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  • Sub-$400 Ethernet PLCs (and more): Automation Tech Talk for August 12, 2025 (TT0812)
    Let's talk about sub-$400 Ethernet PLCs (and more) in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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    Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)
    Shawn Tierney (Host):Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk. Shawn Tierney here. You know, it's been a long time since I've used StreamYard, and they've actually added some really cool things. I can actually see if my mic is working.
    So please, leave a comment in the chat. I'm, we're going out live to LinkedIn and YouTube. Of course, this will be released over on the podcast and at the automation blog later, when I'm done lunch. But in any case, I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about the, the thought process behind the show is, you know, I learn so much every day, and I just I can't I can't keep up with the courses. I can't add everything I learn into my courses or do, like, full blown productions on it.
    And so I'm like, you know what? Let me just meet up with all my followers on LinkedIn and YouTube and just share what I'm learning, and then I can just watch the chat and see if you guys have anything else to say about it. In that way, all this stuff I'm learning every day, I can get right back out to you guys, and you guys can share what you're learning with me in very informal, you know, type of show. So that is what automation tech talk lunchtime edition is all about. I'm doing this to my lunch because there's no there's you know, I'm not making money from this.
    But, in any case, I do wanna say say thank you to all my students at the automation school, and thank you to all my members at on YouTube and the automation blog. Thank you guys very much. Now I am you know, I wanted to bring the news, show back, but it's, like, three hours a day, and it makes zero money. So it's just like I can't invest the time to do that. And so that's why I'm doing the show, but I'm gonna reuse the new show podcast.
    So if you're listening to the podcast, you're like, hey. Showed to the new new show, and you're getting this instead. It's expensive and time consuming to spend the new podcast. So, I'm thinking from talking to some of the listeners out there, I'm thinking you guys would enjoy this, maybe not as much as the news, but maybe, as close to it as I can provide right now. With all that said, thank you again for tuning in.
    And today, what I wanted to talk to you is about, low cost Ethernet PLC. So as an instructor, I'm always looking for how people can can get, you know, learn PLCs. Right? Program controls, PACs, PLCs, whatever you wanna call them. They are, like, to me, the heart of an automation system.
    The IO comes into that. You know, devices talk to the IO. IO talks to controller. HMIs and SCADA talk to the controller. IoT connections, IoT connections.
    You know? So that's like the brain of the system, always has been. Right? And it's kinda like the motherboard in our computers. Right?
    And so, you know, I I think people will always wanna learn them as long as we're we have control systems. And, I know some people will say, well, you know, there's DCSs and this this that I understand that. I understand that. But in any case so, you know, I recently posted let me see if I can share it with you. I recently posted over on LinkedIn.
    Let's see if I can get this up here and bring it over to the right screen, and let's see if we can go to this. Again, I haven't used this in a while, so it's a little new for me. But in any case, this is not what I wanted to show you. Let's see if we can show something else here. Let me see.
    Bear with me a second. Share screen. Let's share the whole screen. I think that will be that. Okay.
    Great. So this is LinkedIn. I've tried to clean up all the red spots. Of course, I got more now. But this I was talking about the code, Sys, for a scan, and a lot of people totally misunderstood me even though they are trying to add helpful advice.
    And I appreciate everybody. I gotta shout out to some of the guys. I I don't wanna say the names, but several people in there were super awesome and helpful. But one of the things this post over on LinkedIn got me talking about was, you know, what happened to the sub $300 PLC, Ethernet PLC. Right?
    And so what I did is I'm like, you know, it's it's been a long time since I looked for a sub $300 PLC with Ethernet, and that's the key for me, Ethernet. Right? Because nobody wants to use a serial cable these days. USB is not bad, but Ethernet is better. Right?
    So I said, you know, my I used to really be a big fan of the micro eight twenty. I still am. I guess I should say I still am. But in any case, you could see here in proposal works, I updated it recently, and it's showing it at $3.97. Now this model, used to be February or February.
