and resellers and VARs and distributors have dealt with for, let’s say, the last 25 years. If we think about the last major inflection point that they dealt with was really kind of the realm of the hypervisor, this ecosystem where no longer did we have to have a server running an operating system, and that created kind of the whole ecosystem we deal with today. It created cloud, it created containers, all those things were built off this concept of a hypervisor. That was really the last major transformational thing that has happened. Now we fast forward to today and we’ve got this era of AI. We’ve got this era where we’re now taking agentic approaches, generative approaches, to things that our customers deal with every day. When I talk about our customers, those are the customers of the MSP, those are the customers of the reseller, the distributor. Not only are they dealing with that, they’re dealing with this massive evolution in the customer base, but they’re also having to do that same evolution in their own environments. If you’re an MSP and you’re focused on infrastructure, or you’re an MSP and you look more like an MSSP where you’re focused on security, now you’re starting to have to deal with, “Okay, I’ve got these tools, I’ve got these people, I’ve got these agents, I’ve got all these entities inside of my business that are doing something for my customer.” But now I have to think about how am I going to do that faster? How am I going to do that better? How am I going to do that more effectively? Because our customers are getting much more advanced. That’s really one of the biggest things that I see that we’re seeing a lot of, that “Where do I start?” from the channel partner community. When we think about the channel, we know all this stuff is going on, but it seems like such a Herculean lift that I think sometimes it’s hard to know where we make that first step. Robert Dutt: That makes sense. A lot of this, a lot of AI especially, and to a degree sort of the hybridization of the network, that complexity has come on without kind of a formal network redesign. Like you mentioned the transition to hypervisors and that necessitated rethinking how things were done because it was a physical change. Whereas a lot of, especially with AI, it’s kind of being bolted in, added on as you go. Why does that make the environment today harder to understand than maybe it was for past transitions when you’re sitting there watching it as an MSP or other partner? Jeff Collins: Well, I think one of the biggest reasons why this era is so much more difficult than the last transition is because we’re not bound by the four walls of our proverbial house. If we think about when we dealt with the last transition, every customer, their physical server sat inside of something they control. So we’ll refer to it as their house because that’s the easiest kind of comparison we can do. In today’s world, there’s certainly a lot that exists in our customers’ houses and in the houses that the MSP or the reseller or the channel partner or whomever it is are engaged in. But so much of that’s going outside of those walls. And when we think about AI, AI is certainly outside of those walls. I mean, we might be dealing with Anthropic, we might be dealing with ChatGPT or Gemini or the thousand other agentic or generative approaches that are out there. Those are all over the place. And now we’re asking these entities to take oftentimes a process-driven approach that they’ve had for 20, 25 years. And how do you change that process-driven approach when you don’t really know where those workloads, where those assets, where that data is going to reside either today or tomorrow, or even if that data that we’re looking at is even going to exist tomorrow. That’s this whole realm. I mean, we’ve been talking about ephemeral workloads for, you know, let’s call it 14 years, 15 years since really the rise of AWS. But now we’re starting to deal with these ephemeral workloads, not just in the realm of infrastructure, but also in data, in generative concepts, in agents. You know, historically, we had Bob Smith, who might have worked in the NOC. Well, tomorrow, Bob Smith is an agent. What does that look like? It’s AI. What did Bob Smith do yesterday? Did Bob Smith, the new agentic version of Bob Smith, did that person do the right thing, the wrong thing, the incorrect thing? How do we manage that? How do we deal with that? How do we process that? Those are all the things that are across the board, just happening at massive rapid scale. And so, you know, it’s a really difficult time right now to be an MSP or a channel partner, but it’s also an amazing time to be an MSP or channel partner. You know, our world, our capabilities are advancing so fast. You think about one of the simplest use cases that’s out there that all of us think is simple, that MSPs deal with every day, is a circuit outage. You know, a telecom circuit goes down and it’s connected to SD-WAN or it’s connected to a router or it’s connected to some type of device that’s out at the prem. And historically, every MSP on the planet’s dealt with it kind of in a similar way. We get an alert from a monitoring system that feeds a ticketing system. It pops up on a tier one agent’s dashboard. The tier one agent looks at it, they verify power, they verify if the router’s operational, and then they open a ticket with a carrier. And then they, and that’s the hurry up and wait type of world. Well, now in the era of AI, that changes that quite a bit, because every one of those things are very process driven. We don’t need people for that anymore. So now we can have a system take that process flow on, do that. Now, historically, we could use a system to do that. We could write automation and a lot of MSPs did that historically, but the problem with automation is automation is static. When we leverage AI, we can leverage enrichment that helps influence that agentic approach. And so now if there’s a nuance going on, let’s say an example is there’s a global power outage. So let’s say there’s a power outage in the entire Vancouver area. We know that. Well, historically, if we’re looking at that, we see all these customers that are down, we might through a tier one agent approach, a person-based approach that following a process, or even an automated approach, not really correlate that. Because if the MSP is in, let’s say, Montreal, they might not realize there’s a large scale power outage in Vancouver, which is thousands of kilometers away. And so when we think about that, that’s really where these things can change a lot from an agentic perspective. And then the MSP gets the joy of being able to repurpose that person to be much more valuable to their organization, that tier one person can become tier two, and that can really start changing that dynamic a lot. Robert Dutt: Most MSPs would have historically said we have good visibility across what our customers are doing. And probably I would say most believe they have good visibility today. Where does that confidence most often turn out to be misplaced or to start to break down as the model shifts? Jeff Collins: Yeah, so I would 100% agree that most MSPs, when workloads are static, have great visibility. The problem is that in today’s world, so many workloads are becoming dynamic. And we see that change happening consistently. You know, customers, you know, historically MSPs had problems monitoring services inside of a cloud provider. You have ephemeral workloads, you have workloads that aren’t necessarily a server, they’re much more like a service. So you have things that might be a Kubernetes instance, they might be a Kubernetes runtime instance, they might be a function. Those are all things that are crucial to the operation of a customer. They’ve taken those workloads that historically operated on a machine. And they’ve taken those workloads and now they’re in some type of small form factor instance that exists for a very short period of time. That’s been very difficult for MSPs to deal with across the board. But now we take that same concept and that same concept goes outside of the cloud providers. We now have that moving into inference nodes. We now have that moving into IoT and IIoT and OT, where we’re starting to deal with these ecosystems where these workloads are very ephemeral by nature. They might exist for a short period or components of those might exist for a short period, or the way that those are correlated and analyzed might exist. But if you think about inside of a customer from a business risk perspective, those actually carry the highest business risk. An individual Windows 2012 server has some level of business risk. If it’s running SAP, probably a higher level of business risk. But if it’s one Active Directory node and the customer has 100 machines in Active Directory, it doesn’t really matter in the scheme of the world. And so those are the realities of what happens as we kind of think through this stuff. And so for MSPs, this really drives that visibility gap. You know, we did a survey earlier this year, or actually late last year, sorry, in 2025. We did a survey across the board asking business leaders really what the visibility gap was and what they believed. And we asked business leaders and we also asked IT. It was really interesting to see kind of the dichotomy. When you ask the business what the visibility gap was, it was extremely high. When you ask technology what the visibility gap is, it was really low. Now they were both technically right. And here’s why. So IT was thinking about the visibility gap of the machines that they understand, the machines in their purview. So those might be, you know, an Active Directory server, a database server, maybe you have a web front end. Those are all there. And those are 100% being monitored to that IT team or to that MSP. The problem is, is the business itself is operating on a whole bunch of additional workloads that IT doesn’t necessarily have purview to. And so because of that, we start ending up with this difference of visibility. And that’s why oftentimes when you’ll go and you’ll talk to a customer or you’ll go and you’ll talk to the business itself. And the business is saying, why do we have this MSP who works for us? This MSP isn’t doing anything. And the MSP is coming back with these great reports that are showing MTTR is consistently dropping. You know, initial response time, triage time is consistently dropping. We’re blowing out every single metric that we provided you in an SLA or an SLO. And the business is coming back and saying, but you’re failing. And the MSP is saying, I don’t understand. We are not. And here’s all the metrics. And it’s because of this difference in resources that exist, that is what is happening. And so I think that’s one of the big areas that we always have to think through is, you know, as we’re looking at things and as MSPs look at things, they have to continue to be pushing upward inside of the business to understand all those areas that the business is driving that IT, who they’ve historically sold to, may not know about those resources, especially in a lot of these other spaces, AI, IoT, IIoT, OT, ephemeral workloads, cloud workloads, those types of things that are often outside of that scope. Robert Dutt: Yeah. I guess when you’re looking at sort of your visibility stopping basically at the edge of the organization, you’ve got all of this out there, pretty significant impacts on real world issues like latency, like security exposure, like the ability to meet those SLAs that you signed up for, those kinds of things. Jeff Collins: Yeah. Yeah. 100% agreed. And, you know, when you think about the core components that an MSP does, you know, MSPs generally deal with availability and they deal with performance. When you add in the MSSP, now we add in the security component. And some MSPs and MSSPs are more hybrid-based approaches. They may deal with all three. But as you kind of look at those, those core tenant areas have become much more difficult, especially in the last 10 years, certainly in the last year. I mean, the last year has been so disruptive for all that we do. And it’s because those pieces have become much less simple. You know, if I go back 25 years or even 20 years, customers by and large used MPLS networks, rather simple to monitor. You have guaranteed jitter, you have guaranteed latency, you have, you know, all these things that are very easily assumed by an MSP. So if latency exceeds 74 milliseconds between these two individual locations, that breaks the SLA that the provider provides and it’s an easy conversation. You need to go fix this. This is not okay. Well, in today’s world, most of our customers don’t have MPLS networks. Most of them have, you know, sometimes now it’s satellite. They might have Starlink for LEO. They might have 4G or 5G, depending on what portion of the world they’re in. They might have some type of broadband service, fiber broadband, or copper broadband, or some other type of realm. Well, those don’t necessarily have SLAs for that in any way, shape, or form. We may luck out and they have an availability SLA. Maybe it’s three nines or two nines, or maybe not even two nines, depending on what type of service that is. And then when we start moving inside of the network, outside of the service provider, outside of the circuit provider itself, we start moving into other arenas that look like this. You know, historically we had a Dell server, an HP server that had a mean time before failure. Well, that’s pretty easy to understand. If I have a server and it’s going to run for 25,000 hours, it’s easy to understand that life. But when now we’re starting to get services that have an expected failure, and that expected failure is generally measured in less than a year, because the assumption is that the software, the application, resolves that issue. If you’re an MSP and you’re not monitoring the application and you don’t understand the application, you’re now chasing outages that don’t matter. And that’s one of the other things that’s really hard. And we see this all the time. You know, I’ll talk to MSPs and they’re like, “Jeff,” and it goes back to that same conversation we had before of not knowing the business. “Jeff, we get, today we have 30% of our tickets that become false positives. What do we do about that? We’ve gone out and we’ve bought the newest monitoring platform. We’ve implemented AI. We’ve implemented all this automation. We spent $20 million doing that.” These are all real things that I have in conversations with MSPs. And at the end of the day, they still have 30% false positives that they’re working. And the reality is, is because it’s certainly an outage. There was 100% an outage that happened. But the reality is that outage was never going to get restored because the outage was designed. You know, that workload disappeared. A DevOps team or a DevSecOps team deployed a new environment and that workload is now gone. And there’s a brand new workload that you’re not monitoring right now. You know nothing about it. And those are the things that we all collectively have to continually evolve to. It’s that driving up the stack. You