Episodes

Most manufacturing hiring advice is either vague or completely detached from how industrial automation jobs really work. So I brought on Bill Seaman, Director of People Operations at Philomatic, to get brutally practical about what attracts great engineers, technicians, and field service talent and what quietly drives them away. We start with the reality a lot of people avoid talking about: layoffs, short tenures, and career pivots. Bill explains how candidates can reframe those moments, show a...

A lot of people think you need a perfect plan to get into industrial automation. Mia Skurdic proves the opposite. She started college unsure of her direction, discovered programming for the first time in an intro engineering rotation, and later landed in the Ignition ecosystem almost by accident, then never looked back. We dig into what it’s really like to grow inside the manufacturing world as a computer science major: building MES solutions as a systems integrator, connecting Ignition to ERP ...

🫆 Thank you to our amazing sponsor Inductive Automation ______________________________________________________________ Industrial automation doesn’t need more hype. It needs tools that solve real plant problems, survive real uptime demands, and still play nicely with modern IT. We sit down with Colby Clegg, CEO of Inductive Automation, to unpack how Ignition grew out of a systems integrator’s breaking point: the cost and pain of getting PLC data into SQL databases and into the hands of people w...