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.

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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,