know, one of the things that I often see is, you know, we have this proverbial thing that we’ve all dealt with, the OSI model. You know, there’s seven layers to that OSI model. So often in MSPs, we focus on four of them. The problem is, and most MSPs only focus on the first three. They don’t even focus on the fourth one. The issue is, is there’s three more. And those three more are what get driven by the business. And so the more that we can focus on visibility within those three, understanding that, bringing that into our tools, that drives additional value. It also drives significantly larger margin. You know, if we think about margin contribution at monitoring a telecom circuit, that’s a pretty low margin at this point in time. There’s a lot of automation around that. Monitoring a server – that world used to be high-margin, but it’s compressing. Customers are increasingly doing more of this themselves. They’re doing automation directly into their CI/CD pipeline. So it becomes this knife fight. And there’s more and more MSPs that are out there that are also fighting for that same share of market. And so the key is, the more that MSPs can go up market, they can understand, you know, I hate to use this term digital transformation because it literally gets overused every day by every marketing team on the planet. But the reality is, is that if we go behind this marketing abomination of this term, and we actually look at what happens, there’s a ton of value that we can go after. And if we go after that value, and we go after what people are trying to do, we align with that, we can now take those same products, those same processes that we’ve historically had as MSPs, and we can really start evolving that. Moving upward, driving in significant value, taking our tool sets that we may have today, maybe those can evolve with us, maybe we have to make new changes in our tool sets. But the reality is we’re driving that margin upward. So we’re going from maybe our contribution margin to our business today is 30%, let’s say, we can start moving back up into 60, 70, 80% contribution margin from a managed services perspective, which is where we all want to be. We don’t want to be fighting knife fights for 30%. It’s just hard, it’s difficult. Our customer acquisition costs are still generally high. We have salespeople, we have marketing efforts, we have all those things that we’re burning through every day. And we need more and more market share, we need more and more assets that we’re monitoring. And as a result of that, we need better ways that can contribute higher margin and create stickier customers that we’re not in those knife fights with. Robert Dutt: The situation seems to be putting MSPs in a situation where they’re increasingly accountable for outcomes that they can’t fully see the contributing factors of. Before you move on, I just wanted to double click on that just a little bit and just ask, how does that change kind of the risk profile for an MSP when you’re accountable for those things that you don’t completely understand or have complete control over? Jeff Collins: Yeah, I would say a lot of that. And one of the things that MSPs have to think through is a lot of that starts at the sales cycle. If you don’t ask the right questions at the sales cycle stage, oftentimes you get pushed into that ecosystem. When you’re looking at the core functional plumbing behind what a customer is trying to do, and that’s the only thing you’re looking at, you often get siloed into that ecosystem. You’re looking at a server, you’re not looking at SAP. One server going down in SAP doesn’t necessarily mean SAP has a problem. But if that one server is the only HANA server in SAP, that’s catastrophic. You know, it’s this realm of contextual knowledge. Historically MSPs have that contextual knowledge, but it’s all the way at tier three and tier four. That contextual knowledge has to move to tier one. If MSPs want to get to the arena where that is no longer a problem, the contextual pieces have to move downward. You have to go from a hero-based MSP to a process-driven MSP. So many MSPs are built on heroes. It’s really hard to build a scalable business off heroes. You have to have heroes. Heroes are the people that when everything breaks and the world is on fire, they’re the ones who carry you through. And those heroes we want to have, we want to empower them, but they can’t be doing the stuff that should be done at tier one. So if we take that exact same question that you had, Rob, that question is, you know, how do we make, at the end of the day, how do we make MSPs more relevant to their clients and much more aligned with what the client’s trying to do? And that’s by taking the contextual knowledge of what the customer is trying to do, aligning that with the tactical approaches that the MSP is trying to do, and having a very crystal clear playbook of how this tactical component makes up this strategic initiative inside of the business. So we’ll take that, we’ll take that simple example. I shouldn’t say simple. SAP is far from simple. But the reality is, is that SAP is something that customers rely on. And when they rely on that, if SAP goes down the business goes down. And if you have an MSP that’s monitoring that, and at the same second of the same day, the MSP gets 36 tickets. We’ll just pick a random 36 number. 36 severity one tickets come in at that point in time. One of those severity one tickets is for SAP HANA. And the customer only has one instance of that. And that is taking down a large company. So that’s the first ticket. The next 35 tickets are for ephemeral workloads that the customer migrated off of, you got the alert, they migrated to a brand new ephemeral workload. And the 35 don’t matter. They’re false positives. But the one fully matters. In every single MSP on the planet, those 36 tickets are eligible for the same response interval. That’s a pretty tough average to be able to. Are you going to luck out and get the one? Or are you going to luck out, or not luck out, for lack of a better term, and work 35 false positives before you get to the one that matters? Now, most MSPs are going to tell me and they’re going to tell us that, well, we have more than one tier one path. That’s great. But the reality is you need to be responding to that one ticket right now. And you need to understand that that one ticket matters. And the only way you can do that is by starting at the beginning, starting with the sales cycle, understanding what customers are doing. If you’ve already gone down the path and the customer’s embedded, use your customer support teams. Understand what your customers are doing, start layering in that context, start enriching that data, knowing what that actually feeds, and understanding the dependencies and interdependencies inside of that. So if that server goes down, certainly you could by virtue say a database server going down is a SEV-1, but it may not be. If they have four database servers, they’re running in a high availability group, who cares? If one goes down, not the end of the world, go fix it tomorrow. That’s where context, that’s where understanding those dependencies is so crucial. And I mentioned at the beginning of this is how do you take that first step forward? We always take this first step forward and how I instruct MSPs is start doing things like this, take this step forward, break this down into simple programmatic approaches. And when we think about AI, it’s the exact same idea. We move steps forward, we have agentic, we have generative. Pick one, pick an area you want to focus on with your customers, understand the business outcome they’re trying to do. And if you have an inference engine, that’s going to be really crucially important here. So let’s understand that. Let’s monitor that. Let’s understand the intricacies related to how that customer is leveraging it, why it’s important. Are there latency constraints? Are there packet loss constraints? Those types of things. Let’s monitor to that and let’s understand how that happens. And if a customer has an application on the back end, you know, maybe they have New Relic or they have AppDynamics or they have some type of APM toolset, great. Let’s start bringing those into our monitoring. Let’s start bringing that intelligence in, understanding application flows, understanding dependencies, building that to be part of our story. And now we create so much more opportunity for us as an MSP driving that contribution margin northbound. Robert Dutt: So it sounds like we’re kind of defining good visibility in a modern environment and kind of setting up for looking forward as understanding what actually matters to the customer and understanding what kind of flows into it, what all results in that thing that’s important to the customer still being up, still being running, still being functional, and kind of work backwards from there as opposed to the more “this machine is working, this machine is not” kind of approach. Jeff Collins: Yep. Yeah. You want to go from tactical to transformational. That’s really the idea. Robert Dutt: And you shared kind of the idea of the first step to do towards that. I guess as you’re moving towards that first step, you know, is there any one question or kind of mindset that you find works for MSPs to have in mind or asking customers to surface those blind spots and really start to understand what that context is that they have to have? Jeff Collins: Yeah, that’s a really good question, Rob. And, you know, there’s some things that I do tell MSPs to start with before you ever ask that first question. One of them is kind of some of the simple, let’s call it research that you can do before you ever reach out to your customer. One of the easiest things you can do is start by what industry are they in. You know, in Canada, Canada has a lot of oil and gas, lots and lots of oil and gas companies exist in Canada. And so if you have an oil and gas company, we can start right off the bat with a lot of the things that oil and gas companies live and die with. And we’ll just pick on this one as an example. So oil and gas companies have SCADA networks. They have industrial IoT devices that are out there. They’re processing massive amounts of data. That data may be going into the cloud. It may be going into a data center. It may be going into some type of vault or something like that, depending on what they have. But each one of those are things that, as an MSP, you can start out before you ever ask your customer anything. You know that those are the things that exist in their environment. And you can quickly look and see, well, am I monitoring any of those? Well, no, I’m only monitoring Active Directory. Okay, Active Directory is probably important to the oil and gas company. But if it goes down, do they quit producing oil? The answer is probably no. And so if your answer is ever no, you know right off the bat that you’re not monitoring something that’s strategic to your customer. And so the first thing that you should always think about is, okay, if we have this industry, we should be monitoring the things that are strategic. Well, how do we do that? Well, we start with that one step forward. The first thing we talk to them about is just like when we went out and we sold that initial monitoring of Active Directory, they did it because they didn’t have time for it. There’s no oil and gas company on the planet that has time to be monitoring their SCADA networks. They just don’t. They may tell you that they do, but they don’t. So leverage your relationships, leverage your engagement with them and go after those pieces. Understand, you know, if they’re in AWS IoT Core, understand what that looks like. Understand who’s monitoring that. Understand how DevOps is working within that space. Maybe it’s DevSecOps inside of that environment. Understand that convergence of the teams and then start building a story around, you know, let’s take that on for you. Let’s start changing that. Let’s use the same paradigm that we’ve done, driving MTTR down, driving availability up, driving resolution times down, all those types of things. Let’s bring that into the era of SCADA networks, IoT, our core infrastructure. That’s where we start changing the value inside of our customer engagements. And that’s really where I see a huge opportunity for MSPs across Canada, where you can take that environment, you can take those opportunities you already have, and you can grow them from, you know, maybe you bill that customer $1,000 a month. You can grow it to billing them $20,000 or $30,000 a month, but it’s the most crucial $30,000 they spend. Because, you know, if that offshore environment or that, you know, oil sands environment or whatever it might be within the oil and gas space or in the energy sector, whatever it might be, those things are crucial to their business. And so the more that MSPs can kind of make that step forward, and then also start incorporating AI, every single one of those entities is incorporating AI. They’re incorporating it directly into their pipelines. They’re incorporating it directly into their data pipelines, not just the oil and gas pipelines, but each one of those, the more you can incorporate that, the more you can monitor, the more you can show value of everything that you do amazing as an MSP, that’s really where you start creating that intrinsic strategic value and you get out of that tactical approach. Robert Dutt: And the good news is for a lot of these folks in the MSP space, presumably they have some of these pieces already in place, just not necessarily connected up to the technical side, i.e. sales and marketing have been focused on a vertical. And even if they haven’t, because they have customers in this space, they’ve built some of that muscle memory, some of that knowledge of what really matters. Now it’s just a matter, hopefully, of connecting it into the services that they’re offering. Jeff Collins: Yep, totally agreed. Robert Dutt: All right. Well, it’s been a really interesting look at sort of where visibility is at. And I think a real interesting opportunity that you’ve surfaced in terms of how it can be turned into a value conversation. I appreciate your taking the time. Jeff Collins: Sounds great. Thanks so much for having me on, Rob. Robert Dutt: There you have it, my chat with Jeff Collins from WanAware. I’d like to thank Jeff for sharing his insights. The thing that stuck with me from this conversation is how much of what’s changed in the modern network hasn’t been designed in, it’s been bolted on. AI workloads, hybrid architectures, IoT, SCADA, all of it layered into environments without the kind of formal rethinking that happened when we moved to virtualization. And Jeff made a really compelling case that for MSPs, closing that visibility gap isn’t just a risk management play, it’s a revenue opportunity, and potentially a significant one, especially in verticals like energy and critical infrastructure where visibility is tied directly to uptime, safety, and compliance. We’ll be back on Monday with In Case You Missed It, your weekly news roundup. Thanks for listening. I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

