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Today Shawn has Brandon Cooper on the #AutomationTechTalk livestream to talk about what he's learning in his travels. Note: There is no show planned for Friday or Monday. Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog:  Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Coming after the show Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Online Courses: https://theautomationschool.com - In-Person Courses: https://theautomationschool.com/live Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. You may hear some background noise because today, I have a special guest on. It's Brandon Cooper, who you probably all know has written a bunch of articles over at the automation blog. And I've actually had Brandon on the automation podcast back on episode one zero six. That was in 2022. Brandon, thank you for, agreeing to share your lunch with us. Brandon Cooper (Guest): Hey. Glad to do it. Glad to do it. Thanks for Shawn Tierney (Host): having me. You're well. Thank you. And I was telling, Brandon in the preshow, he's actually sitting in his backyard in Louisiana, and it just sounds awesome. He's got birds chirping, and it sounds so great. It's like, man, that's so relaxing. But in any case, let me see. Brandon, you are Brandon Cooper (Guest): eighties this week, so it's almost fall in Louisiana. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Eighties. We got into the seventies. I had to put the heat on this morning because it was in the sixties, which is which is kinda odd for late August. How about you guys? Is this normal for late August? Or Brandon Cooper (Guest): not really. We usually don't hit get into the eighties until, sometime in September, but we get we got a a lower temp week this week, so it's it's nice. Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I'm I'm not complaining at all. So you are a senior process control engineer, and, I know you from your what you do with POCs, but you also work on a lot of DCS systems or what would classically be called the DCS. And like I said, he Brandon was on, in episode one zero six. He's written several articles on Rockwell and Siemens. His latest one was on, simulating e threes, I think, for migration purposes. And he also wrote two articles recently on the things I've learned because, change. And I don't want you to give away the actual companies you worked for, but describe your old old role and the new role you've been doing now to give the audience some perspective on that's kinda how you change roles. Brandon Cooper (Guest): So I guess for twenty two years, starting at 19 years old, I joined on as basically a process control type technician and then moved up to to a process control engineer and then a senior engineer later, you know, working in in specific specific facilities, you know, doing the day to day program and then graphics and troubleshooting and working with operations at a facility, which is also, you know, being on call twenty four seven for for all those twenty two years. So, it was it was great. I learned a lot and, helped me get to the next step, I guess. So, three years ago, I had the opportunity to take a job, where we travel around and and do things in different sites. And there's, like a like a, capital project type, role. And that's been really good. I've, I've enjoyed it, learned a lot more, and just a a a different role. Kids are kinda grown now, so they didn't need me at home as much anymore. So just a lot of things fell into place about the same time and, decided to do something a little different. So Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I could definitely see the appeal to that. So Brandon works. We're not gonna give him the company names. Brandon works for re a major Fortune 500 company.

Shawn discusses generations of Rockwell IP20 distributed / remote I/O in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Courses: https://theautomationschool.com Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk. I'm Shawn Tierney from Insights, and I'm about seven minutes late today. I just got off a, really excellent call with a major automation supplier, actually, automation manufacturer, who, was introducing me to his next generation IO. And, so I didn't have a lot of time to prep, and I'm like, what am I gonna cover today? And I'm like, let's talk about distributed IO. So that's what we're gonna talk about. I love to hear in the chat where you what you guys are using for distributed IO if you're using distributed IO. Now OEMs typically don't need distributed IO. I mean, don't get me wrong. They will, oh, and I should also say if you guys can't hear me or you can't see me or something's wrong, let me know. But in any case, typically, an OEM with a small machine, they don't need the distributed IO. Now they will run a lot of times Ethernet through their different devices like VFDs and HMIs, but, they don't need distributed IO. However, a facility with a large machine or a large system, it makes no sense to run all the wires back from all the sensors and switches and buttons all the way back to the main panel, and that's where distributed IO really does extremely well. And, you know, PLCs and PACs more and more can handle even more and more higher quantities of distributed IO. But before we get into that, I thought we would talk a little bit about the history of distributed IO or remote IO as Rockwell coined the phrase or patented the phrase back in the day, back in the late seventies. In any case, in the first distributor IO I saw out there, saw a lot of it out there, was seventeen seventy one. And seventeen seventy one IO was, big and bulky. This is an eight point module. I just grabbed what I had available, you know you know, with two minutes to go before the show started. Let's see if I set up the overhead cam correctly. So I do not have the terminal block on here, but this is an 8.1771, IO module that was donated to, somebody who then donated it to