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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.