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Hey, everybody. Thank you for tuning back in

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to the automation podcast. Sean Tierney here with

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Insights. And in today's episode, I wanna recap

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my trip to Schneider Electric's

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Innovation Summit in Las Vegas, and it was

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November.

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So I am recording this during the week

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of Thanksgiving, and it will come out the

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following week. And so you guys are seeing

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this,

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early December, late November.

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And, I wanted to film this though this

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week of Thanksgiving because I wanted to kinda

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share all my thoughts and what I've seen

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and everything while it was still fresh in

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my mind. And, if you're watching this, you

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can see that I'm in my office this

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time recording here. And, I get a little

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presentation I'm gonna walk through that's gonna help

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me as I discuss this. You're not gonna

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miss anything if you're listening, but, it'll help

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me kinda with, you know, different topics I

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wanna talk about and cover. So in any

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case, before we get to any of that,

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as you probably know, we've covered

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Schneider Electric quite a bit since 2022 when

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Louis Arone came on to talk about automation

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expert and universal IO.

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I thought that was interesting, but that wasn't

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really, I think, a good introduction to the

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whole of Schneider Electric, and it wasn't meant

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to be. You know, then way later, we

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had, Jay Cortell arranged several interviews.

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I think the first was with Joel and

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Mahoa

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on their machine level PLCs. That's the Modicon

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PLCs and the,

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machine expert development software. Of course, everything's named

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EcoStruxure

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from, Schneider Electric.

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you know, we had drives on. We had,

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actually, we had we talked about drives a

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couple different times. We talked about HMIs. We

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talked about IPCs.

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We talked about all kinds of stuff. We

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even had the TSYS Island folks on.

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So all of those episodes, you know, I'll

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put something up on the screen, and I'll

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put links in the description. So if you

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wanna go check those the previous episodes out,

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you can. And, just a lot of great

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information that I've learned over since 2022 about

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Schneider, because previous to that, I really only

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had spent a lot of time with Rockwell

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and Siemens.

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So, just, very interesting stuff. I know there's

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a lot of Schneider users out there too.

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in any case,

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then, of course, this year, we got a

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we got our first Monacan PLC, so we

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did a first time programming that. And, we

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also,

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sponsored to take a look at their new

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Edge IO NTS platform,

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which I thought was really cool, and I

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did, like, almost an hour episode on that.

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saw that a week or two ago.

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a box of IO and using it for

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the first time. And so, Schneider had approached

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me earlier in the year about, actually, two

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different sponsorships. They wanted me to come out

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to their show,

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and, and I talked to other people about

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their shows, and I was getting crickets. So

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out and do, like, six,

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interviews at the show? I said, yes. And

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then they later contacted me and said, hey.

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Can we get you to do three sponsored

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videos as well? I'm like, yes.

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sponsorships make it affordable to go to these

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shows because if the show's not local, I

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mean, there's a couple thousand dollars with just

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in expenses alone. I know. I just did

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so they help cover that, and then we

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get content out of it. Right? Because just

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walking around a show,

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that doesn't provide any content, really. I mean,

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you can generate content out of it. But

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if it's not sponsored,

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you know, this is it's not like we're

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in the health or, you know, beauty or

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fitness

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segments where we're gonna get millions of views

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and actually make a decent money on ads.

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tight knit group of engineers,

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electricians, and technicians who use PLCs, HMI, SCADA,

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VFD sensors. And, you know, there's only about

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80,000 of us, maybe a little bit more,

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maybe a little bit less. So there's not

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enough ad revenue out there to to,

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episodes. So in any case, that said, I

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take this opportunity to go to the summit.

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First time I've been to a Schneider event.

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screen here. And this event really had,

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three different audiences it was targeting.

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like me, people who are interested in PLCs,

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HMI,

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that kind of stuff. Right?

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VFDs, soft starters, you know, the whole, ball

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of wax. And then

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the second group they are, targeting was power.

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generation or power utilization.

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wax. And then the third, group was data

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center people. Right? And the power and the

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data center are really kinda

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coming together because of all the data centers

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being built in America. Right? And so it

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was really these three tiers they were, focused

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customers to show up or maybe that's 2,000

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total. I don't know. But, it's not, in

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had three different segments, which makes sense because

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the company does it all,

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is so hot, right, and data centers are

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so hot. But there were some there, and

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there were a lot of industry products there.

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of the floor. I didn't measure, but that's

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to anything I talk about,

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but, you know, on both audio and video.

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the subtitle is energy tech, automation, AI, and

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grid.

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everything. As you imagine, it's a topic these

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days. Right? So let me get my mouse

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let's go to the next slide. So we

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stayed at the Fontainebleau

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and this hotel was a fairly new hotel.

