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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 64:37

Patti Nowak is a business leader in tech with stories so inspiring you'll want to take notes. In this episode of the Manufacturing Happy Hour, we grab a beer with Patti, Owner of Control+M Solutions, to talk about mid-life entrepreneurship, mentoring women in manufacturing, and what it takes to build a thriving tech business. Patti started her career in accounting but quickly found her passion in IT and software, where she discovered a talent for turning complex technology into real business results. That blend of business acumen and tech know-how eventually led her to launch multiple successful companies - all at the age of 50. Through it all, Patti's built her career on empathy, mentorship, and level-headed leadership. Whether she's guiding a client through digital transformation or helping the next generation of women find their voice in manufacturing, Patti shares her advice on how to handle any situation with equal parts confidence, compassion, and common sense.In this episode, find out:How the path to entrepreneurship is not a destination but a journey that, in Patti's case, started a decade before she opened the door to her first business Why starting a business later in life is an advantageWhy Patti sees ERP as one of the most powerful tools manufacturers can adopt todayWhy mentoring women in the industry matters more now than ever, and why young women need to see other women in leadership positionsThe leadership lessons behind how Patti handles tough conversationsHow the smallest process change can sometimes make the biggest difference on the shop floorEnjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:“You start your business ten years before you open it.” “Technology is just a tool no different than a hammer for a carpenter. Used right, it can build your business. Used wrong, it can cost you a lot of anxiety and money.” “You can never really give anything away. That anything you give to the community, it will give back to you.” “Younger women really need to see older women in a successful position so they know that route exists.” “Great leadership is about trust. If you hired someone for their expertise, let them use it.” Links & mentions: Connect with Patti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-nowak-mba-pmp-45311511/Control+M Solutions, project management, configuration, testing and data conversation assistance for Plex users: https://www.controlm.solutions/Plex by Rockwell Automation, the smart manufacturing platform that connects your people, systems, machines, and supply chains: https://plex.rockwellautomation.com/?utm_source=show+notes&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=manufacturing+happy+hour Make sure to visit http://manufacturinghappyhour.com for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

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Inside Pulse: How 7 CS Leaders Are Moving Their Biggest Boulders With AI

Unchurned

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 31:36

How do you manage 100,000+ renewals or scale AI across thousands of CSMs? CS leaders share how they're tackling their biggest challenges and using technology to drive retention, adoption, and efficiency.In this episode of the [Un]churned Podcast, Josh Schachter sits down with customer success leaders at the 2025 Gainsight Pulse Conference in Las Vegas to explore how they're tackling their biggest challenges - from managing massive renewal volumes to driving adoption at scale. Featuring CS executives from Rockwell Automation, Fleetio, Handshake, Boomi, Dellteck, and SAP, this episode reveals practical strategies for using AI to save time, improve efficiency, and deliver better customer outcomes.What you'll learn:1. How Rockwell Automation's CS team manages 100,000+ annual renewals with 300 team members across 85 recurring revenue products2. Why AI-powered engagement signals are replacing time-based customer outreach3. The importance of building trust in AI-powered insights before teams will adopt them4. How to aggregate and visualize data from multiple systems to tell a coherent story to stakeholders5. Why change management is critical when introducing new product features that alter established workflows6. How relationship-level insights can reveal the full picture of multi-product customer health---Check out the Key Takeaways & Transcripts: https://www.gainsight.com/presents/series/unchurned/---Where to Find the guests:- Angel Rogers - https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-rogers-leader/- Sean MacPherson- https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmacpherson- Tiffany Taylor - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-taylor-learner/- Matt Krebsbach - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-krebsbach-694117163/- Charlie Ferraro - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesferrao/- Margo Martin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/margomartin-/- Tony Pante - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-pante-9b5419/---Where to Find Josh: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jschachter/--- In this episode, we cover:0:00 - Introduction 0:27 - Angel Rogers: Managing 100K renewals at Rockwell Automation5:32 - Sean MacPherson: Aggregating insights from multiple systems9:48 - Tiffany Taylor: Speed up feedback loops and time-to-value14:09 - Matt Krebsbach: Prioritization, delivering outcomes and data enablement 18:47 - Charlie Ferraro: Retention, renewals and efficiency20:35 - From Spidey sense to AI-powered engagement analysis21:47 - Measuring adoption in agentic products22:07 - Margo Martin: Stay ahead with real-time defect alerts25:17 - The value of relationship-level insights26:10 - Tony Pante: Driving adoption across 2,000 CSMs at SAP29:35 - Using AI for translation, content creation, and enablement---Referenced:• Gainsight Pulse Conference: https://gainsightpulse.com/europe/• Rockwell Automation: https://www.rockwellautomation.com/• Fleetio: https://www.fleetio.com/• Handshake: https://joinhandshake.com/• Boomi: https://boomi.com/• Dellteck: https://www.deltek.com/en• SAP: https://www.sap.com/• Staircase AI: https://www.gainsight.com/staircase-ai/• Reef AI: https://www.reef.ai/• Gong: https://www.gong.io/de/• SAP Joule: https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-assistant.html

Are Smart Sensors Changing Manufacturing?

Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 12:40

Learn how smart sensors enable predictive maintenance, AI-powered manufacturing, and revolutionary ADAR technology that's changing industrial automation and robot safety economics with insights from Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation, specialty chemicals company Premix Group, and Sonair.

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ROK Talk on Drives Episode 20: It Starts with a Spark-Reinventing the Classic Motor Starter

ROKTalk on Drives

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 27:58

In this episode of ROK Talk on Drives, hosts Jim and Samwelcome special guest Bill Meindl, business unit manager at Rockwell Automation, to explore the past, present, and future of motor starting technology. From the humble beginnings of the compression rheostat in 1903 to today's cutting-edge M100 electronic motor starter, we trace a journey of innovation. The result is smaller panels, simplified wiring and improved reliability.Leave a comment on Spotify or email us if you have suggestions for upcoming podcasts, to give us feedback or get information on new episodes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RAROKTalkDrives@rockwellautomation.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Lecture E2 (2025-09-30): Random-Variate Generation

IEE 475: Simulating Stochastic Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025

In this lecture, we review pseudo-random number generation and then introduce random-variate generation by way of inverse-transform sampling. In particular, we start with a review of the two most important properties of a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), uniformity and independence, and discuss statistically rigorous methods for testing for these two properties. For uniformity, we focus on a Chi-square/Chi-squared test for larger numbers of samples and a Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS) test for smaller numbers of samples. For independence, we discuss autocorrelation tests and runs test, and then we demonstrate a runs above-and-below-the-mean test. We then shift to discussing inverse-transform sampling for continuous random variates and discrete random variates and how the resulting random-variate generators might be implemented in a tool like Rockwell Automation's Arena.

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Ep. 230 - AI in Manufacturing with Tom Hechtman of Sepasoft | Real ROI, MES on Ignition, Sepa IQ

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 71:57

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword in manufacturing. The pace of adoption has been incredible, yet the reality is far more complex than flashy headlines suggest. In this episode of Manufacturing Hub, Vlad Romanov and Dave Griffith welcome back Tom Hechtman, founder of Sepasoft, to explore how AI is actually being deployed on the plant floor, what barriers remain, and whether we are truly transforming manufacturing or simply tinkering at the edges.Tom brings decades of experience building MES solutions for manufacturers around the globe. From his early days in the Midwest working with Rockwell Automation technology to launching Sepasoft's Ignition MES modules and now leading the development of Sepa IQ, Tom has been at the forefront of data, analytics, and system integration. His insights bridge the gap between hype and practice, helping us understand where AI creates real ROI, where it still falls short, and how to build the foundations for success.Throughout the conversation we dive into the challenges of quality improvement, predictive maintenance, scheduling optimization, and contextualizing plant data. We discuss the importance of trust in both data and AI-generated outputs, the economics of running LLMs and machine learning models, and why cybersecurity and data governance cannot be an afterthought. Drawing on the recent MIT study that revealed only 5 percent of AI projects make a measurable P&L impact, Tom helps us unpack what manufacturers need to do differently if they want to avoid being part of the 95 percent that fail.We also get an update on Sepa IQ and how customers are using it to connect plant floor data, structure it for AI and analytics, and prepare for advanced scheduling and predictive tools. From lessons learned working with early adopters to practical advice on starting small, Tom makes it clear that manufacturing AI is a journey that requires technical expertise, domain knowledge, and cultural change.Whether you are an executive evaluating AI investments, a controls engineer curious about new tools, or a plant manager wondering how to get real results, this episode delivers a balanced, practical, and in-depth perspective on the future of AI in manufacturing.Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and AI in every manufacturing conversation 03:00 Tom Hechtman background and the origins of Sepasoft 05:00 MES modules, batch processing, and the evolution of Sepa IQ 08:00 Defining manufacturing AI and the role of plant floor data 13:00 Quality improvement and predictive analytics opportunities 20:00 Foundational challenges with legacy systems and data collection 24:00 Insights from the MIT study on AI adoption and ROI 32:00 Training data, context windows, and the economics of LLMs 44:00 Sepa IQ customer feedback and scheduling optimization 50:00 Trust, hallucinations, and cybersecurity considerations 59:00 ICC announcements, demos, and proof of concept program 1:03:00 Predictions for AI in manufacturing and career adviceReferences mentioned in the episode MIT study on AI in business: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-to-get-ai-to-pay-off Sepasoft Blog on AI and manufacturing: https://sepasoft.com/blog/ The One Thing by Gary Keller: https://www.the1thing.com/About the guest Tom Hechtman is the founder of Sepasoft, a leading provider of MES modules for the Ignition platform by Inductive Automation. With decades of experience in manufacturing, integration, and software development, Tom has helped companies worldwide improve efficiency, quality, and data visibility. Learn more at https://sepasoft.com/ and connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hechtman-32b6b66/About the hosts Vlad Romanov is the founder of Joltek, a consulting and integration firm focused on helping manufacturers modernize systems, bridge IT and OT, and drive digital transformation. Learn more at https://www.joltek.com/ and connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladromanov/Dave Griffith is an industrial automation consultant and co-host of Manufacturing Hub. He works with manufacturers and integrators to identify opportunities, manage digital projects, and build future-ready operations. Connect with Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegriffith/If you enjoyed this conversation, make sure to subscribe to Manufacturing Hub for more weekly discussions with industry leaders about automation, digital transformation, and the evolving world of manufacturing.

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ET 200SP Distributed IO First Look (S2E19)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 22:42 Transcription Available