me. And, thank you to both of companies for the donation. And I have a ton of this stuff, and, it's really super inexpensive online. But the, you know, the problem is the programming software is so expensive. So, you know, a lot of people could use this, reuse this stuff for hobbies or whatnot. But, in any case, this would fit in a big, jack. You guys have seen the racks here before, the big seventy seventy one chassis, and we don't call them racks. We call them chassis. And, you know, it worked. Remote IO definitely worked. The the digital was so easy to set up. The analog, a lot of people had a hard time getting their mind around block transfers. I always felt that I could explain it to people easily, and that's why I'm doing a PLC five course with seventeen seventy one IO. I don't have that on here on the stage because it's just so big. I actually have it over there on the floor. But in any case, you know, of this you see this a lot. I remember going to one power plant and walking through and and, because they wanted to migrate all this seventeen seventy one IO and just taking pictures and pictures and pictures of MCC is full of distributed IO racks with remote IO and seventeen seventy one IO. And as I was going through there in the seventy eighth rack of IO, I'm like, this is not affordable. This stuff, first of all, it's bulletproof. Why replace it?

Shawn discusses the Fifth (and current) Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-1/ - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-2/ - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-3/ - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-4/ - Course: https://theautomationschool.com/courses/015-cpx-l12/ Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): coming soon! If you have any questions about Shawn's in-person or online courses, please don't hesitate to setup a time to meet with Shawn via MSTeams, or drop him an email using his contact form here: https://theautomationschool.com/question/ Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Shawn discusses the Fourth Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-4/ - Course: https://theautomationschool.com/courses/015-cpx-l12/ Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): coming soon after show... If you have any questions about Shawn's in-person or online courses, please don't hesitate to setup a time to meet with Shawn via MSTeams, or drop him an email using his contact form here: https://theautomationschool.com/question/ Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Shawn discusses the Third Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-3/ - Course: https://theautomationschool.com/courses/015-cpx-l12/ Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk, lunchtime edition. I hope you're having a great day. And, I ate my lunch early, so I'm here ready to go. And I just wanna welcome everybody who's joining. I can see people joining up, and, please feel free to leave comments as you go. And, somebody asked yesterday why I wasn't covering a particular product. I've never heard of that product. So I wanna invite that person to come on the show and tell us all about the product. And I wanna thank everybody who's actually reached out to me about coming on the show. We had some very interesting guests that are gonna come on and talk about what they're learning and what they're doing. That's all about what this lunchtime show is about, you know, just sharing what we learned. And because I have the kind of disarray in here, I'm going over the generations of CompactLogix. And today, we're gonna look at generation number three. Now you can always watch this if you're not available during lunch. I know some people can't get to the computer at lunchtime. That's okay. You can always watch the replay. I'm also releasing this as an audio podcast. I've renamed the old automation news roundup news headlines podcast automation tech talk, and, it's also being put on the blog. And if you're one of those morning readers and you can't watch a video, I'm also putting trying to put every, transcript up there now. It costs me extra to do that, but I'm trying to get those up there. It costs extra to get it, but it's a really good transcript. It's not just like the the captions you get on YouTube. So, not that it's a 100% correct. It's all AI generated. But in any case, it's nice for those people who wanna read about, what, the video instead of watching the video. Right? In any case, with that said, I hope you are all doing well. I'm just checking my mic, checking my video. Everything looks looks to be working on this side. Again, if you're seeing not seeing something working, let me know in the chat. Otherwise, I'll just talk the whole time and not know that you can't hear me. So in any case, the first thing I wanna do, though, is let's see if I rearrange this correctly. Yeah. So I wanted to show you where I wanna try to broadcast from tomorrow. So tomorrow, I'm gonna try to use what I'm gonna call Studio C. So I get this studio set up for, you know, recording my lessons, And so there's not a lot of room on the workbench, and there's a lot of other products I wanna cover besides what's on the workbench here. So that's why I'm, trying to get this set up. I don't know if you can see. Probably can't. I got a Monoclon PLC on there. And so that will be Studio C for shop for, closet. It's kinda like the you know, when you were a kid, you might had a if you went to a small school, you might had a a cafeteria. This is kinda like the closet slash storage closet slash three d printing area slash studio and, slash tool room, etcetera, etcetera. So in any case, with that said, also, if you have any questions on what I cover today, if you're enrolled in my course over at the automationschool.com, I did put a link in the description. Please feel free to ask them. I know I probably won't cover this, this new guy as much in the new course as I did in the original course, but don't worry about that.

