Automation as a strategic tool in the success manufacturing.

Bill Lydon has been active in manufacturing automation for more many years. He started his career as a designer of computer-based machine tool controls. He applied programmable logic controllers and process control technology later in his career. In addition to experience at various large companies, he cofounded and was president of a venture-capital-funded industrial automation software company. 

Bill Lydon

Bill served as Editor of the ISA flagship periodical, InTech, from the time this correspondent was acting as VP Publications with the International Society of Automation in 2010-2012. He stepped down from this position two or three years ago and is gradually withdrawing from the more responsible positions in publishing. Thankfully he will continue to male some contributions both to InTech in the Final Say articles and will still be writing for the ISA subsidiary Automation.com. 

He believes the success factors in manufacturing are changing, making it imperative to apply automation as a strategic tool to compete.

I know he has enjoyed interacting with everyone and hopes that many of his friends in automation and publishing will feel free to stay in touch.

He has recorded and tracked the changes in Automation down the years and we asked him to list a few of these. This is a list of some that he thought might be of interest mostly from the last two or three years. They are not listed in any particular order.

The Digital Twin – Enabling Real Time Closed Loop Manufacturing Optimization. (Sept 2019)

ISA95 In the IoT & Digitalization Era. (Jan 2020)

RAMI 4.0  Reference Architectural Model for Industrie 4.0. (Mar/Apl 2019)

Compliance of the Victim: ARC Industry Forum Highlights an Industry in Transition. (Mar 2017)

Moderna Builds Native Digital Process Automation on Amazon Web Services. (Feb 2021)

Amazon Industrial Digitalization Platform. (Jan 2021)

Industrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event. (Nov 2020)

ExxonMobil collaboration helps create a converged IT/OT industrial control system based on open standards. (Nov/Dec2020)

Edge Computing: Chip Delivers High Performance Artificial Intelligence. (Oct 2020)

OPC Foundation Empowers Sensor-to-Cloud Digitalization. (Jul 2020)

Inside the Integration at Milwaukee’s New Fiserv Forum Sports & Entertainment Complex. (Nov 2019)

What is open source & why you should care? (Dec 2018)

Can Manufacturers Compete When Trapped in Existing Automation Architectures? (Apl 2019)

Tension in Industrial Automation: Open Systems and the User’s Dilemma. (May 2019)

We look forward to reading further articles from him tracking the progress of automation and wish him every success in the future.

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