Shawn takes a look at the ET 200SP line of Distributed I/O from Siemens in Episode 19 of The Automation Show, Season 2. For any links related to this episode, check out the “Show Notes” located below the video. Watch The Automation Show from The Automation Blog: Listen to The Automation Show on The Automation Blog: The Automation Show, Season 2 Episode 19 Show Notes: The links mentioned in the video are listed below: ET 200SP Website ET 200SP Manual Collection Shawn’s Siemens S7 Course Programming Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, episodes 17 & 18 and releasing after episodes 19-2x :-O Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Welcome back to the show. My name is Shawn Tierney from Insights and Automation. And today, we’re talking e t 200 s p distributed IO from Siemens. Before we go any farther, I do wanna thank Siemens for sending in the samples and for sponsoring this episode so it will be ad free, and that’s as far as it goes. Everything else is my own opinion and thoughts. And, although I do appreciate them making this ad free and sending in the samples because I wanna be able to show them to you if I didn’t have them. And, this is one of the reasons I’m doing this is I just put these hands on demos together for my students who come out to the automation school for hands on training. So I wanted to have something they could bring to their station and program with an s seven twelve hundred or 1,500. And, so I’m creating a bunch of these, and you’ll see more and more of these as the weeks go on. But in any case, I we previously covered a couple on IFM, but now I’m doing the e t 200 s p. So we’ll take a closer look at the hardware in a little bit. But But before we get into the hardware, I did wanna run through some slides that do a great job of explaining what e t 200 s p I o is. And, again, I call it distributed IO, not remote IO because here in America, most of us know there is a remote IO product from Rockwell Automation that is trademarked, Rockwell. So we don’t wanna confuse people by using the term remote IO when possible. So let’s go ahead and go to the slide deck now. And, the first slide is and, again, these this is a slightly of a couple three year old slide deck from Siemens that we’re gonna be going through. And, you know, the first thing is, hey. E t 200 s p and e t 200 m p I o or I p 20 in cabinet I o. They’re not on machine or machine mount IO. And, of course, the e t 200 MP is the full size IO that’s about the same size as the 1,500, whereas the SP is the smaller. They’re like the slice IO you see from all the different vendors. A matter of fact, a couple of big vendors are coming out with new IO this fall or have already come out with it, and we’ll be covering those as well in the coming weeks. But today, we’re focusing on e t 200 s p. And so I wanted to, talk about, you know, this is a marketing slide that Siemens puts in their presentations, and it makes sense. All the vendors wanna have IO for all the different applications, and Siemens is no different. And, actually, they got some stuff that other vendors don’t have. But I’m gonna go right beyond this one and jump right into, you know, the main selling points of this product line where it’s compact, it’s fast, it’s any of NG efficient, it’s easy to wire, and I can attest to that having done three, four hundred wires here. It was very easy to wire. I really liked it. They say it has a great environmental coverage. There actually is, some extreme modules. We’ll talk about that towards the end. And then built in diagnostics. Again, depending if you buy the high function and standard or basic modules, right, will depend on what kinda diagnostics you get. In any case, here is what it looks like now. The coloring of this slide, I think that the pictures colors the gray is a little lighter, almost it’s almost like a light green. It’s darker in person as we saw. Let me switch over here. As you can see here. So, I don’t know what’s going on with that, but one of the things you do see on this slide is, one of the first things you’ll notice is a fail safe module, so safety modules. So, yes, you can mix standard and fail safe modules in the same rack or same lineup. The other thing you’ll notice is it’s compact like most of the Slice I o that’s out there. Energy efficient ruggedness, there is an extreme version of this available. Intelligent, you can get high functionality modules. Right? Push in terminals, which I really liked, very easy to use, tool free connections. Of course, if you’d put a wire in the wrong place, which happened to me once or twice out of 400 wires, you can use a screwdriver and get it out really quick, and then, reduced parts of variance. So that’s their marketing on this product line, but I also wanna call attention all the different ways you can actually mark up the products. You can put labels in the front, right in the front of the module itself. You can put labels on top and on the back as well. So a lot of different labeling options is also a color coding you can put over the terminals as well. We’ll see that a little bit later. In any case, this is the physically how it goes together. So first of all, it doesn’t you they don’t all just slide together like tongue and groove. You do have to put them on the DIN rail and slide them into each other from right to left. So keep that in mind. Okay. And we always start the leftmost part is what we call an interface module. And so think of that if you’re a Rockwell guy, that’s your adapter. Okay? Now the interface module, most of these take a bus adapter. In other words, you can choose copper or you can choose fiber, or you can choose copper and fiber. And I love this design because, well, I’m sure it adds a little cost to the product. Being able to swap out copper for fiber if you need to or do one copper one fiber if you need to, I think it’s a great idea. That kind of flexibility is great. Now there is a low cost interface module that has that bus adapter built in, but in any case, most of them, as you’ll see, what was what I’ll show you here on the workbench, it’s module. You choose the one you want and this basic and advanced and we’ll take a look at all those. Then you have the bases and the IO modules and we’ll look at this in real time here on the workbench in a moment, but you can see here the basis of what the IO modules plug into. If you look there on the the fourth item there, it’s just a base module without the IO. And, that’s what clips onto the DIN rail and slides together, and then we stick our IO modules in. Also, share the keying. A lot of people leave that out, but I think it’s pretty cool what they do there. And at the very end, they have something called a server module. The name for this, I’m thinking of servers like a computer server. So I don’t know what happened with the translation there, but it’s like an end cap. If you’re a Rockwell person, it’s like an end cap. You gotta have that at the end. It doesn’t really serve up anything, but, in any case, you gotta have it. So in any case, then you can see kinda how it’s laid out there. Let’s go ahead and go to the next slide here. And, these are all the different type of interface modules they have. So the very basic one, right, if you needed a low cost drop of IO, it only does up to 12 modules, but, you know, it’s an all in one unit with two Ethernet ports built in, and you can use all the modules with it except for safety modules. K. So that’s important to know. Then we have the standard interface modules, which do up to 32 modules. Right? You can use safety with them. You can actually expand them to e t 200 a l if you needed to have some, on machine products or machine mount I o. I’ll show you the a l in a future video. We’re gonna cover that separately. And you can hot swap any single module at a time, which is very cool. And then, of course, if we go to the high featured, we get up to 64 modules. You can multi hot swap, multiple modules. You can actually set it for asynchronous mode so you can get the speeds up to two hundred fifty microseconds. So it’s, very cool there. And you can see the other options there including the CPU, which we will cover. That’ll probably be next week, though. Alright. So, one of the cool features they have is this was new at the time of this, you know, two, three years ago of this presentation is they added a, a unit that actually could use three Ethernet ports. So why would you do that? Well, think of it. Right? You maybe you’re daisy chaining from one interface module to the next and you have a station where you either need a bulkhead connector so you can program from or you have an HMI. You need that third connection. Right? And so this allows you to have three connections. Now the downside of this is you actually have four connections, but you can only use three and I’ll show you what I mean here. Let’s go back to the overhead, and I actually have that module right here. Thank you, Siemens, for sending him in. And you can see I have my two bus adapters, but I can only use three of the four. Okay? So it’s it’s just a limitation. And, you know, I don’t really know why they’re limited to that. I’m sure there’s a reason. I was thinking about that earlier. It’s like, maybe they wanted to prevent this or that or the other thing, but in any case, it’s still cool. It’s so much cheaper than buying a switch and putting it in that place. Well, in most cases, it would be. Right? There’s also the optional, grooves here. Let me switch back. There’s also optional grooves here. I don’t know if you can see them very well. We’ll zoom in later. But that is for, strain relief, if you need to have that as well. You can see those plastic pieces go in, and then you can, you know, zip tie your cables right to them. So very interesting new product there. And then these are all of the different, bus adapters. So you can see there’s, basic ones with two RJ 45 ports, two FastConnect ports. There’s, units with, one RJ forty five one fiber optic and so on. So lots of different options there to choose from. And, again, not a lot of people do this. You have to replace the whole interface module with other companies’ products, like in Rockwood would be an adapter to get a difference. Right? And here, you don’t have to. You just replace the, the, bus adapter. Okay. Now here’s just showing the different type of modules. So if you’re familiar with Siemens, you know, all their modules come well, most of their modules come in different flavors. You have the standard, you have the basic, and you have the high feature. Right? And they’re also showing, a safety module there with the yellow, and then you can also get high speed. So lots of different options here. And we’ll take a look at that. But, they all have different, article numbers or part numbers for us Americans. And so, you know, if you’re in OEM, you’re just doing a lot of clickety clack, maybe you get all the basics. If you’re in process, you’re probably gonna want the high features, advanced diagnostics, and so on. So in any case, and this is what the front of them looks like. Of course, they have digital in and digital out. They have analog in and analog out. They also have what I call specialty. So they have technology modules and communication modules. I love, that they have, BACnet and IO Link and PROFIBUS, Aussie in this form factor as well as conning modules, position modules, energy management, weighing modules, all those different modules. And here’s some of the other things too. So tool free, I did all three or 400 wires. It was all tool free. I just put my wire in. Boom. It clamped a really good across your pool test every single one. Right? And so I’ve been one of the guys who’ve driven hours and hours to find out the problem wasn’t with the product. It was with the guy who wired it. He didn’t screw them down tight enough. So you pool test everyone, make sure they’re in there solidly, and, I didn’t have any problems at all. Very easy to take out. I have a couple that I forgot to run them through the Panduit. I just looped over the Panduit and and over the top of the box. And I’m like, Shawn, if you put it in that way, you won’t be able to close the cover. So So when you’re doing so many, sometimes you get distracted. So in any case, very easy to get them back out if you put them in the wrong and you need to rewire them somewhere else. They say they’re 50% narrower. I would say that versus the e t 200 m p. I think they’re about the same size as, everybody else’s slice IO, very close. And then you can see there the marking, at the bottom. Those reference identification labels, that those are pretty cool, if you need the color code, the wire, terminals. Okay. So let’s go on from there and, this one is really cool too. Now this is a fairly new not everybody knows about this, but this is the multi field bus version of the interface module. I think this is so cool. It does Ethernet p. It does Modbus TCP, and it does PROFINET all in one module. It does set up a little differently. When I was testing it out, I was like, wow. That does set up a little differently than the other interface modules. But, I didn’t have to use the, the separate tool to get it working. So in any case, very cool, and it can talk all three at the same time. So if you had a couple of the of people who needed to listen to the traffic, but you need one station to control it, then, you could have all three running at the same time. I just think that’s so cool. And we do have one here. We’re gonna do it use it first with the Siemens and then maybe use it with the Rockwells if time permits. But, definitely wanna do that, in another episode of the show. But, very cool. I’m I matter of fact, we just, did an episode. It’s not released yet, but, it will be out shortly with the METTLENOTO I n d three sixty, and that also supports multiple protocols. So so cool. I love it when vendors do that all in the same part number. So cool. And so you can see more information about that here. I’m not gonna go into details. We’ll talk about later, when we actually have the episode on that. And another thing I noticed with their high function modules, it says firmware 4.1 and up is that you can, so on the HF modules, you could do module to module communications. So you’re talking, like, screw to screw, like, two hundred fifty microseconds. I think that’s so cool. That’s something else if time permits. In the coming days, we’ll, do a demo on that too if we can get, if we have the time to do it. I just think it’s a cool feature. I’d love to see it in action. There’s other things in here about, other types of modules. I’m not gonna go through all this. This one I thought was pretty interesting. It’s 48 24 to 48 volts AC or 48 volt DC. So eight inputs either AC or DC in those ranges and it has a built in fuse which I think is so important. Right? So, an interesting new module that does both AC and DC. Right? Looked like it was really designed for transportation and that kinda wraps up the PowerPoint slide. And, again, this is just one of many of their lines. Oh, I do wanna mention this. This should have been before that. This is the extreme version of what they call their psi plus extreme, where you get the minus 40 to 70 degrees c. You can install it, up to 5,000 meters. You know, the air is thinner up there. It can, handle salt mist, chemical, active substances. You know, this is a lot of people would think of this as conformally coated. So, you can see all of those different, regulations that the extreme version, makes. Okay? The Ciplas Extreme. So with that, let’s see. Last slide here. So this is just one of many products. So we’ve covered this in the past. We covered the 1,200 to 1,500. This is the t 200 s p. We will be covering the a l and the Eco PN. I think these are both Eco PN, in the future. But with that, I wanna actually give you a physical demo of how this stuff works. So in any case, let me move the modules around here a little bit, and we’ll be zooming in and out. So this is the unit I, I, you know, wired up this weekend, and we’ll zoom in on her. And this is the one that gives you the, up to threes that I put, so you have two bus adapters. Okay? And it’s a little bit wider. If you look at one of the other ones, you can see it’s a lot narrower. Right? That’s actually the multi field bus model, which is about the same size as the standard model. Well, long here, I might as well bring that one in too and show you that one. K. So in any case but, let’s focus on this guy, and, we’ll take a look at I wanted to show you this one because this one also has the analog in, even though I haven’t put the analog operators and make gauges on the panel. I do have them wired up. Right now, I just have them wired to each other. But in any case, so let’s go ahead and zoom in on this a little bit. Okay. First thing you’re gonna notice is the first terminal block here, the first base is is a light style, and then they go to the darker style. And that’s because you can bring power into these light bases. Right? Like an a zero. And, I go through all the part numbers in my course. You guys can find that in the literature. But and it passes power to these other bases. Okay. So you’ll typically start with a light style. You’ll go through as many bases as you can power until you need another or you need isolation until you need another, light style base. And then here, you can see the modules themselves. I love the fact that everything has a QR code on it. So if you need the manual, you just you just, you know, get your phone out and and it’ll link right to it. But I want the wire in here, so I was able to wire everything based on just, the little label here. And again, this is where you can slide in your own labels if you want. And then the indicators here, they all worked when we when we actually do in a next video, we actually do the integration. You’ll see these lights come on. They’re very easy to see. You can also see here some version information. I did run into some of these modules being too new for version 16. So I usually default to version 16 because that’s what I started with. But, if you have 16.1, you can get the new GSD file and it supports most of the I think almost all the new modules. In any case, up here and I do have a mix of new and used because back when I was, getting ready to do this, we had the whole component sort shortage, so I had to pick up some modules myself. But, in any case, you’ll see the type here. Digital in, and this is a basic. Okay? So eight by 24, eight inputs at 24 volts DC. And then you have the digital output, DQ. This is a standard eight by 24. Eight u, I believe that means voltage, and, u for voltage. But in any case and then if we come over here, we have an a q. This is a standard, s t, and this is for UI, so voltage or current. And so you can see those there. And down here is the article number, which we typically refer to as, like, a, catalog number here in The US. K. And so when I’m sending these up, I take a picture of the front of the unit, and that’s what I use to set them up in the software. But in any case, you can also see the versions here as well. I love that all that information is on the front of the module. And then at the top, we already looked at that. And so we already looked at the top. And then over here, we have the server module, or what we may call an end cap here in The US. Alright. So one of the cool things about this, these modules is the keying. So I’m going to take these out just by squeezing in. I’m gonna pull it out, pull this one out too. Okay. And in there, you can see I know the lighting’s a little tricky, but in there, you see those black little wheels, those circular black things? Those are the keys. And you can see how they’re let’s see if I go up to the camera. If I put the overhead light on, it just gives too much glare. So hopefully, you guys can see that. Well, the cool thing about that is that those come pre installed on the modules. Like, they clipped in there really good, and they don’t come loose until you stick them in all the way, and then they stay in the base. And I love that. So you don’t have to turn anything. You don’t have to memorize what position it’s in. You just put the module in and boom. Now I did have a couple modules put in the wrong position, so I was able to get out with a screwdriver, get in that little, notch there and get it out. But you can see there’s two notches in each, but I it doesn’t feel like when I was doing that, it didn’t feel like it was designed for those to be reused. So I probably say that not, but let’s go ahead and try to put this module in the wrong place. Yeah. You can. So, I really like that design feature, automatic keying, and, yeah. That’s great. And they really go in. You’re gonna make sure they’re all the way in, but once they’re in, they’re in. Now let me zoom out a little bit and show you how to take them apart and put them back together. So there are these, push in buttons here on the top. Right? So these latches, these releases. And so what I’ll do is let me push in the first two, the the server module and the module, and I’m gonna slide them to the right. Okay? And I know it has all the, wiring on it. But in any case, that’s how easy it is to assemble and disassemble. Quick or disassemble like this. Okay. And now to get them on and off the DIN rail, I’m gonna push in those two, tabs at the top there. I’m gonna lift the bottom up. Okay. Now I can get it off the DIN rail. Alright. And so when you’re pushing in that top tab, it’s doing two things. Okay? It’s gonna release the, DIN rail, but it’s also gonna release the connection to the module on the side of it. Alright? And so you’re gonna be cognizant of that. Alright? You can’t just release it release the module off the DIN rail. You have to release it from the side as well. Okay. And, you can see that here. Well, let’s see if we can get him off. He’s a little sticky. I don’t know why. He could be used. But in any case, get him off. Okay. And it’s the same for the sky too. Let’s see here. So let’s go ahead and put it back together again. We’ll put the top on first and then we’ll click it on to the bottom. Okay. And then we’ll slide it in. Nice. Then we’ll do the same thing for the server module and cap. Okay. It’s not called the end cap. That’s my race. Okay. And this one, sometimes this might be a useful one. There we go. It’s all in together and working great. You gotta make sure you get those modules all the way in. Okay. And there’s a lot of great, diagnostics when you get the system up and running. It’ll tell you if it’s missing a module. It’ll tell you if you chose the wrong base in the software. If let’s say you chose the light colored base versus the dark colored base. I mean, the new power versus the power pass on. It’ll tell you if you get the wrong firmware or the wrong style. Maybe you chose a standard and it’s a basic. So you get all that kind of stuff that you would normally get when you’re, you know, to make sure you have the right IO modules. And so with that, that is a, look at e t 200 s p. I hope it makes sense to you now. Now if you’ve been using this for a long time, longer than I have, and you have some more tips, please leave them in the comments. I do appreciate everybody who comments on the videos wherever the video is. Also, we do have more content coming out about this. We’re gonna go through each of these in a separate video and get each of these up and running from scratch. And then after that, there’ll be new lessons at the Automation School for anybody who’s interested in maybe a longer version of this with more details and support. Right? So in any case and, of course, if you guys wanna call me and, have a group of your guys come in and do some hands on training, these are actually ready to be used in the training room with all the s seven twelve hundreds and 15 hundreds. So if you wanna do some hands on training. It’s, we’re very unique here because of having the automation show and podcast and blog and all the vendors we work with. We have a lot of equipment that you will find almost in nobody else’s training, rooms. So with that, I wanna thank you all for tuning in. I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace. Vendors: Would you like your product featured on the Podcast, Show or Blog? 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Connecting Quality, ASSEMBLY, & SMTA at The ASSEMBLY Show

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 18:52

This joint episode of ASSEMBLY Audible and Quality Magazine's Q-Cast spotlights the collaboration between SMTA and The ASSEMBLY Show 2025. Hosts Jennifer Pierce and Michelle Bangert welcome Greg Vance, principal engineer at Rockwell Automation and president of SMTA's board of directors, to discuss how electronics manufacturing has evolved over the decades, from miniaturization to the latest developments, to protect products in harsh environments. Greg also shares how SMTA and ASSEMBLY are working together to create a premier event for manufacturing professionals, combining innovation, education, and networking in one location. Join us for a preview of what's ahead in Rosemont this October.Sponsored By:

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A Long and Healthy Life(cycle)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 18:24

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IO-Link: What Is It, When To Use It, and How It Works (P246)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 72:59 Transcription Available