    I'm thinking this is the February model. But in any case, you can see how much inflation we've had over the last ten years. Just a lot of inflation to bring that price up to $3.97. So what we used to say maybe is a $250 Ethernet POC, which is a great thing to learn on, it's now more like 400. I think, you know, back then, it was the price of a of a video game console.
    And I guess today, video game consoles have gone up in price because I think it's still the price of a video game console. But in any case, the the reason the reason I like having a physical POC to learn on is because a lot of times, this would be something that, you can actually use. You know, you could build your own trainer or maybe it's an OEM who wants to install it in a machine. Right? And so not all vendors have a program like ProposalWorks.
    It makes it very hard to find pricing on them. Now, some other POCs to consider, Ethan, the POCs that you can learn on, that are under, let's say, $400 or under. 1 would be the s seven twelve hundred. You guys know I teach a class on that as well as the micro 800 and Compact ControlLogix, MicroLogix, all that. The s seven twelve hundred, I think, you know, it's great in one way compared to the micro eight fifty no.
    A 20. Now the micro eight twenty is great that it has free software and free simulation built into that free software. The only downside or I shouldn't say the only downside, but the major downside with the micro eight twenty is the small Ethernet PLC is it doesn't program identically to its bigger siblings like the ControlLogix and CompactLogix. I think the low and I did not look one up in here. We can do this live if you want, but I think the smallest CompactLogix you can get is around a thousand dollars.
    You know what? Let let's try it. Let's try it live. Now I did update this last week. I think the lowest one is the, $53.71, the CompactLogist cell one.
    And let's just see if I can do it. Now these are all list prices. And from my and I don't know if they changed this over the ten years since I've been self employed, but, there used to be a bigger discount on CompactLogix than there were on micro eight hundreds. They want the list price of the micro 800 to be closer to the real price, versus a, the micro 800. They want the list price to be closer to, you know, the actual place where they give a bigger discount on the CompactLogix.
    I don't know if that's still the case. Right? You guys let me know if you know the if you know. So I'm gonna throw this in here. They always seem to throw an Ethernet cable in.
    I don't want an expensive Ethernet cable. I don't wanna spend $50 for an Ethernet cable. Thank you. Not to learn at home. Maybe if you're working in the field of $50, it it just doesn't seem that seems a little little expensive.
    Okay. So this little guy, this l sixteen e r, this guy used to be I I thought it was around $1,400. It's now $2,400. So this is the smallest CompactLogix you can get. And so when we're talking about small Ethernet PLC, if I go the the Microw eight fifty, I get the Allen Bradley I mean, the Microw eight twenty.
    Don't ask me why I keep saying the Microw eight fifty. I have no idea. If you go with the Micro eight twenty, you get an Allen Bradley for $400. You get an Ethernet PLC, but, it doesn't program like the rest of the those PLCs. And, yeah, I think $2,400 is just beyond what most people wanna invest in their personal training.
    Now having said that, another option if you like Siemens or if you use Siemens at work or if where you're gonna apply it is is Siemens or if you work in Europe, is the s seven twelve hundred. Now that product is probably in that $400 range for the small guy. $400 for an s seven twelve hundred is a great price, and the biggest advantage there is that that unit programs identical to the 1,500. Now the hardware is different. You know, I've had videos where I did the high speed counter on the 1,200 and the 1,500.
    You can see how they're different. Right? So, and there's different you know, there's more data types in the 1,500. But what I think is really good now the s seven twelve hundred, if you just run out and buy one, right, the software's not free. You can get a free twenty one day demo, but it's not free, like, on the eight fifty.
    So that's kind of a downside. But then if we look at the upside there, they have starter kits. And I couldn't find, the starter kit with just a controller. I know they have a $700 starter kit with the controller software and HMI, which is a good deal. But I was looking for the old one.
    I used to promote my courses in the 4 or $500 range, which were, just the controller and the software, lifetime copy of the software, perpetual license. And those were in the $4,500 range, and that is a much better deal if you wanna use Siemens because you get a lifetime copy of the software
    22 min
  • 1750-PMC Automation Museum Update for July 11, 2025 (AM02)
    Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as some information about the A-B 1750-PMC Programmable Matrix Controller.
    For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.
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    Shawn Tierney (Host): So for an automation museum update, we're about a and I don't talk about this a lot. I should talk about this more, but we're at about 7% of our goal, which is great because we started at zero as you might have met remember. And so I just wanna thank some of these people you may recognize from, from over on LinkedIn. Larry. I wanna thank Larry for his donation.
    Ryan for his donation. Lassie and Brandon, thank you all for supporting it. I'm I'm at the bottom of the list too. I was the first because I launched it. I supported it first.
    I also donated the automationmuseum.org, which takes you here and, the automationmuseum.com as well to that site. That was about $35 to get those two, set up. And, what this is with the fundraising goal, there's the tier one, the $3,000. This is just to get the, the nonprofit set up and the, website set up. So I'm not gonna build the website.
    I've I spent all my time building the automation school and blog and managing that. I would like, someday, I'm gonna outsource that as well. But I I just want somebody to build a basic website we can build on, and we need that, I think it's a five zero one three c so we can accept, you know, donations, and and actually, make them nonprofit. So they are, they are tax deductible. Right?
    So in any case, I wanted to share that with you. So 7% of our goal, that's great. And, you know, last time when I was talking about the automation museum, I was talking about the PLC five. So today, and thanks for, Ryan, who is, is our top donor so far, he mentioned something called the seventeen fifty PMC from Rockwell Automation. Now if you don't know, that's one of Rockwell's earliest PLCs they have ever made.
    I don't know much about it. Matter of fact, you know, I didn't get into this industry until 1990. So the old stuff then were PLC twos, PLC threes, 1330 threes, 1330 fives. That was kinda like the legacy stuff. And the new stuff was the PLC five and the slick 500 just coming out at that time.
    And a few years later, the MicroLogic. So, so in any case, that that's kinda when I started. So I didn't get to work on, any of the, you know, original, you know, early seventies stuff. Right? So I was, I was just a baby, just a baby in the early seventies or a toddler.
    But in any case, let me bring you back to here and let's take a look. Now the first official PLC, I wrote a nice article about well, I shouldn't say I wrote a nice article. I wrote an article about this over at the automation blog. You determine if it's nice or not. But in any case, I had the opportunity in my previous role of twenty five years being a certified automation specialist for a Rockwell distributor.
    I had the opportunity to scan in a bunch of those early documents. Right? So, and if anybody's thrown away all their old early documents, send them to me, throw them my way. But I will take them in a donation and and, and then hand them over to the automation school, but I'm sorry. To the automation museum, where all that old stuff will go.
    I do have, I don't know, a storage unit full of stuff I wanna donate. It's like all kinds of old books and manuals and brochures. But anything prior to, you know, go goes back too far. And I know, one of my libraries and one of my former employers got tossed, and and I just didn't reach out soon enough to to ask them to donate it to the museum. But in any case, I did get the scan in some of the very first POC brochures that's in that big blue binder that some of your distributors may may remember.
    And if you guys have that and you're thinking to throw it away, send it our way. We'll we'll preserve it in the school. Just think of I keep saying the school, the museum. Just think of all the things we we could display. But in any case, this article talks about the p d PDQ two.
    You're like you may be like, Shawn, p d q two, does that mean there was a p d q one? Yes. But Rockwell was only an investor in three I with the p d q one. They didn't fully own, three I until the p d q two came out. And, you can even see I even include here some of the, design and manufactured by three I, serviced and sold by Allen Bradley.
    So even at this time in 1970, they still had that they still didn't wholly own three I. They did I think they bought them in '71. But in any case, so this is not what Ryan was talking about. This is the first one. This one had some downsides.
    It was still super interesting. If you wanna know more about it, check up here. But this was the first Allen Bradley product that used an XIC and an XIO. And, you know, some people say, well, Rockwell should use the standard that I you know, the I triple you know, IEC six eleven thirty one dash three standard. And it's like, why?
