Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered is a podcast series featuring industrial automation subject matter experts answering questions about automation technologies submitted by end users from the discrete and process manufacturing industries.

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Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
Learn how smart sensors enable predictive maintenance, AI-powered manufacturing, and revolutionary ADAR technology that's changing industrial automation and robot safety economics...
Oct. 7, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered
In this episode we explain how IT/OT convergence, the need for digital thread traceability and agentic AI have extended MES software beyond its production tracking roots and are...
Sept. 23, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered podcast
In this episode we'll look at the impact of the recently imposed U.S. tariffs on industrial automation technologies, with insights from Endress+Hauser USA, Fluke Reliability, ...
Sept. 9, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
The summer of 2025 has shaped up to be very eventful for the robotics industry, with A3 reporting significant growth for both robots and cobots, key moves by well-known robotics...
Aug. 26, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered podcast
Tim Gaus from Deloitte Consulting joins us again — this time to discuss how automation technologies, particularly those aided by AI are helping manufacturers address the industrial...
Aug. 12, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered
In this episode we connect with Sanu Warrier, product director for software at nVent, to get insights on Industry 4.0's ROI for panel builders, how design to manufacturing (DTM...
July 29, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
In this episode, we connect with Kristi Martindale, chief commercial officer at Palladyne AI, to explore the use of low-code software and associated closed-loop systems to process...
July 15, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered
Devin Murray of Schmersal USA explains the new ISO 10218 robot standard, how it interacts with other parts of the ISO 10218 series of standards, how manufacturers can integrate...
June 25, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
We connect with Jason Hehman, leader of Industry 4.0 at TXI, to understand the use of digital twins in supply chain operations — how they help manufacturers predict and manage...
June 10, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
In this episode we connect with Alex Greenberg, director of robotics 4.0 simulation at Siemens Digital Industries Software, to learn how immersive virtual reality, photorealistic...
May 27, 2025
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In this episode, we connect with Dusty Alexander, CEO of Global Shop Solutions to explain ERP’s role in the digitization of manufacturing production, how it enables real-time ...
May 20, 2025
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In this episode we connect with Critical Manufacturing's CEO Francisco Almada Lobo to understand how MES and industrial data platforms enable legacy equipment connectivity to ...
May 13, 2025
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Andrew Harris with system integrator ACS explains how cybersecurity fits in with equipment safety as part of a risk assessment, and the use of digital twin tech and safety PLCs...
May 6, 2025
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Kevin McClusky, chief technology architect at Inductive Automation, explains why and how IT technologies such as containers, DevOps, application management and MQTT are impacting...
April 29, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
Tim Gaus, smart manufacturing business leader at Deloitte Consulting, explains agentic AI and how it differs from AI data analytics and AI chatbots, how manufacturers can use ...
April 15, 2025
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We connect with Ken Crawford, senior director of automation at Weidmuller, to explore the differences between open control systems and proprietary control systems, the security...
April 7, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
We connect with Brett Finley, CEO of PLZ Corp., to get first-hand insights into PLZ’s digital transformation efforts that range from the plant floor to the enterprise and into...
March 25, 2025
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Evan Novakowski with system integrator Actemium Avanceon explains the primary factors that influence how data polling over Ethernet impacts PLC cycle time, if specific Ethernet...
March 11, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
Lisa Masciantonio, chief workforce officer at the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute, shares her insights into how robotics and AI have changed the U.S. manufacturing...
Feb. 25, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
As the manufacturing industries advance, and control technologies are increasingly built to withstand harsh industrial environments for direct placement on or nearby production...
Feb. 11, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
From AI, robots and sustainability to preventative maintenance, inventory and workforce training, find out what industry experts from the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute...
Jan. 28, 2025
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We connect with Robert Schoenberger, editor-in-chief at Industry Week, to get his insights on manufacturing business issues most likely to affect automation purchasing and implementatio...
Jan. 14, 2025
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Do you know the machine safety basics to keep workers safe and machinery operating at its peak? In this episode, we feature insights from Joe Carson, president and founder of ...
Jan. 7, 2025
Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered Podcast
Referencing decisions made around IT and OT convergence at Entegris in 2008, we look at how those decisions helped the company scale its operations technology across multiple ...
Dec. 10, 2024