The Control Amplified Podcast offers in-depth interviews and discussions with industry experts about important topics in the process control and automation field, exploring underlying issues affecting users, system integrators, suppliers and others in these industries.
Episodes
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
Michael Risse, VP and CMO for Seeq, and J.P. Bauman, principal at Altira, a venture capital fund that focuses on venture growth equity stage companies serving the energy and broader industrial space, join Keith Larson to share some best practices when buying innovative new technologies, software, or services from a company that may not have quite the track record of an Emerson, a Honeywell, or Rockwell, or Siemens. How can you make sure you're not left holding the bag?
Learn more about Seeq: https://www.seeq.com/
Learn more about Altira: https://www.altiragroup.com/
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-how-to-buy-from-a-start-up-without-getting-burned
Thursday May 06, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
When it comes to instrument calibration, people don't always understand what terms mean, and terms don't always mean what people understand them to mean. In this episode, editor in chief Keith Larson is joined by Robert Jennings, repair and calibration manager at Endress+Hauser's Gulf Coast Campus, for an in-depth discussion of the key points of calibration.
Learn more about Endress+Hauser: https://www.endress.com/en
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-calibration-requirements-demystified
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
In this podcast episode, Control editor in chief Keith Larson is joined by Dawn Massa Stancavish, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Massa Products Corp. to discuss applications for ultrasonic and electroacoustic technologies over the years, and how Massa is providing custom innovations for unique applications.
Learn more about Massa Products Corp. at https://www.massa.com/
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-innovations-in-ultrasonics
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
In the midst of a multi-year migration of its legacy Honeywell DCSs to the latest Experion virtualized environment when the pandemic hit, Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J., took on the challenge to see through the migration. In this episode, Control Publisher Keith Larson is joined by Dr. Patrick Robinson, team lead for Process Controls & Modeling at Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery. Robinson explains how the company was not only able to remotely monitor operations, but also keep the migration project on track and under budget with the help of Honeywell.
Learn more at https://www.honeywell.com/us/en
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-phillips-66-modernizes-dcs-in-face-of-pandemic
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
With the number of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) use cases growing and multi-network automation environments adding complexity, the FDT Group has evolved its international standard to accommodate.
In this episode, Keith Larson is joined by Glenn Schulz, managing director of the FDT Group, to discuss the challenges of today's environment and how FDT 3.0 is helping users integrate and manage the complexity.
Learn more about the FDT Group at: https://www.fdtgroup.org
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-fdt-group-standards-technology-evolves-to-support-iiot
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Years ago, most instrumentation communication capabilities were limited, starting and stopping at a single process variable configured to a loop. Smart instrumentation was only a concept until more recently. Today, smart instrumentation devices can provide more data and functionality than most of us realize.
In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, editor in chief Keith Larson and Joe Incntri, director of marketing for the Americas, Krohne, talk about the ongoing evolution of smart instrumentation and how Krohne onboard intelligence and communication capabilities make for safer, more reliable and more efficient industry.
Learn more about Krohne at https://krohne.com/en/
Read the transcript at https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-new-frontiers-in-smart-instrumentation
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Manufacturers both small and large have faced several bumps along the road to the fourth Industrial Revolution. While we talk about Industry 4.0 and its benefits, many have found that they're stuck in pilot purgatory, unable to scale the innovations they've tested.
In this episode, Control magazine editor in chief Keith Larson speaks with John Dyck, CEO of CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute, to discuss some of the persistent roadblocks to digital transformation that exist today, and how CESMII is aiming to help eliminate them, democratizing digital transformation in the process.
Read the transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/industry-4-0-for-all-the-democratization-of-smart-manufacturing
Learn more about CESMII at https://www.cesmii.org/
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Control magazine editor in chief Keith Larson and Dr. Tsuyoshi (Ted) Abe, senior vice president and head of the Marketing Headquarters at Yokogawa, talk about the ongoing transition that is underway—from industrial automation to industrial autonomy, and what that means for the future of the process industries.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-from-industrial-automation-to-industrial-autonomy/
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Half a year into in the global COVID-19 pandemic, Control magazine editor in chief Keith Larson and Maverick Technologies’ founder Paul Galeski discuss the future of automation in light of the coronavirus pandemic and the importance of automation personnel going forward.
Learn more in this interactive whitepaper: http://mavtechglobal.com/fit
Read the transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-the-future-of-manufacturing-and-continued-importance-of-automation/
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Programmable electronic systems have long been used to provide added layers of risk reduction for potentially hazardous industrial processes. But how can you ensure that your safety instrumented system (SIS)—which, by design, spends most of its time doing nothing—will respond properly when called upon? Or, nearly as frustratingly, make sure it doesn’t erode productivity and throughput with spurious shutdowns? Instrumentation is, after all, the SIS’ middle name, notes Howard Siew, chemical industry manager for Endress+Hauser. In this Solutions Spotlight episode of the Control Amplified podcast, Control publisher Keith Larson is joined by Siew and Thomas Fritz, global safety consultant also at Endress+Hauser, to discuss the range of technologies and strategies now available to make sure your instruments support productivity while protecting workers and production assets as well as the surrounding community and environment.
Read the transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-take-steps-to-ensure-safety-system-readiness/