In this episode of Control Intelligence, written by contributing editor Tobey Strauch, editor in chief Mike Bacidore discusses on-machine sensing and IIoT implementation. Once you've finished listening to the podcast, take Control Design's quiz about on-machine sensing and IIoT implementation.

Decades of industrial automation, SCADA implementations, and digital transformation meet the future of IIoT in this conversation with special guest Max Carritt, made possible by PLCnext Technology. Hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes trace Max's journey from early experiences in Texas gas plants to leading multi-site SCADA modernization in Europe.This episode covers technical growth, project challenges, cultural contrasts between U.S. and European automation, and hands-on learning with open platforms like Ignition. Highlights include mobile SCADA innovations, transitioning to enterprise-scale solutions, best practices for reducing tech debt, and building custom applications for fun (like D&D game management).Whether you're stepping into the industry, evaluating career paths in controls engineering, or looking for practical advice on databases and IT/OT convergence, this discussion offers firsthand accounts and hard-won lessons from the field.-----------------This episode is made possible by PLCnext TechnologyPLCnext Technology is the ecosystem for industrial automation consisting of open hardware, modular engineering software, a global community, and a digital software marketplace.Learn more at:https://www.plcnext-community.net/news/synergy-edge-cloud/-----------------Connect with Phil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/Connect with Ed on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/Connect with Max on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxcarritt/-----------------About Industry Sage Media:Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry.Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

www.iotusecase.com#Qualitätssicherung #Spritzguss #SmartFactoryIn Episode 192 des IoT Use Case Podcasts spricht Gastgeberin Ing. Madeleine Mickeleit mit Guido Zoll, Entwicklung und Konstruktion bei der RAFI GmbH & Co. KG, und Christoph Schneider, Vice President Produktmanagement Applikation bei der ifm solutions GmbH. Im Fokus steht die Qualitätssicherung in der Spritzgießerei. RAFI nutzt gemeinsam mit ifm und der IIoT-Plattform moneo Prozessdaten aus Sensorik und Maschinen, um Fertigungsprozesse stabiler, energieeffizienter und transparenter zu gestalten. Die Folge zeigt, wie aus Temperatur, Druck und Durchfluss belastbare Qualitätskennzahlen werden und welche Rolle Datenintegration, Visualisierung und Anomalieerkennung dabei spielen.Folge 192 auf einen Blick (und Klick):(15:59) Herausforderungen, Potenziale und Status quo – So sieht der Use Case in der Praxis aus(21:03) Lösungen, Angebote und Services – Ein Blick auf die eingesetzten Technologien(25:59) Übertragbarkeit, Skalierung und nächste Schritte – So könnt ihr diesen Use Case nutzenPodcast ZusammenfassungWie lassen sich Qualität, Energieeffizienz und Prozessstabilität in der Spritzgießerei messbar verbessern, ohne die Produktion zu stören. RAFI und ifm geben einen praxisnahen Einblick. Ausgangspunkt sind typische Herausforderungen wie schwankende Werkzeugtemperaturen, unklare Kühlwassermengen und steigender Druckluftverbrauch. Ziel ist ein stabiler Prozess mit klaren Qualitätskennwerten, kürzeren Zyklen und geringerem Energiebedarf.Die Lösung setzt auf Sensorik von ifm und die Plattform moneo. Daten aus Druck, Temperatur und Durchfluss werden über IO Link erfasst, in moneo gebündelt, visualisiert und ausgewertet. Dashboards und Alarme machen Abweichungen sichtbar, erste Insights zeigen konkrete Stellschrauben. Perspektivisch kommen Asset Health für Handlungsempfehlungen und Remote Connect hinzu.Spannend für Produktionsleiter, Prozessingenieure und Qualitätsverantwortliche, die Qualitätssicherung und Energiemonitoring im Kunststoffbereich datenbasiert voranbringen wollen. Wer wissen möchte, welche Messgrößen in der Praxis den Unterschied machen und wie man von Signalen zu Entscheidungen kommt, ist hier genau richtig.-----Relevant links from this episode:Madeleine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mickeleit/)Christoph (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-schneider-18872627/)Guido (https://www.linkedin.com/in/guido-zoll-25a5a512b/)moneo IIoT devices (https://www.ifm.com/de/en/shared/industry-4-0-moneo/products/moneo-iiot-devices)moneo IIoT Insights (https://www.ifm.com/de/en/shared/industry-4-0-moneo/products/moneo-iiot-insights)Jetzt IoT Use Case auf LinkedIn folgen1x monatlich IoT Use Case Update erhalten