Shawn Tierney meets up with Michael Bowne of PI to learn what IO-Link is, how it works, and when to use it in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For any links related to this episode, check out the “Show Notes” located below the video. Watch The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: Listen to The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: The Automation Podcast, Episode 246 Show Notes: To learn about our online and in-person training courses please visit TheAutomationSchool.com. Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Thank you for tuning back in to the automation podcast. My name is Shawn Tierney from Insights in Automation. And this week on the show, we have a special guest, somebody who hasn’t been on in four years. We have Michael Bone from PI. They’re the folks who manage technologies like PROFINET and IO Link. And Michael’s come on this week to talk specifically about IO Link. We’re gonna talk about what it is. We’re gonna talk about when you should use it, and we’re gonna talk about the technical details of IO Link, like, all the things, like, engineering minds like to know about. So I think you guys are gonna enjoy this. It took about two to three hours to edit this one, and I really enjoyed going back through it. You know, we recorded it, I think, four weeks ago. So I hadn’t seen it in four weeks, but I really did enjoy it. I really think you guys will enjoy it too. And that brings up another point. Organizations like PI and ISA and other organizations, they’re not vendors. They don’t sell stuff. Right? And so this episode is not sponsored by a vendor. And, you know, as I was going through it yesterday, I was like, you know, there’s a lot of great slides in here. I wanna share it with the public. So I’ve decided to sponsor this episode myself, and I’ll use this as an opportunity to tell you a little bit about my company and the automation blog, the automation school, and the content I have planned to release this fall, including content on these products right here, all focused on IO Link. And I just actually did a live stream with these, products in front of me. I’ll be doing more tomorrow, and I’ll be adding lessons to my, courses as well on these products. So in any case, but before we get to that, let’s go ahead and jump right into the show and hear from Michael and learn all about IO Link. I wanna welcome back Michael to the show. It has been four years. He was last on in podcast 76, back in September 2021. So just going on four years. Michael, thank you for coming back on the show. If you could, a lot of people may not remember four years ago. Mhmm. So before we jump into your presentation, which which I am so excited about talking about IO Link again. But before we jump into that, could you please tell me a little bit about yourself and a little Michael Bowne (PI): bit about PI? Yeah. Sure. First of all, my pleasure, to be back on on the podcast. It was a lot, a lot of fun. I remember that back in in 2021, and, I’m glad to be be back doing it again. I started with PI North America in 2011 as the technical marketing director. And since 2016, I’ve been the executive director running the show and chairman of the board since last year. I, have the, let’s say, pleasure to serve as the deputy chairman of PI on a global scale since 2015, and I come from a prior to working for PI, I worked for a sensor manufacturer who had some interfaces on there that that brought me an introduct to to Profibus and Profinet. And before that, I studied, physics and and math at at Penn State University. Just, really quick for those. I’m I’m sure many of you are familiar with with PI, but, it was started in the late eighties. Half a dozen companies and universities got together, and they wrote the PROFIBUS spec, and that evolved into the into into PROFIBUS DP and PROFIBUS PA for process automation in the early two thousands. PROFINET came under the umbrella. And the reason I bring all this up is because there are some newer technologies under our umbrella that I I think the audience might wanna know about. Of course, EyeLink is is the one that we’ll talk about today, and that was in 02/2009. But there are some others like Umlocks, which is a location tracking standard. There’s one called MTP, module type package, NOAA, NAMR open architecture, also under our umbrella. And, basically, what we do is promote, maintain, write the specs, turn them into standards, and the work on those specs is done in working groups, which are staffed by volunteers, engineers from member companies. They donate their time to to develop the specs, for these technologies we have under our umbrella. And we’re a little bit unique in that we’re decentralized. So we have competence centers and test labs and training centers located throughout the world. It’s not all just in one headquarter kind of place, and they’re all independent. But they have a contract or quality of services agreement with PI that says, hey. If you have a question about the technologies, go to a competent center. If you want further training, go to a training center. If you want to to test the device, go to a test lab. And then they are all working with regional PI associations of which we PI North America is one of them. We were founded in 1994 by a guy by the name of Mike Bryant. At that time, we were called Probibus Trade Organization. And we are the and now I didn’t come up with this this name. We are the North American Rio League. This is a an IO Link designation, a regional IO Link interest group, which means that we have a a separate contract and and quality of services agreement with the IO Link community to to promote and and work with members, specifically for IO Link here in in North America. And we’re nonprofit, member supported. I got nothing. So you’re talking about products and and and stuff at the beginning. I got nothing to sell today. We’re we’re working solely on on technology. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I do wanna throw out there, though, you have a great update every month about all the new products that fall in the buckets of IO Link, PROFINET, PROFIBUS, and a lot of those new products across our IO Link. So while they may not have products of their own, they do keep the, industry up to date on who’s joining up and signing up, for these new these you know, the jump on board and release new products that, that, you know, meet these specifications. And you know what? Maybe you’re not using PROFINET because you’re using brand x or y. You still probably use an IO Link. So Oh, that’s for sure. Very interesting very interesting updates that you publish every month and, as a blog. And, I know when I was doing the news for a couple years, I would always, go to your site to look for new updates. Michael Bowne (PI): Cool. Yeah. Yeah. I guess, I got a slide on that at the end, but the the you’re referring to the, the PROFINews. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yes. The PROFINews. Yeah. Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. That’s a that’s that’s been a baby and a labor of love, for a while now. And and, oh, man, it’s it’s it’s incredible because every month, the most when we track this kind of stuff, obviously, the most popular article is the new products. Well, because that’s what, right, that’s what people want is the stuff they can buy, the stuff they can use. Yeah. Yeah. That’s and we got another one coming out next week, and every month, we we push that out, and it’s always half a dozen or a dozen new products, half of which are are IO Link. I mean, it’s just growing like crazy. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And you guys have had some good articles. I think you had a great series, and I’m now I’m stretching it. So stretching the old memory here. I thought you had a great series on on, MTP, which I really enjoyed. Did did I remember that correctly? Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. We we try and, you know, we try and get some editorial content in there. It’s it calls it falls into, like, three main buckets. What’s new products? What are new trainings and events that are coming up? And then and then some editorial content. I think I think what we’re driving at is I think we need to do maybe an MTP podcast here at some point in the down the road. Shawn Tierney (Host): Probably. Yeah. Down the road. Definitely. Definitely. I I’m still you know, I still have a very casual understanding of it. But, let me throw it back to you because I kinda jumped in and interrupted your your your, update. Michael Bowne (PI): No. It’s good. It saves it saves us at the end when when that slide, we can just just jump over it. Now we’ve we’ve got it covered, and it’s and it’s an and it’s an important one. But you kinda you kinda gave me a nice lead into the to the next one, which talks about, the Ireland community. And I’ll start from the bottom, work my way up as being fieldbus independent. Shawn Tierney (Host): I just wanna break in here for a moment and thank you folks in the audience who’ve signed up for my membership program. Really, really appreciate you all. Eighteen months ago, after reviewing ten plus years of being on YouTube, you know, it was pretty obvious that there’s no real revenue on YouTube. I mean, it comes in at maybe 1% of my monthly expenses. And so that ad revenue there is just not something to rely on going forward because it’s not something that’s been reliable in the past. And so I set up the membership program both on YouTube and at the automationblog.com. And I wanna thank all of you who signed up. I, we have a $5 tier, which I know most people sign up at, and then we have a couple other higher tiers. And so I just wanted to thank you all for doing that. You are actually the membership program’s probably 3% of my monthly, revenue. And so that’s, you know, one or two times more, than, what the YouTube revenue was. So thank you all for that. And I hope that, some of you who are not part of the membership program will consider becoming a member, supporting my work so I can do videos that are not always sponsored videos. Now I love sponsored videos. I love it when a vendor sends me a piece of hardware and then sits down with me and teach me how to use it so I can create a video ad free and share with you on how to use that product, or maybe they just come on the podcast and sponsor it to make it ad free so we can tell their story about their product or service. And I I will continue to do that going forward, but I would really also like to do more audience generated type of, content. So content where you generate the idea and say, Shawn, why don’t you try this? Or, Shawn, why don’t you do this? And a lot of those topics that the audience wants to see, they’re not necessarily topics that the vendor wants to promote with advertising dollars. Okay? And so that’s the whole purpose of the, membership program. Like I said, right now, it’s around 3% of my monthly income comes from and I’m talking about the business income, not my personal income, the business income. 3% of what the business needs to, to move forward and pay its bills every month. But, still, I that that, you know, so many of you have decided to jump in and support me. I just wanted to stop and say thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. And if you’re not part of the membership program and you’re doing financially well, please consider if you enjoy. This is episode two forty six of the automation podcast. Every episode has been free. The audio has been free for all 246 of them. And most of those episodes I funded myself just by well, you can understand how you fund something when you don’t have the income coming in. But in any case, if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a member, and we can branch out and do other things together. And with that, let’s go ahead and jump back into this week’s episode and learn more about IO Link. Michael Bowne (PI): So like you said, yeah. I mean, organizationally, the IO Link community came to PI in 2009 and organizationally under PI because we have the infrastructure for working groups and and IP policies and contracts and things like that. But the IO Link community has their own steering committee, and from the from the outset and from every IO Link event that we do and everything that we do is is independent of, of any Profibus or Profinet stuff. And we try really, really hard to maintain that independence, no matter what vendor you’re using. And there, at this point, we’ve got 500 companies in the IO Link community, and it’s really just growing by by leaps and bounds. So we kinda track this stuff by nodes and all the IO Link companies. They send their node count to an independent auditor, collects the counts, and gives us back an an an anonymous total. So we don’t know where or who is selling them, but we get the total. And you can just see this this hockey stick exponential growth. Particularly in 2023, there was some supply chain over purchasing that that went on. I mean, that’s like we’re looking at a a growth rate of 89% there, which is obviously unsustainable. But still, last year, 9,700,000 nodes were added. Again, because it’s field bus independent, it really has no competitor. And that’s what’s kinda cool about IO Link. I mean, you wanna do and and you don’t need to choose a field bus and therefore get IO Link. You can use any field bus or industrial container protocol, and IO Link works with it. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I wanna just, mention for the audio listeners. If we go back to 2012, it looks like we’re probably at the 1,000,000 mark or below it. And as you go to, you know, 2022, you look like you’re 35,700,000. Is that 2022 or 2023? Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. That’s the 2022. Exactly. 35,700,000.0. Yeah. Shawn Tierney (Host): And then at, the end of twenty twenty three, we’re at 51.6. So you talked about that, you know, overbuying. And then at the end of 2024, we’re at 61,300,000.0. So you can just see from, you know, 2022 to, 2024, you went from 35 to 61. So the adoption, like you said, it’s a hockey stick. The adoption has really picked up. And I think you you hit the nail on the head because it is fieldbus independent. It’s a way to just get more information out of our devices, like sensors and photo eyes, you know, and it’s just you know? I mean, though, these chipsets that come in these, devices now are just amazing. Michael Bowne (PI): And that’s what, I mean, that’s what the whole point of this is. You’re you’re not gonna put a $5 ethernet chip, like, enter $5 ethernet interface on a $15 proximity sensor. But computing and memory has gotten really, really small and really, really cheap that it’s on just about everything. And so this proximity sensor not only can tell you if, like, for example, let’s say it’s on a conveyor belt. It cannot only tell you if the box is there or not, but it can tell you how many blue boxes would buy or how many red boxes would buy or if the box that’s going by is off kilter or or misaligned or something like that. But how do you get that data out in in inexpensively, and here we are. IO Link is is the way to do it. Shawn Tierney (Host): I’m sad to see a lot of these sensors too come with humidity, temperature, and all these other things should be like, really? I can get that out of my Michael Bowne (PI): photo eye. But yeah. Multivariable. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. You know, traditionally, with an analog interface, how did you get that? You couldn’t get it. Mhmm. But now with a digital interface, which is what we’re talking about, digitalization in the last meter, now you can get that informate that data, that information, and do some pretty cool stuff with it. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yes. You can. Yeah. I’ll talk Michael Bowne (PI): a little bit about the architecture a little bit here to kind of get a little bit into the technical side of things about how IO Link works, but it they’re kind of some main devices, and that’s the IO Link masters and the IO Link devices. And these IO Link masters are available for we have here 16 different industrial Ethernet or field bus systems. 21 manufacturers offer central PLC, like an IO Link master built into the backplane of the PLC if you so desired. And the number of devices that so that hockey stick we showed before is just exploding. I mean, we’ve got 60 something million sold, and we have tens of thousands of unique IO Link devices from hundreds of different device manufacturers that have implemented this interface. And for those that if there’s anybody on the podcast that wants to do this and add this to their sensors, there are a number of different companies that help with, product design, either with the chips, the transceivers, the software stacks, and then a number of companies that help provide technical support in order to do that. So an IO Link system kind of is made up of four parts. Like I said, you have the IO Link master. That’s the gateway between the IO Link devices, the IO Link interface, and the higher level communication system, such as the fieldbus or the in industrial Ethernet protocol or backplane. You have the devices. This is the exciting part. Your sensors, your switch gears, your valves, your signal lamps, maybe some simple actuators, whatever the case may be. You’ve got a IO Link cable, just a three wire unshielded, super simple connection between the master and the devices. And then every device has an IODD or IO Link device description file, and I’ll explain how that gets used to engineer and parameterize the IO Link system and the and the devices. And what this kind of enables you know, traditionally, communication only reached the IO level. You had connection between the PLCs and the and the the the IO, and then it kinda stopped there because all those sensors and actuators were not accessible. They were analog, and you got your one process data. You brought process signal, and that’s where it ended. But with IO Link, what we do is we enable that communication bidirectional, cyclic and acyclic, and that’s the cool part, all the way from higher level systems, not only to the PLC or especially from the PLC, but down all the way down to the simple sensors and actuators, which are now accessible. And you kinda touched on this before where these chipsets have gotten really, really smart and really, really powerful. And it’s not that the it’s not that any of these use cases that are that are being solved with IO Link that none of them are new. What’s new is the ease with which they can be solved. So because you can get all this extra data out, things like OEE, showing things like downtime tracking, track and trace, predictive maintenance, for example, remote monitoring, recipe management, SPC, all these things. It’s not that these use cases are now being solved. The you know, we’ve we’ve been doing this for a long, long time. It’s just the ease with which because because it’s a standard and because all this stuff is standardized in how it gets from the the the device to the master and upwards to the controller, it just makes it easier. If you spend all your effort trying to gather and collect and sanitize the data because every device is different and, you know, that’s just that’s just a mess, and the ROI disappears really fast on any kind of project to do that. But if we have a standard on how to do that, then we make it very, very easy to do, and everything can come in, quite nicely. And and and it just and it just works a whole lot easier. You start getting access to that data. And so what we’re starting to see is connections being made. You know, you talk about the the flattening of the traditional automation hierarchy where now not only is that IO block or that sensor connected to a to a PLC, but it’s got some extra data. Like you said, like, this little photo I might have a a a temperature or a a moisture, you know, sensor also in there, just because it’s part of the the chipset. But the PLC don’t care about that. He just wants to know about the, you know, the information from the photo eye. So what do you do with all this extra beautiful information that isn’t necessarily processed data? Well, maybe the MES wants to know about that. So how do you get that? And in a running factory, in a brownfield environment, rule number one is don’t touch the running PLC. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Michael Bowne (PI): And rule number two is see rule number one. That thing is running, and any minute of downtime costs more than any one thing on the on the factory floor. Shawn Tierney (Host): Before we go on, I did wanna break in here and tell you a little bit about my website, theautomationschool.com, where I do my online training. I also do in person training. And you probably don’t know that that all started back in 2014 with a Kickstarter I ran for my first PLC basics course. At the time, it was called microprogrammable controller basics, and I ended up changing it just the PLC basics. But in any case, since then, I’ve had added a dozen courses on a various number of topics, and you’ll find them all at the automationschool.com. But what I really wanted to talk to you about is why. Why did I do that? Well, I had spent twenty five years as a certified authorized Rockwell Automation distributor specialist covering PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, MES, and other stuff too. Right? And I knew from visiting, customers in the plant every single workday, almost every workday, that there was a real need for affordable training. So the first thing is, you know, large companies have large expensive, large paychecks, and lots of overhead, so they gotta charge a lot. Right? And so that was a problem because a lot of the people I was working with, you know, the controls engineers, automation engineers, high end electricians and technicians, they had to fund their training themselves. Their company was sort of like, no. We trained this guy back in the nineties, and then he will have to get a better job. So we’re not spending money on training. And so all these people were having to train themselves, and it was unaffordable to either, you know, buy the the, vendors courses. Or even if the the company did have training dollars, it was unaffordable to send them away for a week to a $3,000 course somewhere halfway across the country, probably $3,000 worth of travel and hotels too. Right? And then they go where without one of their smartest guys, right, one of their best people, because you you that’s usually who you’re gonna train and and uplift through the through the organization. Either people are doing good on the lower level, you wanna bring them up and train them on automation. And so that’s why I started the the, automationschool.com because of the the try to provide I knew the the courses would never be Hollywood quality. I mean, this isn’t Hollywood quality. Right? But I knew it could be helpful and and, you know, be affordable by just filming them in my garage. Right? And, you know, picking up some used equipment and putting together the episodes. And the site has grown so much. We have thousands of, students from over a 150 countries. We have hundreds of, vendors we work with. But the other thing I did is, is made up by one’s own forever. Right? So more like an ebook or an audiobook or an m p three album. Right? And the reason I did that and I understand why the vendors don’t do that because they’re like, well, they’ll sign up one guy in the I and e shop, and he’ll share his password for everybody. You know, that could happen. Right? People could rob a bank too. But I’m like, you know, most people, when they buy a course and I saw this. I was on an independent platform for a while, and on that platform, they showed you how the progress of every student. Most people buy the course well before they’re ready to take it. And I’m like, I’m not gonna charge people a monthly fee or only give them access to to a short window if, you know, they have good intentions now, but it takes them a while to actually free up their schedule to get into the course and take it. So that’s why my courses are buy one’s own forever. 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Michael Bowne (PI): In a brownfield installation, what we’re seeing these these cool little edge gateways, And what they’ll do is they’ll grab the bus, they’ll collect some data, and pump it out the other side via, you know, maybe an IT protocol that that the IT guys wanna know about or, you know, like an MQTT or an OPC UA. Of course, in a in a greenfield, in a new installation where you’ve got a brand new PLC, yeah, get the data there. That guy has all the brains, has all the all the information in one ply in all in one place, so get it from the PLC. But in Brownfield, I the edge gateways, even some IO Link masters are being put on the market that have not only an industrial Ethernet interface, you know, just on one port, on the same port, industrial Ethernet interface for control, but that interface will also speak like a higher level IT protocol like an MQTT or an OPC UA, so you can get it even from the IO Link master that data is is accessible. So the different ways to get it, and, and that’s kind of the whole point is is getting that data from the sensors to the to the master and then further upwards. Shawn Tierney (Host): We actually covered a product on the show that had two ports. It had one for your fieldbus Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. And then it Shawn Tierney (Host): had a separate one for your IT or your IOT or your MQTT, which I thought was so inventive too because now the control system gets its data, and it’s under control. But reporting wise, you know, that’s kind of the best of both both worlds. You don’t have to have two sensors. You can send it to data both ways. And, yeah, just it’s the way you can do with these things and, you know, a lot of the sensors you probably have out there, I’ve noticed that some vendors, every sensor they sell is IO Link. So Yeah. You may already have it installed and not know it because the price difference to add it to some products. Once you get up to the fanciest sensors, of course, not the simplest sensors, but once you get up to the fanciest sensors, it’s it’s, you know, there’s a lot of horsepower in that chipset. So, you know, they can add IO Link for for pennies on the dollar. So very interesting stuff, though. Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. That’s that’s a good point. And and, you know, of course, we could spend all day talking about IT, OT, and the segmentation of networks and all who’s who owns the IP addresses. And we I mean, that’s a whole separate topic. But in cases like that, yeah, it’s cool. You got a separate port. IT can do what they want on their one port. And if but, hey, don’t touch me in the control realm because Mhmm. This is my this is my realm. And and you bring up another good point, and that’s kind of there’s a I don’t I don’t wanna say that, you know, there’s there isn’t, like, a thick black line between, okay, this sensor is simple, therefore, should have IO link, or this sensor is complex, therefore, should have its own industrial Ethernet, interface. There’s almost a little bit of a gray area, but you’re right. I mean Mhmm. We kinda leave it up to the vendors to decide. Hey. My thing needs the horsepower that and it’s so complex that I need something like, like, an industrial Ethernet protocol. But, oh, you know what? This other central line is tailored for low cost, and so, therefore, I’m gonna put IO Link on it. But that’s, you know, that’s up to them to to decide. So when we talk about IO Link in terms of benefits, we kinda like to make the analogy with USB because everybody knows USB. You got your USB cable. You plug it into your computer on one end. On the other end, you plug it into your you know, you plug your mouse in or you plug your keyboard in, and you plug your key your printer in. Automatically, it it uses the same cable. It’s always the same. Everything everybody’s using that interface, and we kinda see the same thing with IO Link where it’s just a unified, unshielded three wire sensor cable, and it can use be used with all IO Link devices. Up until now, you know, if you had smart devices, right, memory and computing power is smaller and cheaper. Up until now, to get that extra information out, you would need multiple cables. The wiring is time consuming. It’s expensive. They’re large, costly to to install and maintain. But But with iolink, you just you just plug it in. It’s a simple m 12 plug, and then you don’t have all these spare parts of different cable types. It’s just one cable and, easy to maintain, thin, flexible. I’ve got a I’ve got an example here I’d like to highlight, and I’ll try and talk through it for those that are that are listening instead of instead of viewing. This is an example of 256 IOs via 16 fieldbus modules. So, like, fieldbus like remote IOs or whatever the case may be. So we’re connecting them to a PLC out in the field. And to do that, we would need 16 fieldbus modules in order to do that. These are just let’s let’s call them simple DI, you know, digital input proximity sensors. Mhmm. Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm. Michael Bowne (PI): With IO Link, we can do that via just one fieldbus module. So that’s just one IP address or one IO Link master. So already you’re cutting out 15 of those more expensive devices. And then we use what are called so called IO Link hubs, which bring those DI signals, put it all on one IO Link connection, put it into IO Link master, and send it out the other side. And with that, we can connect if you imagine these 272 IOs as shown here via just one fieldbus module. So it’s showing just huge, huge, huge savings simply on cost alone, due to the wiring. And, that that one cable, it fits all sensor types. So simple sensors, like a proximity sensor all the way up to complex devices like pressure, temperature, signal lamps, and even simple actuators all use the same IO Link cable. Shawn Tierney (Host): So where an IO Link device would be giving you not just on or off, but a lot of other information and some of that analog information. If all you had was a dumb device, well, now I can put 16 of them or so, you know, some number of them together Mhmm. Bring them into a hub. And each since each device only has an on or off, where a regular IO Link device would have lots of other information, you can now just join them all together and say, okay. Here we go. Here’s inputs one through x. Michael Bowne (PI): It’s, almost like multiplexing, put it all together on one and then Mhmm. Pump it out the other side. Yeah. Shawn Tierney (Host): Perfect. Michael Bowne (PI): The other way we relate IO Link to USB is kind of in the the identification and parameterization. So if we look at how you plug your printer into your computer, you plug it in, and automatically, your computer says, oh, okay. I know that that’s a HP something something desk check printer and and okay. How do you wanna do you wanna do color or black and white? Do you wanna do full duplex? Do you wanna do back and white, back and front on on the printing? And the same is true for for IO Link. So you plug in that IO Link sensor into your IO Link master. It reads it. It says, hey. The dialing says, hey. This is who I am. This is my type. This is my serial number. Every device has a vendor ID and a device ID. And then the IO Link master goes up and gets the IODD file, and I’ll show that here in a little bit, and then you can start that parametrization. And it’s just like it’s just like a USB. It’s it’s, no special knowledge is required. You can format changes very, very easily. You can even do them on the fly, for example, with an HMI on the on the machine. And, the identification methods make sure that you don’t plug in a wrong device into an IO Nialink port, which could stop the machine. It’ll it’ll it’ll recognize that and prevent, incorrect connections. It allows you to exchange devices very easily of the same type or the the same same manufacturer, same same device. So just like USB, it it it kinda works in that way. And then the other way, it’s kind of like USBs in the diagnostics, and this is a really, really powerful part of IO Link. So when your printer says, I’m out of paper or I’m out of toner or there’s a paper jam, it sends that signal, standardized signal to the to the computer, to your computer, your PC, and you know exactly what what to do, how to fix your your printer, why your printer isn’t working the same as true for IO Link. We’ve standardized these diagnostics. So this is a, a photo eye saying, hey, under voltage or over temperature or the the window on the photo eye has gotten dirty, so signal quality is deteriorating. So we standardized all this, so that these diagnostics all come in the same way, and, you can, you know, fix any any problem as fast as possible to to to, minimize downtime. And in the case of things like signal quality, hey. The the the window’s getting dirty. This enables things like preventative maintenance. Oh, I know I’m going into a planned shutdown next week. Now’s the time to go out and clean those sensors kind of thing, because I know that they’re I know that the signal’s going is deteriorating. So some cool things like that, that wouldn’t be possible with a traditional analog signal, which we’re showing here. And it also makes really no sense. I mean, in this example, what we’re showing here is a generic this is a pre pressure sensor. You know, it does its measurement. It then does some amplification, and then to stabilize the signal, it does an a to d, puts it into a micro, which does some temperature compensation linearization. But then, traditionally, prior to IO Link, what you do is then do another data a to send it out via zero to 10 volts or four to 20 milliamps, whatever, into the into a, an a to d card on the backplane of the PLC, I mean, this is just this is just crazy. It’s it’s time consuming. It’s, the the signal is still susceptible to interference. The the analog inputs on the cards on the PLC are expensive. There’s manual calibration of the signal. But with IO Link, it just makes sense. You take that signal right from the micro, pump it out digitally via an IO Link inexpensive interface to your, to your IO. And, we use that unshielded three wire inexpensive cable, Shawn Tierney (Host): and Michael Bowne (PI): then you get all those parameters and diagnostics. And, really, that’s the point of using IO Link is all that extra data, all that extra information that that comes along with the the process data. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And so those of you who are listening, I mean, what we saw there was to to shoot out a four to 20 milliamp signal or zero to 10 volt signal, it had to convert it from the digital value that was inside the device to analog, then I have to pump it out. And, you know, we always have to worry about noise and, you know, shielding and all that, you know, depending on the length of the run. And then in the PLC analog card, it’s converting it from analog back to digital, so you have that zero to 32,000 value or zero to 64,000, whatever your PLC does. And so IO Link does eliminate that. It eliminates the noise of your traditional analog. And I know I’ve met so many customers say we have no noise issues on our analog, and that’s great. But not everybody’s in that same boat. So you’re eliminating that d to a and then a to d, and that’s that’s you’re keeping everything digital. So you’re not only getting a cleaner, more accurate value from your device, you’re also getting all those additional pieces of information and the ability to be maybe configured to products. Some of these products need to be changed based on the type of product they’re sensing, you know, the type of fluid going through, the recipe that’s being drawn, the lighting, the colors. So all those different things, you you know, with a typical analog signal, you’re not gonna be able to send back and do a configuration to it. So, go ahead. Back to you, Michael. Michael Bowne (PI): No. You’re right. Exactly. We we have I I took this line out of this deck for the for, you know, for for brevity, but we show examples of of particularly food and bev, right, where you have batches, different I’m running a different batch. I’m running a different product. I need a different label on the on the bottle or whatever I’m running through the the the machine. You reconfigure that via the HMI. It sends all that stuff down to the sensors. Okay. Now I know I’m looking for I should be sensing this instead of this. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. It could be a clear bottle sensor, the clear bottle detector that the bottles change colors. So it’s has a different setting, or it could be background suppression depending on the color of the product. You need a different setting or a color sensor. Maybe you’re making different products and the different colors, and so, you know, all this is now configurable through your PLC, through your control system, through your HMI, which I just think is so cool. Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. It’s it’s it’s super cool. Alright. Let’s get a little bit technical here. I think for some of the engineers, that might be nice. The IO Link signal and 24 volt power supply, like like we talked about before, it’s it’s an m 12 connector. So you’ve got five pins. Your pin one is your high, pin three is your low, and then pin four is your CQ line. That’s that’s where the IO Link digital signal lives. It’s serial. It’s bidirectional. It’s point to point. And then we also have on that same pin four, if you so desired, you could also parameterize your device via IO Link, set it all up, and then put it in what’s known as a CO mode or simple IO mode. And I’ll show that on the next slide too if maybe you’ve just got a digital IO, that you want a fast switching interface. So pins one and three are our power. Pins two and five are freely assignable. So for example, if you wanted to use that pin four for your IO Link signal and then separately have your own DI or DQ line, you could do that using a three wire, four wire, five wire cable. And then what’s cool also in IO Link and we’re starting to see this more and more is we call this port class b, same m 12 connector, same five pins, but pins two and five provide a separate power supply for additional power because and this is cool. We’re starting to see more and more IO link just, like, simple actuators Mhmm. On the market. And that’s really neat. So let’s say you’ve got some simple linear actuator, not not a complex, you know, driver, you know, or motor or something like that, but a a simple linear actuator. You can drive that via IO Link if you just gotta move something really, you know, maybe maybe even within connected to the same ports, on the master as some other sensors, and so you can do that logic in the master itself, you know, simple simple stuff like that. But that’s also possible with IO Link where you can drive it, not just sense it, but also actuate it with with IO Link. So that’s that’s some cool stuff that’s coming down the line. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, and I found that all the IO Link devices I had here, they came with the SIO mode already set up. So I was able to use the photo eyes and the proxies and all the other devices just as simple IO devices and without even touching the IO Link side of it, which I think is cool because, you know, in in many cases, you just need a photo eye to get up and running. Right? Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. And that’s and that’s how they come out of the box. So out of the box, it’s in that CO mode. And I think you you kinda touched on this before. Maybe many customers have IO Link devices Yeah. On their machine. They don’t even know it Mhmm. Shawn Tierney (Host): Because they Michael Bowne (PI): took it out of the box. They needed that photo. They plugged it in and away they went. But there’s also that all all that extra stuff. If they wanted to, they could get down into the IO Link part of it. Mhmm. Maybe to reparameterize it, or what if you got to change, you still wanna use the CO mode. You just want that digital input. What if you wanna change the switching distance, for example, something like that? I don’t want it to switch at one meter. I want it to switch at two meters or whatever. So all that all that can be configured via IO Link. So on the if we if we talk about the the IO Link communication itself, there are three transmission speeds, comms one, two, and three. Comm one is 4.8 kilobits per second. COM two is 38.4 kilobits per second, and COM three is 230.4 kilobits per second. IO Link masters support all three comm modes, but devices are free to choose based on what they’re sending. If it’s temperature, maybe you don’t need COM three because that’s changing more slowly than something like like like we’re talking about a proximity sensor, which may want to send that a little bit more quickly and uses that that COM three mode. Many, many devices use COM three mode because still two hundred two hundred thirty kilobits per second, that’s, you know, that’s not gonna that’s not gonna kill you. And then a typical cycle time, because this is the question we get all the time, is what kind of cycle time can be achieved? It’s about a millisecond at at com three. So if you’re, you know, trying to go submillisecond, you know, maybe IO Link is not is not the solution at that point. But for many, many applications, that one millisecond cycle time can can, can accomplish whatever they need to. And then what’s cool is that from the EyeLink master’s perspective, it’ll have eight or 16 sensors connected to it. Each device can be set independently. So on this port this device, I’m talking at this comm rate and this cycle time. This other port number two, I’m speaking at a different transmission speed and a different cycle time and so on and so forth, you know, so that you’re not sending data unnecessarily that is simply just being sent for the purposes of being sent. And that’s and that’s pretty cool. Shawn Tierney (Host): And a lot of times, you don’t because you’re not reading a digital on off, you don’t the speed, you’re you’re actually getting a value, and that value a lot of times your PLC is not gonna be running faster than a millisecond scan time. So if you’re getting your value updated, you know, faster than the PLC, then that’s a then then that’s really what you need. Do you know how fast is your PLC running? How fast can your program controller use that value? And, you know, I’d be hard pressed to see a lot of applications where they’re breaking that one millisecond update rate. The other thing too is just because we’re talking at the speed doesn’t mean the actual calculation is even possible in a millisecond. So, you know, temperature changes, things that that sensors there’s limit limitations to the physical world. You know? And, you know, I I don’t know if anybody’s ever said this to you before, Michael, but when I first saw the whole comm thing, I thought that was confusing because having grown up with PCs, I always thought of comp one, comp two, comp one group. Right? And these are really just bought what I would call from the old days, sewer rates. Right? Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. Exactly. Shawn Tierney (Host): Exactly. Insight why why they is it just maybe because it was the standard started overseas or any idea why they went with CALM? Michael Bowne (PI): I’m not gonna lie to you. That’s the first time I’ve gotten that question. Shawn Tierney (Host): Really? Okay. Michael Bowne (PI): Why they’re called that yeah. Let’s just let’s just rewrite this. They call it BOD one, BOD two, BOD three. Shawn Tierney (Host): I know. It’s just so weird. But, anyways, sorry sorry, audience. I just have Michael Bowne (PI): That’s a good one. That’s a good one. Nope. I’ll take that one back. Alright. So IO Link data comes in a couple different flavors. You have your process data. That’s your bread and butter, what you’re using to run the run the factory. Transmitted cyclically in a Telegram, the the data size is defined by the device, and it can be up to 32 bytes for each device, both input and output. Along with that comes a value bit indicating whether the process data is valid or invalid, and this can be transmitted is transmitted cyclically with the the process data. And then you have things that happen acyclically. These would be device data like parameters, identification data, diagnostic information, and these happen on request of the IO Link master. Obviously, a lot of that happens during startup, but also can happen during runtime if, as shown here on the slide with the with the last case, events can be error messages. So the the, the device will set a flag. Hey. There’s a short circuit or so, and then the the master can pull that device for more information, more diagnostic information, based on that event flag that’s that’s set by the set by the device. And so, the the question we always get at this point is, how do I make this all work? How do I integrate this stuff into my into my plant? Shawn Tierney (Host): Before we go any further, I did wanna jump back and tell you about a service I’m doing that I don’t think I’ve talked about very much, and it’s comes in two different flavors. First of all, I’ve actually had some vendors and companies reach out to me and say, Shawn, I know you don’t wanna travel all around the country with all your equipment. Right? That’s not what you do, but we want you to come out and teach us something. Would you come out and do a lecture? We’ll set up our own equipment. And, can you come out and just run us through some of the products and teach us some of your knowledge, and you don’t have to worry about bringing all the equipment with you. And so that’s something I really don’t talk about much, but I do wanna tell you that if you’re looking for training and you need it on-site, of course, you do have to pay for my travel time. But if you do want me to come out for a day or two days or for a week and do training on any of the products I train online now. Now if you want me to come out and do training on a product I don’t already have a curriculum on, I can’t do it. The building the curriculum is where all of my costs is on the training. Right? I shouldn’t say that. The web service in in in the back end does cost something every month as well, but most of the time it goes into and that’s really what being self employed is it’s time. Right? Most of the time goes into build building the curriculum. So if you have a need for somebody like Shawn, we can’t do a webinar. We can’t do a Teams meeting. We we can’t do online training. We want you to come out. And, again, I just got a call on this yesterday. Yes. I can do that. As long as the curriculum I’m gonna teach you is something I already have existing. And, I’m not gonna hand out lab books. We can buy you lab books if you want. People sell great lab books for $80.90 dollars a pop. If you want lab books, I’d be more than happy to include that in the quote. But in any case, I that’s one thing I do. The other thing I’ve been doing with vendors is they’ve hired me to come out and interview them at their trade show. So, usually, what happens is somebody will sponsor a podcast for $5.99. They’ll come on. We’ll do the interview. I’ll edit it all up. I’ll put their links in. We’ll talk about the thumbnail, and then we’ll release it ad free. Right? And so that covers my cost of producing that episode roughly. Right? We just raised it from $4.99 to $5.99 because most of the shows were were actually upside down on, so we need to raise it a little bit to make sure we’re covering our cost. But in any case, sometimes vendors have, you know, they have their own trade show, and they may have all of their product specialists there. And they’re like, hey, Shawn. We would like to do six or seven interviews at the trade show. Would you come out and actually record them there? We’ll pay your flight. We’ll pay your hotel and your expenses to get there and back. And so that’s another thing I haven’t talked about much that I’m doing. I’m working with some, you know, top five vendors to do that, and I’ve done it in the past. And so I did wanna explain it to you if you’re a vendor listening or if you are, talking to your vendor, like, you should have Shawn come out and interview all your people. You have them all in one place. Let them know that they can contact me about doing that. Again, you can contact me at theautomationblog.com, LinkedIn, YouTube, theautomationschool.com, pretty much any way you want. You can write me snail mail if you want. But in any case, I do wanna share that, and we also have in person training. I think I’ve talked to you guys about this quite a bit. We do custom in person training for as little as two people, $900 a day up to four people. And so if you wanna get some people in here, we can actually do Allen Bradley and Siemens in two days back to back. One day Allen Bradley, one day Siemens. So if you wanna learn two PLCs in two days back to back now I do have somebody ask me, hey, Shawn. Where’s your schedule of upcoming courses? And back in my previous life of twenty five years, we were always trying to sign people up and then canceling, you know, events and classes because, we wouldn’t get enough people to meet the vendors minimum. So I don’t wanna do that. So I don’t have actually any dates now. I have been talking with doing a intensive POC boot camp, but, you know, I just got so much things going on in my life right now that I don’t think I could pull that together this fall. But in any case, if you need some training, you wanna send your people here, we can even start at, like, noontime and then end the final day at noontime so you can get your flights and travel and all that. We’re one hour away from Albany, New York, and that’s a great little airport to fly in and out of. Actually, I’m flying out of it in November. They’ll go to a trade show, to interview vendors, vendors, product people. But in any case, I just wanna break in. There’s something about my company. I don’t think I ever talked to you guys about much, and so I just wanted to insert it here since I’m sponsoring this episode and eating the cost to produce it. I wanted to share that with you. And now, I won’t be back until the end of the show, so please enjoy the rest of this episode. Send any feedback you have to me, and, we’ll talk to you at the end of the show. Michael Bowne (PI): And it kinda works like this. So you have your IO Link device, which has an IODD file, which we mentioned earlier, that gets ingested by a parameterization tool. The parameterization tool comes with the IO Link master. Could be a separate piece of software. In some cases, could be a web page built into the IO Link master itself. Depends on depends on the vendor. But then what happens after that, how that data goes from the IO Link master to the controller, the PLC, is fieldbus specific. So you have your own, fieldbus file, you know, GSD or EDS or ESI, whatever the case may be, which is ingested by the engineering tool of the of the PLC and kind of outside way outside the scope of of of IO Link. And so the EDS file, the GSD file, and and that is the that data then gets sent via fieldbus, and that’s the sum of all the IO Link device data from all the ports on the IO Link master, where that IO Link communication as as defined by the IODD file, configures the port for the master and for the devices. And so an IODD file is provided by the devices, and every device manufacturer must provide an IODD for their device. It can be downloaded from the IODD finder, which is a website, and, it it describes what the entire device does. It describes the process data length, the process data structure, the parameter the name of the parameters, what range to expect, the data types, the addresses of the parameters in the in the in the indexes and subindexes. It can talk about GUI information, pages on which a parameter shall be displayed, names of parameter pages, all this kind of stuff is in an IODD file. It’s a it’s a zip file where you have that IODD as an XML. So that’s how we format the file. So it’s it’s both and this is the key part, both machine readable and and human readable. It’s got a little picture of the device, picture of the manufacturer logo. And with your permission, maybe I can show the IODD finder. It’s, ioddfinder.io-link.com. Mhmm. Looks simple enough. Let’s say we wanna look at a I’m gonna type in something here. Max ref. Let’s pick this. So this is just a this is a reference design, not an actual product that that, an end user would employ in their in their factory, but a reference design of something that maybe a device manufacturer would use. And it’s shows the manufacturer name, the article name number, the product name, the device ID. All that stuff is ingested by the parameterization tool, which then uses that information to go up to this IODD finder and grab the IODD file shown here, which can be downloaded if you wanted to look at it yourself. But in the past few years, we implemented what’s called an IODD viewer, which is pretty cool, which takes that nice XML file and parses it. So in human readable form, if you wanted to compare quickly, hey. I’m an end user. I wanna compare the IODD file from device vendor a to device vendor b to kinda see what kind of features they have. You could do that all very easily, and that’s shown here in the IODD viewer. What’s really what’s really neat about this IODD finder is that it has two ways it it it gets accessed. That’s this website that I just showed here. So as in humans are are accessing it, but it’s also accessible via API. And we we track the the traffic to the Audi divider, and the vast, vast majority of the traffic comes via API. So these are IO Link masters that just had a device connected to them. Parameter is I’m sorry. Parameterization tool that has a you know, or connected to the IO Link master that had device connected them. They go up to the AudiD finder, and they pull down that IODD file for the device that was just connected so that now they they can be, configured. And that’s really, really cool stuff. So all these IODD files are in one spot, in one database up there for for viewing or via the IODD viewer or for access from any number of IO Link tools out there. Shawn Tierney (Host): So when we’re talking about API access, we’re talking about the tool we’re using to configure the master. So it could be a web page built into the master, or it could be a separate software program. Do I have that correct? Michael Bowne (PI): Yeah. Right. So the parameterization tool, yeah, is usually is usually a software package that’ll run on your computer connecting to your, IO Link master that parameterizes the IO Link master. Yeah. Shawn Tierney (Host): Excellent. Or Michael Bowne (PI): through the network somehow. Maybe through the network. Yeah. Goes out and grabs that IODD file from the IODD finder to, you know, to parameterize that port in that device. Shawn Tierney (Host): Which is excellent because in previous iterations of smart networks and smart devices, you always have to go searching a vendor’s website, and then people would get the wrong file, and then I would be in the field saying this is never gonna work because you get the wrong device file. If they can’t give you the right device file, you’ll never get it to work. You know? And so this is much better having the organization have everybody require everybody who has IO Link to put their IODD files in the one place so everybody can always find it. And so the software tools can find it automatically for you, which is just a huge a huge change versus what we went through in the nineties. Michael Bowne (PI): Exactly. We came on a CD or something or what I mean, God only knows. I’m gonna switch gears a little bit here, talk about two topics subtopics within the IO Link domain, and one of them is IO Link wireless. This is, what we call is bridging the gap. So it’s an IEC standard, six eleven thirty nine as of November 2023, Shawn Tierney (Host): and Michael Bowne (PI): it’s enabling connections that simply weren’t possible before for IO Link. And in an example here, we’re showing a a smart machine tool where the IO Link sensor is integrated into the chuck of the lathe. Now that guy is spinning at 6,000 RPMs. That connection simply couldn’t be possible couldn’t be done any other way than with IO Link wireless or, let’s say, independent movers. So you’ve seen these moving systems where you’ve got the either floating or on a on a rail the other track systems exactly. If you integrate the smarts of IO Link onto the movers themselves instead of using, SCARA or Delta robots to do the to I mean, that’s you’re saving huge amounts of cost Mhmm. That way if the if those guys can move on their own, and they use IO Link wireless to do that. Slip rings where certainly sending power, is is well known, but sometimes communication can be tricky via slip ring. Mhmm. Yeah. End of arm tooling, like robot robot end of arms where you have a you’re gonna change the tool at the end of the arm. It’s more lightweight, saving on on robot cost that way. Less fewer lighter robots can be used, but it’s it’s, it’s cool. It the architecture looks pretty much the same, where you have your field level, your IO, and instead of wired connections, it’s it’s simply a wireless connection. Is that wired? It’s it’s wireless. And and what’s different about IO Link Wireless is that it was built for industry. So I think in the past, people have been burned by wireless technologies that made some promises that didn’t maybe you know, they they couldn’t meet the the the the the rigorous environment and and requirements of of industry, but that was different. It was built for industry from the start. So it uses the two point two point four gig license free ISM band. And what we do is a is this frequency hopping so that we use the same IO link, you know, data structure. We do this frequency hopping, and it’s it’s a cycle of five milliseconds. So you’re not going to get that one millisecond time that you get via wired IO link. We do a five millisecond cycle time, and then it’s using this frequency hopping method. It’s basically cable grade, connection, 10 to the minus nine error probability. You can have hundreds of wireless devices in a machine, and it’s deterministic. It’s designed it is designed from the outside for both for control, of course, but, of course, also for for monitoring and maybe, like, a brownfield. You wanna you can’t get IO Link to a sensor or something that you can maybe use IO Link wireless to get access to some some hard to reach sensor. Shawn Tierney (Host): Well, you know, I thought that I think this is so

