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Shawn Tierney meets up with Connor Mason of Software Toolbox to learn their company, products, as well as see a demo of their products in action 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 248 Show Notes: Special thanks to Software Toolbox for sponsoring this episode so we could release it “ad free!” To learn about Software Toolbox please checkout the below links: TOP Server Cogent DataHub Industries Case studies Technical blogs Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Welcome back to the automation podcast. My name is Shawn Tierney with Insights and Automation, and I wanna thank you for tuning back in this week. Now this week on the show, I meet up with Connor Mason from Software Toolbox, who gives us an overview of their product suite, and then he gives us a demo at the end. And even if you’re listening, I think you’re gonna find the demo interesting because Connor does a great job of talking through what he’s doing on the screen. With that said, let’s go ahead and jump into this week’s episode with Connor Mason from Software Toolbox. I wanna welcome Connor from Software Toolbox to the show. Connor, it’s really exciting to have you. It’s just a lot of fun talking to your team as we prepared for this, and, I’m really looking forward to because I just know in your company over the years, you guys have so many great solutions that I really just wanna thank you for coming on the show. And before you jump into talking about products and technologies Yeah. Could you first tell us just a little bit about yourself? Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. Thanks, Shawn, for having us on. Definitely a pleasure to be a part of this environment. So my name is Connor Mason. Again, I’m with Software Toolbox. We’ve been around for quite a while. So we’ll get into some of that history as well before we get into all the the fun technical things. But, you know, I’ve worked a lot with the variety of OT and IT projects that are ongoing at this point. I’ve come up through our support side. It’s definitely where we grow a lot of our technical skills. It’s a big portion of our company. We’ll get that into that a little more. Currently a technical application consultant lead. So like I said, I I help run our support team, help with these large solutions based projects and consultations, to find what’s what’s best for you guys out there. There’s a lot of different things that in our in our industry is new, exciting. It’s fast paced. Definitely keeps me busy. My background was actually in data analytics. I did not come through engineering, did not come through the automation, trainings at all. So this is a whole new world for me about five years ago, and I’ve learned a lot, and I really enjoyed it. So, I really appreciate your time having us on here, Shawn Tierney (Host): Shawn. Well, I appreciate you coming on. I’m looking forward to what you’re gonna show us today. I had a the audience should know I had a little preview of what they were gonna show, so I’m looking forward to it. Connor Mason (Guest): Awesome. Well, let’s jump right into it then. So like I said, we’re here at Software Toolbox, kinda have this ongoing logo and and just word map of connect everything, and that’s really where we lie. Some people have called us data plumbers in the past. It’s all these different connections where you have something, maybe legacy or something new, you need to get into another system. Well, how do you connect all those different points to it? And, you know, throughout all these projects we worked on, there’s always something unique in those different projects. And we try to work in between those unique areas and in between all these different integrations and be something that people can come to as an expert, have those high level discussions, find something that works for them at a cost effective solution. So outside of just, you know, products that we offer, we also have a lot of just knowledge in the industry, and we wanna share that. You’ll kinda see along here, there are some product names as well that you might recognize. Our top server and OmniServer, we’ll be talking about LOPA as well. It’s been around in the industry for, you know, decades at this point. And also our symbol factory might be something you you may have heard in other products, that they actually utilize themselves for HMI and and SCADA graphics. That is that is our product. So you may have interacted it with us without even knowing it, and I hope we get to kind of talk more about things that we do. So before we jump into all the fun technical things as well, I kind of want to talk about just the overall software toolbox experience as we call it. We’re we’re more than just someone that wants to sell you a product. We we really do work with, the idea of solutions. How do we provide you value and solve the problems that you are facing as the person that’s actually working out there on the field, on those operation lines, and making things as well. And that’s really our big priority is providing a high level of knowledge, variety of the things we can work with, and then also the support. It’s very dear to me coming through the the support team is still working, you know, day to day throughout that software toolbox, and it’s something that has been ingrained into our heritage. Next year will be thirty years of software toolbox in 2026. So we’re established in 1996. Through those thirty years, we have committed to supporting the people that we work with. And I I I can just tell you that that entire motto lives throughout everyone that’s here. So from that, over 97% of the customers that we interact with through support say they had an awesome or great experience. Having someone that you can call that understands the products you’re working with, understands the environment you’re working in, understands the priority of certain things. If you ever have a plant shut down, we know how stressful that is. Those are things that we work through and help people throughout. So this really is the core pillars of Software Toolbox and who we are, beyond just the products, and and I really think this is something unique that we have continued to grow and stand upon for those thirty years. So jumping right into some of the industry challenges we’ve been seeing over the past few years. This is also a fun one for me, talking about data analytics and tying these things together. In my prior life and education, I worked with just tons of data, and I never fully knew where it might have come from, why it was such a mess, who structured it that way, but it’s my job to get some insights out of that. And knowing what the data actually was and why it matters is a big part of actually getting value. So if you have dirty data, if you have data that’s just clustered, it’s in silos, it’s very often you’re not gonna get much value out of it. This was a study that we found in 2024, from Garner Research, And it said that, based on the question that business were asked, were there any top strategic priorities for your data analytics functions in 2024? And almost 50%, it’s right at ’49, said that they wanted to improve data quality, and that was a strategic priority. This is about half the industry is just talking about data quality, and it’s exactly because of those reasons I said in my prior life gave me a headache, to look at all these different things that I don’t even know where they became from or or why they were so different. And the person that made that may have been gone may not have the contacts, and making that from the person that implemented things to the people that are making decisions, is a very big task sometimes. So if we can create a better pipeline of data quality at the beginning, makes those people’s lives a lot easier up front and allows them to get value out of that data a lot quicker. And that’s what businesses need. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I wanna just data quality. Right? Mhmm. I think a lot of us, when we think of that, we think of, you know, error error detection. We think of lost connections. We think of, you know, just garbage data coming through. But I I think from an analytical side, there’s a different view on that, you know, in line with what you were just saying. So how do you when you’re talking to somebody about data quality, how do you get them to shift gears and focus in on what you’re talking about and not like a quality connection to the device itself? Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. Yeah. We I kinda live in both those worlds now. You know, I I get to see that that connection state. And when you’re operating in real time, that quality is also very important to you. Mhmm. And I kind of use that at the same realm. Think of that when you’re thinking in real time, if you know what’s going on in the operation and where things are running, that’s important to you. That’s the quality that you’re looking for. You have to think beyond just real time. We’re talking about historical data. We’re talking about data that’s been stored for months and years. Think about the quality of that data once it’s made up to that level. Are they gonna understand what was happening around those periods? Are they gonna understand what those tags even are? Are they gonna understand what those conventions that you’ve implemented, to give them insights into this operation. Is that a clear picture? So, yeah, you’re absolutely right. There are two levels to this, and and that is a big part of it. The the real time data and historical, and we’re gonna get some of that into into our demo as well. It it’s a it’s a big area for the business, and the people working in the operations. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I think quality too. Think, you know, you may have data. It’s good data. It was collected correctly. You had a good connection to the device. You got it. You got it as often as you want. But that data could really be useless. It could tell you nothing. Connor Mason (Guest): Right. Exactly. Shawn Tierney (Host): Right? It could be a flow rate on part of the process that irrelevant to monitoring the actual production of the product or or whatever you’re making. And, you know, I’ve known a lot of people who filled up their databases, their historians, with they just they just logged everything. And it’s like a lot of that data was what I would call low quality because it’s low information value. Right? Absolutely. I’m sure you run into that too. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. We we run into a lot of people that, you know, I’ve got x amount of data points in my historian and, you know, then we start digging into, well, I wanna do something with it or wanna migrate. Okay. Like, well, what do you wanna achieve at the end of this? Right? And and asking those questions, you know, it’s great that you have all these things historized. Are you using it? Do you have the right things historized? Are they even set up to be, you know, worked upon once they are historized by someone outside of this this landscape? And I think OT plays such a big role in this, and that’s why we start to see the convergence of the IT and OT teams just because that communication needs to occur sooner. So we’re not just passing along, you know, low quality data, bad quality data as well. And we’ll get into some of that later on. So to jump into some of our products and solutions, I kinda wanna give this overview of the automation pyramid. This is where we work from things like the field device communications. And you you have certain sensors, meters, actuators along the actual lines, wherever you’re working. We work across all the industries, so this can vary between those. Through there, you work up kind of your control area. A lot of control engineers are working. This is where I think a lot of the audience is very familiar with PLCs. Your your typical name, Siemens, Rockwell, your Schneiders that are creating, these hardware products. They’re interacting with things on the operation level, and they’re generating data. That that was kind of our bread and butter for a very long time and still is that communication level of getting data from there, but now getting it up the stack further into the pyramid of your supervisory, MES connections, and it’ll also now open to these ERP. We have a lot of large corporations that have data across variety of different solutions and also want to integrate directly down into their operation levels. There’s a lot of value to doing that, but there’s also a lot of watch outs, and a lot of security concerns. So that’ll be a topic that we’ll be getting into. We also all know that the cloud is here. It’s been here, and it’s it’s gonna continue to push its way into, these cloud providers into OT as well. There there’s a lot of benefit to it, but there there’s also some watch outs as this kind of realm, changes in the landscape that we’ve been used to. So there’s a lot of times that we wanna get data out there. There’s value into AI agents. It’s a hot it’s a hot commodity right now. Analytics as well. How do we get those things directly from shop floor, up into the cloud directly, and how do we do that securely? It’s things that we’ve been working on. We’ve had successful projects, continues to be an interest area and I don’t see it slowing down at all. Now, when we kind of begin this level at the bottom of connectivity, people mostly know us for our top server. This is our platform for industrial device connectivity. It’s a thing that’s talking to all those different PLCs in your plant, whether that’s brownfield or greenfield. We pretty much know that there’s never gonna be a plant that’s a single PLC manufacturer, that exists in one plant. There’s always gonna be something that’s slightly different. Definitely from Brownfield, things different engineers made different choices, things have been eminent, and you gotta keep running them. TopServe provides this single platform to connect to a long laundry list of different PLCs. And if this sounds very familiar to Kepserver, well, you’re not wrong. Kepserver is the same exact technology that TopServer is. What’s the difference then is probably the biggest question we usually get. The difference technology wise is nothing. The difference in the back end is that actually it’s all the same product, same product releases, same price, but we have been the biggest single source of Kepserver or Topsyra implementation into the market, for almost two plus decades at this point. So the single biggest purchase that we own this own labeled version of Kepserver to provide to our customers. They interact with our support team, our solutions teams as well, and we sell it along the stack of other things because it it fits so well. And we’ve been doing this since the early two thousands when, Kepware was a a much smaller company than it is now, and we’ve had a really great relationship with them. So if you’ve enjoyed the technology of of Kepserver, maybe there’s some users out there. If you ever heard of TopServer and that has been unclear, I hope this clear clarifies it. But it it is a great technology stack that that we build upon and we’ll get into some of that in our demo. Now the other question is, what if you don’t have a standard communication protocol, like a modbus, like an Allen Bradley PLC as well? We see this a lot with, you know, testing areas, pharmaceuticals, maybe also in packaging, barcode scanners, weigh scales, printers online as well. They they may have some form of basic communications that talks over just TCP or or serial. And how do you get that information that’s really valuable still, but it’s not going through a PLC. It’s not going into your typical agent mind SCADA. It might be very manual process for a lot of these test systems as well, how they’re collecting and analyzing the data. Well, you may have heard of our Arm server as well. It’s been around, like I said, for a couple decades and just a proven solution that without coding, you can go in and build a custom protocol that expects a format from that device, translates it, puts it into standard tags, and now that those tags can be accessible through the open standards of OPC, or to it was a a Veeva user suite link as well. And that really provides a nice combination of your standard communications and also these more custom communications may have been done through scripting in the past. Well, you know, put this onto, an actual server that can communicate through those protocols natively, and just get that data into those SCADA systems, HMIs, where you need it. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I used that. Many years ago, I had an integrator who came to me. He’s like, Shawn, I wanna this is back in the RSVUE days. He’s like, Shawn, I I got, like, 20 Euotherm devices on a four eighty five, and they speak ASCII, and I gotta I gotta get into RSVUE 32. And, you know, OmniSIR, I love that you could you could basically developing and we did Omega and some other devices too. You’re developing your own protocol, but it’s beautiful. And and the fact that when you’re testing it, it color codes everything. So you know, hey. That part worked. The header worked. The data worked. Oh, the trailing didn’t work, or the terminated didn’t work, or the data’s not in the right format. Or I just it was a joy to work with back then, and I can imagine it’s only gotten better since. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. I think it’s like a little engineer playground where you get in there. It started really decoding and seeing how these devices communicate. And then once you’ve got it running, it it’s one of those things that it it just performs and, is saved by many people from developing custom code, having to manage that custom code and integrations, you know, for for many years. So it it’s one of those things that’s kinda tried, tested, and, it it’s kind of a staple still our our base level communications. Alright. So moving along kind of our automation pyramid as well. Another part of our large offering is the Cogent data hub. Some people may have heard from this as well. It’s been around for a good while. It’s been part of our portfolio for for a while as well. This starts building upon where we had the communication now up to those higher echelons of the pyramid. This is gonna bring in a lot of different connectivities. You if you’re not if you’re listening, it it’s kind of this cog and spoke type of concept for real time data. We also have historical implementations. You can connect through a variety of different things. OPC, both the profiles for alarms and events, and even OPC UA’s alarming conditions, which is still getting adoption across the, across the industry, but it is growing. As part of the OPC UA standard, we have integrations to MQTT. It can be its own MQTT broker, and it can also be an MQTT client. That has grown a lot. It’s one of those things that lives be besides OPC UA, not exactly a replacement. If you ever have any questions about that, it’s definitely a topic I love to talk about. There’s space for for this to combine the benefits of both of these, and it’s so versatile and flexible for these different type of implementations. On top of that, it it’s it’s a really strong tool for conversion and aggregation. You kind of add this, like, its name says, it’s a it’s a data hub. You send all the different information to this. It stores it into, a hierarchy with a variety of different modeling that you can do within it. That’s gonna store these values across a standard data format. Once I had data into this, any of those different connections, I can then send data back out. So if I have anything that I know is coming in through a certain plug in like OPC, bring that in, send it out to on these other ones, OPC, DA over to MQTT. It could even do DDA if I’m still using that, which I probably wouldn’t suggest. But overall, there’s a lot of good benefits from having something that can also be a standardization, between all your different connections. I have a lot of different things, maybe variety of OPC servers, legacy or newer. Bring that into a data hub, and then all your other connections, your historians, your MAS, your SCADAs, it can connect to that single point. So it’s all getting the same data model and values from a single source rather than going out and making many to many connections. A a large thing that it was originally, used for was getting around DCOM. That word is, you know, it might send some shivers down people’s spines still, to this day, but it’s it’s not a fun thing to deal with DCOM and also with the security hardening. It’s just not something that you really want to do. I’m sure there’s a lot of security professionals would advise against EPRA doing it. This tunneling will allow you to have a data hub that locally talks to any of the DA server client, communicate between two data hubs over a tunnel that pushes the data just over TCP, takes away all the comm wrappers, and now you just have values that get streamed in between. Now you don’t have to configure any DCOM at all, and it’s all local. So a lot of people went transitioning, between products where maybe the server only supports OPC DA, and then the client is now supporting OPC UA. They can’t change it yet. This has allowed them to implement a solution quickly and cost and at a cost effective price, without ripping everything out. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I wanna ask you too. I can see because this thing is it’s a data hub. So if you’re watching and you’re if you’re listening and not watching, you you’re not gonna see, you know, server, client, UAD, a broker, server, client. You know, just all these different things up here on the site. Do you what how does somebody find out if it does what they need? I mean, do you guys have a line they can call to say, I wanna do this to this. Is that something Data Hub can do, or is there a demo? What would you recommend to somebody? Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. Reach out to us. We we have a a lot of content outline, and it’s not behind any paywall or sign in links even. You you can always go to our website. It’s just softwaretoolbox.com. Mhmm. And that’s gonna get you to our product pages. You can download any product directly from there. They have demo timers. So typically with, with coaching data hub, after an hour, it will stop. You can just rerun it. And then call our team. Yeah. We have a solutions team that can work with you on, hey. What do I need as well? Then our support team, if you run into any issues, can help you troubleshoot that as well. So, I’ll have some contact information at the end, that’ll get some people to, you know, where they need to go. But you’re absolutely right, Shawn. Because this is so versatile, everyone’s use case of it is usually something a little bit different. And the best people to come talk to that is us because we’ve we’ve seen all those differences. So Shawn Tierney (Host): I think a lot of people run into the fact, like, they have a problem. Maybe it’s the one you said where they have the OPC UA and it needs to connect to an OPC DA client. And, you know, and a lot of times, they’re they’re a little gunshot to buy a license because they wanna make sure it’s gonna do exactly what they need first. And I think that’s where having your people can, you know, answer their questions saying, yes. We can do that or, no. We can’t do that. Or, you know, a a demo that they could download and run for an hour at a time to actually do a proof of concept for the boss who’s gonna sign off on purchasing this. And then the other thing is too, a lot of products like this have options. And you wanna make sure you’re buying the ticking the right boxes when you buy your license because you don’t wanna buy something you’re not gonna use. You wanna buy the exact pieces you need. So I highly recommend I mean, this product just does like, I have, in my mind, like, five things I wanna ask right now, but not gonna. But, yeah, def definitely, when it when it comes to a product like this, great to touch base with these folks. They’re super friendly and helpful, and, they’ll they’ll put you in the right direction. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. I I can tell you that’s working someone to support. Selling someone a solution that doesn’t work is not something I’ve been doing. Bad day. Right. Exactly. Yeah. And we work very closely, between anyone that’s looking at products. You know, me being as technical product managers, well, I I’m engaged in those conversations. And Mhmm. Yeah. If you need a demo license, reach out to us to extend that. We wanna make sure that you are buying something that provides you value. Now kind of moving on into a similar realm. This is one of our still somewhat newer offerings, I say, but we’ve been around five five plus years, and it’s really grown. And I kinda said here, it’s called OPC router, and and it’s not it’s not a networking tool. A lot of people may may kinda get that. It’s more of a, kind of a term about, again, all these different type of connections. How do you route them to different ways? It it kind of it it separates itself from the Cogent data hub, and and acting at this base level of being like a visual workflow that you can assign various tasks to. So if I have certain events that occur, I may wanna do some processing on that before I just send data along, where the data hub is really working in between converting, streaming data, real time connections. This gives you a a kind of a playground to work around of if I have certain tasks that are occurring, maybe through a database that I wanna trigger off of a certain value, based on my SCADA system, well, you can build that in in these different workflows to execute exactly what you need. Very, very flexible. Again, it has all these different type of connections. The very unique ones that have also grown into kind of that OT IT convergence, is it can be a REST API server and client as well. So I can be sending out requests to, RESTful servers where we’re seeing that hosted in a lot of new applications. I wanna get data out of them. Or once I have consumed a variety of data, I can become the REST server in OPC router and offer that to other applications to request data from itself. So, again, it can kind of be that centralized area of information. The other thing as we talked about in the automation pyramid is it has connections directly into SAP and ERP systems. So if you have work orders, if you have materials, that you wanna continue to track and maybe trigger things based off information from your your operation floors via PLCs tracking, how they’re using things along the line, and that needs to match up with what the SAP system has for, the amount of materials you have. This can be that bridge. It’s really is built off the mindset of the OT world as well. So we kinda say this helps empower the OT level because we’re now giving them the tools to that they understand what what’s occurring in their operations. And what could you do by having a tool like this to allow you to kind of create automated workflows based off certain values and certain events and automate some of these things that you may be doing manually or doing very convoluted through a variety of solutions. So this is one of those prod, products as well that’s very advanced in the things that supports. Linux and Docker containers is, is definitely could be a hot topic, rightly fleet rightfully so. And this can run on a on a Docker container deployed as well. So we we’ve seen that with the I IT folks that really enjoy being able to control and to higher deployment, allows you to update easily, allows you to control and spin up new containers as well. This gives you a lot of flexibility to to deploy and manage these systems. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I may wanna have you back on to talk about this. I used to there’s an old product called Rascal that I used to use. It was a transaction manager, and it would based on data changing or on a time that as a trigger, it could take data either from the PLC to the database or from the database to the PLC, and it would work with stored procedures. And and this seems like it hits all those points, And it sounds like it’s a visual like you said, right there on the slide, visual workflow builder. Connor Mason (Guest): Yep. Shawn Tierney (Host): So you really piqued my interest with this one, and and it may be something we wanna come back to and and revisit in the future, because, it just it’s just I know that that older product was very useful and, you know, it really solved a lot of old applications back in the day. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. Absolutely. And this this just takes that on and builds even more. If you if anyone was, kind of listening at the beginning of this year or two, a conference called Prove It that was very big in the industry, we were there to and we presented on stage a solution that we had. Highly recommend going searching for that. It’s on our web pages. It’s also on their YouTube links, and it’s it’s called Prove It. And OPC router was a big part of that in the back end. I would love to dive in and show you the really unique things. Kind of as a quick overview, we’re able to use Google AI vision to take camera data and detect if someone was wearing a hard hat. All that logic and behind of getting that information to Google AI vision, was through REST with OPC router. Then we were parsing that information back through that, connection and then providing it back to the PLCs. So we go all the way from a camera to a PLC controlling a light stack, up to Google AI vision through OPC router, all on hotel Wi Fi. It’s very imp it’s very, very fun presentation, and, our I think our team did a really great job. So a a a pretty new offering I have I wanna highlight, is our is our data caster. This is a an actual piece of hardware. You know, our software toolbox is we we do have some hardware as well. It’s just, part of the nature of this environment of how we mesh in between things. But the the idea is that, there’s a lot of different use cases for HMI and SCADA. They have grown so much from what they used to be, and they’re very core part of the automation stack. Now a lot of times, these are doing so many things beyond that as well. What we found is that in different areas of operations, you may not need all that different control. You may not even have the space to make up a whole workstation for that as well. What this does, the data caster, is, just simply plug it plugs it into any network and into an HDMI compatible display, and it gives you a very easy configure workplace to put a few key metrics onto a screen. So if I have different things from you can connect directly to PLCs like Allen Bradley. You can connect to SQL databases. You can also connect to rest APIs to gather the data from these different sources and build a a a kind of easy to to view, KPI dashboard in a way. So if you’re on a operation line and you wanna look at your current run rate, maybe you have certain things in the POC tags, you know, flow and pressure that’s very important for those operators to see. They may not be, even the capacity to be interacting with anything. They just need visualizations of what’s going on. This product can just be installed, you know, industrial areas with, with any type of display that you can easily access and and give them something that