    The standard came out so far later than the actual than their PLCs. Why not keep it the same for their customers? So you can go either way on that. But in any case but and and thanks to Ryan for his lodge donation towards the Automation Museum, I wanted to pull up some of those old brochures and kinda show you what the $17.50 PMC was. I believe this was the direct next release after the PDQ two.
    Okay. And you can see, actually, the program looks almost identical. Maybe it is identical. But you can kinda get a good look at it there. There's no middle ground with this zoom.
    Let me sling all over here and see if I can zoom out for a minute. Okay. So you can kinda get an idea of what it looks like here. And this I would love to have this in the, automation museum. Actually, find one of these, get it working, and maybe even have people come in and, like, do, a tutorial on it, kinda go over the history on it.
    I just think this would be so much fun. And not just Allen Bradley, all the different vendors. But in any case, PMC stands for programmable matrix controller. But right on the front of the unit, it says programmable controller. So, not you know, the matrix may have referred to the solid state memory that they were using for the first time.
    I don't know. I'm gonna be honest with you. I did not read this complete thing cover to cover. I think it's 12 or 14 pages before, this morning's show. But in any case, you could see some of this here.
    If you're interested, you can pause. I do not have an article on this. I'd love to do one, though. But, in any case, it's very, very similar to, you know, the the PDQ two and really, honestly, the PLCs we have today, but it's just old. And, let me show you a couple more screens here.
    And when I scan these, I made sure I scanned them high very, very, high details so that we could really zoom in on them. But in any case, so you can see the LOTA program on the top right, and then you can see the instructions. This is how you would code it. Again, you weren't drawing it physically. You were typing it in kinda like how you would type in if you were editing a wrong in RS Logix with Studio 5,000, how you can go in there and type on it.
    That's how you would do it here. So, you can see X I C X I C B R T, that's branch. Right? And then X I C X 0 E. Right?
    That's asking and and so the way you couldn't do an x I c on an output, which is interesting. Right? Because now we can examine an output state, but they had separate instructions. They had the XOE to examine if an output was energized. And then here, they're using a set.
    Okay? So, I wonder if you need a reset. This old old the second man today, of course, you need a reset for it today. We call that latch and unlatch. Right?
    And, yeah. So that this set yeah. This set, I'm just reading that quickly. It looks like it's an OTE equivalent. So very interesting stuff there.
    And then we come over here. This is a a kind of a picture of what it looks like. And I believe these made these programmers look so similar to the ones for the PDQ two, but you can see they're programming an EPROM here and, putting in the memory board. Seventeen fifty. I can't read that.
    It looks like a BD. But in any case, just to give you an idea what it would look like. So we'd like to get one of these in the school. Yeah. And this I did it again.
    In the museum. And, if we can if we can raise that money for the fundraiser, right, we can at least get the five zero one three c open. And what I wanna do is every week, I wanna cover some of the old stuff. I have, actually, four things queued up that people have sent in. I have one of those, device net meter thingies.
    I have a PMCK card. I have a old old I think I've shown it on this on the on the, show before. I think it's an old square d PLC demo case, which is really heavy and big, but it's kicking around here under a table somewhere. And so every week, I'll try to go over one of those with you to talk about the auto museum automation museum. And if you do have a couple of dollars extra and you wanna kick it towards it, we'd love to get this off the ground so it could be a nonprofit, and then we can go after some of the big guys to fund maybe exhibits in an actual building that you could visit.
    So with that, I just wanna wish you guys all an awesome weekend and week ahead. I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
    Show Notes:
    Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at:
    https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum.
    Until next time, Peace ✌️
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    10 min
  • The Automation Museum Launch, June 06, 2025: PLC-5
    Shawn Tierney shares information about the new Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as his thoughts on A-B PLC-5s, and why they would make a good exhibit.
    For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.