Phil and Ed sit down with Alex Sims, Technical Support Lead at Caliper. With a background as a qualified electrician and data technician, Alex offers a unique perspective on how practical trades experience can shape and refine IoT solutions for industrial and environmental challenges. The conversation uncovers practical stories from deploying climate sensors to protect bat colonies, managing connectivity in tough environments, and creating scalable, user-friendly IIoT products for real-world scenarios.From tackling the steep learning curve of IoT as a tradie to overcoming industry-wide issues of scalability, integration, and support, Alex shares lessons learned on the plant floor and in the field. Gain a better understanding of the user experience for installers, the importance of open protocols, what to look for in an IIoT vendor, and the balance between public and private connectivity networks for industrial devices. Perfect for tradespeople, early-career tech professionals, and anyone interested in how field experience informs digital innovation and automation in industry.Connect with Alex on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-sims-9b0490153/Connect with Phil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/About Industry Sage Media:Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry.Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

From robotaxis to surgical robots, the innovations we've witnessed in industrial IoT (IIoT) technology wouldn't have been possible without advancements in networking. Tune into this episode to learn more and explore why smooth digital experiences are crucial in the IIoT space. ——— CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:54 Networking Advancements & IIoT Innovation 02:38 Assuring IIoT Networks 03:59 Impact of Disruptions 07:30 Monitoring Challenges 10:20 What's Next 15:08 Get in Touch ——— For additional insights, check out this Guide to Next-generation Assurance: https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/guide-to-next-generation-assurance-ebook?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fy26q1_internetreport_q1fy26ep1_podcast ——— Want to get in touch? If you have questions, feedback, or guests you would like to see featured on the show, send us a note at InternetReport@thousandeyes.com. Or follow us on LinkedIn or X. ——— ABOUT THE INTERNET REPORT This is The Internet Report, a podcast uncovering what's working and what's breaking on the Internet—and why. Tune in to hear ThousandEyes' Internet experts dig into some of the most interesting outage events from the past couple weeks, discussing what went awry—was it the Internet, or an application issue? Plus, learn about the latest trends in ISP outages, cloud network outages, collaboration network outages, and more. Catch all the episodes on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-report/id1506984526 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ADFvqAtgsbYwk4JiZFqHQ?si=00e9c4b53aff4d08&nd=1&dlsi=eab65c9ea39d4773 - SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ciscopodcastnetwork/sets/the-internet-report

From robotaxis to surgical robots, the innovations we've witnessed in industrial IoT (IIoT) and robotics technology wouldn't have been possible without advancements in networking.Tune into this episode to learn more and explore why smooth digital experiences are crucial in the IIoT and robotics space.CHAPTERS00:00 Intro00:55 Networking Advancements & IIoT Innovation02:38 Assuring IIoT Networks03:59 Impact of Disruptions07:30 Monitoring Challenges10:20 What's Next15:08 Get in Touch———For additional insights, check out this Guide to Next-generation Assurance: https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/guide-to-next-generation-assurance-ebook?utm_source=wistia&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fy26q1_internetreport_q1fy26ep1_podcast———Want to get in touch?If you have questions, feedback, or guests you would like to see featured on the show, send us a note at InternetReport@thousandeyes.com. Or follow us on LinkedIn or X: @thousandeyes———ABOUT THE INTERNET REPORTThis is The Internet Report, a podcast uncovering what's working and what's breaking on the Internet—and why.Tune in to hear ThousandEyes' Internet experts dig into some of the most interesting outage events from the past couple weeks, discussing what went awry—was it the Internet, or an application issue?Plus, learn about the latest trends in ISP outages, cloud network outages, collaboration network outages, and more.Catch all the episodes on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform:- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-report/id1506984526- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ADFvqAtgsbYwk4JiZFqHQ?si=00e9c4b53aff4d08&nd=1&dlsi=eab65c9ea39d4773- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ciscopodcastnetwork/sets/the-internet-report

En este videocast exploramos por qué la ciberseguridad OT se ha convertido en un pilar crítico para la continuidad operativa y la seguridad física de las industrias. Revisaremos el modelo Purdue, los marcos IEC 62443 y NIST 800-82, casos reales de implementación en energía e oil & gas, la convergencia IT/OT con IIoT e IoMT, y un plan de “quick wins” para obtener resultados en solo seis semanas. Cerramos con recomendaciones ejecutivas para Heads de Tecnología y Negocio que buscan blindar sus operaciones antes de 2026.

Engineer, content creator, and IIoT educator, Zack Scriven, joins Phil and Ed for a wide-ranging discussion on the evolution of industrial digital transformation, the impact of authentic content creation, and the power of community. Zack shares his story from being introduced to SCADA at a young age, to taking part in award-winning industry projects, to building one of the most recognized educational brands around Industry 4.0. This episode covers the rise of the unified namespace, practical realities behind successful digital strategies, the importance of intuitive design in industrial systems, and the value of starting small when driving change. Whether you're a manufacturer, system integrator, or simply intrigued by the future of automation, this episode offers real-world perspectives and inspiration from the front lines of smart manufacturing.Connect with Phil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/Connect with Zack on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackscriven/

Matthew D. Smith, CEO of fieldcloud SAS, joins host Phil Seboa for an energetic and eye-opening episode focused on industrial connectivity, retro computing, and bridging cultural divides in global automation projects. With decades of experience in IT, SCADA, and telecoms, Matthew shares his background working on legacy systems at Eskom, inventive projects in the oil and gas sector, and the practical realities of deploying IIoT solutions in some of the world's toughest environments. Learn how fieldcloud SAS approaches obsolescence, knowledge transfer, and the challenges of language and culture in international fieldwork.Connect with Phil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/darthfiber/-------------------About Industry Sage Media:Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry.Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

Podcast: Industrial Cybersecurity InsiderEpisode: Visibility Revisited: Trends Shaping the Future of OT CybersecurityPub date: 2025-05-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this special rewind episode we highlight outside influences shaping control system integrity, the impact of AI, emerging technologies, and the dynamics of building a career in OT cybersecurity.Drawing from frontline experiences and industry events like the S4 Conference, the discussion explores the growing organizational shift toward dedicated OT cybersecurity roles.We address the critical need for alignment between capital and operational expenditures, and the importance of selecting technologies that provide actionable visibility across diverse plant environments. Listeners will gain strategic guidance on integrating cybersecurity into capital planning, addressing asset variability across sites, and implementing scalable, non-disruptive security frameworks. From OT-specific IDS deployment to balancing remote access with zero-trust principles, this episode offers practical, forward-looking advice.Whether you're a practitioner or a decision-maker, focused on securing extended IIoT environments while maintaining operational resilience, this episode covers practical and relatable challenges and solutions.Chapters:00:00:00 – A Strategic Rewind: Exploring the Emerging Roles, Budget Realities, and Lessons Learned in OT Cybersecurity00:00:41 - Gartner, DOGE, and the Future of OT Cybersecurity Policy00:12:12 - The Future Looks Bright : Building a Career in OT Cybersecurity00:22:44 - AI, Global Trends, and More: A Glimpse into the Future of OT Cybersecurity with ClarotyLinks And Resources:Industrial Cybersecurity Insider on LinkedInCybersecurity & Digital Safety on LinkedInBW Design Group CybersecurityDino Busalachi on LinkedInCraig Duckworth on LinkedInThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Industrial Cybersecurity Insider? Have some feedback you'd like to share? Connect with us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube to leave us a review!The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Industrial Cybersecurity Insider, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Send us a textelliTek's Automation Know-How is a quarterly podcast that takes you beyond the buzzwords to explore how real automation solutions are applied in real manufacturing environments. Hosted by Brandon Ellis, owner of elliTek and automation expert, each episode dives into the practical side of industrial automation — from hardware and software to integration strategies and IIoT — all grounded in how these technologies work on the factory floor.Whether you're an engineer, plant manager, or just automation-curious, you'll gain actionable insights and a clearer understanding of the technologies shaping modern manufacturing.New episodes every quarter — follow now and build your automation know-how.Reach out elliTek with any questions or comments. We'd love to hear from you!

