Automation Chat

** Winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence for Best Podcast from the 2022 APEX Awards of Publication Excellence in Corporate Communications. Learn more. In this episode of award-winning “Automation Chat,” Executive Editor Theresa Houck talks with Dr. Al Beydoun, President and Executive Director of ODVA, a leading standards development organization and membership association. After listening to this...

If you like “Automation Chat,” please leave us a 5-star rating and subscribe. It’s vital for industrial firms and municipalities that use water in their processes to maintain regulatory compliance while helping to mitigate the global water shortage. In this episode, Executive Editor Theresa Houck discusses the role of digital technologies in helping organization achieve their water sustainability...

Process instrumentation is critical to process management. In this insightful Q&A, Ryan Williams, Strategic Business Manager for Digital Solutions at Endress+Hauser, talks with Executive Editor Theresa Houck about how to integrate IIoT data into your process operations to drive collaboration and optimize analytics. Also learn about strategies to organize, secure and share data gathered from sensor...

If you like “Automation Chat,” please leave us a 5-star rating, and subscribe. In this episode of “Automation Chat,” Executive Editor Theresa Houck discusses advanced analytics in industrial automation and their role in improving business results for any size company. She is joined by Chirayu Shah, Rockwell Automation Product Head of Edge to Cloud & Analytics.  Learn about descriptive, diagnostic,...

In this episode from The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, Executive Editor Theresa Houck discusses 2022 industrial automation trends affecting manufacturers and producers on their digital transformation journey. Learn about the strategies and smart technologies companies are using to improve agility, productivity and performance — especially to help deal with the c...

In this episode from The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, Executive Editor Theresa Houck details the steps some manufacturers are taking to successfully build resilience and agility into their supply chain so they can recover from a shortage of people, products or capacity. Our hope is that some of these can help you. You’ll learn the common thread in all of them i...

In this episode of “Automation Chat” from The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, Executive Editor Theresa Houck discusses the gray market — products sold legally, but outside of the brand's permission. This isn’t an issue limited to just Rockwell Automation; it applies to all industrial automation suppliers. What’s the difference between an Authorized Distributor and...

In this episode of “Automation Chat” from The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, Executive Editor Theresa Houck reviews highlights from the 2021 Automation Fair® event, hosted by Rockwell Automation Nov. 10-11 in Houston. Learn about the 100+ exhibits from Rockwell Automation and companies in its PartnerNetwork, the event’s hands-on labs, training sessions, industry-...

We’re excited to re-share our top episode of 2021! This is my chat with Grant Geyer at Claroty about he Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that happened in May. Please follow us, and rate us and give us a review. And enjoy this #1 episode of the year! The ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline on May 7, 2021, is considered the most impactful cyberattack against U.S. critical infra...

As 2021 winds down, we’re re-sharing our top episodes of the year. This is my chat with Allan Rentcome at Sensia about how oil and gas companies are investing in digital automation. Please follow us, and rate us and give us a review. Enjoy this #2 episode of 2021! Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Allan Rentcome...

As 2021 winds down, we’re re-sharing our top episodes of the year. This is my chat with my buddy Steve at Southwire about termination and grounding of VFD cables. And be sure to follow us, and rate us and give us a review — it really helps, and we appreciate it. Now enjoy this #4 episode of 2021! Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork ma...

Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, talks with Steve Wetzel, Senior Product Engineer with Southwire Co., about terminating and grounding variable-frequency drive (VFD) cables. Learn why cable termination is so important, why cables often are terminated incorrectly, and how to achieve proper termination. Discover the best way...

You’ve heard of digital twins, but do you really know how they work? It’s a big deal. Find out how they’re used for industrial automation design, in this chat with Chris Harduwar, Vice President of Automation with Maplesoft, and Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine. Also learn why designers swear by digital twins for virtual modeli...

Warehouse automation is an early adopter of smart technologies that enable innovative digital transformation. Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Mike Berg, Solutions Marketing Manager - Industrial Automation with Panduit , about industry trends putting increased pressure on warehouses and distribution centers. Th...

In this special “Tech Spotlight” episode of Automation Chat, host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Aaron Severa, Product Manager for HMI, FieldConnex and Remote IO at Pepperl+Fuchs, a Rockwell Automation Technology Partner. They discuss two of the company’s HMI systems. The new VisuNet GXP HMI for Zone 1 hazardous a...

Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Mark Zeller, sales and customer service director at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), a Rockwell Automation Digital Partner. They discuss how digital protective relays gather and use data for electrical protection in manufacturing plants, and how to download the data. A...

Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Damon Sepe, Business Development Manager at Rockwell Automation, about digital transformation and smart water initiatives for the water wastewater industry. They discuss why we need smart water initiatives, and where investments are increasing across hardware, software and servi...

The ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline on May 7, 2021, is considered the most impactful cyberattack against U.S. critical infrastructure to date, but it’s not the only one. Many infrastructure and manufacturing facility cyberattacks occur that we don’t hear about. So in this episode, host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNet...

**Video of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/SVEzPU5TVGU .** Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats about all things edge computing with Jason Andersen, Vice President of Strategy and Product Management at Stratus Technologies , a Rockwell Automation Encompass Product Partner.  We answer...

**Video of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/u0KHNsflR-E .** In this episode of “Automation Chat,” Executive Editor Theresa Houck talks with Dave Sexton with Rockwell Automation Encompass Product Partner Imperx, Inc. We talk about trends in machine vision — specifically, industrial camera technology trends happening now, the exciting advancements to come, and wha...

Video of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/DO9rTNyvkbs . “Automation Chat” is hosted by Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine. In this episode, I chat with Jeff Kilburn, Managing Director of the U.S. Business, and Thomas Michels, Global Director with EPLAN’s Cloud Business Software, with Rockwell A...

Video of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/xlfHaGN7rdg . “Automation Chat” is hosted by Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine. In this episode, I talk with Steve Wetzel, Senior Product Engineer and Brad Pollard, Vice President of Sales for Automation Products, with Rockwell Automation Encompass Pro...

Did you know that temperature gun nurses are using to see if you have COVID-19 before you enter a medical facility is a pyrometer? It’s true. Learn about that and more in this episode as host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Mark Ritzheimer and Robb Weeks from Rockwell Automation Encompass Product Partner Advanced E...

Host Theresa Houck, Executive Editor of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine, chats with Allan Rentcome, CEO at Sensia, the first fully integrated oilfield automation solutions provider. We talk about how the economic downturn has affected the oil and gas industry, especially with COVID-19; how oil and gas companies are investing in digital automation; the role digi...

In this special episode, we bring you a guest discussion from another podcast “ Control Amplified ,” by our sister magazine, Control. This chat is so good that we’re sharing it with you. 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 Indus...