Episodes

Monday Apr 06, 2020
Early impacts of COVID-19 on process industries
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
In this podcast, Craig Resnick and Larry O'Brien at A.R.C. Advisory Group, talk with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about the early impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the process automation and control industries, how they're responding to it, and how digital transformation may give users some of flexibility and remote collaboration/monitoring/control tools they'll need to handle future crises.
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/early-impacts-of-covid-19-on-process-industries/

Monday Feb 10, 2020
Control's Top 50 manages market forces, IIoT and digitalization
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Jim Montague is joined by A.R.C. Advisory Group’s Larry O’Brien and Craig Resnick to discuss the latest Top 50 report, from how these automation companies are managing market conditions to their implementations of the Industrial Internet of Things and digitalization.

Monday Dec 16, 2019
Joe Weiss' ground-up view of cybersecurity
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
In this podcast, control system cybersecurity expert Joe Weiss sets Control executive editor Jim Montague straight on several major cyber security issues, especially sensor, device and Level 0 vulnerabilities, and the ongoing inability of network-focused efforts to acknowledge and address them. He also examines other parts of the current cybersecurity landscape, and provides several practical recommendations that users can employ to improve the cybersecurity of their process applications, facilities and organizations. For more, read the 12-part December cover feature.

Monday Dec 02, 2019
Solutions spotlight: Operational analytics go beyond data science
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Control publisher Keith Larson guest hosts this Solutions Spotlight edition. In this podcast, Keith speaks with Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson's Automation Solutions business to talk operational analytics

Monday Nov 04, 2019
IIoT, digitalization and the workforce
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Monday Nov 04, 2019
In this podcast, Sam Hoff, CEO of Patti Engineering, a CSIA-certified system integrator in Auburn Hills, Mich., talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about the Industrial Internet of Things, workforce development and other topics.

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Solutions spotlight: Industrial asset management lifecycles
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Keith Larson, publisher of Control and ControlGlobal.com, is joined by Rockwell Automation's Rachael Conrad, VP and GM for customer support and maintenance, and Matthew Fordenwalt, VP and GM for systems and solutions, to discuss industrial asset management lifecycles and the upcoming Automation Fair.

Monday Jul 29, 2019
OPAF update: O-PAS Version 1.0 explained
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Jim Montague is joined by Dennis Brandl, principal consultant at BRL Consulting Inc., co-chair of the OPAF standards working group and chair of the technical architecture sub-committee. They discuss the history, goals and news from the Open Process Automation Forum.

Friday May 03, 2019
Today's data analytics aren't very different
Friday May 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Michael Risse, VP and CMO at Seeq, talks with Control’s Jim Montague about data analytics in process automation and control, how they're evolving, the new forms they can take on, and how users can benefit.

Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Exploring historians & data analytics - Part 2
Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Jim Montague speaks with Sam Russem, director of the Smart Manufacturing practice at Grantek Systems Integration, a CSIA-certified system integrator in Philadelphia to expand on the first discussion about the capabilities of modern historians and data analytics.

Monday Mar 04, 2019
Exploring historians & data analytics
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Will Aja, customer operations VP at Panacea Technologies Inc. talks with Control's executive editor Jim Montague about the "modern historian," the evolution of data analytics and the new forms it can take on, and how users can take advantage of them.