Control Amplified: The process automation podcast (ControlGlobal)

It’s often said that good things come in small packages, and that adage seems especially apt in describing Rockwell Automation’s new M100 Electronic Motor Starter. In this special Solutions Spotlight episode of Control Amplified, group publisher Keith Larson speaks to Bill Meindl, Jr., business manager for industrial components at Rockwell on the M100 functionality and highlights.

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/

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 

Food and beverage producers are being asked to do more with fewer people, to anticipate and prevent potential disruptions to production, and to advance the overall sustainability of their operations. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only brought added pressures to bear. But suppliers of instruments and controls are once again answering the call. In this episode, Keith Larson talks about how instrumentation controls are addressing the changing landscape of food and beverage industry needs with Ola Wesstrom, food and beverage industry marketing manager for Endress+Hauser USA.

Learn more about Endress+Hauser: https://www.us.endress.com/en

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/how-instrumentation-is-addressing-food-and-beverage-industry-needs 

Len Vermillion and the rest of the Control team was in Houston for Yokogawa’s YNOW users’ conference during the week of Oct. 28. He came away with five key points that were made throughout the conference, topics that found their way into several sessions that were on the tops of people’s minds.

Industrial autonomy goes beyond automation by adding layers of smart sensing and machine cognition to anticipate and respond to unforeseen circumstances, ultimately culminating in systems responsible for all aspects of operation, from startup, through safe shutdown. In this episode, Keith Larson and ARC Advisory Group's Mark Sen Gupta discuss the process industry's path to autonomous operations. 

Learn more about Honeywell: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en 

Learn more about ARC Advisory Group: https://www.arcweb.com/ 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/the-rise-of-industrial-autonomy 

The only constant in today's industrial landscape is the rapid evolution fueled by digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). It is estimated that more than 90% of businesses engage in some form of digital activity. While innovation and adaptability are keys to staying ahead, the digital transformation journey for industrial organizations is by no means an easy one, particularly in water and wastewater. Control talked with Alejandro Trejo, Offer Manager for Digital Services, and James Redmond, Global Offer Manager for SCADA and Telemetry, of Schneider Electric to get further insight into the challenges and solutions for operators.

It’s been more than 10 years now since Marc Andreesen proclaimed that “software is eating the world.” To discuss the rise of software in the automation sector and other salient issues facing the industrial enterprise, Keith Larson is joined by Robin Saitz, chief marketing office for Rockwell Automation on this latest episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast.

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/33000054 

Editor in chief Len Vermillion is chatting with the newest inductees for 2025's Process Automation Hall of Fame in this Control Amplified mini-series. In this interview with John Hedenglen, they discuss how working with fellow Hall-of-Famer Thomas Edgar on process dynamics and controls kickstarted Hedenglen's career of academia, prestigious accolades and eventual induction into the Hall of Fame's class of 2025.

Today’s smart instruments boast an array of functions and features beyond the nominal process variable (PV) that can make life better in myriad ways...or not, if you don’t take them into account. To talk about those other intangible deliverables that today’s smart level instruments can deliver, Keith Larson is joined by Scott Peterson, national product manager, level, and Keith Riley, national product manager, temperature and pressure, both of Endress+Hauser’s U.S. operations. 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-level-measurement-think-past-the-pv 

It’s already been three years since Emerson unveiled the concept of Boundless Automation as its future vision of operational technology architecture at Emerson Exchange 2021 in Nashville. How has the automation landscape evolved since then?

Joining Control publisher Keith Larson for a wide-ranging discussion on AI, sustainability, Boundless Automation and a bit of a preview of next spring’s Emerson Exchange Americas event in San Antonio, is Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson.

When faced with challenges, having a little help can make the biggest difference. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Keith Larson is joined by  Skip Tierno, chairman, and Teresa Sebring, president, Measurement Control & Automation Association (MCAA), to learn how the association is assisting its members and partners in dealing with the challenges brought on by the COVID pandemic, the worker shortage, and more. 

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/33000023 

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.

While Beckhoff Automation is known traditionally as an automation supplier to discrete manufacturing industries, in recent years it's been steadily building credibility and relevance to the process industry's automation needs. Keith Larson and Jesse Hill, process industry manager for Beckhoff Automation, discuss the company's growing footprint in the process automation realm. 

Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-beckhoff-building-process-cred 

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

In this episode of Control Amplified, Editor in Chief Len Vermillion looks at the journey of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial operations. He gets help from the words of Dustin Johnson, chief technology officer at Seeq; Tathagata Basu, global head and general of sustainable fuels and chemicals at Honeywell; and John Rezabek, process controls specialist, Ashland Inc.