Welcome back to a special Thursday edition of Manufacturing Hub!In this episode, we dive deep into one of the standout presentations from the Prove It conference — featuring Travis Cox from Inductive Automation and Arlen Nipper from Cirrus Link Solutions.

In this episode recorded live at the ProveIt Conference, we sit down with Mark and Harry from Tatsoft, creators of the industrial IIoT platform Frameworks. We dive deep into how Tatsoft is redefining what a true industrial platform should be — built from the ground up for the factory floor, yet scalable across the enterprise.Mark and Harry walk us through:Their platform's positioning as a SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT toolbox — all in oneHow Frameworks handles real-time data, from connectivity (MQTT, OPC UA, SQL) to transformation and dynamic visualizationWhy the “extra I in IIoT” matters when building for industrial environmentsThe challenges of IT/OT integration, people gaps, and legacy systems — and how Tatsoft tackles them head-onA demo of their ProveIt solution, showing off auto-recognition of new assets, dynamic UI, and high-performance visualization across devicesWhether you're an end user, system integrator, or OEM, this episode will help you understand how Tatsoft's Frameworks V10 is enabling fast, scalable, and future-proof industrial applications — without compromise.

In this episode brought to you by Inductive Automation, Phil Seboa sits down with Vice President of Opto22, Benson Hoagland. Benson brings his 30 years of experience in industrial automation and IoT to discuss the benefits of Ignition by Inductive Automation along with his intriguing journey into the world of automation and IoT. They also discuss the growth of home automation, the importance of interoperability, and their experiences from the recent ProveIt conference.About Inductive Automation:By cross-pollinating IT with SCADA technologies, Inductive Automation created Ignition software, the first universal industrial application platform with unlimited potential. Ignition empowers industrial organizations to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing technological and economic obstacles.Ignition brings affordable Digital Transformation to your industrial operations. For the low cost of one server license, you can connect all your devices, collect more data than ever, create an unlimited number of tags, and add as many users as you need — no extra charges or hidden fees. Plus, the Ignition Designer helps you build any custom application and instantly web-deploy it to any industrial display or mobile device.Try Ignition today with a free 2-hour trial that you can reset an unlimited number of times.Learn More and Download Ignition Free Trial at: https://go.industrysagemedia.com/ignitionVisit Inductive Automation: https://www.inductiveautomation.com------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Benson on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhougland/Connect with Phil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/Connect with Ed on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/-------------------------------------------------------------------About Industry Sage Media:Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry.Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

Podcast: Industrial Cybersecurity InsiderEpisode: Overlooked Risks With IIoT in Industrial CybersecurityPub date: 2025-02-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCraig and Dino dive deep into the critical yet often overlooked aspects of industrial cybersecurity in relation to IIoT. They discuss the misconception that many OT assets are isolated when, in reality, they are interconnected and vulnerable. The conversation highlights the importance of complete asset inventory, IT-OT collaboration, and the hidden risks posed by vendor access, remote connections, and unmonitored network traffic. With real-world insights, they explore how organizations can leverage cybersecurity tools not just for threat prevention but also for process integrity and operational efficiency. If you've ever wondered how to bridge the gap between IT-driven cybersecurity and OT-focused operations, this episode is a must-listen.Chapters:00:00:00 - Introduction: Why OT Security Matters More Than You Think00:01:08 - Meet Craig and Dino: Experts in Industrial Cybersecurity00:01:16 - Breaking Down IoT vs. OT: Understanding the Differences00:02:33 - Why Asset Inventory in Industrial Environments is a Challenge00:03:42 - The Hidden Risks of Overlooking Connected OT Assets00:04:32 - The IT-OT Divide: Why Collaboration is Crucial for Security00:08:29 - Industrial IoT Blind Spots: What You're Missing00:09:08 - Preventing Downtime: How Cybersecurity Tools Can Help00:12:00 - How Sensors and Data Can Predict and Prevent Failures00:14:20 - Digital Threats to OT: Why Anomalies Matter00:16:42 - Why OT Teams Need to Fully Understand Cybersecurity Tools00:19:13 - Finding the Right Partner for IT-OT Cybersecurity Integration00:20:04 - Bridging the Gap: Building Stronger IT and OT Relationships00:21:07 - Final Thoughts: How to Take Action on OT Security TodayLinks And Resources:Velta TechnologyDino Busalachi on LinkedInCraig Duckworth on LinkedInThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Industrial Cybersecurity Insider? Have some feedback you'd like to share? Connect with us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube to leave us a review!The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Velta Technology, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

As we enter 2025, the manufacturing and industrial automation sectors are facing a period of significant transformation. In this episode of Manufacturing Hub, Dave and Vlad outline their plans for the year, covering everything from the direction of the podcast to industry trends shaping the future of manufacturing.This episode kicks off with an overview of the podcast's 2025 format, which continues to be structured around monthly themes. This year, topics such as ERP, modern maintenance strategies, workforce upskilling, and industrial data management will take center stage. While some recurring topics like robotics, systems integration, and manufacturing intelligence will return, the podcast will also explore new themes to address emerging challenges in the industry.Beyond the podcast, Dave and Vlad discuss the state of manufacturing going into 2025, breaking it down by key business functions:Finance & Capital Investments – Companies are resuming automation and technology investments after a period of budget constraints. However, challenges remain in securing funding for new initiatives, especially for mid-sized manufacturers looking to scale operations. With interest rates still relatively high and economic uncertainty lingering, capital expenditures will need strong justification, emphasizing ROI and long-term cost reductions.Workforce & Hiring Challenges – The talent shortage remains one of the biggest obstacles for manufacturing organizations. While many companies are investing in workforce development and training, the gap between available talent and industry demand continues to widen. The increasing complexity of industrial automation systems, combined with the push toward IT-OT integration, is making it even harder to find individuals with the right mix of skills. This challenge is particularly evident in sectors that require highly specialized knowledge, such as SCADA, MES, and industrial cybersecurity.IT & Digital Transformation – More manufacturers are accelerating their adoption of cloud computing, IIoT, and advanced analytics, yet IT departments are often understaffed and struggling to implement these technologies effectively. The ongoing debate over who owns industrial data—IT or OT—continues to create friction in many organizations. Additionally, IT teams are being tasked with addressing growing cybersecurity risks, particularly as legacy systems remain vulnerable and require modernization.Sales & Marketing in Industrial Automation – As the industry becomes more competitive, companies selling hardware, software, and integration services must refine their messaging to better communicate value to specific audiences. Instead of broad, generic marketing efforts, more targeted, technical content and direct engagement with decision-makers will be key. The challenge lies in translating technical capabilities into business outcomes, ensuring that sales strategies align with the evolving priorities of manufacturing leaders.Operations & Production Management – The pressures on operations teams remain as high as ever. Whether due to supply chain fluctuations, increased product customization demands, or workforce shortages, maintaining efficiency while improving uptime is becoming increasingly complex. The role of data-driven decision-making in operations is expanding, with more companies seeking to optimize production through real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance strategies. However, the challenge remains in ensuring that frontline workers and plant managers have access to actionable insights rather than overwhelming amounts of raw data.Additionally, Dave and Vlad outline their plans for attending major industry events in 2025, including Automate, Hannover Messe, Ignition Community Conference, and the Prove It Conference. While their focus will be on attending key events rather than producing content at every trade show, they emphasize the importance of staying engaged with industry developments and fostering in-person conversations.This episode serves as a comprehensive preview of what to expect in manufacturing, automation, and industrial technology in 2025. The year ahead promises to be one of both challenges and opportunities, with companies navigating economic pressures, workforce shortages, and the rapid evolution of digital manufacturing technologies.Join us as we set the stage for 2025, explore what's ahead, and continue the conversation on how manufacturers can adapt, innovate, and stay competitive in an increasingly complex landscape.******Connect with UsVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLCJoltek

Rajvir Singh, founder of "Code and Compile," joins hosts Ed Fuentes and Phil Seboa to discuss his journey from mechatronics engineer to educator, sharing insights on the most popular courses in PLC programming and Node RED. This episode offers a deep dive into the role digital twins play in both education and industry, explores cybersecurity considerations, and dissects practical applications of automation technology using affordable tools like Raspberry Pi. Rajvir was also kind enough to provide a discount to "Code and Compile" to our listeners, perfect to anyone looking to advance their skills in industrial automation, making it a must-listen for aspiring and seasoned professionals alike. Connect with Phil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/ Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/ Connect with Rajvir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhrajvir/ Join Code and Compile (Use code "UNPLUGGED30" for 30% Discount): https://www.codeandcompile.com/ About Industry Sage Media: Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry. Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