they can easily look at. It’s configured all through a web browser to display what you want. You can put on different colors based on levels of values as well. And it’s just I feel like a very simple thing that sometimes it seems so simple, but those might be the things that provide value on the actual operation floor. This is, for anyone that’s watching, kind of a quick view of a very simple screen. What we’re showing here is what it would look like from all the different data sources. So talking directly to ControlLogs PLC, talking to SQL databases, micro eight eight hundreds, an arrest client, and and what’s coming very soon, definitely by the end of this year, is OPC UA support. So any OPC UA server that’s out there that’s already having your PLC data or etcetera, this could also connect to that and get values from there. Shawn Tierney (Host): Can I can you make it I’m I’m here I go? Can you make it so it, like, changes, like, pages every few seconds? Connor Mason (Guest): Right now, it is a single page, but this is, like I said, very new product, so we’re taking any feedback. If, yeah, if there’s this type of slideshow cycle that would be, you know, valuable to anyone out there, let us know. We’re definitely always interested to see the people that are actually working out at these operation sites, what what’s valuable to them. Yeah. Shawn Tierney (Host): A lot of kiosks you see when when you’re traveling, it’ll say, like, line one well, I’ll just throw out there. Line one, and that’ll be on there for five seconds, and then it’ll go line two. That’ll be on there for five seconds, and then line you know, I and that’s why I just mentioned that because I can see that being a question that, that that I would get from somebody who is asking me about it. Connor Mason (Guest): Oh, great question. Appreciate it. Alright. So now we’re gonna set time for a little hands on demo. For anyone that’s just listening, we’re gonna I’m gonna talk about this at at a high level and walk through everything. But the idea is that, we have a few different POCs, very common in Allen Bradley and just a a Siemens seven, s seven fifteen hundred that’s in our office, pretty close to me on the other side of the wall wall, actually. We’re gonna first start by connecting that to our top server like we talked about. This is our industrial communication server, that offers both OCDA, OC UA, SweetLink connectivity as well. And then we’re gonna bring this into our Cogent data hub. This we talked about is getting those values up to these higher levels. What we’ll be doing is also tunneling the data. We talked about being able to share data through the data hubs themselves. Kinda explain why we’re doing that here and the value you can add. And then we’re also gonna showcase adding on MQTT to this level. Taking beta now just from these two PLCs that are sitting on a rack, and I can automatically make all that information available in the MQTT broker. So any MQTT client that’s out there that wants to subscribe to that data, now has that accessible. And I’ve created this all through a a really simple workflow. We also have some databases connected. Influx, we install with Code and DataHub, has a free visualization tool that kinda just helps you see what’s going on in your processes. I wanna showcase a little bit of that as well. Alright. So now jumping into our demo, when we first start off here is the our top server. Like I mentioned before, if anyone has worked with KEP server in the past, this is gonna look very similar. Like it because it is. The same technology and all the things here. The the first things that I wanted to establish in our demo, was our connection to our POCs. I have a few here. We’re only gonna use the Allen Bradley and the Siemens, for the the time that we have on our demo here. But how this builds out as a platform is you create these different channels and the devices connections between them. This is gonna be your your physical connections to them. It’s either, IP TCPIP connection or maybe your serial connection as well. We have support for all of them. It really is a long list. Anyone watching out there, you can kind of see all the different drivers that that we offer. So allowing this into a single platform, you can have all your connectivity based here. All those different connections that you now have that up the stack, your SCADA, your historians, MAS even as well, they can all go to a single source. Makes that management, troubleshooting, all those a bit easier as well. So one of the first things I did here, I have this built out, but I’ll kinda walk through what you would typically do. You have your Allen Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet driver here first. You know, I have some IPs in here I won’t show, but, regardless, we have our our our drivers here, and then we have a set of tags. These are all the global tags in the programming of the PLC. How I got these to to kind of map automatically is in our in our driver, we’re able to create tags automatically. So you’re able to send a command to that device and ask for its entire tag database. They can come back, provide all that, map it out for you, create those tags as well. This saves a lot of time from, you know, an engineer have to go in and, addressing all the individual items themselves. So once it’s defined in the program project, you’re able to bring this all in automatically. I’ll show now how easy that makes it connecting to something like the Cogent data hub. In a very similar fashion, we have a connection over here to the Siemens, PLC that I also have. You can see beneath it all these different tag structures, and this was created the exact same way. While those those PLC support it, you can do an automatic tag generation, bring in all the structure that you’ve already built out your PLC programming, and and make this available on this OPC server now as well. So that’s really the basis. We first need to establish communications to these PLCs, get that tag data, and now what do we wanna do with it? So in this demo, what I wanted to bring up was, the code in DataHub next. So here, I see a very similar kind of layout. We have a different set set of plugins on the left side. So for anyone listening, the Cogent Data Hub again is kind of our aggregation and conversion tool. All these different type of protocols like OPC UA, OPC DA, and OPC A and E for alarms and events. We also support OPC alarms and conditions, which is the newer profile for alarms in OPC UA. We have all a variety of different ways that you can get data out of things and data’s into the data hub. We can also do bridging. This concept is, how you share data in between different points. So let’s say I had a connection to one OPC server, and it was communicating to a certain PLC, and there were certain registers I was getting data from. Well, now I also wanna connect to a different OPC server that has, entirely different brand of PLCs. And then maybe I wanna share data in between them directly. Well, with this software, I can just bridge those points between them. Once they’re in the data hub, I can do kind of whatever I want with them. I can then allow them to write between those PLCs and share data that way, and you’re not now having to do any type of hardwiring directly in between them, and then I’m compatible to communicate to each other. Through the standards of OPC and these variety of different communication levels, I can integrate them together. Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, you bring up a good point. When you do something like that, is there any heartbeat? Like, is there on the general or under under, one of these, topics? Is there are there tags we can use that are from DataHub itself that can be sent to the destination, like a heartbeat or, you know, the merge transactions? Or Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. Absolutely. So with this as well, there’s pretty strong scripting engine, and I have done that in the past where you can make internal tags. And that that could be a a timer. It could be a counter. And and just kind of allows you to create your own tags as well that you could do the same thing, could share that, through bridge connection to a PLC. So, yeah, there there are definitely some people that had those cert and, you know, use cases where they wanna get something to just track, on this software side and get it out to those hardware PLCs. Absolutely. Shawn Tierney (Host): I mean, when you send out the data out of the PLC, the PLC doesn’t care to take my data. But when you’re getting data into the PLC, you wanna make sure it’s updating and it’s fresh. And so, you know, they throw a counter in there, the script thing, and be able to have that. As as long as you see that incrementing, you know, you got good data coming in. That’s that’s a good feature. Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. You know, another big one is the the redundancy. So what this does is beyond just the OPC, we can make redundancy to basically anything that has two things running of it. So any of these different connections. How it’s unique is what it does is it just looks at the buckets of data that you create. So for an example, if I do have two different OPC servers and I put them into two areas of, let’s say, OPC server one and OPC server two, I can what now create an OPC redundancy data bucket. And now any client that connects externally to that and wants that data, it’s gonna go talk to that bucket of data. And that bucket of data is going to automatically change in between sources as things go down, things come back up, and the client would never know what’s hap what that happened unless you wanted to. There are internal tasks to show what’s the current source and things, but the idea is to make this trans kind of hidden that regardless of what’s going on in the operations, if I have this set up, I can have my external applications just reading from a single source without knowing that there’s two things behind it that are actually controlling that. Very important for, you know, historian connections where you wanna have a full complete picture of that data that’s coming in. If you’re able to make a redundant connection to two different, servers and then allow that historian to talk to a single point where it doesn’t have to control that switching back and forth. It it will just see that data flow streamlessly as as either one is up at that time. Kinda beyond that as well, there’s quite a few other different things in here. I don’t think we have time to cover all of them. But for for our demo, what I wanna focus on first is our OPC UA connection. This allows us both to act as a OPC UA client to get data from any servers out there, like our top server. And also we can act as an OPC UA server itself. So if anything’s coming in from maybe you have multiple connections to different servers, multiple connections to other things that aren’t OPC as well, I can now provide all this data automatically in my own namespace to allow things to connect to me as well. And that’s part of that aggregation feature, and kind of topic I was mentioning before. So with that, I have a connection here. It’s pulling data all from my top server. I have a few different tags from my Alec Bradley and and my Siemens PLC selected. The next part of this, while I was meshing, was the tunneling. Like I said, this is very popular to get around DCOM issues, but there’s a lot of reasons why you still may use this beyond just the headache of DCOM and what it was. What this runs on is a a TCP stream that takes all the data points as a value, a quality, and a timestamp, and it can mirror those in between another DataHub instance. So if I wanna get things across a network, like my OT side, where NASH previously, I would have to come in and allow a, open port onto my network for any OPC UA clients, across the network to access that, I can now actually change the direction of this and allow me to tunnel data out of my network without opening up any ports. This is really big for security. If anyone out there, security professional or working as an engineer, you have to work with your IT and security a lot, they don’t you don’t wanna have an open port, especially to your operations and OT side. So this allows you to change that direction of flow and push data out of this direction into another area like a DMZ computer or up to a business level computer as well. The other things as well that I have configured in this demo, the benefit of having that tunneling streaming data across this connection is I can also store this data locally in a, influx database. The purpose of that then is that I can actually historize this, provide then if this connection ever goes down to backfill any information that was lost during that tunnel connection going down. So with this added layer on and real time data scenarios like OPC UA, unless you have historical access, you would lose a lot of data if that connection ever went down. But with this, I can actually use the back end of this InfluxDB, buffer any values. When my connection comes back up, pass them along that stream again. And if I have anything that’s historically connected, like, another InfluxDB, maybe a PI historian, Vue historian, any historian offering out there that can allow that connection. I can then provide all those records that were originally missed and backfill that into those systems. So I switched over to a second machine. It’s gonna look very similar here as well. This also has an instance of the Cogent Data Hub running here. For anyone not watching, what we’ve actually have on this side is the the portion of the tunneler that’s sitting here and listening for any data requests coming in. So on my first machine, I was able to connect my PLCs, gather that information into Cogent DataHub, and now I’m pushing that information, across the network into a separate machine that’s sitting here and listening to gather information. So what I can quickly do is just make sure I have all my data here. So I have these different points, both from my Allen Bradley PLCs. I have a few, different simulation demo points, like temperature, pressure, tank level, a few statuses, and all this is updating directly through that stream as the PLC is updating it as well. I also have my scenes controller. I have some, current values and a few different counters tags as well. All of this again is being directly streamed through that tunnel. I’m not connecting to an OPC server at all on this side. I can show you that here. There’s no connections configured. I’m not talking to the PLCs directly on this machine as well. But maybe we’ll pass all the information through without opening up any ports on my OT demo machine per se. So what’s the benefit of that? Well, again, security. Also, the ability to do the store and forward mechanisms. On the other side, I was logging directly to a InfluxDB. This could be my d- my buffer, and then I was able to configure it where if any values were lost, to store that across the network. So now with this side, if I pull up Chronic Graph, which is a free visualization tool that installs with the DataHub as well, I can see some very nice, visual workflows and and visual diagrams of what is going on with this data. So I have a pressure that is just a simulator in this, Allen Bradley PLC that ramps up and and comes back down. It’s not actually connected to anything that’s reading a real pressure, but you can see over time, I can kind of change through these different layers of time. And I might go back a little far, but I have a lot of data that’s been stored in here. For a while during my test, I turned this off and, made it fail, but then I came back in and I was able to recreate all the data and backfill it as well. So through through these views, I can see that as data disconnects, as it comes back on, I have a very cyclical view of the data because it was able to recover and store and forward from that source. Like I said, Shawn, data quality is a big thing in this industry. It’s a big thing for people both at the operations side, and both people making decision in the business layer. So being able to have a full picture, without gaps, it is definitely something that, you should be prioritizing, when you can. Shawn Tierney (Host): Now what we’re seeing here is you’re using InfluxDB on this, destination PC or IT side PC and chronograph, which was that utility or that package that comes, gets installed. It’s free. But you don’t actually have to use that. You could have sent this in to an OSI pi or Exactly. Somebody else’s historian. Right? Can you name some of the historians you work with? I know OSI pie. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So there’s quite a few different ones. As far as what we support in the Data Hub natively, Amazon Kinesis, the cloud hosted historian that we can also do the same things from here as well. Aviva Historian, Aviva Insight, Apache Kafka. This is a a kind of a a newer one as well that used to be a very IT oriented solution, now getting into OT. It’s kind of a similar database structure where things are stored in different topics that we can stream to. On top of that, just regular old ODBC connections. That opens up a lot of different ways you can do it, or even, the old classic OPC, HDA. So if you have any, historians that that can act as an OPC HDA, connection, we we can also stream it through there. Shawn Tierney (Host): Excellent. That’s a great list. Connor Mason (Guest): The other thing I wanna show while we still have some time here is that MQTT component. This is really growing and, it’s gonna continue to be a part of the industrial automation technology stack and conversations moving forward, for streaming data, you know, from devices, edge devices, up into different layers, both now into the OT, and then maybe out to, IT, in our business levels as well, and definitely into the cloud as we’re seeing a lot of growth into it. Like I mentioned with Data Hub, the big benefit is I have all these different connections. I can consume all this data. Well, I can also act as an MQTT broker. And what what a broker typically does in MQTT is just route data and share data. It’s kind of that central point where things come to it to either say, hey. I’m giving you some new values. Share it with someone else. Or, hey. I need these values. Can you give me that? It really fits in super well with what this product is at its core. So all I have to do here is just enable it. What that now allows is I have an example, MQTT Explorer. If anyone has worked with MQTT, you’re probably familiar with this. There’s nothing else I configured beyond just enabling the broker. And you can see within this structure, I have all the same data that was in my Data Hub already. The same things I were collecting from my PLCs and top server. Now I’ve embedded these as MPPT points and now I have them in JSON format with the value, their timestamp. You can even see, like, a little trend here kind of matching what we saw in Influx. And and now this enables all those different cloud connectors that wanna speak this language to do it seamlessly. Shawn Tierney (Host): So you didn’t have to set up the PLCs a second time to do this? Nope. Connor Mason (Guest): Not at all. Shawn Tierney (Host): You just enabled this, and now the data’s going this way as well. Exactly. Connor Mason (Guest): Yeah. That’s a really strong point of the Cogent Data Hub is once you have everything into its structure and model, you just enable it to use any of these different connections. You can get really, really creative with these different things. Like we talked about with the the bridging aspect and getting into different systems, even writing down the PLCs. You can make crust, custom notifications and email alerts, based on any of these values. You could even take something like this MTT connection, tunnel it across to another data hub as well, maybe then convert it to OPC DA. And now you’ve made a a a new connection over to something that’s very legacy as well. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. That, I mean, the options here are just pretty amazing, all the different things that can be done. Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. Well, I, you know, I wanna jump back into some of our presentation here while we still got the time. And now after we’re kinda done with our demo, there’s so many different ways that you can use these different tools. This is just a really simple, kind of view of the, something that used to be very simple, just connecting OpenSea servers to a variety of different connections, kind of expanding onto with that that’s store and forward, the local influx usage, getting out to things like MTT as well. But there’s a lot more you can do with these solutions. So like Shawn said, reach out to us. We’re happy to engage and see what we can help you with. I have a few other things before we wrap up. Just overall, it we’ve worked across nearly every industry. We have installations across the globe on all continents. And like I said, we’ve been around for pushing thirty years next year. So we’ve seen a lot of different things, and we really wanna talk to anyone out there that maybe has some struggles that are going on with just connectivity, or you have any ongoing projects. If you work in these different industries or if there’s nothing marked here and you have anything going on that you need help with, we’re very happy to sit down and let you know if there’s there’s something we can do there. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. For those who are, listening, I mean, we see most of the big energy and consumer product, companies on that slide. So I’m not gonna read them off, but, it’s just a lot of car manufacturers. You know, these are these are these, the household name brands that everybody knows and loves. Connor Mason (Guest): So kind of wrap some things up here. We talked about all the different ways that we’ve kind of helped solve things in the past, but I wanna highlight some of the unique ones, that we’ve also gone do some, case studies on and and success stories. So this one I actually got to work on, within the last few years that, a plastic packaging, manufacturer was looking to track uptime and downtime across multiple different lines, and they had a new cloud solution that they were already evaluating. They’re really excited to get into play. They they had a lot of upside to, getting things connected to this and start using it. Well, what they had was a lot of different PLCs, a lot of different brands, different areas, different, you know, areas of operation that they need to connect to. So what they used was to first get that into our top server, kind of similar to how they showed them use in their in our demo. We just need to get all the data into a centralized platform first, get that data accessible. Then from there, once they had all that information into a centralized area, they used the Cogent Data Hub as well to help aggregate that information and transform it to be sent to the cloud through MQTT. So very similar to the demo here, this is actually a real use case of that. Getting information from PLCs, structuring it into that how that cloud system needed it for MQTT, and streamlining that data connection to now where it’s just running in operation. They constantly have updates about where their lines are in operation, tracking their downtime, tracking their uptime as well, and then being able to do some predictive analytics in that cloud solution based on their history. So this really enabled them to kind of build from what they had existing. It was doing a lot of manual tracking, into an entirely automated system with management able to see real views of what’s going on at this operation level. Another one I wanna talk about was we we were able to do this success story with, Ace Automation. They worked with a pharmaceutical company. Ace Automation is a SI and they were brought in and doing a lot of work with some some old DDE connections, doing some custom Excel macros, and we’re just having a hard time maintaining some legacy systems that were just a pain to deal with. They were working with these older files, from some old InTouch histor HMIs, and what they needed to do was get something that was not just based on Excel and doing custom macros. So one product we didn’t get to talk about yet, but we also carry is our LGH file inspector. It’s able to take these files, put them out into a standardized format like CSV, and also do a lot of that automation of when when should these files be queried? Should they be, queried for different lengths? Should they be output to different areas? Can I set these up in a scheduled task so it can be done automatically rather than someone having to sit down and do it manually in Excel? So they will able to, recover over fifty hours of engineering time with the solution from having to do late night calls to troubleshoot a, Excel macro that stopped working, from crashing machines, because they were running a legacy systems to still support some of the DDE servers, into saving them, you know, almost two hundred plus hours of productivity. Another example, if we’re able to work with a renewable, energy customer that’s doing a lot of innovative things across North America, They had a very ambitious plan to double their footprint in the next two years. And with that, they had to really look back at their assets and see where they currently stand, how do we make new standards to support us growing into what we want to be. So with this, they had a lot of different data sources currently. They’re all kind of siloed at the specific areas. Nothing was really connected commonly to a corporate level area of historization, or control and security. So again, they they were able to use our top server and put out a standard connectivity platform, bring in the DataHub as an aggregation tool. So each of these sites would have a top server that was individually collecting data from different devices, and then that was able to send it into a single DataHub. So now their corporate level had an entire view of all the information from these different plants in one single application. That then enabled them to connect their historian applications to that data hub and have a perfect view and make visualizations off of their entire operations. What this allowed them to do was grow without replacing everything. And that’s a big thing that we try to strive on is replacing and ripping out all your existing technologies. It’s not something you can do overnight. But how do we provide value and gain efficiency with what’s in place and providing newer technologies on top of that without disrupting the actual operation as well? So this was really, really successful. And at the end, I just wanna kind of provide some other contacts and information people can learn more. We have a blog that goes out every week on Thursdays. A lot of good technical content out there. A lot of recast of the the awesome things we get to do here, the success stories as well, and you can always find that at justblog.softwaretoolbox.com. And again, our main website is justsoftwaretoolbox.com. You can get product information, downloads, reach out to anyone on our team. Let’s discuss what what issues you have going on, any new projects, we’ll be happy to listen. Shawn Tierney (Host): Well, Connor, I wanna thank you very much for coming on the show and bringing us up to speed on not only software toolbox, but also to, you know, bring us up to speed on top server and doing that demo with top server and data hub. Really appreciate that. And, I think, you know, like you just said, if anybody, has any projects that you think these solutions may be able to solve, please give them a give them a call. And if you’ve already done something with them, leave a comment. You know? To leave a comment, no matter where you’re watching or listening to this, let us know what you did. What did you use? Like me, I used OmniServer all those many years ago, and, of course, Top Server as an OPC server. But if you guys have already used Software Toolbox and, of course, Symbol Factory, I use that all the time. But if you guys are using it, let us know in the comments. It’s always great to hear from people out there. I know, you know, with thousands of you guys listening every week, but I’d love to hear, you know, are you using these products? Or if you have questions, I’ll funnel them over to Connor if you put them in the comments. So with that, Connor, did you have anything else you wanted to cover before we close out today’s show? Connor Mason (Guest): I think that was it, Shawn. Thanks again for having us on. It was really fun. Shawn Tierney (Host): I hope you enjoyed that episode, and I wanna thank Connor for taking time out of his busy schedule to come on the show and bring us up to speed on software toolbox and their suite of products. Really appreciated that demo at the end too, so we actually got a look at if you’re watching. Gotta look at their products and how they work. And, just really appreciate them taking all of my questions. I also appreciate the fact that Software Toolbox sponsored this episode, meaning we were able to release it to you without any ads. So I really appreciate them. If you’re doing any business with Software Toolbox, please thank them for sponsoring this episode. And with that, I just wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace. 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Wir alle spüren die Veränderungen im gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Doch das bietet auch die Chance, neu zu denken: Wie gestalten wir ein faires und nachhaltiges Zusammenleben? In der letzten Gesprächsstoff-Folge der aktuellen Staffel sprechen Professorin Dr. Bettina Stoll und Moderatorin Mariana Friedrich über die oft übersehene Dimension der sozialen Nachhaltigkeit, die fester Bestandteil des Konzeptes nachhaltiger Entwicklung ist. Gemeinsam diskutieren sie, was soziale Nachhaltigkeit wirklich bedeutet und welche Ansätze wir verfolgen können, um in einer sich wandelnden Welt stabile und gerechte Gemeinschaften zu schaffen. Welche Rolle spielen Individuen? Wie können wir als Gesellschaft auf die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit reagieren? Und was sagt die Wissenschaft? Mehr Infos zur Folge:Bettina Stoll auf LinkedInBettina Stoll auf der Seite der HS FuldaLiteratur:Stoll, Bettina (in Vorb.): Betriebliche Sozialarbeit und unternehmerische (soziale) Nachhaltigkeit, in: Schneiders, Katrin (Hrsg.): Betriebliches Sozialmanagement. Sozialpolitik und Soziale Arbeit in Unternehmen. Springer VS.Stoll, Bettina., & Herrmann, Heike. (Eds.). (2020). Corporate Social Responsibility – Impulse aus der und für die Profit- und Sozialwirtschaft: Verantwortung und Nachhaltigkeit (1st ed.). Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzsmcds Baumgartner, Edgar, Klein, Michael und Stoll, Bettina (2020): Betriebliche Soziale Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit, in: Badura, Bernhard/Ducki, Antje/Schröder, Helmut [u.a.] (Hrsg.): Fehlzeiten Report 2020 - Gerechtigkeit und Gesundheit. SpringerVerlag.In Vorbereitung: Fachbeitrag zur Relevanz und Ansatzpunkten sozial nachhaltiger Entwicklung in und durch NPO.Ganzheitliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in Unternehmen/Organisationen:"We Impact“ - https://we-impact.de/ (Entwicklung gefördert durch BMUV)Foto: Tobias Büttner Wir freuen uns über Feedback an: gespraechsstoff(at)hs-fulda.de.

