A look back at everything we (and our guests) have gotten right. What has changed in the last 100 episodes? What have we gotten wrong? Plus, a look into the future!

For more than a decade, Joseph has focused on modernizing manufacturing by intelligently adopting state-of-the-art technologies and principles from the software industry. Joseph is passionate about inspiring his team and customers with his experienced industry knowledge and deep-diving into technology. Having worked in various key consulting and decision-making roles, Joseph is the CTO of 4IR Solutions, turning "the Cloud" and "DevOps" into practical realities for manufacturers today.

A problem solver with over 20 years of experience in various roles in automation, manufacturing, and data solutions. I have unique skills and experiences that allow me to be a consultant, coach, architect, mentor, or implementer as the need fits. From my start as an engineer doing automation work in industrial manufacturing through the founder of a data solutions company, my experiences help me bring insight into issues that industrial companies struggle with today.

Are the days of endless automation projects behind us? Will there continue to be endless VC and PE money for Industrial Start-Up companies? What will the future of low and no-code industrial solutions look like? All of these answers and more are on the docket!

I am an industrial systems engineer with a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. I have 20 years of electrical experience managing industrial systems comprising MES, HMIs, PLCs, and SCADA systems. I am not " just a programmer." I have an MBA in Operations Management. I have a Master's in Systems Engineering. I have cyber security knowledge. I have 8 years of experience as a network technician. I can write business plans, Justify return on investment. Manage contractors. Manage projects. Create process flows. Create test plans. Analyze data to concretely show what design changes should happen on a line--i.e., industrial engineering, for continuous improvement changes. Create reliability maintenance plans. Create NIST-based security protocols and network plans. I have been a technician to a manager. I can write control specifications, create reliability maintenance plans, build drawing packages, specify components for an application from scratch, maintain virtual server farms, and set up networks and MESs.

Expanding my knowledge and experience through the Challenges of Electrical and Automation. Throughout my career, I have worked on the tools through my experience as a workshop administrator assisting with Electrical modifications of Electric Motors. To lead a sales team that assisted the Transformer manufacturing industry with solutions and accessories for High Voltage Transformers for the Australian Power Grid. To a Sales Engineer for Phoenix Contact Learning about Edge Technology, Automation, Power Reliability, and Control systems, I fell in love with the latest technology that can support manufacturing growth in Australia and worldwide. My Next Challenge on the Industry 4.0 journey will see me share my experiences with SCADA and MES through my work with Ignition from Inductive Automation and the team at iControls.

Join us as David Schultz shares over 20 years of SCADA experience! What is a SCADA System? When should you replace a legacy system? Is there one protocol to rule them all?

How are people typically using Vision Systems? How can we use them better? Join us as Greg McEntyre is giving us a deep dive into all things Vision Systems.

After talking about how easy it is to break into your factory... Now it's time to determine how to stop those attacks. This week Michael Lewis is joining us to talk about networking spanning from IT to OT. How do we mitigate attacks? What does threat assessment look like? Can we ever be fully secure?