Among the topics:

• Strategic planning for generative AI (GenAI)
• Efficient data analytics
• Human-AI interaction
• Technical training challenges

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 

Full featured managed switches from the IT world feature an impressive array of options and functionality—perhaps too many for operational technologists. Unmanaged switches, on the other hand, are relatively unsophisticated devices that cost less, but lack security and redundancy features. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Keith Larson talks to Charlie Norz, product manager for I/O systems, WAGO USA, about a network switch option designed specifically for the needs of OT applications—and the priorities and skillsets of the engineers and technicians that work with them.

Learn more about WAGO: https://www.wago.com/ 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/ethernet-switching-for-the-ot-world 

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/

It's been 45 years since Micro Motion debuted its first Coriolis meter, and back then, the chemical lab industry was the first to recognize the advantages of direct mass flow measurement. But over the years, Coriolis technology and complementary instrumentation that Emerson has assembled has proved the worth of this technology in many other dimensions. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, editor in chief Keith Larson is joined by Don Fregelette, chemical industry vice president for Emerson's Automation Solutions Business, to discuss the range of applications and benefits Emerson's chemical manufacturing clients are realizing through this technology.

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/coriolis-technology-fueling-chemical-industry-transformation 

While the COVID-19 pandemic may have turned nice-to-have technologies into must-have technologies seemingly overnight, the benefits of these implementations can reach far beyond the ability to avoid virus transmission among personnel. In this podcast, Keith Larson is joined by Arnold "Marty" Martin, director of process control technology for Air Liquide's Center of Technical Expertise, to discuss the benefits he's realized from Air Liquide's remote solutions.

Learn more about Air Liquide: https://www.airliquide.com/ Learn more about our sponsor, Honeywell: https://www.honeywell.com/ Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/remote-solutions-benefits-stretch-beyond-covid Reach out to Marty Martin: Office/Cell: (281) 883 - 3997 or email: arnold.martin@airliquide.com

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/

Control editor in chief Len Vermillion and Joe Weiss - managing partner of Applied Control Solutions Inc., ISA99 ICS cybersecurity pioneer, 2024 Process Automation Hall of Fame honoree and Unfettered blog author - sit down for a discussion on cybersecurity. What should everyone know about cybersecurity? And what can we do to represent cybersecurity appropriately?

Industry is among the largest consumers of fresh water, and many global manufacturers have identified water scarcity as a significant risk factor to continuing operations. To answer this challenge operators of both municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment systems are in the midst of their own transformations. To discuss the ongoing transformation of our water/wastewater infrastructure Keith Larson speaks with Endress+Hauser’s Nick Hanson, national industry manager for water and wastewater. Learn more about Endress+Hauser: https://www.us.endress.com/ Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21435291

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/ 

While uncertainty over tariffs and inflation confuses the industrial sector, we wondered how the industrial processing market is affected. To get answers, Control editor in chief Len Vermillion talked with Connor Lokar, senior forecaster for ITR Economics, to try to make heads or tails of the situation.

While some processing business might be fretting over the escalating trade war the U.S. has engaged in with Canada, Mexico and China, others are may have reasons to be more hopeful. But many are still awaiting leading indicators to catch up to the whirlwinds of activity from the government before deciding how to react. In the meantime, we check in with ITR Economics to get their thoughts on the outlook for 2025 as it pertains to industrial processing, instrumentation and more.

In the first Control Amplified podcast of 2025, wireless technology expert Ian Verhappen joins Len Vermillion for a discussion on the past, present and future of wireless technology for industrial operations. Among their topics are the fast advances and usage of wireless in industrial plants, why Wi-Fi advancement enables more efficient operations, the growing influence of Bluetooth Low Energy on the plant floor, and the need for cybersecurity to advance in lock step with these technologies. In addition, they look at the process for adopting new technologies in industry and why software will be the focus of development over the next decade.

The digital transformation of industry doesn't only apply to the real time control and optimization of industrial processes. It also applies the documentation, the supply chains, and context-specific workflows that support industrial assets across their entire lifespan. To better understand how, when it comes to industrial automation, digital technology at our disposal can make online retailers estimated delivery times a little more than entry stakes, Keith Larson is  joined by Brian Fretschel, director of digital customer experience for Emerson.