Chris Luecke with Manufacturing Happy Hour Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 49:22 Transcription Available

Industrial Talk is talking to Chris Luecke, Founder and Host of Manufacturing Happy Hour Podcast about "Complete focus on manufacturing success". Scott Mackenzie interviews Chris Luecke about his "Manufacturing Happy Hour" podcast. Chris, an engineer with a background in manufacturing and automation, discusses the podcast's origins, its evolution from a YouTube series to a leadership podcast, and its focus on collaboration and idea-sharing in the manufacturing industry. He emphasizes the importance of leveraging technology, such as AI and digital transformation, to enhance productivity and attract young talent. Chris also highlights the need for manufacturers to engage with the tech community and innovate to stay competitive. The conversation is punctuated by power outages but remains engaging and insightful. Action Items [ ] @Scott MacKenzie - Subscribe to the Manufacturing Happy Hour podcast. [ ] @Scott MacKenzie - Explore the concept of "exponential improvements" in manufacturing through automation and AI. [ ] @Scott MacKenzie - Consider ways for manufacturers to engage more actively with the broader tech community. [ ] Connect with Chris Luecke on LinkedIn. Outline Introduction and Technical Difficulties Scott MacKenzie introduces the Industrial Talk Podcast and highlights the importance of celebrating industry professionals. Scott mentions the technical difficulties faced during the recording due to power outages. Scott expresses gratitude to Chris Luecke for his participation and sets the stage for the conversation. Scott acknowledges the resilience of Chris and himself in continuing the conversation despite the technical issues. Chris Luecke's Background and Manufacturing Happy Hour Chris Luecke shares his background, starting as an engineer at Marquette University and working with Anheuser Busch and Rockwell Automation. Chris explains the origin of Manufacturing Happy Hour, a podcast that started as a YouTube series recorded on his iPhone. The podcast evolved into a leadership podcast, focusing on manufacturing and automation technology. Chris discusses his transition from a full-time job to a full-time content creator and community builder. The Journey to Podcasting Scott MacKenzie and Chris Luecke discuss their experiences with podcasting, including initial challenges and equipment choices. Chris shares his early podcasting journey with Pub Cast Worldwide, a podcast about drinking culture and craft beer. Chris emphasizes the importance of starting with basic equipment and gradually upgrading as the audience grows. Scott and Chris agree on the value of podcasting as a relationship-building tool in the B2B world. Impact and Purpose of Manufacturing Happy Hour Chris explains the purpose of Manufacturing Happy Hour, which is to bring people together to collaborate and share ideas over a beverage. The podcast aims to equip manufacturing leaders with tools, technologies, and insights through interviews with experts. Chris highlights the importance of the community aspect, where listeners can engage and learn from each other. Scott asks about the tangible benefits of the platform, and Chris shares examples of connections made through the podcast and events. Future of Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Chris discusses the future of manufacturing, emphasizing the importance of automation and...

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China's cyberstorm goes global.

