A podcast for process automation professionals
Episodes
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/
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
In this new podcast, Theresa Houck, executive editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, talks with industrial automation leaders, executives, practitioners and other subject matter experts to get their insights about technologies and trends affecting manufacturing and industrial automation professionals every day. Theresa speaks with experts about topics like digital transformation, analytics and information management, networks and security, motion control, and much more.
Automation Chat is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and most podcasting apps.
Tune in and subscribe to Automation Chat: https://rokthejournal.podbean.com/
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
John Clemons, director of manufacturing IT at system integrator Maverick Technologies, a Rockwell Automation company, talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about recent developments with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), how it's enabled by edge and cloud computing, and potential users can employ it for digital transformation, especially in light of the recent COVID-19 crisis.
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/edge-computing-meets-iiot/
Learn the five parts to successful edge computing in Control's latest coverage: https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2020/five-parts-to-successful-edge-computing/
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
In this podcast, John Cusimano, vice president of industrial cybersecurity, aeSolutions, a consulting, engineering and CSIA-member system integrator in Greenville, S.C., talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about the present cybersecurity terrain, and delivers practical recommendations that users can employ to improve the cybersecurity of their process applications, facilities and organizations.
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/practical-improvements-for-the-cybersecurity-of-your-process-operations-organizations/
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
For the engineers among us, it stands to reason that sustainable industrial organizations—those that are most efficient and least wasteful—would also be most profitable. But the very word sustainability carries with it a heap of negative, punitive connotations in the public consciousness. A long history of well meaning, but often rear-view mirrored regulatory reactions are in part to blame, says Chris Hamlin, a consultant working with Seeq to pioneer new ways to create business value using the company’s products and services. Key to improving the perception of manufacturing, energy and other “dirty” industries is greater transparency into the progress that modern industry continues to make on the sustainability front. “We now have the tools to visibly demonstrate that progress in near real-time,” he says. In this podcast, Hamlin and Control’s Keith Larson discuss the role that data analytics and other measurement and control technologies can play in sustaining the workflows that support those sustainability improvements, and even in attracting the next-generation talent that we’ll need to continue that momentum.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-can-analytics-help-reverse-perceptions-of-profitable-sustainability/