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438009 

Control Editor-in-Chief Len Vermillion recaps his thoughts from ARC Forum 2025 in Orlando. While winning with artificial intelligence (AI) dominated the conversation, the migration of Foundation Fieldbus to Ethernet APL is also on the minds of CEOs these days. 

Today's current events have ratcheted up uncertainty among industrial enterprises around the world. One result has been an increased sense of urgency to implement digital transformation strategies at scale, including those advancing the realization of industrial autonomy. To provide a status report on our collective journey from Industrial Automation to Industrial Autonomy, or IA2IA in Yokogawa shorthand, Keith Larson, publisher of Control magazine and ControlGlobal.com, is joined by Tom Fiske, Principal Technology Strategist, Yokogawa US Technology Center, Yokogawa Corporation of America.

Learn more about Yokogawa: https://www.yokogawa.com/solutions/featured-topics/ia2ia/

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21436754 

Editor in chief Len Vermillion is chatting with the newest inductees for 2025's Process Automation Hall of Fame in this Control Amplified mini-series. First up: Duncan Schleiss. From pioneering Emerson's DeltaV technologies to teaching at Louisiana State University, Schleiss continually recognizes the help and support of his colleagues amid all his successes.

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 

Keith Larson talks about the range of CEMS technologies now available and how to choose among them with SICK's Phil Zyskowski, market application engineer, and John Calame, market product manager for Analyzers and Continuous Gas Analyzer Systems.

Learn more about SICK: https://www.sick.com/us/en/ 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/the-case-for-in-situ-cems-analysis 

In this special edition of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, we bring you an interview from the Remaking Industry podcast from Smart Industry magazine. In this guest episode, Smart Industry editor in chief Chris McNamara is joined by Paul Sereiko, director of marketing, FieldComm Group, to discuss the impacts of digitalization and some of the organization's latest collaborations to create standards that encourage interoperability.

Learn more about FieldComm Group: https://www.fieldcommgroup.org/ 

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21439148 

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 

In November 2021, Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC) and Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced a partnership for a jointly developed integrated solution for process and turbomachinery control called CCC Inside. Just a couple of months ago, they released enhancements to their solution with additional function blocks. Historically, CCC is famous for turbomachinery controls and Yokogawa for process control. Now, they bring the two pieces together. Control Editor in Chief Len Vermillion is joined by Michael Ilchenko, product director, Compressor Controls Corporation, and John Gracia, system consultant, DCS, Yokogawa Electric Company to learn more.

This episode of Control Amplified was sponsored by Compressor Controls Corporation.

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21546058

In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Keith Larson is joined by John Colpo, global manager, marketing strategy, oil & gas, at Honeywell Process Solutions. In their discussion live from Honeywell Users Group Americas 2022, they discuss the synergies between the pursuit of sustainability goals and autonomous operations. 

Learn more about Honeywell Process Solutions: https://process.honeywell.com/

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/toward-autonomous-net-zero-operations 

Editor in chief Len Vermillion calls upon executive editor Jim Montague, who wrote a very informative cover story for the November issue of Control on cybersecurity with a series featuring seven systems integrators, now on Control Global.

Len will read the first of that series to get a taste for where Jim’s reporting is going and what engineers can learn about the ever-important topic of OT cybersecurity in process control.

One of those stories is a tale of system integrator Eosys Group, which helped a Tier 1 automotive parts manufacturer protect its plant and enterprise networks.

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/

Ethernet-APL technology is an important technology milestone, enabling a new high performance paradigm of digital field communications for the process industries. But from a practical perspective, there are millions of analog 4-20 mA instruments installed around the world, and growing. No one will be tearing them out anytime soon. Further these analog devices are joined by a growing number of wireless monitoring instruments that are helping to realize the industrial IoT ambitions of process manufacturers around the world. So. how can all these devices coexist and work together tomorrow and for decades to come? Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson's Automation Solutions business, joins Keith Larson to discuss the role that HART will play.

Learn more about Emerson: https://www.emerson.com/global

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/how-hart-transcends-physical-layer-constraints 

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/

Jim Smith set the bar for innovation sky high from the very start when in 1977 he led the team that brought the first mass flowmeter based on the Coriolis effect to the industrial market. Since that time, as Micro Motion and now as part of Emerson, Emerson, the organization has continued to break new ground. To talk about how Emerson has responded to changing industry demands, and what trends are likely to shape the company’s portfolio in the future, Keith Larson chats with Patrick Zimmer, director of product marketing for the company’s Coriolis portfolio.

