A shoutout to Windsor Essex's Wendy Stark and the team at Invest WindsorEssex. I was invited to attend their Emerging Technologies in Automation & Mobility Transformation 2025 event in Windsor, and I was lucky to be able to catch up with him.

From DIN rails to terminal blocks to power supplies, Garrett Renders has seen many automation products from a young age. He is currently the Business Development Manager at Phoenix Contact Canada for Ontario. His role is to help clients solve problems using our PC's automation portfolio (which includes controllers, networking, interfaces, and safety). While Phoenix Contact is well known from a product standpoint, his goal is to demonstrate how their value-added centre and solution partners apply technology to empower an all-electric society!

OT Cybersecurity has become a big issue for SME manufacturers.

Automotive industry has been soft with EV.

M Guard Router concentrator.

PLC Next product.

OEE, uptime - customer machines and systems

Unexpected downtime.

The data conundrum: the cost and the efficacy of collecting the right data.

Phoenix Contact and measuring power data from Milton HQ building realtime and online.

Thanks Wendy and Garrett!

If you are from Ontario and users want to reach out and find out more about Phoenix Contact? You can reach out to Garrett here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-renders/

I would like to mention A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies.  Visit Automate dot org to learn more.

If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/

Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. 

Warm Regards,

Jim

Jim Beretta

Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

London, ON