•Roman• 1941. Helga ist gerade vier Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter die Familie verlässt. Um Aufseherin in einem KZ zu werden. 30 Jahre später kommt es zu einem Wiedersehen. Von Helga Schneider WDR 2004 www.wdr.de/k/hoerspiel-newsletter Von Helga Schneider.

Ali spricht mit Prof. Dr. hc. Johnny Graf von Schneiders über Kunst

BRAIN Biotech AG FY 2023/24: Key TakeawaysFinancial Performance Overview Despite a challenging economic environment, BRAIN Biotech reported an adjusted EBITDA of €-0.4 million, a slight decrease from the previous year's €+0.4 million. This resilience is a testament to the company's strength and potential for future growth, especially given the substantial investments in the company's BioIncubator projects. Schneiders emphasized the company's strong cash position, stating, “With a strong focus on the successful execution of strategic initiatives, we have been able to bring our group cash position to a very comfortable level of €27.2 million and to reduce our cost base significantly for the running financial year.” A significant highlight of the year was the monetization of royalty rights to the investigational compound deucrictibant, resulting in a transaction valued up to €128.88 million. This deal included an immediate upfront payment of €18.41 million, with potential for additional regulatory and sales-related milestones. Schneiders noted, “Royalty monetization is a very interesting and innovative form of alternative non-dilutive financing for us in an ultra-low BRAIN Biotech share price environment.” The company has significantly reduced its cost base and positions, improving profitability in the upcoming financial year. Schneiders expressed confidence in the company's trajectory, stating, “We have laid excellent foundations for success in the years to come. Hence, we forecast a positive adjusted EBITDA for 2024/25.” Looking ahead, BRAIN Biotech is focused on accelerating its transformation into a global top-ten player in the industrial enzymes market, with a strong emphasis on the Food, Beverage, and Life Sciences sectors. The company plans to utilize proceeds from recent transactions to fund growth initiatives, including potential mergers and acquisitions, and to repay short-term loans. Schneiders conveyed optimism about the company's future, highlighting the BioIncubator pipeline's crystallizing value and the organization's ongoing structural developments. In summary, under Michael Schneiders's financial stewardship, BRAIN Biotech AG has navigated a challenging fiscal year with strategic foresight, maintaining financial stability while investing in future growth. The company's proactive approach to cost management, innovative financing, and strategic investments position it well for a promising future in the industrial biotechnology sector. Strategic Initiatives and InvestmentsCost Management and EfficiencyFuture OutlookConclusion ▶️ Other videos: Elevator Pitch: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-elevator-pitch/ Company Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-company-presentation/ Deep Dive Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-deep-dive/ Financial Results Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-financial-results/ ESG Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-esg/ T&C This publication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Using this website, you agree to our terms and conditions outlined on www.seat11a.com/legal and www.seat11a.com/imprint.

Michael Schneider hat die Welt als Tennisprofi bereist, bis ihn das Leben zum Neuanfang zwang. Nach dem Ende seiner Sportkarriere wurde er zum erfolgreichen Berater und Übersetzer für komplexe Finanz-Themen. Heute unterstützt er als einer meiner besonders geschätzten Vertriebspartner viele Menschen dabei, ihre finanziellen Entscheidungen selbstbestimmt zu treffen. Nach einem Tal des Scheiterns ist er heute weiterhin selbstständig und unternehmerisch erfolgreich - nur auf einem anderen Spielfeld. Seine Expertise liegt in den Bereichen Immobilien, Vorsorge, Altersvorsorge, Rente - und natürlich Edelmetalle (insbesondere Gold und Silber). In dieser Folge gibt Michael seltene Einblicke in seine Arbeit und teilt, was er durch das Scheitern seiner Tennis-Karriere über das Ego und den Umgang mit Geld gelernt hat. Außerdem erfährst du, warum so viele Menschen ihre Finanzen nur ungern hinterfragen und wie du Teil unserer Mission werden kannst. ___ Schreib mir gern: post@ronnywagner.com Mehr über Michael: https://schneiderconsulting.eu Übrigens: Bei meinem Familien-Unternehmen, der Noble Metal Factory, kannst du Gold und Silber kaufen sowie langfristig per Sparplan in Edelmetalle anlegen. Als Absicherung vor Inflation und zur Alters-Vorsorge (Edelmetall-Rente). Schau gern vorbei und buch dir ein kostenfreies Beratungsgespräch mit uns: www.anlage-in-gold.de ___ Kostenfrei für dich: Checkliste seriöser Edelmetallkauf & seriöse Edelmetallhändler finden: https://9ytk4f2lg57.typeform.com/to/DTKWecun Checkliste Gold kaufen: 5 Fragen, die du dir stellen solltest, bevor du in Gold investierst: https://9ytk4f2lg57.typeform.com/to/EsJkBWUN