Shawn discusses the Second Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Links mentioned in video: - Article: https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-2/ - Course: https://theautomationschool.com/courses/015-cpx-l12/ Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. I had a little, issue earlier, so I watched the replay. Everything looked great. So, again, I wanna thank you for hanging out with me at lunchtime. I also wanna thank those folks who've reached out to me about actually being a guest on the lunchtime show. I really appreciate that. And, you know, it's it's nice to actually hear what other people are doing. Right? And, we got some pretty cool guests lined up. I I also have some vendors who, maybe they're not ready to sponsor an episode of the podcast, but they just want to, tell us the cool things they're doing. And so, inviting them on as well. Just trying to share everything I've learned and share help people share what they've learned over the years, during lunchtime, right, when we all get to take a break from all the serious stuff trying to make money to pay the bills and all that. So in any case, with that said, I had and and I'm assuming I guess I'll just delete the original five minute livestream, because, things didn't seem like they were working. So I got a couple things I was talking about in that livestream. Number one is that that big box in the middle of the training room, that is, some hardware for the add on lessons I'm gonna be adding. I have a lot of different hardware here from all kinds of different vendors, and I will be adding those as bonus, lessons add on lessons to the courses. So if you're in in any of my level one or two do I still have the automation school up? So if you're in, my level one or two courses, level one and two courses, I should say that correctly, over at the automationschool.com, you will get those, add on lessons at no charge. And, plus, there's some other courses you're gonna be getting at no charge as well as I kinda mix things up, and and I think I covered that over at the automation school and the updates for each of the courses. Also, I ran across somebody on Reddit who was looking they're like, you know, what do I need to get started? I'm like, hey. Lesson one zero two in all my courses is free and all my PLC courses, and it tells you everything you need to know to get started programming PLCs, software options, hardware options, demo options. So if you know anybody looking to get started and they don't know where to start, like, how much does Rockwell software cost, and is it free, and can I get a free demo, and, you know, how about for Siemens, and what starter packs are available? I cover that all, and I make that lesson free. Because quite honestly, I don't want anybody signing up for a course and then be like, you know, I didn't wanna do a simulated PLC. I wanna do a real PLC, and I can't afford it. So I want everybody to know upfront what the costs are. For a lot of people, it's not an issue. They get a bunch of PLCs in the software at work, so and they're gonna do it at at during their lunchtime. But in any case, I did wanna share that with you. And, now I wanna talk about the second generation of, CompactLogix. Let's see here. Yes. CompactLogix. This is where I gotta put the old glasses on. And, let's see if I can go here. Okay. Great. And so let's see if I can zoom in. I don't wanna zoom in on both cameras, just the overhead one. And so you might be asking, Shawn, why do you have all this hardware in the test ...