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    Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Shawn Tierney here, and I'm announcing a fundraiser for something I've been wanting to do for a long time, the automation museum. And I thought this would be a great place where we could feature the history of industrial automation. And, of course, they'll have other parts too. There'll be other technologies covered to this like computers.
    You wanna cover computers as well. But, in any case, for you and I, the biggest thing would be automation, I think. And the whole thought process behind this came when, you know, I'm collecting, all this equipment, do training courses, and I've been doing this for thirty five years. And I some old things are just, you know, sentimental to me and I don't wanna throw them away. And I know there's a lot of you out there who are in the same boat.
    A matter of fact, you've sent me some great stuff because we've talked about my desire to open up an automation museum. And so I'm hoping if we can get just 3% of you out there who follow me to, just to give a few dollars, we could actually get the nonprofit organization set up and start accepting really big donations from large corporations. Now that's not to say I don't think that all of us, together, you know, the 80,000, controls engineers in The US couldn't do this. We could, but it's a lot easier when you have a five zero one three c and you can get money because a lot of these big companies, they have a edict that they have to give away so much money every year. Right?
    They have all these great profits, so they have to give some away. And so we wanna be able to tap into that some too. So, you know, let's think of this future automation museum. Maybe there's a Rockwell wing, and Rockwell sponsors some new displays there or a Siemens wing or a Schneider wing or whoever. Right?
    I mentioned those three guys first because they're some of my biggest sponsors. Right? But we could also have a Moxa and a P and F and all the other great vendors who've, met with Toledo who sponsored content here. I should probably name them all, but there's so many of them. Right?
    But in any case, I think it'd be very cool to have a place where not only the stuff gets displayed, but you and I can share our knowledge with the rest of the industry. So, you know, when I retire maybe in ten or twenty years, I hope, maybe, you know, who who's gonna like, if somebody has to go work on a PLC five or a SIC 500 or a Micrologix, where are they gonna find that information? Maybe they're gonna work on a PLC two. Maybe they'll work on a PDQ or an s one or s two or some of the really old emoticon 84. Right?
    So, how are they gonna get, that information. Right? And how are they gonna learn how to use it and maintain it? And then how are new controls engineers gonna understand where the industry started? Why things are the way they are?
    Why 06/1131 came where it came from, and why it was so important to our industry to kinda try to standardize the the technology. Right? And so that's what I thought. I just put this up. Brandon and I both, contributed some money.
    I also donated the, the.org and the.com to the to the organization. And what we're looking for is really just the first stage is to get up to $3,000. Right? And if we can get the $3,000, we can get the five zero one three c set up and, we can, start taking bigger, bigger contributions. Right?
    And, but in any case, I hope you guys are interested in this. And I wanna now switch over and talk about some of this old technology here. And, I wanna talk about PLC five. So, what a great product this was when it came out. If any of you were around during the transition from two to fives now, I got into 1990.
    Right? So the PLC five came out in '86. I think it was gonna supposed to come out in '85, but then Rockwell bought Allen Bradley. That's one of the stories I heard. It was kinda delayed a little bit and came out in '86.
    Could be totally totally wrong. But in any case, that's the kind of stuff we could we could archive at the Automation Museum. But, you know, the PLC five was just so much more phenomenal than the PLC two in many ways. And I'm sure there's some PLC two lovers out there saying, but but but but, I just love that, you know, having learned, in college, having learned how to program microprocessors. Right?
    Using machine code. And then, you know, having, you know, learned, you know, c, you know, all these different languages, Pascal, basic, as a as a kid, really. You know, when I came to the PLC two and the slick one fifty, it was like or slick 100. It was really difficult because, like, everything was numeric. Like, it had all these numeric tables and yet to remember everything.