Learn more about Emerson's Micro Motion Flowmeters: https://www.emerson.com/en-us/automation/micro-motion 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/the-evolving-capabilities-of-coriolis-technology 

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.

In this final episode of 2024, Control’s editor in chief, Len Vermillion and Jesse Yoder discuss the future of flowmeters in renewable energy application. Climate change is almost universally recognized by governments worldwide, and many large corporations make combating climate change a priority. Reducing reliance on fossil fuels and substituting renewable energy in their place is chief among these efforts, and flowmeters are in the middle of growing those technologies.

Green hydrogen can decarbonize applications where renewable electrons simply can't go, but does bring with it some challenges, notably the very high pressures and low temperatures needed to contain it. To talk more about the challenges posed and opportunities presented by green hydrogen in transportation applications, Keith Larson is joined by Genny Fultz, product manager, Marc Buttler, director of application innovation, both with Emerson.

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438386

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 

The FDT integration standard first came into being as a means to deal with all aspects of multivendor device configuration and diagnostic data generated by smart process instruments. Over the years, it has evolved in both scope and functionality, and in its current iteration as FDT UE, it provides a platform-independent, web-enabled environment for managing and monitoring instrumentation and all manner of Industrial IoT devices across process, hybrid and discrete manufacturing domains. In this episode of Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast, Control magazine editor in chief Keith Larson discusses the ongoing evolution of FDT and its increased relevance in the age of Industry 4.0 with Steve Biegacki, FDT Group managing director.

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/fdt-for-the-industry-4-0-era 

It’s been some three decades since the Purdue model first formalized the seven-layer pyramid for “computer-integrated manufacturing." While the model’s intent was primarily functional, form often follows function, and the intervening decades have left us with complex strata and siloes of isolated data that is difficult to integrate and contextualize. Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson’s Automation Solutions business, joins Keith Larson to discuss a new vision of a flatter, software-based architecture for process automation that democratizes data and enables optimization without all the former hurdles. Learn more about Emerson Automation Solutions: https://www.emerson.com/en-us/automation/home Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438713

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/ 

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.

Once you know what to fix, how do you ensure that your maintenance team has ready access to the information it needs to execute the necessary repairs both quickly and effectively? In this episode, Control editor Keith Larson talks about Emerson’s efforts to help reimagine maintenance workflows through the use of connected systems with Brad Budde, vice president, digital customer experience for Emerson’s Automation Solutions business.

Learn more about Emerson: https://www.emerson.com/en-us

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/reimagining-maintenance-through-connected-systems 

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.

Despite a deluge of pledges from companies to reduce their environmental impact, the evolving sustainability space and growing regulatory investor and social pressures have left many organizations questioning where to begin. In this episode, Chris Hamlin, Seeq Corp.'s capability development lead, shares his seasoned perspective on the issue.

Learn more about Seeq: https://www.seeq.com/ 

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/a-shift-in-focus-create-a-virtuous-cycle-to-advance-sustainability 

In this episode of Control Amplified, editor in chief Len Vermillion runs down highlights from the Safety and Risk Conference at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University and Aveva World 2024 in Paris.

As the digital transformation of the process industries advances, innovative solutions are easing OEE pain points and making way for more flexible methods of applying OEE on an enterprise level. To learn more about how digital transformation is allowing manufacturers to extract new value from this tried and true metric, Keith Larson is joined by Joe Reckamp, principal analytics engineer for Seeq. 

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21437418 

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/ 

While green hydrogen promises to play a significant role in the decarbonization of our energy infrastructure, it won't be as simple as throwing a switch. One key avenue for it is to leverage the existing natural gas distribution networks to deliver a blend of green hydrogen and traditional natural gas to the homes, buildings and industries that currently rely on natural gas in full. In this episode, Keith Larson, publisher of Control magazine and ControlGlobal.com, and Duane Harris, market product manager for Sick, discuss some of the unique challenges posed by blending hydrogen into our natural gas systems and some of the technologies can address these challenges in a cost-effective way.

Learn more about Sick Sensor Intelligence: https://www.sick.com/us/en/ 

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438217 

Griffin Open Systems was founded in 2013 to bring to market a graphical programming toolkit for rapid application development and deployment of real-time solutions. In this episode, Keith Larson is joined by Griffin co-founder Brad Radl to discuss the delayed adoption of digitalization technologies like data analytics, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0, and how Griffin's system-agnostic fourth-generation AI toolkit aims to help overcome the barriers to further digital transformation.