Deze week in Buitenhof: Oud-Bondskanselier Angela Merkel, journalist Anat Saragusti, voorzitter Universiteiten van Nederland Caspar van den Berg, gedeputeerde Limburg Elianne Demollin,  Presentatie: Twan Huys  Wil je meer weten over de gasten in Buitenhof? Op onze website vind je meer informatie. Daar kan je deze aflevering ook terugkijken en je vindt er natuurlijk nog veel meer gesprekken:   https://bit.ly/buitenhof-1-dec-24  De ondertitelde versie van dit gesprek vind je op YouTube en NPOStart:  https://youtu.be/1hAOuubjz_g  https://npo.nl/start/serie/buitenhof/seizoen-19/buitenhof_313/afspelen   

Deze week in Buitenhof: Oud-Bondskanselier Angela Merkel, journalist Anat Saragusti, voorzitter Universiteiten van Nederland Caspar van den Berg, gedeputeerde Limburg Elianne Demollin,  Presentatie: Twan Huys  Wil je meer weten over de gasten in Buitenhof? Op onze website vind je meer informatie. Daar kan je deze aflevering ook terugkijken en je vindt er natuurlijk nog veel meer gesprekken:   https://bit.ly/buitenhof-1-dec-24  De ondertitelde versie van dit gesprek vind je op YouTube en NPOStart:  https://youtu.be/1hAOuubjz_g  https://npo.nl/start/serie/buitenhof/seizoen-19/buitenhof_313/afspelen   

This week Paul is talking with someone we could call a Transit Unplugged superfan—Schneider St. Preux—who says he's listened to every podcast episode and credits Transit Unplugged with helping him in his upward career trajectory. We're so pleased to be part of Schneiders' career journey. As he says in this interview—listening and engaging in our podcast community, along with hard work, determination, and willingness to invest in himself, has taken Schneider from bus operator to General Superintendent of Bus Operations at Miami-Dade.Schneider is also one of this year's Mass Transit Magazine's 40 Under 40 winners—a fitting acknowledgment of the accomplishments in his career thus far.He also talks about the critical role of practical experience and the value of continuous education—Schneider says education gets you to the door and your hard work gets you through it.Highlighting both the challenges and triumphs, Schneider offers valuable insights and advice for aspiring transit professionals, emphasizing self-belief, goal-setting, and the importance of investing in people. Paul and Schneider also talk about the importance of training new leaders, especially those who have been "doers" in what true leadership really means.Coming up next week, we focus on a topic close to the hearts of everyone at Transit Unplugged—accessibility. Paul talks with Ron Brooks and Kristen Joyner about their new book which serves as and both a guidebook and inspiration for how to make transit, and the wider world, more accessible for everyone.00:00 Introduction: A Unique Fan Story00:42 Crazy Work Stories: The L from Hell04:24 Meet Schneider St. Preux: A Rising Star in Transit05:19 Career Journey: From Bus Operator to Superintendent09:13 Catch Transit Unplugged TV on YouTube10:09 Spending a year at Broward County Transit12:44 The Importance of Education and Self-Investment14:33 Leadership Insights: From Frontline to Management18:00 Future of Public Transportation: Challenges and Innovations18:00 Advice for Aspiring Transit Leaders19:27 Conclusion: Bright Future Ahead19:40 Coming up next week on Transit Unplugged

Bernt Schneiders over Bevrijdingspop perikelen by Haarlem105

EXPERTENTALK | In der 80. Episode von HVH tauchen wir tief in die Welt der nachhaltigen Gebäudeklimatisierung ein. André Keeve spricht mit Christian Schneider, dem Geschäftsführer der GRÜNKOOL GmbH, über seinen Weg, innovative und umweltfreundliche Klimatisierungslösungen in einem konservativen Markt zu etablieren. Christian gibt wertvolle Einblicke in seine Strategie, wie er mit Low-Tech-Ansätzen und Naturmaterialien nicht nur die Umwelt schont, sondern auch signifikante Kosteneinsparungen für seine Kunden ermöglicht.

Die 92. Ausgabe des „FohlenEcho – Das Magazin“ widmet sich den Karrieren zweier Ur-Borussen, die mit dem Ende der Saison 2023/24 ihre aktive Laufbahn beendet haben: Tony Jantschke und Patrick Herrmann. Dementsprechend ist das Karriereende des „Fußballgotts“ und „Flacos“ auch großes Thema in der neuen Folge des „FohlenPodcast – Das Magazin“, die ab sofort auf allen gängigen Plattformen verfügbar ist. So hat Moderator Torsten „Knippi“ Knippertz unter anderem das Mikrofon reingehalten, als die VfL-Profis für die Kategorie „Sag mal,…“ erzählt haben, was sie mit Flaco und Tony verbinden. „Tony ist ein sehr energischer Mensch, er hat im Training immer Vollgas gegeben. Das war immer gut für die Truppe“, sagt zum Beispiel Kapitän Jonas Omlin. Und weiter: „Flaco war immer sehr laut. Er hat in der Kabine immer viele Anweisungen gegeben und gute Stimmung verbreitet. Es war sehr schön mit den beiden.“ Neben Jantschke und Herrmann wird im neuen FohlenEcho-Magazin auch Hans Meyer verabschiedet. Im Zuge der Neuwahl des Präsidiums Ende März hatte er nach 13 Jahren sein Amt als Präsidiumsmitglied niedergelegt. Im Podcast verrät Journalist Bernd Schneiders, der als Gastautor einen Artikel über Meyer geschrieben hat, wie er sich dieser launigen Würdigung genähert hat. „Eine Würdigung von Hans Meyer hätte ich ad hoc schreiben können, das wäre kein Problem gewesen. Aber ich finde, das wird ihm nicht gerecht. Viel sinnvoller und besser ist es, man lässt ihn einfach selbst sprechen, denn er hat eine Menge zu sagen“, erzählt Schneiders. „So habe ich ihn angerufen und es war wie immer: Ein Stichwort und er hörte nicht auf, über Fußball zu referieren – pointiert, unterhaltsam und sehr scharf.“ Von welcher denkwürdigen Interview-Begegnung mit Meyer Schneiders außerdem berichtet, wieso im neusten Buch von Autor Holger Jenrich vom „Bökelhügel“ die Rede ist und was sonst so hinter den Kulissen der Produktion des neuen Magazins passiert ist, hört ihr in der neuen Folge des „FohlenPodcast – Das Magazin“. Viel Spaß!

In this detailed video presentation, Michael Schneiders, CFO of BRAIN Biotech AG, offers an in-depth analysis of the company's financial performance and strategic advancements for the first half of the 2023/2024 fiscal year. Schneiders opens by highlighting a significant strategic advancement: a €1.5 million payment received for the successful progress in the development of deucrictibant (formerly PHA121), an active pharmaceutical ingredient. This milestone not only strengthens BRAIN Biotech's financial position but also sets a promising trajectory for the company's future, nearly doubling their cash reserves to €10.2 million as of March 31, 2024, from €5.4 million in September 2023.Schneiders delves into the financial specifics, reporting stable revenues of €27.2 million, consistent with the previous year's figures. Despite a 2.6% decline in total operating performance, mainly due to changes in inventory and reduced other income, the company saw an improvement in adjusted EBITDA, narrowing the loss from -€0.9 million to -€0.5 million. This positive trend underscores BRAIN Biotech's resilient financial management amidst challenging conditions. The decline in total operating performance was primarily due to specific reasons, which the company has taken measures to address.Focusing on segment performance, Schneiders highlights the BioProducts segment, which experienced a notable Q2 revenue increase to €10.5 million from €9.3 million in Q1. This growth, coupled with a reduction in material costs from €11.5 million to €10.2 million, signifies enhanced operational efficiency. Although the segment's half-year revenues decreased by 5.0% to €19.8 million compared to the previous year, the CFO expresses a strong sense of optimism about its continued upward trajectory in the latter half of the fiscal year, instilling a hopeful outlook about the company's performance.In the BioScience segment, revenues slightly dipped to €5.8 million, a 5.3% decrease from the previous year's €6.1 million. However, effective project management and stringent cost controls maintained the segment's adjusted EBITDA at zero, demonstrating robust financial stewardship despite revenue challenges. The revenue decrease in the BioScience segment was primarily due to [specific reasons], which the company is actively working to mitigate.The BioIncubator segment stands out with substantial growth, where revenues surged from €0.2 million to €1.6 million. This growth was fueled by significant milestones in genome editing projects under the Akribion Genomics brand, as well as [other specific factors]. The segment's adjusted EBITDA improved markedly from—€1.5 million to€0.5 million, reflecting successful strategic investments and value creation from innovative R&D initiatives. The BioIncubator segment's growth is a testament to its commitment to innovation and ability to capitalize on emerging opportunities.Schneiders reaffirms BRAIN Biotech's unwavering commitment to achieving its fiscal year-end targets, projecting revenues between €58 million and €62 million and an adjusted EBITDA expected to rise in tandem with revenue growth. He concludes by reiterating confidence in the second half of the year, driven by anticipated acceleration in the BioProducts segment and continued advancements in the BioIncubator projects. Schneiders' presentation underscores BRAIN Biotech's strategic resilience and its steadfast commitment to sustainable growth and value creation for stakeholders, providing a sense of reassurance about the company's long-term prospects. T&C This publication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. By using this website, you agree to our terms and conditions outlined on www.seat11a.com/legal and www.seat11a.com/imprint.

Ralf Schneider bekommt häufig die Frage gestellt: 'Warum machst du dich mit dem Wissen, das du hast, nicht selbstständig?' In der heutigen Folge erzählt er euch, wie sein Werdegang war, wie sich die letzten 4 Jahre entwickelt haben, wie alles angefangen hat und warum er sich mittlerweile nicht selbstständig macht. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

The boys hit Long Sault, for a show at Lost Villages Brewery! Is Lewis a werewolf? Has Clint been chased by a killer clown? All this and more Beefs than an Arby's Convention!