    And while, you know, I could read the book and understand it was hard given that concept to electricians who would call in for help. And so, when the PLC five came out, one of the huge things they added was letters in front of the the the data table addresses. So t's for timers, b for counters, n for ninja, c, you know, f for floating point, you know, and all these different things. And it just made i's for inputs, o for outputs, and it just so made so things so much better. Plus, the PLC five was the, first PLC that Rockwell made that, there was no handheld program before it.
    Now I never heard of one. I never heard of anybody using a t four or t five or t six to program them. I've never found any reference to that in any literature. Maybe you guys know something different. But for as far as I know, these units had to be programmed with a PC.
    A lot of electricians didn't have PCs. I remember arguing with my boss in the early nineties that it's just give me a copy of Windows so I could, support, the Wintelligent series from ICOM, great software. But in any case, you know, and and that really moves the industry forward as well because there's so much thing so much more you can do with a PC than you could do with a, you know, an old electronic handheld programmer. And, now if you take a close look here, I'm sure some of you see that one of these PLCs is not a PLC five. That's right.
    I stuck in. I don't it must be in the garage, you know, my old studio at home. I don't know where the five, I think it's the five eleven is. But in any case, so I stuck in because it looks so similar, a mini PLC two. I don't know.
    Is this a five o is this a two sixteen or two seventeen? Two sixteen. So I used this a lot in the early nineties as well to support the gotta be careful here because they're like dominoes. They can all fall over. But, to support the POC two and, you know, use an AI and, six two hundred.
    But in any case, over here, you could see the original four. And, again, these these I've picked these up over the years, for the course I'm teaching on POC fives, which is still on which just is just getting started. But in any case, you can see over here the original PLC fives and then the next generations, I don't have a five eighty. I know you're somebody's probably asking, hey. Do you get a five?
    No. I mean, these I had some people some some old colleagues say, oh, they they must be, like, a million dollars each. It's like, no. You can get them for a $100. The problem is the software.
    The software, there's no cheap way to get a official license. I wanna thank one of our viewers actually, tree, re how do I wanna put this? He he, gave me he transferred his software to me so I could support it here at the, at the automation school and the automation blog. So, thank you very much. And, we trade I I sent them a micro and some other stuff in in exchange, but, it was great to get that so I could support the, support the the students out there.
    But in any case, that's the problem. The the hardware is very inexpensive. I got a piles of seventeen seventy one I o cars I'll go through in the course. They're actually over here in a box that I'll be going through. I even have the sidecar.
    The infamous sidecar works so well, but was so expensive and got this continued. It's way too early, I think. But, in any case, I like the sidecar. It's a little, hardware wise, you know, you gotta use up that first slot, but and it's just works so well. But in any case, the PLC fives, this is this is, some knowledge.
    Right? And the PLC twos and threes. The this is knowledge that a lot of people, don't have today. And so as people are retiring. Right?
    You know, they may say, well, we have to throw it away because it's nobody knows how to use it, but you don't. These things are monsters. They're awesome. They're they're granted, they don't do coordinated motion and servos and all that. But, man, you can do a racks and racks and racks and racks of IO with these things, analog and digital, and they just they they they program in multiple languages unlike, you know, the slick fiber and micrologics.
    And it's just some of the history that will be lost and we're already losing, you know, on some of the products that came out in the sixties and seventies and eighties. Right? And and now the nineties. Right? And so this is the type of stuff I would like to have on display and, have that a physical automation museum, which would have to be located somewhere near my office, you know, unless we've raised a lot of money where we could afford someplace, touristy.
    You know, maybe next next to one of the big theme packs, theme parks or something. But in any case, I do think, a lot of you out there too have some great stuff that you would like to donate. And, I know a lot of people are like, no. No. No.
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    13 min
  • Automation Q & A for December 6, 2024 (QW025)
    Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog.
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    Shawn M Tierney
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    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

