In this episode of Woo Manufacturing, Justine and Alicia sit down with longtime entrepreneur and automation badass Adrienne Harvey to talk about her unconventional journey from running an early e-commerce business to building Ignition systems and speaking on stage at Inductive Automation’s ICC.

Adrienne shares how a summer internship at a bakery plant sparked a lifelong curiosity for how things work, why asking “stupid” questions is actually the smartest move you can make, and how creative problem-solving connects everything from shipping logistics to machine learning to control systems.

The conversation touches on everything from on-call chaos and plant tours to Excel “3D drawings,” industrial acronyms gone wrong, and the joy of automation that just works.

Tune in for laughs, curiosity, and a reminder that the best engineers are the ones who never stop asking why.