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although it was quite a walk from the

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casino to do that. So or the edge

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that's expected. They even the airport made you

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walk through the airport casino. It's like

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they're just trying to get you to gamble,

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I guess. I don't know. I always lose,

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so I don't I don't gamble because every

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time I've gambled, I've lost. I don't think

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I've ever won much at all. So it's

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really just throwing money away from me. But

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yeah. So this facility was really cool. It

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conventions and whatnot.

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you why. This it's so nice to be

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at the hotel, but being an East Coaster.

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probably before 05:00 every morning.

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was nothing open. There was nothing open until,

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think you're gonna, you know, you're gonna get

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it in your room? No. That's one of

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the things that this hotel did not do.

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with a coffee pot or just stay somewhere

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else next time? But, if you don't drink

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coffee, probably not a big deal for you.

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to getting up and eating breakfast at 5AM,

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the room service is, like all these hotels

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that run $3,400

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a night, extremely expensive. So,

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me, just give me a Dunkin' Donuts coffee

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and a sandwich, and I'm gonna be happy

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every morning. Not that's that's what I eat

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every morning, but,

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when I'm traveling, that that'll put a smile

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on my face every morning. So in any

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case, that was, that was tough. Now I'm

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having the coffee in the morning, and I

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expensive coffee at some point because

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in the morning and you went over to

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the actually, where the show was in the

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you know, down that long corridor and then

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up the the other flight of elevators to

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get to the convention area.

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They had this beautiful registration booth. You walk

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up to a tablet. You put your name

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in. Hit print,

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badge. Somebody behind the counter gives you a

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badge. It was very nicely done. And the

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other thing I liked was that they had

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these huge displays.

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huge displays behind them that had the whole

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agenda for the day.

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you're, like, you didn't have to pull out

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you know, if you're talking to somebody, hey.

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see that? You didn't have to pull out

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your phone. But I will say their app

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was excellent. I really and I've used a

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lot of these apps. They're usually excellent.

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five out of five stars because it was

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just really easy to use, and my my,

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emailed agenda that was through the marketing firm

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didn't have all the correct room numbers, but

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the app had everything correct. So, in any

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case, great app, great registration desk, very friendly,

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Schneider people. And so the first thing I

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did was, beginning of the show, a lot

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of times you'll have this media breakfast you

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go to. Right? And so a media breakfast

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is where you hear what the company wants

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the media to publish.

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Okay? And so you go to a standard

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breakfast and just chat with other attendees, but,

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you know, I I'm there as media. Right?

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I'm here to do interviews. I'm here to

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create videos, sponsored videos. So I'm like, I'm

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gonna go to the media breakfast. And I

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was a little disappointed because usually when I

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hear media breakfast, I'm thinking breakfast. This is

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like a light

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continental. Right? And and, again,

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as somebody who eats at 05:00 in the

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morning when your when your media breakfast says

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07:30 and there's really no edible food unless

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you like continental

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kind of stuff. And it wasn't like the

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bagels and donuts either. So,

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but in any case, that that's on the

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hotel. That's what they do. And,

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you know, no no ding against Schneider.

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But in any case, I thought this was

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very interesting. Not having known much about what

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they do with the energy companies, they were

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sharing a whole portfolio of grid management software.

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So they got a bunch of five different

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packages

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of EcoStruxure just for grid, like managing assets

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and transmission operation. They call it the digital

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digital grid platform and, just some very interesting

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stuff.

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I actually took some pictures of the slides

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because I was like, this is really cool.

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You know, they they say they can boost

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up to 60% reduction in deployment time and

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all these other things. So very interesting.

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Lots of details,

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in in this presentation,

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and I thought it was, was very good.

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Even though,

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you know, it's not my bowl of wax.

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And and this is they were talking about

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this thing called the EcoStruxure Foresight, which is

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a new product that has AI built in,

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and, I'll talk about that a little bit

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more in a moment here. So, then we

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had the keynote. So this was actually quite

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a bit of ways from where we were.

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It's in the theater, so it was a

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good, I don't know, five minute walk

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to get from the, you know, I think

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we were in Floor 4 or Floor 6,

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down the elevator and then across to the

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theater. And, still in the same building, but

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in a different part of the complex.

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And, the theater that was really nice, I

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had took a lot of pictures of it.

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you know, I had two options for the

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let me just go ahead to the theater.

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I had two options where to sit. So

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one media group hired me to do videos

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that had front row seats. The other group

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that hired me to do podcasts or sponsored

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podcasts,

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they had a bit a back row. And

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I decided to do the back row just

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because

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the people sitting in the front, they look

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like they were shoulder to shoulder, like, they

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were in those regular just folding chairs,

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and they were packed pretty tight, I thought.