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 27:10

Salt Typhoon marks China's most ambitious campaign yet. A major Google outage hit Southeastern Europe. A critical zero-day flaw in FreePBX gets patched. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claim the Jaguar Land Rover hack. Researchers uncover a major evolution in the XWorm backdoor campaign. GhostRedirector is a new China-aligned threat actor. CISA adds a pair of TP-Link router flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The feds put a $10 million bounty on three Russian FSB officers. Experts warn sweeping cuts to ODNI could cripple U.S. cyber defense. Our guest is Rick Kaun, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, discussing IT/OT convergence in securing critical water and wastewater systems. Google says rumors of Gmail's breach are greatly exaggerated. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn.CyberWire Guest Today our guest is Rick Kaun, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, who is talking about "IT/OT Convergence for Critical Water & Wastewater Security." Selected Reading ‘Unrestrained' Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American (The New York Times) Google Down in Eastern Europe (UPDATED) (Novinite Sofia News Agency) Sangoma Patches Critical Zero-Day Exploited to Hack FreePBX Servers (SecurityWeek) M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack (BBC) XWorm's Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive (Trellix) GhostRedirector poisons Windows servers: Backdoors with a side of Potatoes (welivesecurity by ESET) CISA Flags TP-Link Router Flaws CVE-2023-50224 and CVE-2025-9377 as Actively Exploited (The Cyber Security News) US offers $10 million bounty for info on Russian FSB hackers (Bleeping Computer) Cutting Cyber Intelligence Undermines National Security (FDD) No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords (Bleeping Computer) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

250: How to Uncover Your "Hidden Factory" and Extract More Value from the Plant Floor featuring Tri Tech Automation

MONEY FM 89.3 - Workday Afternoon with Claressa Monteiro

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2025 51:15

As manufacturers are under pressure to do more with less and somehow fill roles in an increasingly smaller talent pool, unlocking your “hidden factory” could be the solution.To celebrate episode 250, Chris Luecke returns home to St. Louis to meet with some of his early career mentors from Rockwell Automation – now heading up Tri Tech Automation.Ryan Williams, Director of Innovation and Solution Sales, Adam Ruebsam, President, and Luke Manier, Managing Director, sit down at Urban Chestnut Brewing Company for a trip down memory lane and a look forward to the future of manufacturing.The hidden factory concept is simple – how do we uncover the untapped potential in our existing resources? We talk about what that looks like for Tri Tech Automation and how they help customers find those new opportunities. Mentorship is a big theme in this conversation, so we discuss the importance of reaching out to the right people, whether you're new in your career or want to try something different.Plus, we look at what we can learn from the Savannah Bananas baseball team (believe it or not, we could learn a thing or two from their customer-first approach).Cheers to 250 episodes and counting!In this episode, find out:We start with the most important question – what beer did everyone pick?Ryan, Adam, and Luke introduce themselves and Tri Tech Automation, and Chris reminisces with his mentors from his Rockwell Automation daysHow Tri Tech Automation focuses on helping customers right-size their tech and find new solutions from their existing resourcesWhat is a hidden factory and how do you unlock more potential from what you already have?The most common issues that manufacturers struggle withReal stories about what unlocking a hidden factory really looks likeHow Tri Tech Automation is focused on a three-year plan to unlock its own hidden factories within the workforce, tech, and processes How they've unlocked potential across two different locationsWhat manufacturers can learn from the Savannah BananasAdvice for young people getting into the industry and for those already in manufacturingWhy mentors are the biggest bonus to your manufacturing careerEnjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:"The “hidden factory” represents the untapped potential to do more in their operations with the resources that they have. It represents the invisible inefficiencies and unutilized capacity." - Luke"It's business value first and technology second. We have to right-size the technology... but we really need to start with the business outcomes." - Adam“Customers know they've got inefficiencies, but they can't quantify it without the data. So it starts with gathering on the front end and then analyzing the low-hanging fruit, where the biggest improvements are.” - RyanLinks & mentions:Tri Tech Automation, a full-service control systems integrator providing R&D, controls design, programming, fabrication, start-up, and commissioning based in St. Louis and TulsaEOS - Entrepreneurial Operating System, a complete set of real-world tools that help entrepreneurs get what they want from their business

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Industry Insight: How AI and automation are reshaping manufacturing in Asia

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2025 18:56

Factories across Asia are turning to AI and automation to stay resilient amid rising costs, supply chain shocks, and talent shortages. On Industry Insight, Rockwell Automation’s Scott Wooldridge, Regional President, Asia Pacific explains to Lynlee Foo how smart factories are reshaping manufacturing, and why the future depends on people and technology working together.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Media server mayday.

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 29:33

Plex urges users to immediately update their Media Server due to an undisclosed security flaw. Cisco warns of a critical remote code execution flaw in their Secure Firewall Management Center software.Rockwell Automation discloses multiple critical and high-severity flaws. Hackers breached a Canadian House of Commons database. Active law enforcement and government email accounts are sold online for as little as $40. Telecom giant Colt Technology Services suffers a cyber incident disrupting its customer portal. Taiwan launches new measures to boost hospital cybersecurity after ransomware attacks. NIST has released a concept paper proposing control overlays for securing AI systems. A date with an AI chatbot ends in tragedy. Our guest is Randall Degges, Snyk's Head of Developer and Security Relations, to discuss how underqualified or outsourced coding support can open doors for nation-state threats. Dutch speed cameras are stuck in a cyber-induced siesta. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Randall Degges, Snyk's Head of Developer and Security Relations, to discuss how underqualified or outsourced coding support can open doors for nation-state threats. Selected Reading Plex warns users to patch security vulnerability immediately (Bleeping Computer) Cisco Discloses Critical RCE Flaw in Firewall Management Software (Infosecurity Magazine) Critical Flaws Patched in Rockwell FactoryTalk, Micro800, ControlLogix Products (SecurityWeek) CISA Releases Thirty-Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories (CISA.gov) Hackers Breach Canadian Government Via Microsoft Exploit (Bank Infosecurity) Compromised Government and Police Email Accounts on the Dark Web (Abnormal.AI) Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline (The Register) Taiwan announces measures to protect hospitals from hackers (Focus Taiwan) New NIST Concept Paper Outlines AI-Specific Cybersecurity Framework (Hack Read) A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. (Reuters) Dutch prosecution service attack keeps speed cameras offline (The Register) Audience Survey Complete our annual audience survey before August 31. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep. 221 - Manufacturing Intelligence: Data Collection, OEE, and Energy Monitoring Case Studies

Law Enforcement Today Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 69:36

In Episode 221 of Manufacturing Hub, hosts Vlad Romanov and Dave Griffith sit down without a guest to share valuable real-world lessons on data collection, manufacturing intelligence, and implementing solutions that deliver measurable ROI. This episode wraps up the month's theme on manufacturing intelligence by tying together the insights from previous episodes and putting them into the context of real plant-floor projects.Vlad begins with an in-depth story from his time at Procter & Gamble, where he led an energy monitoring project with the ambitious goal of reducing power consumption by 20 percent. He explains the practical challenges of turning a corporate initiative into an actionable plant-level strategy, from limited baseline data to deciding between standalone meters and integrated monitoring solutions. Vlad shares the lessons learned in balancing cost, data ownership, and scalability, and why a more open solution can sometimes offer greater long-term value than proprietary systems.Dave then takes us into the world of pet food manufacturing, where millions of dollars in raw materials can be lost each year due to inaccurate batching and poor measurement practices. He walks through the process of defining the problem, setting up data collection without overhauling legacy systems, and using that information to identify overages, improve tolerances, and design remediation strategies. The conversation dives into practical engineering decisions, such as when to invest in VFDs for precision dosing, when to redesign process equipment, and how to ensure data insights lead to lasting operational changes.The discussion expands into organizational challenges, including why decision-makers often lack actionable visibility into losses, how to present findings in terms of tangible business impact, and the cultural shift required to actually use the data once it is available. Vlad and Dave also explore examples from discrete manufacturing, where OEE tracking and daily direction setting (DDS) meetings help guide capital allocation, continuous improvement initiatives, and team alignment. They share observations on why some facilities succeed with these systems while others fall back into old habits.Timestamps00:00 Introduction to Episode 221 and monthly theme recap02:00 Vlad's background and approach to modernization projects04:50 Dave's background and focus on data-driven manufacturing solutions06:30 Recap of previous episodes on data collection, historians, and MTP/MCP07:30 Vlad's Procter & Gamble energy monitoring project case study13:40 Addressing power blips, capacitor banks, and ROI considerations19:10 Choosing between proprietary and open monitoring solutions23:40 Dave's pet food manufacturing story and raw material variance29:50 Methods for data collection without disrupting legacy systems34:20 Improving accuracy, process changes, and remediation strategies44:00 Organizational challenges in acting on data insights52:00 OEE, DDS meetings, and capital allocation in discrete manufacturing59:50 Predictions for the future of manufacturing intelligence and AI integrationReferences MentionedIgnition by Inductive Automation – https://inductiveautomation.com/Ignition Community Conference (ICC) – https://icc.inductiveautomation.com/Procter & Gamble – https://us.pg.com/Rockwell Automation – https://www.rockwellautomation.com/Mettler Toledo – https://www.mt.com/Badwater Ultramarathon – https://www.badwater.com/“Can't Hurt Me” by David Goggins – https://davidgoggins.com/book/About the HostsVlad Romanov works with manufacturers to modernize operations by bridging the gap between legacy systems and today's technology. He specializes in assessing current states, designing scalable architectures, and implementing solutions across control systems, SCADA, and MES infrastructures. His mission is to help plants run better from a technical and operational standpoint, whether through unlocking critical data from PLCs or leading full-scale digital transformation initiatives.Connect with Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladromanov/Dave Griffith has over 16 years of experience in automation and manufacturing, with a technical foundation in aviation and aerospace. His work spans from OEM manufacturing to food and beverage production, with a strong focus on data-driven projects that deliver ROI. Dave leads teams at Kaplan to unlock operational data, design integration strategies, and deploy solutions that improve efficiencies and reduce waste.Connect with Dave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegriffith/

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Police In Milwaukee The Violent Crime No One Talks About

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 39:52

Police In Milwaukee The Violent Crime No One Talks About. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known affectionately as “Cream City,” “Brew City,” and “The City of Festivals”, holds a cherished place in American culture. Many still associate Milwaukee with the hit sitcom "Laverne & Shirley", set in a 1950s brewery where two spirited friends tackled life's ups and downs. But beyond the nostalgia and vibrant social scene lies a darker reality, one that rarely makes headlines: the violent crime in Milwaukee no one talks about. This episode of The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast now streaming for free on their website, in addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most major social podcast platforms. “People picture the festivals, the lakefront, and maybe a Harley-Davidson roaring down the road,” says Patrick O'Donnell, a retired Milwaukee Police Sergeant turned author and podcaster. “But the violent crime? That doesn't make the postcards.” The episode is also promoted across their Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Medium and other social media platforms. Indeed, Milwaukee's crime statistics tell a sobering story. Once ranked among the ten most dangerous large cities in the U.S. in 2001 and 2007, Milwaukee continues to grapple with high rates of homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault. In 2015 alone, 146 people were murdered, a chilling figure that few outside the city are aware of. Police In Milwaukee The Violent Crime No One Talks About. Look for supporting stories about this and much more from Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast in platforms like Medium , Blogspot and Linkedin . Patrick O'Donnell knows these streets well. Born to Irish immigrant parents in Chicago, O'Donnell served for 25 years in the Milwaukee Police Department. “I've been on the scene of everything you can imagine, from homicides to sexual assaults and robberies,” he shares. “When I was still in field training, I arrested a suspect at gunpoint during a stabbing investigation. That one turned into a death investigation.” Available for free on their website and streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms Today, O'Donnell channels his experience into his "Cops and Writers" brand. Which includes his "Cops and Writers Podcast", available on Apple, Spotify, and his official website, offers crime writers a behind-the-scenes look at police work. He interviews cops, civilian experts, and authors, blending technical detail with the kind of cop humor that can only come from years on the job. “I want crime writers to get it right,” O'Donnell says. “And I want listeners to understand what really happens behind the badge.” The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast episode is available for free on their website , Apple Podcasts , Spotify and most major podcast platforms. O'Donnell has authored ten books, with "The Good Collar" his latest and he runs a Facebook group with over 7,500 members. His reach extends across social media, from Facebook to Instagram, where he connects with fans, writers, and fellow officers. “Social media gives us a way to shine a light on the parts of policing that the news doesn't cover,” he explains. Police In Milwaukee The Violent Crime No One Talks About. You can listen to his stories and interview on our website for free in addition to platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and other major podcast platforms. The "Cops and Writers Podcast" isn't just about crime statistics; it's about the stories behind the numbers. O'Donnell's guests open up about the pressures and triumphs of life in uniform. “It's the human side of policing that no one talks about,” O'Donnell says. While Milwaukee is home to major corporations like Harley-Davidson, Rockwell Automation, and Johnson Controls, and boasts a rich cultural and industrial history, violent crime remains a challenge. “Milwaukee is a great city, but like any big city, it has its struggles,” O'Donnell reflects. “That's the reality behind the social media snapshots.” The full podcast episode is streaming now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. For those looking to understand Milwaukee beyond its breweries and festivals, O'Donnell's work provides an unflinching look at the violent crime no one talks about. His books, podcast, and social media channels offer an authentic voice in a conversation often overshadowed by lighter headlines. You can follow Patrick O'Donnell's journey on his official website, join his Facebook group, or tune in to his podcast "Cops and Writers" or listen to the interview with him as a free Podcast on The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website, also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most places where you get your podcasts. His work is a reminder that behind every statistic is a story, and often, a hero who's lived it. Police In Milwaukee The Violent Crime No One Talks About. Time is running out to secure the Medicare coverage you deserve! Whether you're enrolling for the first time or looking for a better plan, our experts help you compare options to get more benefits, lower costs, and keep your doctors, all for free! Visit LetHealthy.com , that's LetHealthy.com or call (866) 427-1225, (866) 427-1222 to learn more. You can help contribute money to make the Gunrunner Movie . The film that Hollywood won't touch. It is about a now Retired Police Officer that was shot 6 times while investigating Gunrunning. He died 3 times during Medical treatment and was resuscitated. You can join the fight by giving a monetary “gift” to help ensure the making of his film at agunrunnerfilm.com . Your golden years are supposed to be easy and worry free, at least in regards to finances. If you are over 70, you can turn your life insurance policy into cash. Visit LetSavings.com , LetSavings.com or call (866) 480-4252, (866) 480-4252, again that's (866) 480 4252 to see if you qualify. 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Life sciences manufacturers overwhelmingly embrace smart tech: global survey

Off Script: A Pharma Manufacturing Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 5:00

Smart manufacturing is “nearly universal” with 95% of manufacturers saying they are using or evaluating smart technology, according to a new survey from Rockwell Automation. Greg Slabodkin Read by Brittany Duncan

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Designing the AI-First Operating Models: Generac, CBRE, and Rockwell Share Their Blueprint

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 31:51

984: In today's episode of Technovation, we feature a panel from our Metis Strategy Summit held on May 13, 2025 moderated by Peter High. The topic was Designing an AI-First Operating Model, and the executives who joined the discussion were Talal Butt, Chief Information Officer of Generac Power Systems; Ampily Vijay, Chief Digital & Technology Officer of CBRE Investment Management; and Chris Nardecchia, Chief Digital Officer of Rockwell Automation. Each shares frontline perspectives on embedding AI at scale from energy tech and industrial automation to real estate investment and operations. Together, they explore how enterprise leaders are shifting from isolated AI pilots to fully integrated operating models that prioritize data, talent, and measurable impact. From reshaping customer experiences and product ecosystems to building architecture for sustainable scale, this conversation delivers a playbook for moving beyond experimentation and into durable transformation.