Let's talk about how the Series C 1756 Chassis differs from the Series B in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Link to article mentioned in video: - https://theautomationblog.com/compactlogix-gen-1/ Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Hope you can hear me. I'm trying something a little bit different here. Welcome to automation tech talk lunchtime edition, and, I hope you guys can hear me. I hope, you can see me because I've changed everything around. But, because I have all the equipment here for my new twenty twenty five courses on the workbench, and I don't have any of the other studio set up for what I want to cover today, I decided to cover generation one of the CompactLogic. So I'm just gonna look over here. It seems like audio is working. Okay? It seems like the video is okay. So in any case, feel free to say hi in the chat if you're watching. But, lots going on here. I just had, three vendors send in, samples for me to look at. Actually, one is a trade show demo from Automation Fair, so I'm looking forward to, covering that. The other is a brand new line of IO. Very exciting. And then the third are some Ethernet push buttons. So I hope to have more about that. Plus, I have, more boxes of stuff donated to the automation museum. So, just so much to cover in the coming weeks and days. And, but in any case, one thing I do every day too is work on my courses, not only, answer questions, but also work on my courses. And I'm getting ready to update them all for 2025. And I just wanted to say if you are already enrolled in any of my Compact Logics, whether it's level one, level one, two, you get the new cost for free, so don't worry about that. So in any case, today, I wanna talk about, though, is the first generation of CompactLogix because a lot of people have never even seen them, not even know they exist, but have never seen them. And, just some real interesting stuff here. And, let me first show you with the, overhead cam here. Let's see if I can do this. Do I still have audio? Yep. Okay. So, in any case, you can see here, this is the l 30, and I'm actually connected through a serial port. I'm using a USB, a USPS rev three from Rockwell that I bought years and years ago. And, let me see if I can zoom in on that. You can see I don't have everything wired up for the new courses yet. So, be spending some nights and weekends doing that. But you can see there, I have one of just my, sample program in there. This is the one I use. If you're in my VUE course, you'll be very familiar with this program. But in any case, with all the molding simulators, code in there and whatnot. So but I also wanna get on here. I'm just gonna stick it off top of the Polysplike, the l 20. And in the description of today's show, I have an article I wrote years ago that kinda detailed some of these things, but the l 20 was the very first CompactLogix to come out. Now I had sourced its release to late twenty I'm sorry, late two thousand or twenty zero zero in any case. But, but, you know, whether it came out early two thousand one or late, February, you know, that was almost directly after, like, a year after the ControlLogix l one, the 5550, controller. So pretty quick. And, this, unit came in either a single serial port or dual serial port. Now the, the, l 30 I have written down here is, came out the following year, okay, about a year later. And so if we look at that, I mean, it may have been six months later, but, I have one coming down at, one coming out in February, one coming out in 02/2001. And these were known. I'm trying to get close so you can see the label there.

Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as a look at one of the items the community has donated, a Square D SyMax PLC. For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here. Show Notes: Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at: https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum. Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Shawn meet's up with Giovanni Mendoza of GM Automation and Controls in today's episode of Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. You'll also find Giovanni's website here. Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): coming soon If you have any questions about Shawn's in-person or online courses, please don't hesitate to setup a time to meet with Shawn via MSTeams, or drop him an email using his contact form here: https://theautomationschool.com/question/ Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Let's talk about how the Series C 1756 Chassis differs from the Series B in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Happy lunchtime. It is Shawn Tierney here from Insights and Automation. I'm actually back in the training room working on a bunch of different stuff, but, I did wanna jump on here at lunchtime. Actually, I have to, be in another meeting at 01:00, but still, I wanted to stop by and do a automation tech talk with you at lunchtime. And, I was just thinking of something, like, I just learned. Well, I shouldn't say I just learned it. But, in any case, guys, feel free to post any