Control Amplified

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 Keit...

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 Institut...

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...

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...

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 spuriou...

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...

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 cris...

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...

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 C...

In this podcast, Roberto Bennice, chief sales and marketing officer at system integrator SEID, talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about the impact coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is having on process industry system integrators, their clients and suppliers, and the best ways they can cope with the worldwide crisis. Located in northern Italy, SEID and its local communities have been s...

Editor in chief Keith Larson guest hosts this Solutions Spotlight edition. In this podcast, Keith speaks with Megan Buntain, director of cloud partnerships for Seeq , about the rise of cloud architectures in the process manufacturing landscape and how it's reshaping the process data landscape. Read the full transcript.

In this podcast, Steve Pflantz, former ISA president and subject matter expert for automation at CRB , an engineering, architecture, construction and consulting firm, talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about CRB's response to COVID-19, including its increasing use of remote working tools. Read the full transcript here.

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...

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. Read the full transcript here.

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 reco...

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

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.

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 .

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 .

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.

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 .

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.

In this podcast, Peter Zornio, CTO at Emerson Automation Solutions , talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about computing at the edge of process automation and control systems , how what's happening now is different than former distributed control efforts, and how edge computing works and how users can take advantage of it.

Executive editor Jim Montague speaks with Emerson ’s Bob Karshnia in the wake of the November article on wireless to gain greater insights into how industrial wireless is supporting the IIoT, digitalization and other emerging technologies.

Control's executive editor Jim Montague speaks with Craig Resnick and Larry O'Brien at A.R.C. Advisory Group about the Control October 2018 cover article on the Control/A.R.C. Top 50 global and North American automation vendors , and give the results some added context and trends.