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And then in the back, I just had

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this beautiful view because I sat right along

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the aisle, and it was a comfy chair,

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not a, like, a a a dining chair.

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And, I just got this beautiful view of

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everything. Right? And, I I was just using

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my phone. I didn't I didn't bring any,

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any fancy camera equipment with me. I was

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actually told told that it would be better

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to get, for the videos to do it

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on my phone because it's,

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more authentic.

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But in any case, that's what they said.

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And, but it was a beautiful theater. Now

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they say online it holds up to 3,800

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people.

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I don't think if you look at the

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seating area in the front, beef before you

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get to these rows, I think I counted

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the chairs. Try to count the chairs. There's

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about a thousand people down there. So I

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would say they probably had between their 1,402,000

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people they were expecting

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come to the show.

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And,

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but the way they integrated these screens, one

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big screen, two vertical screens, and then outside

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of the stage area, two more vertical screens.

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Really, for the for the sites, it sounds

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good. Great. And,

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here's another picture of it with everybody sitting

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down. We're getting ready to start here. And

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I did put up a video with some

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of this footage. So if you guys wanna

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check that out, that'll be in the description

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as well.

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And, actually, I'll link to the article at

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the blog because I have all the videos

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in one in one post.

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In any case, this started out with a

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drum, like, kind of a dramatic

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drum, almost like a blue man group type

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of without all the messy stuff. But, so

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the street drummers and they did this, two

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and a half minute drumming,

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I don't know what you call it. They

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played the song. And the graphics behind them

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were just going great. I mean, it was

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just it was just amazing. It was going

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through all the high points for Schneider as

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they were doing this really awesome drumming, solo.

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And, I actually put a copy of this.

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Because right now, it's for members only

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on YouTube. I don't know if I can

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switch it to everybody because I think that's,

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I think it's copyrighted. But maybe I'll do

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that and just see. I'm not monetizing it.

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It's it's their song, not mine, but it

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was just so impressive. What a great opening

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act. Only two and a half minutes, but

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the drums and the beats, yeah, really good.

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I and the choreographed

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video that was playing behind them was just

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awesome.

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Just really awesome. I mean, these drummers made

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sure they hit the right high points when

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the the screen changed, and I just thought

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they did a great job with that. And

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then from there, we had,

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just a lotta lotta data. So I'll just

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go over this one slide. They say by

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2026,

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they expect industrial electrical demand to surge by

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15% in The USA.

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And then by 2028,

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peak demand will be greater than

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peak supply.

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That's what they're saying. These are estimates. And

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then by 2050,

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the electricity demand

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should be more than double

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what it is today. Now

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I don't think I don't think this trend

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will go exactly like that. Right? I mean,

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necessity is the mother of all invention. Right?

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So if, if, we're running out of electricity

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production, people will make more power plants or

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people will become more efficient while there'll be

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new sources of energy and new ways to

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store energy, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

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But this is the trend they're seeing today.

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Right? And so they had just a ton

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of slides like this, full of this information.

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They had so many that I actually released

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a video, which I put some music to

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it, bought a little music track to put

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with it, and I released it on all

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the platforms. So you could just see all

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the slides I took pictures of. I think

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there's, like, 20 or so slides

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and, just a lot of information. And even

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though I'm not in the power industry, I

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thought I found that so interesting.

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Then they had this video,

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which is is in the LinkedIn video that

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they they did. They live streamed this keynote.

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So I'll link to the live stream in

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the description.

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Also, this video I'm gonna talk about right

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now is at about twenty eight minutes and

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thirty seconds. They had this history of Schneider

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Electric. You know, Schneider's bought so many companies.

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But this was as somebody who host the

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steer of automation podcast, I was like, this

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is so cool.

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So in any case, they started out with,

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like, square d.

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Right? The first Oculus enclosed fuse

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back in nineteen o five. And then they

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had some other favorites they had, and I

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just interviewed the, the engineer who did the,

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the firmware for the, Modicon o 84.

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So they had the first PLC. Now they

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said 1968.

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I would probably say more 1969

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because, you know, inception

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and deployment. You know, there's a difference there.

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Yes. Marley came up with the idea in

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'68,

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but they didn't install it into GM until

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'69. So,

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what are you gonna say?

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Then they had Wanderway, and I was wondering

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why they had Wanderway listed as '20 2003.

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Because as we've seen on the History Automation

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podcast,

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Gary wrote the wrote a book about the

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history of one to wear and, my cohost.

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And, yeah, that was that was, like, mid

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or early nineties, late eighties. So I don't

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know what the I don't know what that

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date is signifying, but it's probably a wonder

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way product they released. Maybe it's a driver

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driver suite or something.

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And then OSI pie.