comments, questions, or in the in the chat. I don't see the names when you post them on LinkedIn. I don't know why this is a StreamYard limitation, but I should see your username if you post them from YouTube. And, of course, afterwards, I do post these on the automation blog. I post them on the podcast channel, and I try to do the, the, the text version of the show afterwards when it's ready. So So if you wanna read it the following morning or later that night, you can. So with that, in any case, I hope you're having a great lunch. Today, I wanted to talk about a couple things here first. The first one is if you're in any of my courses, I wanted to talk to you about I'm adding a bunch of new lessons every day as I work on the new ones, the new courses, which you all don't have access to yet, but you will get access to them, you know, and the appropriate ones. I updated the IO devices, lessons. So and I actually have all the updated IO here and addressing and whatnot. So I just wanted to make you guys aware of that. I'm doing that for all of the existing PLC courses. I'm updating them all. Also, I have stop files coming too, updated stop files. So, keep your keep your eyes out for that. But now let's get into today's topic, and it's about the series c chassis, the 1756 ControlLogix series c's chassis. Let me go back to full screen here. So recently, I'm I'm setting up a, an alternative, a filming studio in the house. Right? So if, you know, if we have a bad winter and I get snowed in, I wanna be able to film. Right? And so what I have had up to this date is, and, again, all these were purchased us on the secondhand market because of the expense of the new trying to keep my courses affordable. But this is a series b seventeen fifty six chassis. I'm I'm sure most of you have seen these before, and this is actually getting mounted in this room. And I don't know how good this webcam is. I don't know if you guys will be able to see that label. I haven't I didn't try that before the show. Everything on my screen is reversed, but that is definitely a series b. And I just wanna look at these patterns here. Right? Now one of the things that you may have noticed with newer products from Rockwell, and we've had them on the show that cover this stuff, and I hope to have them on the show many more times this year too. But in any case, I I love having all vendors on the show. I think I was telling you guys early in the week. I met with, local, integrator who carries a lot of the brands that I have not had on the show, and I wanna get those people on the show. So they're gonna they're gonna I'm sorry. I should say a local reseller and panel shop, and they should, they're gonna try to hook me up with them. So great guys over there, Chris and Amy. But in any case, I wanted to, you know, when when we came out to the new modules like this guy, you could see they now have this huge I hope you guys can see this okay. Huge heat sink on them,

sc name="ad-ab1-pac"] Let's talk about Ethernet/IP versus PROFINET in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Happy lunchtime. It is Shawn from Insights and Automation. I wanna welcome everybody who's tuning in. Thank you for joining me. Really wanna make these lunchtime sessions of the automation tech talk show, collaborative. So, please feel free to post questions or comments. For some reason, StreamYard has not taken those from LinkedIn, so my apologies. I don't know why. But in any case, maybe, if somebody could do a test post there, it says can't post comments to LinkedIn, so maybe I still can read them. Who knows? In any case, I hope you're having a great lunch. I'm giving myself thirty minutes to get ready for these things, and then, like, I was editing to this afternoon's podcast, and I'm like, oh, I gotta hurry up and get over here. But I put together a little, presentation just to talk about, you know, Ethernet IP versus PROFINET. Right? And so before we get into that, again, if you're having problems hearing me or anything like that, it looks like everything's working on my side. And and by the way, today, I'm coming to you from my office. It's not very clean, but this is where the work gets done when I'm not in the studio or in the training room. But in any case, so, let me put some things out there. So as somebody who's used Ethernet IP well since it came out. Right? So, you know, we were back in the days in Data Hour plus and remote IO, and some people call it Rio. And I was like, Rio is a city. Call it remote IO or r I o. But in the case, that's how my weird brain works. Hey. Thank you, Emmanuel. Really appreciate it. It's good to see you again. Great. It's been a while since we talked. So in any case, you know, one of the thing these vendors have done is made these things easy to implement in their products. And I gotta say, like all the major vendors I've used, they put that first in their thought process, at least from my perspective. And I can go into that programming software. I can add things on their network, and it works. So and there's a lot that goes on under the under the scenes behind the scenes in the software that