The future of work is electric! And in this episode of Workforce 4.0, host Ann Wyatt welcomes Luis Narvaez, Factory Automation Marketing Specialist at Siemens, to discuss the latest advancements in industrial automation technology. Luis delves into the release of the new S7 1200 Gen 2 PLC from Siemens with enhanced features focused on safety, flexibility, and ease of use. Most importantly, Ann and Luis also unpack its impact on addressing the skills gap in the manufacturing industry. Luis also shares insights from his own career journey, underscoring the importance of networking, continued education, and curiosity. These two even manage to takl about rollercoasters, too! Tune in to learn more about how Siemens is innovating to make frontline manufacturing work more efficient and satisfying.In This Episode:-00:35: Meet Louis Narvaez from Siemens-01:21: Challenges in Workforce Development-02:52: The Role of PLCs in Manufacturing-08:54: The Evolution of PLC Technology-15:36: Addressing the Skills Gap-20:01: Introducing the S7 1200 G2 PLC-28:06: Introduction to Product Goals-28:24: Scalability and Engineering Tools-29:45: Training and Performance Enhancements-31:27: Safety Features and Flexibility-36:42: Innovative NFC Technology-39:26: Cybersecurity Considerations-41:23: Career Journey and Advice-55:11: Conclusion and Contact InformationMore About Luis Narvaez:Luis Narvaez is passionate about the technology that is advancing manufacturing. Whether it is IIoT-related, Cybersecurity, robotics or the latest simulation and modeling tools he is always interested in exploring how technology is improving the lives of people in manufacturing. Luis is currently the Product Manager with Siemens and a graduate of the University of Central Florida. To learn more about Luis, connect with him here.The Future of Work (and this Episode) Is Brought To You By Secchi:Secchi is a revolutionary workforce engagement tool created for organizations to make data-driven frontline decisions in real-time. By measuring and combining multiple people-related lead indicators, Secchi provides in-the-moment visibility into individual frontline employee performance, team performance, engagement/turnover risks, and positive employee behaviors all while removing the traditional barriers of administrative burden on leaders. To learn more about Secchi, check them out here.

Join us for a chat with IIoT experts Dylan Dufresne and Arlen Nipper as they break down the nuts and bolts of the Unified Namespace (UNS). We discuss the tricky balance of merging IT and OT, the real heroes (spoiler alert: it's all about the people and processes), and what the future holds for data management in the industrial world. With some eye-opening stories and hands-on tips, you'll get a clearer picture of how to start and succeed with your own UNS projects. From edge computing to cloud storage, Dylan and Arlen walk us through the essentials of making digital transformation work in a real-world setting. ------------- This episode is made possible by our friends over at SmithTek. Smithtek provides turn-key hardware and software for remote monitoring and control, supporting a wide range of industrial protocols and offering a web-based SCADA system. Designed and built in Perth, Western Australia, their solutions make asset management easy for industries like agriculture, mining, and automation, ensuring reliable and real time control. Smithtek is committed to providing reliable, Australian-made solutions for remote asset management. Our systems are designed to be intuitive and adaptable, making integration with existing infrastructure straightforward. We prioritize simplicity in user experience, ensuring that our technology is accessible for all levels of technical expertise. For more information, visit: ⁠⁠http://www.smithtek.com.au⁠⁠ ------------------ Connect with Dylan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-dufresne-solutions/ Connect with Arlen Nipper on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlen-nipper-42281057/ Connect with Phil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/ Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/ About Industry Sage Media: Industry Sage Media is your backstage pass to industry experts and the conversations that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry. Learn more at: http://www.industrysagemedia.com

Today Laura and Kevin sit down with Mike Bowers an expert in IIoT platforms, and legacy system modernization. Mike shares invaluable insights on how to innovate in manufacturing and bridge the gap between technology and leadership. We explore Mike's personal and professional journey into software development and architecture and then deep dive into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), explaining its role in transforming industries such as automotive, water treatment, and smart city development. Mike highlights how smart factories are revolutionizing manufacturing by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and minimizing environmental impacts—illustrating concepts with real-world examples like Amazon's use of graph databases to optimize delivery logistics. Mike explains the technologies driving Industry 4.0, including the MQTT protocol, the importance of mastering JSON, and the critical role of AI and machine learning in enhancing IIoT capabilities. Mike also addresses practical advice for aspiring professionals: prioritize hands-on experience by working directly in modern factory environments to bridge theoretical knowledge with real-world applications. Mike also tackles key issues such as cybersecurity risks of legacy connected devices and the skills gap in the workforce. Along the way, he touches on futuristic topics like Elon Musk's AI innovations and the impact of robotics on improving worker conditions—, even addressing whether Amazon workers might finally avoid "bottle-breaks." Whether you're a technologist or simply curious about how factories are evolving beyond the 1980s, this episode offers a fascinating look at the technologies shaping modern industry and the professionals driving these changes.Mike Bowers is the Chief Architect at FairCom Corporation. Mike brings decades of experience in software development and architecture, and specializes in high-performance NoSQL/SQL databases, IIoT platforms, and legacy system modernization solutions. His insights will help CEOs, IT Managers, software architects/engineers, and control engineers to reduce cost in manufacturing, deliver agility by adopting Industry 4.0, and bridge between technologists and executives, to mention a few. 

In this episode of our “Automation Chat” podcast from the show floor at Automation Fair 2024, The Journal's Managing Editor Amanda Joshi has an exclusive interview with Sumant Vashisht, Product Solutions Manager, Hammond Power Solutions (HPS).  Learn about the HPS Smart Transformer that incorporates an HPS low or medium voltage transformer with a pre-installed IIoT-connected power meter. It enhances predictive maintenance and helps prevent power loss by using real-time monitoring and advanced analytics to provide users with insights into transformer and electrical system health. Ideal for manufacturing, data centers, hospitals and other critical applications. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Learn more about Hammond Power Solutions. Watch their interview on YouTube at https://youtu.be/wi2Dpq1hyTQ. Subscribe to The Journal's 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe.   Automation Chat is brought to you by The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine. Find us on YouTube. Find us on LinkedIn. Find us on Facebook. Find us on X (Twitter). Please share this episode with others who would benefit from the information. ** Named “Best Podcast” 3 Consecutive Years! 2022-2024 Apex Award of Publication Excellence.

Join hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes as they sit down with Nick O'Leary, the visionary behind Node-RED, to trace its fascinating journey from an IBM experiment to a vital tool for industries worldwide. Delve into the challenges and triumphs of scaling an open-source project, the creation of FlowFuse to meet enterprise demands, and how thousands of community contributions have shaped the platform. Get insights into the future of AI in tool integration, the delicate balance of innovation and stability, and real-world applications from theme parks to ice cream factories. Whether you're new to Node-RED or a seasoned pro, this episode offers something for every listener intrigued by the intersections of technology, community, and innovation. ----------- This Episode Is Brought To You By Smithtek. Smithtek provides turn-key hardware and software for remote monitoring and control, supporting a wide range of industrial protocols and offering a web-based SCADA system. Designed and built in Perth, Western Australia, their solutions make asset management easy for industries like agriculture, mining, and automation, ensuring reliable and real time control. Smithtek is committed to providing reliable, Australian-made solutions for remote asset management. Our systems are designed to be intuitive and adaptable, making integration with existing infrastructure straightforward. We prioritize simplicity in user experience, ensuring that our technology is accessible for all levels of technical expertise.  For more information, visit ⁠⁠http://www.smithtek.com.au⁠⁠. --------- About Nick O'Leary: Nick O'Leary is the CTO and founder of FlowFuse and a co-creator of Node-RED. With over 19 years of experience at IBM, O'Leary has had a significant impact on the IoT landscape. His work continues to push the boundaries of low-code development and enterprise solutions, driving innovation and efficiency in the IIoT industry. O'Leary's dedication to open-source development and community engagement remains at the core of his contributions to the field. Learn more about FlowFuse: https://flowfuse.com/Learn more about Node-RED: https://nodered.org/Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickoleary/ Connect with Phil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-seboa/ Connect with Ed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-fuentes-2046121a/

What a year! Join us this episode as we reflect on the last 16 episodes of 2024. From a mix of inspiring success stories, personal journeys, to groundbreaking technological insights, we cover some of our key takeaways. Hear from industry legends like Arlen Nipper, the "godfather of IoT," as he reminisces about the 25-year impact of MQTT, and get leadership advice from seasoned experts like David Schultz and Kudzai Manditereaa. The episode also dives into the future of automation with Freddie Coertze and shares moving personal stories from Amy Williams and others. Whether you're interested in the evolution of IIoT technology or personal triumphs in the field, this episode will keep you engaged from start to finish.

This week's guest is Fabio Violante (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabioviolante), CEO of Arduino. Fabio and Natan explore the importance of open source technology in manufacturing and how the democratization of embedded systems development is reshaping the industry. Fabio also shares the history of Arduino, and how he led the charge to evolve their approach from focusing purely on makers and hobbyists, to supporting enterprise grade applications with a new line of hardware. Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, citizen developers, shop floor operators, and anyone else that cares about what the future of frontline operations will look like across industries. This show is presented by Tulip (https://tulip.co/), the Frontline Operations Platform. You can find more from us at Tulip.co/podcast (https://tulip.co/podcast) or by following the show on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/augmentedpod/). Special Guest: Fabio Violante.

Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry's most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the release of its content lineup for Black Hat Europe 2024. The live, in-person event will take place at the ExCeL London from December 9 to December 12, and feature 41 Briefings hand selected by the Black Hat Europe Review Board, four days of Trainings, 25 Sponsored Sessions, and 64 in-person tool demos and three labs at Black Hat Arsenal.Briefings highlights include:● SpAIware & More: Advanced Prompt Injection Exploits in LLM Applications● SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in macOS for Apple Silicon● WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI!Trainings highlights include:● Assessing and Exploiting Control Systems and IIoT [4105]● Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations and Human Intelligence [2111]● Attacking DevOps Pipelines [2108]● Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation [4108]● Advanced Cloud Incident Response in Azure and Microsoft 365 [2103]Black Hat Arsenal at Black Hat Europe 2024 tool demo highlights include:● Campus as a Living Lab: An Open-World Hacking Environment● Pandora: Exploit Password Management Software To Obtain Credential From Memory● Morion - A Tool for Experimenting with Symbolic Execution on Real-World BinariesFor registration and additional information on Black Hat Europe 2024, please visit www.blackhat.com/eu-24Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more.ResourcesPress Release: https://www.blackhat.com/html/press/2024-11-06.htmlCatch all of our On Location Stories: https://www.itspmagazine.com/technology-and-cybersecurity-conference-coverageLearn more about 2 Minutes on ITSPmagazine Short Brand Story Podcasts: https://www.itspmagazine.com/purchase-programs

Charli has long time friend of the pod, John Brennen, on this week to have a chat the advancement of Industry. John Brennan is the Director of IIoT at A. W. Chesterton, the makers of the Chesterton Connect™ IIoT analytics platform optimized for rotary equipment. John has an extensive background in industrial sales and product marketing from several companies, the most prominent of which was MODICON, now Schneider Electric, where he spent many years selling PLC's and automation equipment. After success in sales at MODICON, he was promoted to product manager to develop and launch the Quantum Automation Series PLC, the most successful PLC from MODICON.  John previously worked with the development team of the Chesterton Connect, was a sales engineer for variable speed drives, sold and serviced industrial flow meters, and spent many years in business development and product marketing in the software business with Cadence Design Systems and The MathWorks.     Read up at EmpoweringPumps.com and stay tuned for more news about EPIC at the Colorado School of Mines Nov 12th and 13th.Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com 

In this conversation, we'll discuss if the AI Hype is over.Plus, we'll talk about the best companies to start in 2024. About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! ******Connect with UsSean DotsonVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #industry40 #iioT

What are the correct software choices for you?On this episode, Dave and Vlad share their experiences from PLC to ERP. What features should you care about? What questions should you be asking?and more!About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! ******Connect with UsVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #industry40 #iioT

This week, Mark O'Donovan joins Dave and Vlad for Manufacturing Hub. From relay logic to cloud-based systems in just a few decades!Our conversation will focus on these rapid changes across all of manufacturing software—especially the last 10 years and the predictions for the next 10 years. About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! **********Connect with UsMark O'DonovanVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #iioT

Many times in my career I have hired into a company during the initial surge of a market. Good jobs. Excitement. Opportunity to work on new things. Then the market matured or collapsed usually due to external forces such as technology changes or consumer behavior.   I hit recreation vehicles at a high point followed by high inflation and gasoline price surges. Then a consumer product company where Consumer Reports published a poorly researched article—but the external market also changed. Then PC peripherals. The latest was automation where a few of us started a magazine to cover it. The market was good for about 10 years. Then we went into brief cycles of IIoT, edge, networks, collaborative robots, IT companies looking at the manufacturing market.   This podcast began life in 2007 as Automation Minutes. I morphed it into Gary on Manufacturing to make it more general. That was more than 10 years ago. Must be time for another change.   That all is quite mature now.    Where do you think the offsetting new technologies or customer behavior will lead now? Or, is the market just going to begin to either consolidate further or split? What do you think?

Join Dave and Vlad as we kick off our Software in Manufacturing Theme!From Digital Transformation To Cloud To a Modern Factory Architectureand Beyond.Jump into out conversation with James!About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! **********Connect with UsJames BurnandVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #iioT

Join us as we welcome Alistair Fulton, COO and VP of Ecosystem at Blues. With over 25 years of experience in IoT and IIoT, Alistair discusses building solutions, industry challenges, and future tech advancements.

In this episode, Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, and Rick Bullotta, CTO and co-founder of ThingWorx, discuss the growing importance of time series data in the industrial sector with Contributing Lead Editor, Amy Bryson. They highlight the emerging trends and technologies enabling better data management and storage. They cover topics such as the role of time series data in AI and machine learning, the impact of edge data management and storage, recent technological advancements in IIoT analytics and operations, and the future outlook for time series data in the industrial sector.

Walker Reynolds reviews the 2024 IoT Analytics report. Here is the link to the report on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iot-analytics_iot-startups-ai-activity-7224435592778903552-fHi7 IoT Analytics Website: https://iot-analytics.com Get your Ticket to ProveIt! Conference - Westin Galleria in Dallas Feb. 18-20, 2025

Join Dave and Vlad with Aron Semle of HighByte this Wednesday at 4pm EST!In Episode 169 of Manufacturing Hub, hosts Dave and Vlad engage in an discussion with Aaron Semle, the Chief Technology Officer of HiByte. The episode delves into the evolving field of Industrial DataOps, a concept that Aaron passionately advocates for, and explores his extensive career in the industry.Aaron Semle's journey began with his foundational work on OPC UA and OPC drivers at Kepware, where he was deeply involved in developing communication solutions for industrial automation. This early experience laid the groundwork for his subsequent roles, including significant positions at PTC and a healthcare startup. His career trajectory reflects a broad understanding of how data integration and management have transformed across various sectors.Aaron defines Industrial DataOps as the adaptation of data operations principles specifically for the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Unlike traditional IT operations that often involve transferring data without a comprehensive context, Industrial DataOps focuses on managing data in a way that maintains and enhances its relevance within industrial environments. This approach emphasizes the importance of context and the specific needs of manufacturing processes, aiming to bridge the gap between IT and OT (Operational Technology).A key point Aaron makes is that Industrial DataOps is not just about technology but also about fostering collaboration between IT and OT teams. The success of data initiatives hinges on aligning these teams to address practical challenges effectively. Aaron stresses that while data contextualization is crucial, it should be driven by specific use cases rather than being applied uniformly across all scenarios. This targeted approach ensures that the data solutions implemented are practical and aligned with the operational realities of the manufacturing environment.The conversation highlights how Industrial DataOps can lead to significant benefits for manufacturers, including reduced costs, improved scalability, and enhanced operational efficiency. By leveraging data in a contextualized and strategic manner, manufacturers can make more informed decisions, streamline their operations, and achieve better overall performance.In conclusion, Aaron Semle's insights underscore the transformative potential of Industrial DataOps in modern manufacturing. The episode offers a valuable perspective on how adapting data operations to the unique needs of the industrial sector can drive innovation and improve outcomes across the industry.About Manufacturing HubManufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! **********Connect with UsAron SemleVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #industry40 #iioT

Industrial Talk is onsite at OMG, Q1 Meeting and talking to Jorge Maia and Rebeca Sousa with Crazy Tech Labs about "Merging AI with Digital Twin, IoT, IIoT to solve real problems". The potential of digital twins in the IoT ecosystem was discussed, along with the importance of data quality and the need for collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches. Key arguments included the transformative impact of digital twins, the challenges of device authentication and security, and the significance of contextualization in IoT data quality. The speakers emphasized the importance of aligning AI and IoT innovations in industry, while also highlighting the challenges of leveraging AI in IoT and digital twin. The potential of merging AI and digital twins to solve real-world problems in industry was also discussed, with a focus on the importance of collaboration, education, and having the right people with the right skills to innovate and create resilience in business. Action Items [ ] Look into security practices for IoT devices on customer sites. [ ] Share contact details (LinkedIn, Instagram) with the host. [ ] Promote Crazy Tech Labs services and technology solutions on the Industrial Talk Podcast. Outline IoT, digital twins, AI, and problem-solving in industry. Scott MacKenzie welcomes Jorge to the podcast and praises his problem-solving skills. Jorge shares his experience at the OMG q1 meeting in Reston, Virginia, where he learned about AI, IoT, and digital twins. Rebecca, a computer scientist and PhD candidate, discusses IoT, digital twins, and AI projects in Brazil and the US. Jorge, a mechatronic engineer, shares his experience working with IoT and digital twins at Crazy Tech Labs, and how he met Dan in a conference in San Francisco. AI, IoT, and digital twin technology, with a focus on practical applications and the importance of understanding AI. Jorge emphasizes the importance of researching the market and listening to others before solving a problem. Jorge and Scott MacKenzie discuss the potential of edge computing and AI inference in solving real-world problems. Jorge: Solving problems without putting costs ahead, looking into clients' needs, and using technology that's already available. Rebeca: Importance of standardizations in AI to avoid dangerous situations where people say whatever they want. Rebeca emphasizes the practical applications of AI, such as saving time and providing insights, while Speaker 2 highlights the importance of understanding the problem and using the right tools. AI and IoT, data quality, and digital twins. Scott and Speaker 2 discuss AI's impact on IoT and digital twin, with Speaker 2 viewing it as a tool for composing solutions. Jorge emphasizes the importance of context in AI and IoT, citing the need for accurate data to create a digital twin. Rebeca discusses various approaches to ensuring data accuracy in IoT, including using AI to identify patterns and detect deviations in time series data. AI, digital twins, and IoT solutions for industrial efficiency. Digital twins provide contextualization to identify security issues in IoT devices. Rebeca discussed the importance of AI in detecting inconsistencies in data and improving confidence in results. Jorge highlighted the challenges of choosing the right IoT solutions in a rapidly evolving market. Scott...