    (72 views)

    7 min
  • What’s New in Automation for Monday December 2, 2024 (W014)
    Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at our top Automation Content from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for the coming weeks in today's episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:
    #Automation  #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation
    Watch the Show on release at ~2:15pm ET, or the replay anytime:
    Listen to What's New:
    Links:
    - coming soon...
    This week's content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):
    Monday:
    - What's New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ET
    Wednesday:
    - The Automation Show* and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)
    and / or
    - The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ET
    plus
    - Office Hours for TAS Customers (See L1.11,) Teams Meet 6:00-7:00pm ET
    Friday:
    - Question of the Week livestream, ~12:00pm ET
    - Member's Q & A* or After Show, ~12:05pm ET
    - - For Members* & Students (Lesson 1.10)
     
    * Denotes a member only livestream
    ^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!
    You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!
    Until next time, Peace ✌️
    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content :-)
    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
    (130 views)
    30 min
  • Automation Q & A for November 22, 2024 (QW024)
    Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog.
    Note: In place of the Members only Q & A, this week members get access to the TAP Aftershow airing in the same time slot.
    #Automation #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation

    Note: Below you will find the “public” Question of the Week (today’s episode: QW024)

    To unlock access to the member’s only shows, become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.

    Watch the Question of the Week Show:

    Notes: This week’s links are found below the next section.

    Listen to the Question of the Week:
    No Question and Answer Show this week – see the TAP After Show airing in the same timeslot.

    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode:

    – No links this week

    If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.
    Any vendors out there who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.
    And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock our member only shows, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible!

    Until next time, Peace ✌️ 

    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂

    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator

    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

    (48 views)

    8 min
  • Automation Q & A for November 15, 2024 (QA023)
    Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of Q&A and the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog:
    #Automation #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation

    Note: Below you will find the “public” Question of the Week, followed by our “member’s only” Q & A show (today’s episodes: QW023 & QA023)

    To unlock access to the full Q & A show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.

    Watch the Question of the Week Show:

    Notes: This week’s links are found below the Q&A Episode

    Listen to the Question of the Week:
    Watch the full Question and Answer Show:


    Note: The below Q&A show is a Member Benefit. To learn more about our membership levels, click here.

    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode:

    – No links this week

    If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.
    Any vendors out there who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.
    And if you’re not a level 1 member but would like to unlock the full Q & A show, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible!

    Until next time, Peace ✌️ 

    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂

    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator

    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

    (73 views)

    10 min
  • Automation Q & A for November 8, 2024 (QA022)
    Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of Q&A and the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog:
    #Automation #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation
    Scheduling Note for 11/08/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.

    Note: Below you will find the “public” Question of the Week, followed by our “member’s only” Q & A show (today’s episodes: QW022 & QA022)

    To unlock access to the full Q & A show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.

    Watch the Question of the Week Show:

    Notes: This week’s links are found below the Q&A Episode

    Listen to the Question of the Week:
    Watch the full Question and Answer Show:


    Note: The below Q&A show is a Member Benefit. To learn more about our membership levels, click here.

    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode:

    – Link to Free RSLogix Download Procedure

    – Link to Phase Manager Manual
    – Link to Sequence Manager Profile
    – Link to PlantPAx Batch & Sequence Manager Profile

    Links to new FactoryIO Courses (not released yet)

    – A-B Logix & FactoryIO
    – Siemens S7 & FactoryIO

    If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.
    Any vendors out there who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.
    And if you’re not a level 1 member but would like to unlock the full Q & A show, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible!

