Guest Bio
Allen Ray is an accomplished automation professional and leader. Allen began his career in the field as a technician and built his career into a leadership position at Aera Energy where he currently oversees a number of initiatives in the automation, cyber security, and industrial systems spaces. Allen is well versed in technologies that allowed us to make the shift toward industry 4.0 and is working with numerous vendors to augment the current hardware and software solutions to meet end-user needs.

Main Discussion Points
What does implementing tomorrow's solutions today look like?
From leveraging open architectures, bleeding-edge software, with an eye towards security.  Allen has been leading the way for years.
He's led the charge in moving many Industrial companies to what the market has been demanding. 

Theme: Evolution of Control Systems 
Manufacturing Hub Episode 45.

Special thanks to our sponsors Opto 22 for this theme and all your support.

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Connect with Us
Allen Ray | https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-ray-b6a81083/
Vlad Romanov | https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladromanov/
Dave Griffith | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegriffith23/
Manufacturing Hub | https://www.linkedin.com/company/manufacturing-hub-podcast/

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