makes that all work so well. I know with Ethan IP early on, we had the whole, you know, unicast with versus multicast. Everything was multicast. Some of you younger folks won't even know what I'm talking about, but we had to run around saying, use a use a switch with IGMP snooping. Use a switch with IGMP snooping. And then it was IG snooping and querying. And it's like, but in any case, that's all going away now with Unicast support. And, again, if you guys if I say something wrong, I'm just going off the cuff here. It's just lunchtime, so let me know. But, long story short, you know, I use both, both networks in the house here with just commercial switches. They run great. Of course, you wanna use industrial switches in an industrial environment. And I think most of you have the same the same experience with that. So, what I wanna do is kinda, like, take a look at them now. The one of the reasons I'm doing this today is I'm editing. I'm not quite done. It takes about three hours to edit these shows and publish them. But I'm just at the final steps of editing today's podcast, which will be on Profinet. And I thought, man, the this, this guy had some great slides, so I wanted to compare him to the slides I typically use for Ethan IP or at least one slide, which is, really based on a Rockwell slide that they were giving away for years and years and years. So without further ado,

Let's talk about sub-$400 Ethernet PLCs (and more) in today's Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Below you'll find the links from this week's show: Automation Game LinkedIn Post The Automation School Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host):Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk. Shawn Tierney here. You know, it's been a long time since I've used StreamYard, and they've actually added some really cool things. I can actually see if my mic is working. So please, leave a comment in the chat. I'm, we're going out live to LinkedIn and YouTube. Of course, this will be released over on the podcast and at the automation blog later, when I'm done lunch. But in any case, I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about the, the thought process behind the show is, you know, I learn so much every day, and I just I can't I can't keep up with the courses. I can't add everything I learn into my courses or do, like, full blown productions on it. And so I'm like, you know what? Let me just meet up with all my followers on LinkedIn and YouTube and just share what I'm learning, and then I can just watch the chat and see if you guys have anything else to say about it. In that way, all this stuff I'm learning every day, I can get right back out to you guys, and you guys can share what you're learning with me in very informal, you know, type of show. So that is what automation tech talk lunchtime edition is all about. I'm doing this to my lunch because there's no there's you know, I'm not making money from this. But, in any case, I do wanna say say thank you to all my students at the automation school, and thank you to all my members at on YouTube and the automation blog. Thank you guys very much. Now I am you know, I wanted to bring the news, show back, but it's, like, three hours a day, and it makes zero money. So it's just like I can't invest the time to do that. And so that's why I'm doing the show, but I'm gonna reuse the new show podcast. So if you're listening to the podcast, you're like, hey. Showed to the new new show, and you're getting this instead. It's expensive and time consuming to spend the new podcast. So, I'm thinking from talking to some of the listeners out there, I'm thinking you guys would enjoy this, maybe not as much as the news, but maybe, as close to it as I can provide right now. With all that said, thank you again for tuning in. And today, what I wanted to talk to you is about, low cost Ethernet PLC. So as an instructor, I'm always looking for how people can can get, you know, learn PLCs. Right? Program controls, PACs, PLCs, whatever you wanna call them. They are, like, to me, the heart of an automation system. The IO comes into that. You know, devices talk to the IO. IO talks to controller. HMIs and SCADA talk to the controller. IoT connections, IoT connections. You know? So that's like the brain of the system, always has been. Right? And it's kinda like the motherboard in our computers. Right? And so, you know, I I think people will always wanna learn them as long as we're we have control systems. And, I know some people will say, well, you know, there's DCSs and this this that I understand that. I understand that. But in any case so, you know, I recently posted let me see if I can share it with you. I recently posted over on LinkedIn. Let's see if I can get this up here and bring it over to the right screen, and let's see if we can go to this. Again, I haven't used this in a while, so it's a little new for me. But in any case, this is not what I wanted to show you. Let's see if we can show something else here. Let me see. Bear with me a second. Share screen. Let's share the whole screen. I think that will be that. Okay. Great.

Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as some information about the A-B 1750-PMC Programmable Matrix Controller. For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here. Show Notes: Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at: https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum. Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

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. For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here. Show Notes: Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at: https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum. Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog. Note: In place of the Members only Q & A, this week members get access to a new episode of The Automation Show airing in the same time slot. #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Note: Below you will find the "public" Question of the Week (today's episode: QW025) To unlock access to the member's only shows, become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here. Watch the Question of the Week Show: Notes: This week's links are found below the next section. Listen to the Question of the Week: No Question and Answer Show this week - see The Automation Show for Members airing in the same timeslot. Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode: - Rockwell Redundancy Manual If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Any vendors out there who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link. And if you're not a member but would like to unlock our member only shows, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at our top Automation Content from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for the coming weeks in today's episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation: #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Watch the Show on release at ~2:15pm ET, or the replay anytime: Listen to What's New: Links: - coming soon... This week's content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET): Monday: - What's New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ET Wednesday: - The Automation Show* and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.) and / or - The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ET plus - Office Hours for TAS Customers (See L1.11,) Teams Meet 6:00-7:00pm ET Friday: - Question of the Week livestream, ~12:00pm ET - Member's Q & A* or After Show, ~12:05pm ET - - For Members* & Students (Lesson 1.10) * Denotes a member only livestream ^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public) Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog. Note: In place of the Members only Q & A, this week members get access to the TAP Aftershow airing in the same time slot. #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Note: Below you will find the "public" Question of the Week (today's episode: QW024) To unlock access to the member's only shows, become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here. Watch the Question of the Week Show: Notes: This week's links are found below the next section. Listen to the Question of the Week: No Question and Answer Show this week - see the TAP After Show airing in the same timeslot. Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode: - No links this week If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Any vendors out there who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link. And if you're not a member but would like to unlock our member only shows, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of Q&A and the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog: #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Note: Below you will find the "public" Question of the Week, followed by our "member's only" Q & A show (today's episodes: QW023 & QA023) To unlock access to the full Q & A show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here. Watch the Question of the Week Show: Notes: This week's links are found below the Q&A Episode Listen to the Question of the Week: Watch the full Question and Answer Show: Note: The below Q&A show is a Member Benefit. To learn more about our membership levels, click here. Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode: - No links this week If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Any vendors out there who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link. And if you're not a level 1 member but would like to unlock the full Q & A show, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Industrial Automation Questions and Answers with Shawn Tierney in this episode of Q&A and the Question of the Week from #TheAutomationBlog: #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Scheduling Note for 11/08/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025. Note: Below you will find the "public" Question of the Week, followed by our "member's only" Q & A show (today's episodes: QW022 & QA022) To unlock access to the full Q & A show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here. Watch the Question of the Week Show: Notes: This week's links are found below the Q&A Episode Listen to the Question of the Week: Watch the full Question and Answer Show: Note: The below Q&A show is a Member Benefit. To learn more about our membership levels, click here. Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Below are any links covered in the public Question of the Week episode: - Link to Free RSLogix Download Procedure - Link to Phase Manager Manual - Link to Sequence Manager Profile - Link to PlantPAx Batch & Sequence Manager Profile Links to new FactoryIO Courses (not released yet) - A-B Logix & FactoryIO - Siemens S7 & FactoryIO If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Any vendors out there who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link. And if you're not a level 1 member but would like to unlock the full Q & A show, you can become one for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making these shows possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.

Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning's Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog: #Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation Scheduling Note for 11/05/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows are bing reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025. Note: Below you will find the "public" headlines show, followed by our "member's only" news show (today's episodes: R75 & N255) To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here. Watch the Headlines News Show: Listen to the Headlines News Show: Watch the Full News Show: Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here. Links to today's headlines : - https://theautomationblog.com/follow - https://new.abb.com/news/detail/120666/abb-opens-new-100-million-campus-in-wisconsin - https://www.phoenixcontact.com/explore/page/3t9nmfp?_realm=us&_locale=en-US - https://www.siemens.com/us/en/company/press/press-releases/smart-infrastructure/siemens-offers-3-pole-class-a-gfcis-100-amp-applications.html - https://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2024/11-new-emerson-energy-manager-solution-reduces-energy-costs-carbon-emissions-for-manufacturers - https://www.danfoss.com/en-us/about-danfoss/news/dds/enhanced-vlt-automationdrive-ez-fc-321/ - https://www.hilscher.com/company/news/hilscher-launches-new-spe-media-switch-for-profinet-ethernet-ip-and-modbus-networks - https://profinews.com/2024/10/new-products-november-2024/ - https://theautomationblog.com/join - https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today's directly under the Automation News Show video. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Vendors who'd like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link. And if you're not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join. Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible! Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show. Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.