Learn about the main factors behind the difference in cost between industrial power supplies, what the Power Boost feature is, the value of a power supply's environmental ratings and certifications, the life expectancy of industrial power supplies and the relevance of their IIoT capabilities.

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Jane Arnold has had an extensive career spanning over three decades in the manufacturing and process control industries. Her journey began unexpectedly with a summer job in instrumental electrical drafting, which sparked her passion for engineering and manufacturing. This led to a 16-year tenure at Sterling Chemicals, where she worked on significant projects like panel board to DCS migrations and safety instrumented systems. Her role evolved to include process control algorithm development and intensive operator training, which gave her a deep appreciation for the operational nuances crucial to effective process management.Moving to Bayer MaterialScience (later Covestro), Jane continued to excel, eventually becoming the production train lead and later transitioning to a leadership role in global process control technology in Germany. Her tenure in Germany was marked by the challenge of implementing Industry 4.0 initiatives across different manufacturing sites, emphasizing standardization and knowledge sharing as key to success despite cultural differences.Following her tenure at Covestro, Jane joined Stanley Black & Decker, venturing into discrete and additive manufacturing, which presented new challenges despite the underlying similarities in manufacturing principles. Here, she focused on leveraging her extensive process control experience to tackle data integration and connectivity issues inherent in the manufacturing industry.Currently, Jane serves as the Head of Customer Success at Imperative, where she applies her wealth of experience to drive customer satisfaction and operational excellence. Her career highlights include pioneering the use of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and Industry 4.0 technologies to enhance operational efficiency, predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision-making in manufacturing.Throughout her career, Jane's approach has been characterized by a deep respect for frontline operators and a commitment to integrating their expertise into technological advancements. Her insights underscore the transformative potential of IIoT in modern manufacturing, emphasizing cost-effective solutions and the importance of cultural alignment alongside technological innovation.About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! **********Connect with UsJane ArnoldVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC. #automation #manufacturing #robotics #industry40 #iioT

High Precision Planning and Maintenance Abstract Philip and Fred discuss new shiny objects and why digital twins and IIOT will not solve your core problems. High Precision Planning (HPP) supports High Precision Maintenance (HPM) which is a program running in elite industries today. The emphasis on HPP is an absolute requirement to achieve HPM. The […] The post SOR 982 High Precision Planning and Maintenance appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Francois Giguere from Vention kicks off the IIoT Theme this week!Join us for an enlightening discussion on Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and the future of manufacturing with Francois, the CTO of Vention. In this conversation, Francois shares his journey from a passionate electrical engineer to becoming a pivotal leader at Vention, a company at the forefront of industrial automation innovation.Discover how Vention has expanded its focus beyond traditional hardware solutions to incorporate sophisticated software technologies, streamlining the complex process of designing and deploying industrial machinery. Francois discusses the strategic vision driving Vention's platform, emphasizing simplicity and accessibility in automation tools to empower engineers and manufacturers alike.Gain insights into the pivotal role of a CTO in shaping technology strategy and fostering innovation within the IIOT ecosystem. Learn about Vention's approach to integrating AI-driven automation, advanced data analytics, and remote monitoring solutions, aimed at optimizing operational efficiency and transforming manufacturing workflows.This discussion not only delves into Vention's transformative journey but also offers broader perspectives on the evolving landscape of industrial automation. Explore how IIOT is reshaping industries globally, with insights into emerging trends and the potential impact of technology on future manufacturing practices.Whether you're a technology enthusiast, industry professional, or simply curious about the future of automation, this conversation provides valuable insights and outlooks into the role of IIOT in shaping the next generation of manufacturing solutions.About Manufacturing Hub:Manufacturing Hub Network is an educational show hosted by two longtime industrial practitioners Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov. Together they try to answer big questions in the industry while having fun conversations with other interesting people. Come join us weekly! **********Connect with UsFrancois GiguereVlad RomanovDave GriffithManufacturing HubSolisPLC#automation #manufacturing #robotics #industry40 #iioT

In this episode of the Future of Field Service podcast, host Sarah Nicastro is joined by Frank Odogu, Director of Lifecycle Services at Atlas Converting Equipment, for a discussion around moving beyond seeking only technical skill in service and taking a more holistic talent approach to meet future needs. Frank has over eight years of leadership experience in the global service sector at Atlas Converting Equipment, where he is committed to providing outstanding customer support and leading revenue growth. Frank holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certification and is highly skilled in IIoT solutions, process engineering, and enhancing manufacturing processes. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

Unlock the secrets to operational excellence with a deep dive into the world of power monitoring in industrial manufacturing. We weave through genesis including technology such as chart recorders to the latest sophisticated systems, providing an eye-opening perspective on process health. Discover how the shift from scheduled maintenance to condition-based strategies, with smart motor protection and IIoT solutions like Eaton's Power Xpert meter and Rockwell Automation's PowerMonitor, is not just reducing downtime, but paving the way for remarkable cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency.Imagine a world where maintenance teams can predict equipment failures before they occur, and decisions are made not on hunches but on hard data; that's the reality we're discussing today.  We emphasize the critical role of power monitoring in staying competitive, optimizing energy usage, and extending the life of your assets. Choosing the right power monitoring solution is a journey, and we shed light on the critical mileposts to ensure you're on the right path. Learn about the importance of a compelling proof of concept, scalability, and the collaboration between IT and OT for seamless integration. Remember we're not just a podcast but a community dedicated to fostering growth in the electrical distribution industry, where people and ideas are over products, and continual learning is our driving force. Join us, and let's revolutionize the way we think about power monitoring together.Remember to keep asking why...Power Monitoring Resources:Power Monitoring ArticlePower Show Video Smart Monitoring for Pump ApplicationsEaton Power Xpert Integration Guide Other Resources to help with your journey:Understanding your One-LineInstalled Asset Analysis SupportEECO Smart Manufacturing GuideSystem Planning SupportSchedule your Visit to a Lab in North or South CarolinaSchedule your Visit to a Lab in VirginiaSubmit your questions and feedback to: podcast@eecoaskwhy.comFollow EECO on LinkedInHost: Chris Grainger

Embark on a journey through the evolution of industrial automation as we unravel the mysteries of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on ECO Ask Why. Prepare to trace the lineage of innovation from the days of clunky relays to the sleek, data-driven era of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and sophisticated control system. We're not stopping at the hardware; we delve into the networking revolution that's interlinking machines and churning out data at an unprecedented rate. Yes, this data is the new gold, and with the aid of trailblazers like HMS Networks and their offerings, we're dissecting how this precious resource is being mined, refined, and put to work turbocharging manufacturing efficiencies.In our latest installment, the spotlight shines on the unsung heroes of industrial automation—interoperability and standardization. These twin pillars have knocked down walls between disparate systems, thanks to common languages like Ethernet IP.As we peer into the crystal ball of manufacturing's future, the shimmer of edge computing, the allure of AI, and the promise of 5G beckon, foretelling a saga of operational wizardry and split-second strategy. So buckle up, because this episode is an electrifying ride through the past, present, and future of industrial automation that is sure to ignite your imagination and fuel your curiosity.Remember to keep asking why...Automation IIoT Resources:Connectivity ArticleInteroperability ArticleWhat is IIoT ArticleEthernet ArticleOther Resources to help with your journey:Understanding your One-LineInstalled Asset Analysis SupportEECO Smart Manufacturing GuideSystem Planning SupportSchedule your Visit to a Lab in North or South CarolinaSchedule your Visit to a Lab in VirginiaSubmit your questions and feedback to: podcast@eecoaskwhy.comFollow EECO on LinkedInHost: Chris Grainger

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