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Building the Operating System for the Future of Automation with Ryan Gariepy of Clearpath Robotics

Tank Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 49:36

In this episode of Tank Talks, Matt Cohen chats with Ryan Gariepy, CTO and Co-Founder of Clearpath Robotics, on how a garage project from four Waterloo grads turned into one of Canada's biggest deep tech exits. Ryan takes us behind the scenes of Clearpath's $600M acquisition by Rockwell Automation and the company's journey from building robots for researchers to dominating the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) space.The conversation covers building during a hardware-unfriendly time, the harsh realities of supply chains, the open-source bet that changed robotics, and what it really feels like to pitch in a room of 50+ Rockwell execs. Ryan also breaks down why humanoid robots are still far off, the evolution of talent in robotics, and how Canada can stay in the game. A must-listen for anyone building in frontier tech, hard tech, or just trying to scale something real.Garage to Global Robotics Platform (00:00:49)* Building Clearpath as a first job out of university* From LEGO and sci-fi to industrial-grade robots* “We didn't incorporate until we sold our first piece of vaporware.”* Early clients and funding in a post-2008 downturnFinding Product-Market Fit in Robotics (00:07:22)* Observing where researchers were getting bored and the industry was getting excited* Why they skipped the self-driving car race and focused on logistics* Clearpath's strategic bets: industrial automation, mining, and inventory trackingThe Role of Strategic Investors (00:10:00)* Caterpillar, GE, and Hyundai backed Clearpath with market-aligned capital* “They were bought into the vision before the checks were written.”The Rockwell Deal: Behind the $600M Exit (00:10:48)* Term sheet to close in five months: “It felt like an eternity.”* Surviving a 50-person technical due diligence call* Lessons from being tested by Fortune 500 execs: “I'm proud I made it through.”* On integration: "Separate your identity from your company early, it helps."Post-Acquisition Life and Scaling with Rockwell (00:16:16)* Transitioning from founder to employee* How joining Rockwell offered the scale Clearpath couldn't build alone* The upside of collaborating with seasoned technical leadersROS, Open Source, and the OSRA Launch (00:17:11)* Founding the Open Source Robotics Alliance* Making open-source robotics enterprise-ready* “We want people to build on reliable tools, not reinvent the wheel.”AI, Hype vs. Reality in Robotics (00:20:03)* Why LLMs aren't yet revolutionizing robot performance* Cautioning against overhyping early AI integrations* “Writing the algorithm is the easy part, everything around it is the hard part.”The Evolution of Robotic Talent (00:23:07)* From grad-school coders to cross-industry engineering pros* Production-grade code becoming the standard* The underrated value of hiring low-ego, heads-down engineers earlyLessons from Scaling Hardware Through Crisis (00:27:23)* Navigating power cable shortages during COVID* Being vertically integrated saved them barely* “Our margins took a hit, but our suppliers knew we were long-term partners.”Why Autonomy in Plants Will Win (00:34:07)* Factory robots vs. public-road self-driving cars* Simpler operational environments = faster ROI* “We already have the existence proof for factory autonomy.”The Future of Robotics (00:36:59)* Hoping for better sensors, especially depth cameras* Small, on-device AI models for better HRI (Human-Robot Interaction)* “The tech isn't quite conscious, but we're close to robots that can explain themselves.”About Ryan GariepyRyan Gariepy is the CTO and Co-Founder of Clearpath Robotics, a Waterloo-born robotics company that pioneered open-source development in autonomous mobile robots. In 2023, Clearpath was acquired for $600M USD by Rockwell Automation. Ryan is a board member of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, co-chair of the Canadian Robotics Council, and a vocal advocate for AI and robotics leadership in Canada.Connect with Ryan Gariepy on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/rgariepyVisit Clearpath Robotics Website: https://clearpathrobotics.com/Connect with Matt Cohen on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/matt-cohen1Visit the Ripple Ventures website: https://www.rippleventures.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tanktalks.substack.com

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Rockwell’s New Ethernet/IP In-Cabinet Solution (P237)

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Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 43:56 Transcription Available

Shawn Tierney meets up with Kelly Passineau of Rockwell Automation to learn about their new EtherNet/IP In-cabinet solution for networking motor starters, push buttons, and more in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For any links related to this episode, check out the “Show Notes” located below the video. Watch The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: Listen to The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: The “After Show” for Members: Additional Thoughts & Comments Note: As The Automation Show “After Show” is a member/supporter only perk, the above video is not accessible to non-members. Learn more about our membership options here. The Automation Podcast, Episode 237 Show Notes: Special thanks to Kelly for coming on the show, and to Rockwell Automation for sponsoring this episode so we could release this episode Ad Free! Below you’ll find links to more information about their Ethernet/IP In-Cabinet solution: Product Website eBook/Brochure User Manual Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content

Ep. 206 - From Plant Floor to Strategy: Ryan Cahalane on Fixing What Matters in Manufacturing

@BEERISAC: CPS/ICS Security Podcast Playlist

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 73:54

We're kicking off a new theme—Faces You Should Know in Manufacturing—with none other than Ryan Cahalane, Managing Partner at Axiom Manufacturing Systems. Ryan's path through manufacturing is anything but ordinary: from plant floor engineering at Goodyear, to leadership roles at GE, Rockwell Automation, OSIsoft, and more, Ryan has worked every angle of the manufacturing ecosystem.In this episode, Ryan joins Dave and Vlad to unpack the biggest real challenges manufacturers are facing today—not the buzzwords, not the hype, but the deep, persistent problems slowing progress across the industry.We discuss:Why there's no one-size-fits-all solution—and why misalignment is more common than we admitThe skill gap crisis: it's not just about training, it's about pay, experience, and opportunityThe AI distraction: why most companies aren't ready, and how AI is best used today in manufacturingThe dangers of LinkedIn echo chambers and shiny object syndrome in tech selectionWhy engineers struggle to move into consulting—and why they shouldn't be afraid to tryThe unique challenges (and hope) in mid-market manufacturing—and how nimble companies can still winThe need for a Sherpa, not a savior: how consultants should support, not dictateRyan's story is filled with rich personal insights: from trading stocks and working at Deloitte, to recovering from a stroke and launching Axiom, he brings a grounded, field-tested perspective that connects strategy, operations, and technology in ways few others can.If you're a plant manager, engineer, executive, or someone who helps manufacturers grow—this conversation will challenge your assumptions, validate your experiences, and probably make you laugh.This isn't just another talk about “digital transformation.” It's a real look at what it takes to lead, adapt, and deliver in a manufacturing world that refuses to sit still.

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Robotics Rundown

Eagle Nation Online

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 5:56

In this exclusive episode, sophomore Gracie Patterson gives a rundown on the upcoming robotics competition. Robotalons and juniors Aryan Kammilli, Roman Peralta, and Abhi Mukkavili discuss their roles in the competition. The competition consists of 28 teams from Texas and New Mexico. For the past 9 weeks, their team worked to collaborate and build different robots to compete and win. The Robotalons also won their first ever award, the "Creativity Award" sponsored by Rockwell Automation. This episode dives into the preparation leading up to the competition.

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5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 8:47

Podcast: Automation Chat (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial CybersecurityPub date: 2025-04-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, The Journal's Digital Editor Maggie MacHale brings the written word to life by reading the article, “5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity.” It's written by Kamil Karmali, Senior Global Commercial Manager of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. You'll learn how a three-phase protection strategy and mandatory regulatory reporting requirements can help safeguard manufacturing systems from evolving cyber threats. Resources from this episode: Read the article online: “5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity.” Subscribe to our 4 digital magazines and monthly e-newsletter at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe. Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from the information. And kindly give us a 5-star rating and a review. 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. Got a topic you want us to cover? Questions or comments? Email Executive Editor Theresa Houck at thouck@endeavorb2b.com. ** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022 - 2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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Chrome & Firefox squash the latest flaws.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 30:28

Google and Mozilla patch nearly two dozen security flaws. The UK's Royal Mail Group sees 144GB of data stolen and leaked. A bizarre campaign looks to recruit cybersecurity professionals to hack Chinese websites. PostgreSQL servers with weak credentials have been compromised for cryptojacking. Google Cloud patches a vulnerability affecting its Cloud Run platform. Oracle faces a class-action lawsuit over alleged cloud services data breaches. CISA releases ICS advisories detailing vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation and Hitachi Energy products. General Paul Nakasone offers a candid assessment of America's evolving cyber threats. On today's CertByte segment, a look at the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies exam. Are AI LLMs more like minds or mirrors? Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CertByte Segment Welcome to CertByte! On this bi-weekly segment hosted by Chris Hare, a content developer and project management specialist at N2K, we share practice questions from N2K's suite of industry-leading certification resources, this week, Chris is joined by Troy McMillan to break down a question targeting the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR) v1.1 exam. Today's question comes from N2K's Cisco CCNP Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies ENCOR (350-401) Practice Test. The ENCOR exam enables candidates to earn the Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core certification, which can also be used to meet exam requirements for several other Cisco certifications. Have a question that you'd like to see covered? Email us at certbyte@n2k.com. If you're studying for a certification exam, check out N2K's full exam prep library of certification practice tests, practice labs, and training courses by visiting our website at n2k.com/certify.To get the full news to knowledge experience, learn more about our N2K Pro subscription at https://thecyberwire.com/pro. Please note: The questions and answers provided here, and on our site, are not actual current or prior questions and answers from these certification publishers or providers. Additional source: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/training-certifications/exams/encor.html Selected Reading Chrome 135, Firefox 137 Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) Royal Mail Group Loses 144GB to Infostealers: Same Samsung Hacker, Same 2021 Infostealer Log (Infostealers) Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign (TechCrunch) Ongoing cryptomining campaign hits over 1.5K PostgreSQL servers (SC Media) ImageRunner Flaw Exposed Sensitive Information in Google Cloud (SecurityWeek) Google Brings End-to-End Encrypted Emails to All Enterprise Gmail Users (SecurityWeek) Oracle now faces class action amid alleged data breaches (The Register) CISA Releases Two ICS Advisories for Vulnerabilities, & Exploits Surrounding ICS (Cyber Security News) Exclusive: Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest cyber threat (The Record) Large AI models are cultural and social technologies (Science) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 8:47

In this episode, The Journal's Digital Editor Maggie MacHale brings the written word to life by reading the article, “5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity.” It's written by Kamil Karmali, Senior Global Commercial Manager of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. You'll learn how a three-phase protection strategy and mandatory regulatory reporting requirements can help safeguard manufacturing systems from evolving cyber threats. Resources from this episode: Read the article online: “5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity.” Subscribe to our 4 digital magazines and monthly e-newsletter at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe. Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from the information. And kindly give us a 5-star rating and a review. 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. Got a topic you want us to cover? Questions or comments? Email Executive Editor Theresa Houck at thouck@endeavorb2b.com. ** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022 - 2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence.

416. Master the Skill of Facilitation with Therese Miclot

Speak With Power

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 35:52

Being a great facilitator is a part of being a masterful presenter and leader. Tune into my conversation with Therese Miclot and learn:How to define and understand facilitationWhy facilitation is an essential skill of leadership Why it's hard for some people to facilitate a meetingHow to engage audiences if they're too quiet and reluctant to respondHow to become a better facilitatorHow to develop the skill of impromptu speakingHow to find your personal facilitation styleHow to manage up using your facilitation skills.Therese is a leadership development expert and co-author of The Facilitation Advantage. She helps leaders gain the skills to increase their impact and guide teams effectively.Her track record spans tech, manufacturing, banking, media, and retail including Meta, NewYork Stock Exchange, Madison Square Garden, FanDuel, Citi, Chanel, Toro, Rockwell Automation and BNY Mellon.Take the free self-assessment at The Facilitation Advantage. https://www.thefacilitationadvantage.com/Connect with Therese:https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresemiclot/https://www.theresemiclot.com/https://www.thefacilitationadvantage.com/

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"Point on wave" motor starter sets new performance standard

Control Amplified

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 21:44

It's often said that good things come in small packages, and that adage seems especially apt in describing Rockwell Automation's new M100 Electronic Motor Starter. In this special Solutions Spotlight episode of Control Amplified, group publisher Keith Larson speaks to Bill Meindl, Jr., business manager for industrial components at Rockwell on the M100 functionality and highlights.

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Episode 204 - Gary Ballesteros

The Ethics Experts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 47:59

In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Gary Ballesteros. Gary Ballesteros is Vice President, Law, Chief Compliance Officer and Ombuds. He leads the team of compliance professionals who oversee Rockwell Automation's compliance with regulatory requirements around the globe. Under his leadership, Rockwell has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Magazine. As the Company's Ombuds, Gary serves a critical role in the Company's culture of ethics and integrity. The Ombuds has a direct reporting authority to the Board of Directors and is empowered to investigate any claims or allegations of misconduct within the Company. The Ombuds maintains a variety of hotline reporting mechanisms that can be accessed anonymously by any employee worldwide; and he also manages a staff of investigative personnel and counsel who investigate any reported violations of our Code of Conduct.

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What’s New & Next with Logix and 5590/L9 (P234)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025

Shawn Tierney meets up with Liz Prosak and Dennis Wylie of Rockwell Automation to learn what’s new and next about Logix, including what’s new with the 5590 L9 Controller, all in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For any links related to this episode, check out the “Show Notes” located below the video. Watch The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: Member’s Only Extended “RAW” Edition: Listen to The Automation Podcast from The Automation Blog: The Automation Podcast, Episode 234 Show Notes: Special thanks to Liz and Dennis for coming on the show, and to Rockwell Automation for sponsoring this episode so we could release it Ad Free! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content

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Connected Workers Help Boost Manufacturing Efficiency: Solution Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 22:07

** Named “Best Podcast” 3 Consecutive Years! 2022-2024 Apex Award of Publication Excellence. In this episode, Executive Editor Theresa Houck chats with Anthony Murphy, Vice President of Product Management at Plex, by Rockwell Automation, about: How manufacturing is evolving. Plex Connected Worker solutions with step-by-step guidance while automating low-value tasks. How workers use it. How it helps with the skilled worker shortage. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Watch their discussion on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8Pm670QAO9E. Plex Connected Worker solutions. Learn about Plex, by Rockwell Automation. Free eBook, “Quality Management for Dummies,” by Anthony Murphy, VP of Product Management and Brian Martensen, Product Manager, Plex, by Rockwell Automation Subscribe to our 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 hit the Share icon and share this episode with colleagues who would find this information helpful.

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Ep. 195 - Unlocking Digital Transformation: The Unified Namespace, Industrial Data, and Prove It!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 71:53

Welcome to Manufacturing Hub, where we dive deep into the world of industrial automation, software, and digital transformation. In this episode, hosts Dave and Vlad are joined by Zach Scriven, an industrial automation expert, digital transformation evangelist, and a key player in the development of Prove It, a groundbreaking industry conference.This conversation explores a range of topics, from Zach's personal journey in industrial automation and SCADA integration to his pioneering work in digital transformation education. We discuss Unified Namespace (UNS)—a powerful framework for structuring and scaling industrial data—and its role in breaking down silos and creating scalable, interoperable architectures.Key Topics Discussed:✅ Zach Scriven's Background: His journey from SCADA integration in the water industry to co-founding 4.0 Solutions and IoT University.✅ Unified Namespace (UNS): What it is, why it matters, and how it enables scalable industrial data architectures.✅ Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: The need for a clear strategy, the challenges of data silos, and the shift toward IT-OT convergence.✅ Edge Computing & Industrial Data Platforms: How Ignition, MQTT, Litmus Edge, HighByte, and HiveMQ are changing the landscape of industrial automation.✅ Challenges in Legacy Industrial Systems: How companies with aging infrastructure can begin their digital transformation journey.✅ The Future of Industrial Conferences – Prove It: Why traditional conferences fail to deliver value and how Prove It is disrupting the model by requiring vendors to "prove" their solutions in a real-world simulated environment.References & Companies Mentioned:

Secure, Zero-Touch, Fault-Tolerant Edge Computing Platform: Product Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 5:51

In this exclusive episode of our “Automation Chat” podcast from the Automation Fair 2024 show floor, The Journal's Managing Editor Amanda Joshi talks with Mike Wurster, Director of Strategic Alliances and Dave Ulmer, Channel Support Engineer at Stratus Technologies. Learn about the company's ztC Edge, a secure, zero-touch, DIN-rail mountable edge-computing platform with built-in virtualization and fault-tolerant workload protection. With industrial interoperability and OT manageability, it enables quick, easy delivery of both highly available and fault-tolerant virtualized edge applications. Also learn how the company collaborates with Claroty, Fortinet and Rockwell Automation to include pre-validated cybersecurity protection. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Watch their discussion on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rAW7qSGVu_I. Learn more about Stratus Technologies. 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.