    Until next time, Peace ✌️ 

    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂

    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator

    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

    (89 views)

    7 min
  • Automation News for November 5, 2024 (N255)
    Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning's Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:
    #Automation #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation
    Scheduling Note for 11/05/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows are bing reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.
    Note: Below you will find the "public" headlines show, followed by our "member's only" news show (today's episodes: R75 & N255)
    To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
    Watch the Headlines News Show:
    Listen to the Headlines News Show:
    Watch the Full News Show:
    Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
    Links to today's headlines :
    - https://theautomationblog.com/follow
    - https://new.abb.com/news/detail/120666/abb-opens-new-100-million-campus-in-wisconsin
    - https://www.phoenixcontact.com/explore/page/3t9nmfp?_realm=us&_locale=en-US
    - https://www.siemens.com/us/en/company/press/press-releases/smart-infrastructure/siemens-offers-3-pole-class-a-gfcis-100-amp-applications.html
    - https://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2024/11-new-emerson-energy-manager-solution-reduces-energy-costs-carbon-emissions-for-manufacturers
    - https://www.danfoss.com/en-us/about-danfoss/news/dds/enhanced-vlt-automationdrive-ez-fc-321/
    - https://www.hilscher.com/company/news/hilscher-launches-new-spe-media-switch-for-profinet-ethernet-ip-and-modbus-networks
    - https://profinews.com/2024/10/new-products-november-2024/
    - https://theautomationblog.com/join
    - https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today's directly under the Automation News Show video.
    If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.
    Vendors who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.
    And if you're not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!
    Until next time, Peace ✌️
    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content :-)
    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
    (127 views)
    9 min
  • What’s New in Automation for Monday November 4, 2024 (W013)
    Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning's episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:
    #Automation  #IndustrialAutomation  #InsightsInAutomation
    Scheduling Note for 11/04/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.
    Watch the Show Live at ~12:00pm ET, or the replay afterwards:
    Listen to What's New:
    Links to all the top stories:
    - https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-hminavi-innovative-open-hmi-software-for-advanced-industrial-automation
    - https://www.datalogic.com/eng/mobile-computers/memor-30-35-pd-1091.html
    - https://www.br-automation.com/en-us/news/blog/twenty-years-and-still-going-strong/
    - https://blog.opto22.com/optoblog/fostering-a-local-manufacturing-community
    - https://www.us.endress.com/en/press-center/news-and-press-releases/secure-product-development
    - https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/brazil/pt/53424.htm
    - https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/r50c-motor-driven-roller-controller.html
    - https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_update-offers-fieldbus-integration-and-enhanced-diagnostics-49673.php
    - https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_safety-multiprotocol-modules-with-safe-link-49684.php
    - https://esd.eu/en/news/fully-compatible-the-new-generation-of-our-profinet-gateways
    - https://akribis-sys.com/resources/blog/our-latest-motors-deliver-high-performance-in-compact-sizes-for-challenging-industries/
    - https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/
    - https://theautomationschool.com/whats-new-in-school-for-april-5-2024/
    - https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
    - https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
    - https://theautomationblog.com/QA
    - https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
    - https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
    - https://theautomationblog.com/join
    - https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
    This week's content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):
    Scheduling Note for 11/04/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.
    Monday:
    - What's New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ET
    Tuesday:
    - Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:00pm ET
    - Automation News Show* livestream, ~12:05pm ET
    Wednesday:
    - The Automation Show* and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)
    - The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ET
    Thursday:
    - Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:00pm ET
    - Automation News Show* livestream, ~12:05pm ET
    Friday:
    - Question of the Week livestream, ~12:00pm ET
    - Q & A* livestream, ~12:05pm ET
    - - For Members* & Students (Lesson 1.10)
     
    - Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MSTeams Meeting ~12:35-1:30pm ET
    * Denotes a member only livestream
    ^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
    Show Notes:
    Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!
    You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.
    Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!
    Until next time, Peace ✌️
    If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content :-)
    Shawn M Tierney
    Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
    Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
    (81 views)
    14 min

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