Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Grategy Founder Lisa Ryan Reveals Her Secrets to Retaining Your Talent PostedApril 20, 2023 AT 6:09 PM The following is a partial transcript of the full audio of Lisa Ryan's appearance on Talking Industrial Automation. Lisa Ryan is a certified speaking professional, an award-winning speaker and best-selling author and founder and owner of Grategy. Lisa Richter: How did you end up becoming a professional speaker? Lisa Ryan: I have been speaking as part of my career since 1997. I spent years in the welding industry, and I was not only doing things like oxy-acetylene safety seminars, ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Hear How Theresa Benson -- a Strategist and Storyteller -- Earned the Nickname "Corporate Spackle" in the Latest Episode of Talking Industrial Automation PostedFebruary 8, 2023 AT 6:36 PM The following is a partial transcript of the full audio of Theresa Benson's appearance on Talking Industrial Automation, is a two-part episode. In today’s episode, we’re talking industrial automation with Theresa Benson, who is a product storyteller and strategist with over 20 years of experience in high tech. After earning her electrical engineering degree from Iowa State University, she spent her career working in semiconductor, industrial automation and AI software ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Automation Ladies Alicia Gilpin and Nikki Gonzales Talk Industrial Automation on the Podcast. It's a Two-Parter on Talking Industrial Automation! PostedJanuary 17, 2023 AT 11:26 AM Below is a partial transcript of Parts 1 and 2 of Talking Industrial Automation with Alicia Gilpin and Nikki Gonzales. Lisa Richter: In today’s episode, we’re talking industrial automation with Alicia Gilpin AKA Ali G and Nikki Gonzales who are the hosts of Automation Ladies, the only podcast that we know of where women mostly talk about industrial automation. Before starting her own engineering firm, Ali G spent 10 years in engineering. She started in process ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Talking Industrial Automation Interviews With Rockwell Automation Fair Attendees aka Pod in a Box PostedDecember 6, 2022 AT 11:11 AM The following is a transcript of Episode 77 of the Talking Industrial Automation podcast. Lisa Richter: Hi, my name is Lisa Richter, the host of Talking Industrial Automation, a podcast where you get to know the people who make modern industrial automation and processing possible. And in today’s episode, we’re talking industrial automation as usual. But instead of hearing from one or two guests, you’re going to hear from a lot of them, hot mic style-ish, ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Talking Industrial Automation Encore Presentation: Business Value: GPS for Your Business PostedJuly 19, 2022 AT 1:05 PM This is a partial transcript of the Talking Industrial Automation episode that featured an encore presentation of a CSIA MasterClass that was originally published on the CSIA Website called Business Value: GPS for Your Business. The panel was moderated by Bryan Powrozek of Clayton & McKervey. Panelists included Clint Bundy of The Bundy Group, Ben Smith of Clayton & McKervey and Jane Tereba of Capital Valuation Group. Bryan Powrozek: I am Brian Powrozek with Clayton & ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Digital Transformation: What Does that even Mean, and Where do I Start? PostedJune 13, 2022 AT 3:12 PM The digitization of manufacturing and ongoing industrial evolution towards Industry 4.0 is a trend that simply can’t be ignored and one which, when properly strategized and implemented will allow the organizations who embrace it to establish significant competitive advantage. Smart factories driven by cyber-physical systems monitoring physical processes, processing vast amounts of data, and autonomously acting through decentralized decision-making systems are emerging throughout every ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth AGV and AMR Technology: Solving Your Internal Logistics Challenges PostedJune 8, 2022 AT 4:12 PM Adoption and utilization of automation and robotic technologies continues to proliferate across industries while evolving into use in increasingly complex tasks and processes. In-order-to effectively address these increasingly advanced applications, the implementation of emerging technologies such as Co-bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Vehicles is becoming significantly more common. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV’s) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) are both ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Choosing and Working With a System Integrator PostedJanuary 12, 2022 AT 1:30 PM By Wayne Labs Many large food and beverage manufacturers have their own engineering staffs, which provide system integration and automation services to their various facilities. However, most medium- and small-sized processors often don’t have these capabilities—and may have just a single plant engineer. Therefore, for any number of reasons, a food processor may need to look for a system integrator (SI) to help with its automation strategy, whether to update aging and existing ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Choose a System Integrator to Help Navigate Your Digitization PostedDecember 3, 2021 AT 11:47 AM By Steve J. Malyszko, P.E. and CEO, Malisko Engineering. Different clients are at different points of their journey along the road of fully integrated digitization in their manufacturing operations. Some end-users are “getting it” about why digitization on the shop floor up to the carpeted space is vital now and into the future. What we see being more of a challenge is grasping the how. How does a manufacturer get to a point where they feel confident that they’re heading in ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth The Future of Supply Chain Management and Industrial Remote Work PostedNovember 17, 2021 AT 4:34 PM Welcome to the fourth installment in Plant Services’ quarterly feature, Ask An Integrator, developed together with the Control System Integrators Association and its member organizations. In this installment, the panel checks their crystal ball to find out what next year holds in two key industrial areas. For this month, we asked the