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Cats and RATS are all the rage.

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 32:30

Hackers linked to China and Iran are using AI to enhance cyberattacks. An AI-powered messaging tool for Slack and Discord is reportedly leaking user data. British engineering giant Smiths Group suffers a cyberattack. Rockwell Automation details critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. Researchers warn of new side-channel vulnerabilities in Apple CPUs. The Hellcat ransomware gang looks to humiliate its victims. SparkRAT targets macOS users and government entities. Flashpoint looks at FleshStealer malware. Cybercriminals leverage trust in government websites. Our guest is Ivan Novikov, CEO at Wallarm, sharing insights on the recent United States ruling that bars certain Chinese and Russian connected car tech from being imported into the US. QR code shenanigans. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Our guest is Ivan Novikov, CEO at Wallarm, sharing insights on the recent United States ruling that bars certain Chinese and Russian connected car tech from being imported into the US and its impact. Selected Reading Chinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using U.S. AI Products to Bolster Cyberattacks (Wall Street Journal) Update: Cybercriminals still not fully on board the AI train (yet) (Sophos) Unprotected AI service streams private Slack messages for 30 bucks a month (Cybernews) Engineering giant Smiths Group discloses security breach (Bleeping Computer) Rockwell Patches Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Several Products (SecurityWeek) New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steal data from browsers (Bleeping Computer) SLAP (Predictors Fail) Meow-ware gang: the cyber cats who humiliate their prey (Cybernews) Hackers Attacking Windows, macOS, and Linux systems With SparkRAT (GB Hackers) Unmasking FleshStealer: A New Infostealer Threat in 2025 (Flashpoint) Threat Actors Exploit Government Websites for Phishing (Infosecurity Magazine) Christian Walther: "@gvy_dvpont Got me thinking… c…" (Mastodon) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ODVA-Compliant Universal Industrial Gateway for Multiprotocol Systems: BONUS Product Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025 5:55

In this special episode of our “Automation Chat” podcast from the Automation Fair 2024 expo floor, The Journal's Managing Editor Amanda Joshi talks with Garrett Edwards, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Spectrum Controls. Learn about the company's Universal Industrial Gateway with 12 protocols, a single-box solution for multidevice/multiprotocol systems that's now ODVA compliant, meaning it's EtherNet/IP™ capable. Also learn about developments on its 5069-OV16F-SC output module and 5069-IV16F-SC input modules for Allen-Bradley® Compact 5000™ I/O systems from Rockwell Automation, and Spectrum's 1769 OV and IQ I/O modules. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Watch their discussion on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rEGyT9IfkxU. Learn more about Spectrum Controls. 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.

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Automation & Manufacturing News Report, January 2025

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 10:27

** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022-2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence. In our January 2025 news report, The Journal's Executive Editor Theresa Houck's updates include Rockwell Automation's smart water technology award, a major U.S. Dept. of Energy grants for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, and some new product announcements. Other topics include: ODVA-Certified Passive Harmonic Filter Technology. FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI quality inspection platform. Illinois Smart Manufacturing Lighthouse Program federal grant. ODVA process device profiles for RTD and thermocouple temperature sensors. New distribution fuses. New industrial cameras with embedded AI core. And more. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Trans-Coil International (TCI) PQconnect passive harmonic filter technology. Learn about the FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI quality inspection platform. Learn about Kezzler's Connected Products Platform. Learn about the IMPERX Panther Series of Deep Learning industrial vision cameras. Learn about Mersen's MDC15D Series Distribution Fuses. Subscribe to The Journal's 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe. Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from the information. And kindly leave us a 5-star rating and a review. 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).

217: The Intersection of Energy, Automation, and Construction with FTI's Kevin Senn

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 48:48

FTI are at the center of some of the most important macro trends taking place in manufacturing today. From building biodigesters to driving innovations in energy solutions, they are helping companies optimize production systems, use automation, and address sustainability challenges. So how do they do it? In this episode, we're joined by FTI's Kevin Senn to discuss trends in manufacturing and automation, the growth of data centers, AI, and more. Kevin highlights how FTI differentiates from their competitors by offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions, from high-concept development and engineering consultation to full design services, in-house manufacturing, and automation packages. We also cover FTI's unique approach to industrialized construction, including their approach to offsite prefabrication, and explore Kevin's transition from a solutions architect to Director of Automation. Finally, we discuss how energy is the common thread that binds the seemingly diffuse sectors in which FTI operates.In this episode, find out:FTI's ‘pathway to smarter energy' - a stepwise approach to helping customers become energy independentWhy energy resilience is something that every company can enjoy and be customized to fit individual needsHow FTI capitalized on emerging markets thirty years agoWhat the manufacturing industry looks like going into 2025 with regards to automation and sustainabilityThe trend towards prefabricated buildings and why this is happeningWhy FTI has seen such growth in the data center space, especially with electric vehicle infrastructureWhy automation is integral to creating efficient and scalable solutions Why a level of responsibility and ownership is needed when using AI, especially considering sustainabilityEnjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:“A lot of the growth that the company is seeing at the moment is tied to that data center market growth.”“There were some really conscious decisions that the leadership team of this company made looking at these emerging markets.”“Resilience, I think, is something that every company can achieve.”Links & mentions:Rockwell Automation, an American provider of industrial automation and digital transformation technologiesFTI, a dynamic organization leveraging unified growth to create unparalleled possibilities and shape the future of energy Raised Grain Brewing, located in Waukesha, WI, this brewery has an extensive beer lineup that often pays tribute to local guitar hero Les PaulMake sure to visit http://manufacturinghappyhour.com for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

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Ukraine's fight to restore critical data.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 38:34

Russian hackers attack Ukraine's state registers. NotLockBit is a new ransomware strain targeting macOS and Windows. Sophos discloses three critical vulnerabilities in its Firewall product. The BadBox botnet infects over 190,000 Android devices. BeyondTrust patches two critical vulnerabilities. Hackers stole $2.2 billion from cryptocurrency platforms in 2024. Officials dismantle a live sports streaming piracy ring. Rockwell Automation patches critical vulnerabilities in a device used for energy control in industrial systems. A new report from Dragos highlights ransomware groups targeting industrial sectors. A Ukrainian national is sentenced to 60 months in prison for distributing the Raccoon Infostealer malware. We bid a fond farewell to our colleague Rick Howard, who's retiring after years of inspiring leadership, wisdom, and camaraderie. The LockBit gang tease what's yet to come. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today's guest segment is bittersweet as we bid farewell to our beloved Rick Howard, who's retiring after years of inspiring leadership, wisdom, and camaraderie. Join us in celebrating his incredible journey, sharing heartfelt memories, and letting him know just how deeply he'll be missed by all of us here at N2K. Selected Reading Ukraine's state registers hit with one of Russia's largest cyberattacks, officials say (The Record) NotLockBit - Previously Unknown Ransomware Attack Windows & macOS (GB Hackers) Critical Sophos Firewall Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Remote Code (Cyber Security News) Botnet of 190,000 BadBox-Infected Android Devices Discovered (SecurityWeek) BeyondTrust Security Incident — Command Injection and Escalation Weaknesses (CVE-2024-12356, CVE-2024-12686) (SOCRadar) Crypto-Hackers Steal $2.2bn as North Koreans Dominate (Infosecurity Magazine) Massive live sports piracy ring with 812 million yearly visits taken offline (Bleeping Computer) Rockwell PowerMonitor Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Hacking of Industrial Systems (SecurityWeek) Ransomware Attackers Target Industries with Low Downtime Tolerance (Infosecurity Magazine) Ukrainian Raccoon Infostealer Operator Sentenced to Prison in US (SecurityWeek) NetWalker Ransomware Operator Sentenced For Hacking Hundreds Of Organizations (Cyber Security News) LockBit Admins Tease a New Ransomware Version (Infosecurity Magazine) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BONUS Product & Manufacturing News Report, December 12, 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 13:22

** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022-2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence. In our bonus news report this month, The Journal's Executive Editor Theresa Houck's updates include life sciences market trends as well as new products announcements. Some of this episode's topics include: Fortinet's new innovation hub in Chicago. Integration of the Rockwell Automation NVIDIA Omniverse programming interfaces into the Rockwell Automation Emulate3D digital-twin software. Rockwell Automation & Microsoft's advanced cloud and AI solutions. Festo's suite of pneumatic systems safety products. HPS Smart Transformers from Hammond Power Solutions. ProSoft Technology's IEC 61850 ControlLogix module. Hardy Process Solutions' HI5069-WS Series weight modules for Rockwell Automation Compact5000 PLCs. And more. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: 1756 ControlLogix Integrated Motion Module Migration from AMCI. Hammond Power Solutions HPS Smart Transformers. IEC 61850 ControlLogix module from ProSoft Technology. Learn about HMS Networks. To subscribe to our 4 print magazines (Feb., May, July and Oct.), e-mail Anna Hicks at ahicks@endeavorbusinessmedia.com. Subscribe to our 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe. Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from it. And kindly leave us a 5-star rating and a review. 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).

First Look: Automation & Manufacturing News, December 10, 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 7:10

** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022-2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence. In this episode's news report, The Journal's Executive Editor Theresa Houck provides updates about: 2025 smart manufacturing and mobility trends & predictions, including GM layoffs, Chinese manufacturers relocating and more. Endress+Hauser's TÜV Rheinland IEC 62443-4-1 security standard certification. Key leadership changes at Fluke Corp. and Rockwell Automation. HMS Networks' reorganization into three divisions. And more. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Learn about HMS Networks. To subscribe to our 4 print magazines (Feb., May, July and Oct.), e-mail Anna Hicks at ahicks@endeavorbusinessmedia.com. Subscribe to our 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe. Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from it. And kindly leave us a 5-star rating and a review. 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).

The NTLM bug that sees and steals.

The Talent Development Hot Seat

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 34:11

Researchers uncover a critical Windows zero-day. An alleged Ukrainian cyberattack targets one of Russia's largest banks. Russian group BlueAlpha exploits CloudFlare services. Microsoft flags Chinese hacking group Storm-0227 for targeting critical infrastructure and U.S. government agencies. SonicWall patches high-severity vulnerabilities in its secure access gateway. Atrium Health reports a data breach affecting over half a million individuals. Rockwell Automation discloses four critical vulnerabilities in its Arena software. U.S. authorities arrest an alleged member of the Scattered Spider gang. Our guest is Hugh Thompson, RSAC program committee chair, discussing the 2025 Innovation Sandbox Contest and its new investment component. C3PO gets caught in the crypto mines. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Joining Dave today is Hugh Thompson, RSAC program committee chair, discussing the 2025 Innovation Sandbox Contest and its new investment component. Read more details in the press release. Selected Reading New Windows 7 To 11 Warning As Zero-Day With No Official Fix Confirmed (Forbes) Russian users report Gazprombank outages amid alleged Ukrainian cyberattack (The Record) BlueAlpha Russian hackers caught abusing CloudFlare services (SC Media) U.S. org suffered four month intrusion by Chinese hackers (Bleeping Computer) Microsoft: Another Chinese cyberspy crew targeting US critical orgs 'as of yesterday' (The Register) SonicWall Patches 6 Vulnerabilities in Secure Access Gateway (SecurityWeek) Mitel MiCollab zero-day and PoC exploit unveiled (Help Net Security) Atrium Health Data Breach Impacts 585,000 People (SecurityWeek) Rockwell Automation Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Remote Code (Cyber Security News) US arrests Scattered Spider suspect linked to telecom hacks (Bleeping Computer) Nebraska Man pleads guilty to $3.5 million cryptojacking scheme (Bleeping Computer) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Healing at Work: Transforming Trauma and Stress for Workplace Success with Susan J Schmitt Winchester

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 33:06

Today we have a remarkable keynote presentation from the Talent Development Think Tank Conference in February 2023. Our special guest, Susan Winchester, a former Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Applied Materials and Rockwell Automation, will share her transformative journey and insights into healing in the workplace.In this episode, Susan will share:Her personal struggles with alcoholism and depressionThe impact of limiting beliefsHow her past experiences shaped her careerInsight on neuroplasticity and positive psychology How adopting the PERMA model can lead to flourishing at workSusan introduces the concept of being an "Adult Survivor of a Damaged Past" and how understanding both big and small traumas can help us manage current workplace behavior and mental health. Susan's insights will teach us how to use workplace dynamics as opportunities for personal growth and emotional resilience.Susan Winchester is a transformative figure in the world of talent development and a former senior HR executive. Previously serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Applied Materials and Rockwell Automation, Susan has now dedicated her career to teaching the principles of "healing at work." After delivering a phenomenal keynote presentation at the Talent Development Think Tank conference, Susan has made a significant impact on many by sharing her powerful story. Her transition from corporate HR to a role focused on personal and professional healing illustrates her commitment to improving workplace environments and individual well-being. A valued friend to many in the industry, Susan continues to inspire and lead others towards greater fulfillment in their careers.Connect with Andy Storch:WebsiteLinkedInJoin us in the Talent Development Think Tank Community!Join us at the Talent Development Think Tank ConferenceConnect with Susan J Schmitt Winchester:LinkedInWebsite

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205: How to Leverage GenAI to Get Out of "Pilot Purgatory" and Address Your Workforce Challenges with Rockwell Automation's Andrew Hastert

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 59:47

In the face of a looming talent crisis, with over 3 million manufacturing jobs expected to remain unfilled in the next decade, the industry is turning to generative AI as a vital solution. Host Chris Luecke talks with Andrew Hastert, Director of Digital Strategy and Portfolio at Rockwell Automation, in this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour about how GenAI can not only streamline operations but also empower a new generation of workers who may lack traditional manufacturing experience.They cover GenAI's ability to simplify complex tasks, such as programming and troubleshooting, which could significantly reduce the barriers for entry-level employees and help preserve critical tribal knowledge that is at risk of being lost as experienced workers retire.As generative AI continues to evolve, it promises to transform how manufacturers approach workforce challenges. And, in this conversation, Chris and Andrew shed light on its potential to not just fill gaps but also enhance productivity and innovation within manufacturing.In this episode, find out:Andrew defines AI as applying math to data to derive insights not possible with traditional methods, using powerful parallel computingHe explains how GenAI uses the transformer model to create new patterns based on existing ones, widening access to AI capabilitiesHear how the manufacturing industry faces a significant talent shortage, with over 3 million unfilled jobs projected in the next decadeLearn how GenAI can help address workforce challenges by simplifying complex tasks like programming and troubleshootingAndrew talks about data management and AI integration How AI is seen as the top technology to address workforce challenges due to its ability to capture and utilize tribal knowledgeEscaping Pilot Purgatory with GenAIHow The State of Smart Manufacturing report indicates that talent remains the biggest challenge for industrial companiesManufacturers are advised to focus on their biggest business challenges first, then consider how AI can help address themEnjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:“I think the promise of generative AI is to dramatically simplify how we take our information, our support documentation, our tribal knowledge, document it, and get it into a large language model.”“Generative AI is just an application of AI using the transformer model to get new patterns generated, based on former patterns.”“Generative AI is not just about automation; it's about empowering new workers to tackle complex tasks that traditionally required years of experience.”Links & mentions:Rockwell Automation, the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation, digital transformation, and information solutionsState of Smart Manufacturing Report, insights on AI, industrial SaaS, and more based of surveying hundreds of manufacturing leadersDemonFlyingFox, AI artist who uses MidJourney AI to bring Balenciaga to the world of Harry PotterThe Vanguard, a Milwaukee whiskey and comfort cuisine institution specializing in late-night, house-made sausage...

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