Interview mit Anna Schneider, Journalistin, Autorin.

OVP235 – Wein am Sonntag – Schneiders Moritz, Riesling Pommerner Rosenberg 2019

Geboren wurde er als Sohn eines Schneiders in Köln. Gestorben ist er als Universalgelehrter. Auch wenn man persönlich wenig über Ferdinand Franz Wallraf weiß, so wird er heute besonders gefeiert für seine Sammelleidenschaft. Ohne ihn wäre Köln und auch Nordrhein-Westfalen um einige Schätze ärmer.

A mix of detailed hockey talk that you can only get from guys who played fifteen years in the NHL and some of the non hockey topics that the listeners are calling for. (1:46) Schneiders go skiing (17:34) Four Nations Face Off (25:34) Quick All Star Game Review(30:53) Trade deadline talk(50:12) VP of Common Sense(55:36) Shoutout Artie and Judy Boyle on 50 years(56:44) Super Bowl thoughts(58:05) Power Ranking Hockey Movies(1:10:14) Beanpot Cancelled and Childhood heartthrobs(1:23:10) Finish closing the loop on Butch and Biz. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2024 is here. I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas holidays. Let's kick off the new year with Episode 139. Please welcome to the podcast Ksenia Geddes (Susan Clarke) and Trenton Schneiders-, Creator and Directors of the Detective Mystery Bilingual 3 Acts Theatre Show "Women Who Kill". The podcast was recorded live at the premiere show at The Pearl Theatre on the 17th November 2023. The show is interactive with the fans as they get to find clues and evidence in the theatre and at the end of the show, get to vote for who is the killer.  Women Who Kill next show will be on the 19th and 20th of January. Tickets are available at The Pearl Theatre.  @officertrenton Creators and directors-  Ksenia Geddes , Trenton Schneiders  Actors - Detective Howard - Trenton Schneiders Nancy - 陈思宇 Chen Siyu Nina Morgan - Caitlin Quinlan  Serena Blair - Ella VaThyme Lucy Anderson - Ksenia Geddes  Dancers - Dih Hizidorio , Ge Rodrigues , Lisa , Natalia V  Stage manager- Vitaly  https://tellcraigyourstory.podbean.com https://www.linktr.ee/tellcraigyourstory @tellcraigyourstory #womenwhokill #tellcraigyourstory #pearltheatre #dectectivemystery #bilingualact #shanghaichina #kseniageddes #trentonschneiders

Bernt Schneiders over Garantiefonds Bevrijdingsfestivals by Haarlem105

Eberhard Schneider arbeitete rund vier Jahrzehnte beim SWR/SWF. Als Chef der Ü-Technik war er für Live-Übertragungen zuständig - in einem riesigen Berichtsgebiet.

Marc Schneiders Rückblick auf die Maxxis Bike Transalp 2023

Diese Episode wurde seit ihrer Veröffentlichung bereits 120 Mal heruntergeladen. In unserer heutigen Podcastfolge haben wir den Organisator und Streckenchef Marc Schneider eingeladen. Mit ihm wollen wir die Transalp einmal aus einer gänzlich anderen Perspektive betrachten, als wir das als Fahrer gewöhnlich tun. Marc nimmt uns mit und erzählt uns wie sich die Transalp für ihn anfühlt, wie und warum Entscheidungen getroffen werden müssen und was seine persönlichen Highlights, aber auch Tiefpunkte bei der Jubiläumsausgabe waren. Ein kleiner Seitenblick auf unsere Rennrad fahrenden Freunde bei der Schwesterveranstaltung Tour Transalp, sowie ein Teaser zu Maxxis Bike Transalp 2024 sind ebenfalls dabei. Viel Spaß beim ReinhörenEure Coffee ...Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten. kostenlos-hosten.de ist ein Produkt der Podcastbude.Gern unterstützen wir dich bei deiner Podcast-Produktion.

Madison Shipman starts the show down at the Rogers Centre ahead of the series with the Royals. While discussing the game tonight we find out that Bo Bichette has been activated from the IL. Next, Vivek Jacob on the Canada basketball loss this morning, a bronze medal match with the US and where the program has grown since the 2000 Olympics (26:21). How far is the bar now and what should the new expectations be especially when the Olympics start? Later, Seth Wickersham from ESPN on unprecedented access to Sean Payton in the off-season before his return to the NFL and time spent in Idaho with the likes of Gretzky, Elway and more playing golf (50:24). We close the show with Kevin Barker on the return of Bo and whether the criticism of John Schneider has been warranted (1:14:23).The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

In this presentation, Michael Schneiders, the CFO of BRAIN Biotech AG, takes viewers on a comprehensive tour of the company's financial achievements and aspirations, highlighting the 9M 2022-23 financial results. Opening with an overview of BRAIN Biotech AG, Michael highlights the company's three-decade-long legacy in industrial biotechnology, establishing their credibility with 535 B2B products and over 150 industrial partnerships. As a testament to their success, since 2016, they have been listed on the prestigious Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Michael delves into the company's mission to marry economic prosperity with sustainability. By applying innovative biotechnology to industrial processes, they have successfully generated a revenue of approximately 50 million while employing around 330 specialised individuals. The presentation then shifts to BRAIN Biotech's concrete contributions to global sustainability. These include initiatives in food security, such as the development of natural preservatives, sugar substitutes, and plant-based proteins. They've made strides in salt reduction, active pharmaceutical ingredient development, and enzymatic wound care in the health sector. They are also champions in promoting sustainable industrialisation, as evident from their ventures into urban mining, utilising CO2 as a feedstock and lubricant. Michael highlights their technological prowess and discusses their groundbreaking work in genome engineering and gene editing. BRAIN Biotech's unique approach involves discovering novel natural proteins or enzymes and optimising them for commercial production. This often involves microbial strain development and a rigorous optimisation process before the final product reaches the market. The CFO's evident pride shines through as he mentions their genomic platform, Caribbean Genomics, which has achieved significant license revenues. Moreover, their partnerships, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, have made tremendous progress, promising exciting developments by the year's end. In terms of financial performance, despite challenging market conditions marked by high inflation, the company showcased a remarkable growth of 12.3% in the first nine months. There were challenges, like equipment malfunction at their Cardiff facility, but they remain optimistic about making up for these in the coming quarter. Michael reiterates their commitment to invest in the future, pointing out their increased expenditure on genome engineering technology. Looking ahead, BRAIN Biotech sets its eyes on a group sales target between 54 to 57 million, with confidence in achieving their mid-term targets. Before concluding, Schneiders invites potential investors to share in BRAIN Biotech's vision. He emphasises the opportunity to be part of the biological revolution, which offers sustainable solutions in areas like nutrition, health, and the environment. With a clear trajectory to profitability, they aim to position themselves among the top global players in biotech. ▶️ Other videos: Elevator Pitch: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-elevator-pitch/ Company Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-company-presentation/ Deep Dive Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-deep-dive/ Financial Results Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-financial-results/ 00:00 BRAIN Biotech AG 00:12 Who is BRAIN Biotech 00:50 BRAIN impact: Projects and Enabling Technologies 01:49 From Candidates to Industrial Production Processes 02:23 Business Highlights 9m 22/23 04:18 Financial Highlights 9M FY 2022/23 at a Glance 05:20 Our Targets- Confirmed within Range 06:00 Why Invest in BRAIN Biotech ? 06:48 Financial Calendar T&C This publication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. By using this website, you agree to our terms and conditions outlined on www.seat11a.com/legal and www.seat11a.com/imprint.

On today's show, Matt tells A Tale of Two Schneiders, examines Danny Jansen's baseball magnetism and untangles the Angels waiver wire moves. Also: The importance of Pride and navigating Walmart during peak Back to School shopping season. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaysFromHome Mastodon: https://thecanadian.social/@JaysFromHome Matt's Substack: https://mattgowersbrainonbaseball.substack.com

On this week's episode of the Blue Jays Way podcast Curtis and guest host Maddison Cholette talk about Davis Schneiders breakout performance, the Jays road trip and the punch heard around the baseball world.

Its Davis Schneiders world and were just living in it. It episode 123 the Blue Jays Sweep the Boston Red Sox and Davis Schneider is setting records with 9 hits and 2 home runs in his first series in the big leagues. Also Thank you Reese McGuire for gift wrapping us a win in game 2. We had big series from George Springer and Brandon Belt and give some thoughts on the three starters that pitched in this series. Should Erik Swanson be the one to close games with Romano still hurt? Plus you wont believe what Ricky Tiedemann is doing down on the farm. Like the video and subscribe to the channel!

Blue Jays manager John Schneider joins Jeff Blair and Kevin Barker to chat about the past difficulties against the Boston Red Sox, his conversations with his team about converting runs and approaches to the plate, what Davis Schneider can bring to the main roster, his assessment of the first go-around with a 6-man rotation and when we could eventually see Chad Green joining them. Then, ESPN's Jeff Passan stops by (26:06) to discuss which teams won and lost at the trade deadline, how Shohei Ohtani being removed from the trade block affected the market, if Ohtani can pitch and hit throughout his entire career and whether Baltimore has a chance of winning a World Series without an ace pitcher. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

In this podcast, ARC's Mark Sen Gupta discusses challenges users face with regards to remote operations and approaches to counter act those changes with James Redmond (Global Offer Manager for Remote Operations at Schneider Electric).  They discuss overall trends, challenges, regulations, applicable technologies, and Schneiders latest SCADAPack Offerings:  SCADAPack 470i and 474i.

Ep 164 is loose! And we have a couple of killers on our hands, couple Franz and Rosalie who lured several people to their deaths...Who were the Schneiders? Why were they offering so many girls employment? And who cleaned that court room?The secret ingredient is...schnapps! Get cocktails and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepoisonerscab Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Der Schriftsteller Hansjörg Schneider ist bekannt als Autor der Hunkeler-Krimis und einiger erfolgreicher Theaterstücke wie «Sennetuntschi». In seinem neusten Buch «Spatzen am Brunnen» macht sich der 85-Jährige auf Wanderungen durch Basel und erinnert sich unterwegs an sein Leben und sein Schaffen. Die Kreise sind kleiner geworden, in denen sich der Schriftsteller mittlerweile bewegt. Nach zwei Spitalaufenthalten zwischen Herbst 2020 und Herbst 2021 beschränken sie sich noch auf eine lange Strasse durchs Basler St. Johann-Quartier und auf die beiden angrenzenden Plätzen. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, wie viele Geschichten, Erkenntnisse, Erfahrungen und Begegnungen Hansjörg Schneider aus diesem kleinen Revier für sein Buch generieren kann. Im Kultur-Talk mit Michael Luisier geht Hansjörg Schneider seinen Lebensstationen nach und erzählt von einem reichen Künstlerleben voller Aufs und Abs.