integrator community to predict how current issues of the day would play out next year. System integrators have been crucial to assisting plants ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Fandis North America Corp Opens its “Doors” During Digital Tour PostedOctober 19, 2021 AT 4:42 PM By Matteo D'Incecco Fandis is one of the most important manufacturer of thermal management devices for control panels. Would you like to know more about them? Fandis North America Corp. invites you to join the first Fandis digital event, organized by FANDIS SPA in Italy. On November 18, Fandis will virtually open its doors for a streaming event. You will be able to visit different plants as production and R&D watching their machineries and technology. The event ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth System Integrators: The Key to Project Success PostedSeptember 9, 2021 AT 6:57 PM By Aaron Heinrich For a host of reasons, many companies—including those making or modifying hydraulic components, controls and equipment—strongly resist asking for help when it comes to product development and implementation. Most of their reasons may revolve around ego and short-term cost considerations, but some companies just insist on doing everything in-house. From a business perspective, however, “doing everything” entails undertaking tasks outside a ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth What to Expect in Automation PostedJuly 30, 2021 AT 5:27 PM For this column, Plant Services asked integrators: “What do you see for system integration looking ahead to 2021? Share some of the challenges in your particular industry this past year, and the solutions and services that are helping your team and end users manage during this time. What should end-users keep in mind if they are considering an upgrade or new solution in the year ahead? And how should they be adapting? Karen Griffin, P.E., VP Heath Stephens, P.E., engineering leader Todd ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth System Integrators Are a Good Investment PostedMay 17, 2021 AT 2:47 PM By Mark T. Hoske A four-year financial and operational benchmark study of 26 control system integrators says “the system integration business can be a good investment,” according to the report analysis – “Leading Pack vs. the Rest – A Data Driven Story.” The 16-page white paper from the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA), underwritten by Rockwell Automation, discusses success factors that separates 16 system integrators leading the pack from the ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth MRO and system integrators: Collaboration is key PostedApril 23, 2021 AT 10:45 AM This article originally appeared in Plant Services. In this installment of Ask an Integrator, if you want to collect the right data, then involve integrators during the design and/or retrofit process. Welcome to the next installment in our quarterly feature, Ask An Integrator, developed together with the Control System Integrators Association and its member organizations. The idea behind Ask An Integrator is simple: increasing levels of plant automation and the growth of online / ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Here's What You Need to Know to Tax Plan in 2020 PostedDecember 14, 2020 AT 11:54 AM On December 10,2020, Talking Industrial Automation Host Lisa Richter talked with Tim Finerty, a shareholder with Clayton and McKervey to find out what pitfalls and opportunities business owners should know about to ensure maximum cash flow and minimum taxes before the end of the year. Here is a transcript of the episode. You can listen to the episode here. Lisa Richter: Welcome to Talking Industrial Automation, a podcast where you get to know the people who make modern industrial ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Machine Safety Simplified PostedOctober 28, 2020 AT 1:02 PM By Jim Ford As a systems integrator we are seeing a significant shift in our customers’ understanding of machine safety and the need to provide safe systems. We get a lot of questions about safety. We see more customers adding functional safety into their control’s specifications. In the past many customers would perceive functional safety and risk assessments as just added costs to a project (expensive!). There was a time when this was probably accurate. Risk assessments can be ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Keeping Machines, OT Networks and IT Safe From Cyberattacks PostedSeptember 18, 2020 AT 12:21 PM By Wayne Labs System integrators and machine builders are great sources when you want to learn how to protect control networks from viruses and ransomware. After all, they design and build machines that must operate continuously without incident, supplying operational data to those who need it—and keeping their equipment and the rest of the plant safe from cybersecurity intrusions—malware, viruses and ransomware. One such machine builder that has been making cyber-secure, safe ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Three System Integrators Show How Mobility Mitigates COVID-19 PostedSeptember 17, 2020 AT 2:59 PM By Jim Montague Because they're often shoulder-to-shoulder with plant-floor personnel, system integrators have some definite views and advice on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting process applications and how mobile technologies can help. McEnery Automation "Tablet PCs have been available for a number of years, and are very practical because users can easily take them into their process settings. Some examples of these applications include classified areas, if they're ... Read More
Lisa Richter, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Director of Industry Outreach and Growth Calculating Safety Stock Is the Key to Minimizing Supply Chain Risk PostedAugust 13, 2020 AT 2:47 PM The retail surge of March saw a rise of 8.5% in retail trade according to the ABS, the strongest rise since it began tracking retail trade. Whilst the panic buying saw empty shelves in supermarkets across Australia, what often goes unseen are the Australian manufacturers behind the scenes struggling to fill this unprecedented demand. “Determining appropriate inventory levels is one of the most important and most challenging tasks faced by supply chain managers,” says Levi Martins, ... Read More