Ever wonder what's happening in the controls of an excavator, a garbage truck, or a loader? How have old-school hydraulics been brought to the future with software? Will we ever see autonomous construction sites? No one is better to unveil the mystery of mobile machinery than my guest Sean Grieve, Business Development Manager for Mobile at B&R.

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Tired of your hard-to-use, old school HMI? It's time to CHANGE YOUR VIEW! My guest Corey Morton, Head of Product Management at B&R, talks about Change Your View and how it can bring a much needed face lift to a machine without changing any code.

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Web-based technology is changing the face of machines (literally). My guest Daniel Ghizoni, Senior Technology Engineer at B&R, talks about web technology, web-based HMIs, and B&R's mapp View.

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My guest Chris Harduwar (Vice President of Business Development at MapleSoft) shares about simulation and how it can be used in industrial automation. Learn what simulation is, what makes MapleSoft different, and how to use simulation to make the machine of the future.

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My guest Jeremy Lee (Lead Applications Engineer at B&R) walks through the three main types of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement. We also talk about the challenges of machine learning, how to get started, and good use cases in the industrial automation space.

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This episode is the second in a series about ACOPOStrak and SuperTrak. My guest, Dave Emory (Sales Director, Trak Technologies at B&R), and I dive into the commercial side of ACOPOStrak and learn all about what makes this technology powerful enough to reshape not just manufacturing processes, but businesses themselves.

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ACOPOStrak is a game changing technology along with its sister technology SuperTrak. ACOPOStrak stands alone in a narrow market of other long stator linear motor track technologies. This week we talk to Derrick Stacey, Product Owner for ACOPOStrak at B&R, to learn all about it.

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The 1990's - Blockbuster was alive and well, Mark Wahlberg was still Marky Mark, and the fieldbus wars were raging. Every major automation company was fighting for market share for their industrial fieldbus - but peace is on the horizon! If you can make it through the multi-layered, mouthful of an acronym that is OPC UA TSN, you might see that this technology could change the automation industry in a huge way.

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Do you know how a New Year's Day hangover and the PLC are connected? If not, then take a listen to this week's episode to learn a little bit about: PLCs as a technology, the history of PLCs, the future of PLCs, and more!

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