Learn more about Griffin Open Systems: https://www.griffinopensystems.com/

Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/solutions-spotlight-no-code-approach-lowers-ai-roadblocks

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/ 

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 severely affected by COVID-19, along with the rest of the region.

Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/one-italian-system-integrators-response-to-covid-19/ 

Many industrial organizations today list increased sustainability as one of their main corporate objectives. But it's not just altruism, they understand that advancing sustainability also offers significant competitive advantage, from both an image perspective and a business bottom line. In this podcast, Control's editor in chief Keith Larson discusses how advanced analytics are being used by process industries to advance the sustainability of their operations with Lindsey Wilcox, customer success manager with Seeq.

Learn more about Seeq: https://www.seeq.com/

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/driving-sustainable-operations-with-advanced-analytics/ 

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.

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The touch panel has a long and storied history in the industrial automation arena. To better understand the changing roles and capabilities of the not-so-humble touch panel in today's production environments, Keith Larson is joined by John Wozniak, product manager for digital automation projects with Wago.

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/21438616 

Since its introduction more than four decades ago, the distributed control system, or DCS, has made enormous contributions to the safe, efficient and reliable operation of innumerable industrial processes around the world. In this episode of Control Amplified, editor in chief Keith Larson talks about the forces reshaping the distributed control system (DCS) landscape and how ABB is responding to them is Mark Taft, ABB group vice president responsible for the company's process control systems offerings worldwide.

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/the-forces-reshaping-tomorrows-distributed-control-system 

Ethernet-APL products are due to hit the marketplace this year. With this, process industries will be able to boast a unified Ethernet architecture that reaches from intrinsically safe field devices to the cloud. While bandwidth will be much faster, Ethernet-APL will also deliver substantially more electrical power to those field devices, bringing unprecedented capabilities to the digital field. In this episode, editor in chief Keith Larson speaks with Jonas Berge, senior director of applied technology for Emerson’s Automation Solutions business, about the new field device capabilities Ethernet-APL will make possible.

Learn more about Emerson: https://www.emerson.com/en-us

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/ethernet-apl-implications-for-the-field-devices-of-tomorrow

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.

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.

Hydrogen is a sustainable fuel solution that is quickly gaining traction in the global marketplace. Despite it being an efficient and sustainable energy source, hydrogen dispensing requires the utmost safety parameters to ensure risk are mitigated. That is especially true for one of green hydrogen’s primary potential uses – vehicles such as trucks and tank cars.  

Emerson Automation Solutions is on the forefront of solving the safety risks present in hydrogen dispensing thanks to one of its newest products, the Micro Motion High-Pressure Coriolis HPC020 Flowmeter, which is set to debut in March.  

Genny Fultz, global product manager for Emerson Automation Solutions, talked with Control about the new unit, the increasing market interest in hydrogen, the challenges facing dispensing, and the safety and cost benefits of HPC020.   

Read the transcript: https://controlglobal.com/33000065 

Keith Larson, editor of Control magazine and ControlGlobal.com talks about Ethernet-APL and what it means for the future of field communications in the process industries is Paul Sereiko, director of marketing and product strategy the FieldComm Group.

Learn more about FieldComm Group at https://www.fieldcommgroup.org/

Learn more about our sponsor Emerson at https://www.emerson.com/en-us

Read the transcript at https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/ethernet-apl-industrys-path-forward 

As in other industrial sectors, the past 30 years have seen substantial consolidation among suppliers serving the process automation marketplace. Indeed, the last burst of entrepreneurial spirit seemed to have left the market when the late 1990s dot-com bubble burst. Today, of the top 25 suppliers to the U.S. market that Control magazine identified in 1990, a full two thirds of that “old guard” no longer exist as independent entities, with much of the global market presence accruing to a relative handful of primary platform providers.

Keith Larson, editor of Control magazine and ControlGlobal.com, explores today’s process automation mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape with Gene Bazemore, managing director in the Dallas office of Founders Advisors. 

Learn more about Founders Advisors: https://foundersib.com/

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/process-automation-the-m-and-a-landscape-in-2021 

The process industry’s packaging, paper, plastics and textile manufacturing applications are among its most challenging. Conveyors, continuous sheets and webs are moving faster than ever, even as the volume of real-time data needed to feed industry’s digital transformation ambitions continues to mount. So, how can a maker of the industrial networks and input/output (I/O) systems that make all this happen continue to keep pace with the mounting demands of end users and machine builders? Keith Larson chat with Charlie Norz, product manager for I/O systems with WAGO USA, to find out.

Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/control-amplified/flexibility-redefining-io-expectations 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.