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Softy and Fain are broadcasting live from the 88th Annual Seattle Sports Star of the Year Awards! The duo discusses how Pete Carroll and John Schneider handled the story regarding Russell Wilson wanting them fired... Yeah, they took the high road. Gregg Bell of the Tacoma News Tribune stops by to chat about Pete and Schneiders's presser and much more. Also, with the injury of Jordyn Brooks, does that open up a door for Bobby Wagner to return to the Seahawks?

In seinem Buch «Chröt im Haber und Chrähien im Chorn» lässt Florian Schneider das Baselbiet aufleben: Mal verträumt, mal melancholisch, mal frech, aber immer genau auf dem Punkt und ohne ein Wort zu viel.  Der Baselbieter Musiker und Autor Florian Schneider wagt in seinem neuen Buch einen interessanten Spagat: zwischen Songtexten und literarischen Kolumnen. Beides schreibt er in Oberbaselbieter Mundart, und die beiden Textsorten ergänzen sich überraschend stimmig: Kindheitserinnerungen stehen neben Erlebnissen aus dem Alltag, und auf die Ballade einer Toilettendame folgt der Bericht über einen versuchten Kreditkartenbetrug. Was Florian Schneiders Texte auszeichnet, Lieder wie Prosa, ist die sprachliche Präzision, die sich nicht zuletzt in der knappen Wortwahl spiegelt. In Schneiders Texten ist kein Wort zu wenig, aber auch keines zu viel. Warum ihm so viel an der kurzen Form liegt und was seine Mundart mit dem «Schang» aus dem Nachbardorf zu tun hat, das erzählt Florian Schneider im Gespräch. Zu hören sind auch Geschichten und Lieder aus «Chröt im Haber, Chrähien im Chorn». Ausserdem erklären wir in der Sendung das Mundartwort «Mätz», den Ortsnamen Böltschi sowie den Familiennamen Truttmann, und wir stellen eine Liebeserklärung an die deutsche Sprache in Buchform vor. Hinweise: * Florian Schneider: Chröt im Haber & Chrähien im Chorn. Schaub Medien AG 2022. Erhältlich direkt beim Autor . * Florian Schneider: Schangsongs 1-4 (CDs), ab 2015. * Roland Kaehlbrandt: Deutsch – Eine Liebeserklärung. Piper 2022.

Helge Schneider ist Musikclown, Jazzer, Filmemacher, Schauspieler, Buchautor und vieles mehr. Er hat für BR-KLASSIK den Jazz erklärt und er hat einen ganz speziellen Humor. Wie hält es Helge Schneider mit Weihnachten? Jazz-Redakteur Ulrich Habersetzer hat ihn getroffen bei Tee und Plätzchen und Helge Schneider hat ihm sein Lieblings-Weihnachtslied verraten.

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.  Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @BenSchneiders Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA & Fair Work Commissions by Ben & Royce Millar Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)

De plannen van de top van de Nationale Politie voor de hervorming van de Landelijke Eenheid stuiten op forse kritiek van politiemedewerkers. Het rapport dat korpschef Henk van Essen deze week naar de minister van Justitie en Veiligheid stuurde, voldoet volgens hen niet aan de adviezen van de commissie-Schneiders, die de Landelijke Eenheid onderzocht. Een eerdere versie van het plan werd vorige maand al van tafel geveegd door zowel de minister als de commissie en de vakbonden. SP-Tweede Kamerlid Michiel van Nispen reageert vanmiddag in de uitzending van Argos op de kritiek op het hervormingsplan.

De plannen van de top van de Nationale Politie voor de hervorming van de Landelijke Eenheid stuiten op forse kritiek van politiemedewerkers. Het rapport dat korpschef Henk van Essen deze week naar de minister van Justitie en Veiligheid stuurde, voldoet volgens hen niet aan de adviezen van de commissie-Schneiders, die de Landelijke Eenheid onderzocht. Een eerdere versie van het plan werd vorige maand al van tafel geveegd door zowel de minister als de commissie en de vakbonden. SP-Tweede Kamerlid Michiel van Nispen reageert vanmiddag in de uitzending van Argos op de kritiek op het hervormingsplan.

In Edible-Alpha® podcast #112, Andy sits down with Stephanie Schneider of Together Farms in Mondovi, Wisconsin, at the edge of the Driftless Area. This diversified farm business sells 100% grass-fed beef and lamb, pastured heritage pork, and meal kits direct-to-consumer, delivering locally and shipping regionally. Together Farms also hosts farm tours and Burger Night onsite. Stephanie and husband Andy purchased the “dilapidated old dairy farm” and small farmhouse in 2009, wanting to raise their daughters in the country and produce their own food. Neither had ag experience, so they had to learn it all—and build most of the infrastructure—as they went. Committed to raising animals 100% on grass, they made mistakes along the way but gained knowledge and experience too. Around 2012, adjacent acreage came up for sale, so the Schneiders seized the fortuitous opportunity, bought the land, and tried to turn farming into a real business. They planned to sell their meats at farmers markets, but when that fell through last minute, they pivoted to online sales—long before most farms were doing it. Figuring out e-commerce was tricky, as neither Stephanie nor Andy had marketing backgrounds either, but they got it dialed in. Then a few years ago, Stephanie was “drowning in lard” and wanted to figure out a way to use it. She also hoped to branch into agritourism. To accomplish both, plus feature Together Farms' grass-fed beef, she came up with Burger Night. The Schneiders didn't have restaurant experience, but folks from farm-to-table restaurants they supplied meat to helped them get it off the ground. After a successful test-run in 2017, bolstered by a feature on Wisconsin Foodie, the Schneiders invested in the infrastructure to host Burger Night every weekend May through October. The event really took off during the height of the pandemic and now draws some 500 people per weekend. Although Stephanie quit her day job two years ago, the family still relies on Andy's off-farm income. He plans to join her full-time within two years, which will help them “get our heads above water from the daily grind,” get a better handle on their businesses, and boost efficiencies across the board. In the meantime, the Schneiders secured loans to construct a building for hay storage and pig housing, plus a multipurpose facility for shipping and receiving and a farm store. They aim to finish both buildings this year. Ultimately, the store will feature Together Farms' meats alongside other local producers' goods. Smartly, the Schneiders have incorporated their multiple enterprises as separate businesses. And while Stephanie says they still have a lot to learn about finances, they've done a good job of keeping expenses in line with cash flow, receiving help from FSA, EIDL money, and Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants. Once the new buildings are complete and Andy becomes full-time, they'll streamline operations further and hopefully drive more revenue.

The Schneiders tell us about how Scott started Lighting Unlimited and how Cory took over the reins and grew the business. Scott still goes into the office, but his title has transitioned into the “Chief Golf Officer.” As in any family business, there's friction, but Mrs. Schneider came up with a creative way to deal with that. In 1989 Scott started Lighting Unlimited as a Lighting only distributor. He built it to four locations throughout the Phoenix metro area. Cory joined his father at Lighting Unlimited in 2008. He took on a leadership role in 2014 as well as receiving his LC from the NCQLP in 2017. He was the president of NAILD in 2018 and the VP of the Phoenix chapter of the IES. 

This is an extra “out take” episode from my interview with Lyndon Schneiders.  At the end of our conversation, we started talking about one particular campaign that Lyndon was involved with at the Wilderness Society. This is the campaign to keep big oil out of the Great Australian Bight. Lyndon explains the thinking behind the campaign's initial success to keep BP from starting drilling. When we recorded the interview, we talked about the latest phase of the campaign which was focused on stopping the Norwegian state owned company Equinor from its exploration attempts. The great news is that Equinor has pulled out, after the Wilderness Society, together with its alliance partners, mounted court proceedings to challenge the company's approval to drill in the Bight. This was such a big win for nature.  [This episode was produced by the brilliant Dale Willis, founder of PodStream.me]  

This is the second of two amazing episodes in conversation with Lyndon Schneiders. Lyndon has 25 years of campaigning experience and is responsible for a long list of wins for nature. He is one of Australia's most highly respected environmental advocates. In this second episode, we delve deeper into campaigning strategy and tactics, exploring:The most important phases of a campaignWhy political advocacy is so important The realities of working in Canberra How to get a meeting with a senior political leader and how to approach the lobby meeting when you get oneHow to write a briefing paper that will actually get readWhat the practical steps tend to be, with Lyndon's take on where to put most thought and considerationWe also delve more deeply into Australia's climate and fossil fuel campaigns and the strategies being deployed. And we talk about the weaknesses of our current federal environmental laws and the Black Summer bushfire policy response. And finally, we end the episode with a conversation about the role that funders play. Lyndon gives his expert advice on the funding opportunities that he sees now and into the future. [This episode was produced by the brilliant Dale Willis, founder of PodStream.me]  

Lyndon Schneiders has 25 years of campaigning experience and is regarded by Australia's progressive political leaders as one of our most experienced and successful environmental advocates.  Earlier this year, he retired from his role as National Campaigns Director of The Wilderness Society, where he led teams that delivered a long list of wins for nature. In this first episode of the Agents of Policy Change Podcast, we are going to be drawing on Lyndon's experience to answer these broad questions: - Can we really make a positive difference in our increasingly polarised world?- How do we generate sustainable policy change as a result of the campaigns we run?- What makes a good campaign strategy? - What do we need to think about when we are first considering a campaign? - What can we learn from the 2019 Australian Federal Election's shock outcome, where the Australian Labor Party lost despite polling suggesting otherwise?I have known Lyndon for almost 10 years. He is one of the best campaigners I know. It was a pure pleasure to spend time talking to him about his career and how he achieved what he did. And I think he is still just warming up. Enjoy :)[This episode was produced by the brilliant Dale Willis, founder of PodStream.me]