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So of that from my understanding in talking

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to them, Schneider now fully owns Aviva.

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So, originally, they couldn't buy the thing a

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100 because FTC was like, you're monopolizing, but,

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eventually,

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I guess they own it completely. That's what

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somebody told me on the show floor, so

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I'm a Schneider person. So, anyways,

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having used OSI pie

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a lot as historian, in fact, to talk

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historian with Rockwell, I've really became to like

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it a lot and understand it a lot.

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And so I have a soft spot that's

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showing a big three and a half inch

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floppy disk, and they're showing the date as

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1980, I believe.

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So,

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that video is well worth watching. If you

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don't wanna watch the whole watch the whole,

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I think it's two hours, the whole keynote,

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which I enjoyed, but, again, I was captive

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audience. I would definitely recommend

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I think it's twenty eight minutes and thirty

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seconds. Again, I'll put that in the description.

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Definitely wanna check out that, that video.

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You know, a lot of these companies are

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American companies we're talking about, even though Schneider's

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a global company. And Snyder still makes thousands

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and thousands of products

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in America too.

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So,

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yeah. So even though they're a global company,

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it's it's still

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nice to see that there. And they even

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had stuff in there about Telemech and other

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other companies that weren't American, but, it was

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just very interesting

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stuff. And then they had the big foresight.

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And the thing that I remember about foresight

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is, yeah, they had some slides and everything,

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but, they did this AI demo.

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And,

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it looked like it was actually running live

531
00:18:11,734 --> 00:18:13,575
because it had that delay you would expect

532
00:18:13,575 --> 00:18:15,670
from an AI like a chat g p

533
00:18:15,670 --> 00:18:17,690
t or a grok or one of those.

534
00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:20,730
And, but he was talking with an Alexa

535
00:18:20,789 --> 00:18:21,690
like voice.

536
00:18:22,150 --> 00:18:23,830
I almost wonder if they hired the same

537
00:18:23,830 --> 00:18:25,049
actress who did Alexa

538
00:18:25,350 --> 00:18:26,970
because it sounded very similar.

539
00:18:27,590 --> 00:18:29,714
Well, to me, it sounded the same. But

540
00:18:29,714 --> 00:18:32,194
in any case, it was pretty cool. I

541
00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,294
don't think we'll be using that feature

542
00:18:34,755 --> 00:18:36,115
in the near future, but,

543
00:18:36,755 --> 00:18:38,615
I'm sure it's it's coming. Right?

544
00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:40,994
And then, they talked about,

545
00:18:42,035 --> 00:18:44,054
all the products they made in The USA

546
00:18:44,529 --> 00:18:46,609
because it cost US US audience, and they

547
00:18:46,609 --> 00:18:47,829
talked about the Altivar

548
00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:50,769
six thirty drive. I thought that was interesting,

549
00:18:50,769 --> 00:18:52,609
and I didn't know anything about that drive

550
00:18:52,609 --> 00:18:53,109
prior.

551
00:18:53,490 --> 00:18:54,230
And then,

552
00:18:55,329 --> 00:18:57,410
from there, after the keynote was done, we

553
00:18:57,410 --> 00:18:59,734
were scheduled to do a park, a a

554
00:18:59,734 --> 00:19:02,394
show floor tour. They called it the Innovation

555
00:19:02,615 --> 00:19:05,095
Park. And this was for media, and,

556
00:19:05,815 --> 00:19:07,494
let's see here. Let me just go one

557
00:19:07,494 --> 00:19:09,654
more. And so before we took that tour,

558
00:19:09,654 --> 00:19:11,434
I tried to get a a a pan,

559
00:19:11,494 --> 00:19:12,934
because you only see in a very short

560
00:19:12,934 --> 00:19:15,480
piece if you're watching of this pan. So

561
00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,080
you can tell just by looking at it,

562
00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,600
the floor's pretty empty because the door is

563
00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:19,340
just open.

564
00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:20,299
And,

565
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,619
people are just coming in,

566
00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,840
and you can see the size of it.

567
00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,759
It's not the size of an auto meet,

568
00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:28,775
okay, or other big shows like that, but

569
00:19:28,775 --> 00:19:30,734
it still was big. There was there was

570
00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:32,974
lots of stuff there. I would say if

571
00:19:32,974 --> 00:19:34,194
you've been to an RAOTM

572
00:19:34,894 --> 00:19:35,875
bigger than that,

573
00:19:36,335 --> 00:19:36,734
but,

574
00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:38,494
in any case, it was it was good

575
00:19:38,494 --> 00:19:39,855
size, but, again, it's not the size of

576
00:19:39,855 --> 00:19:42,130
an automate show or a massive show like

577
00:19:42,130 --> 00:19:45,009
that. You know, again, target audience, 2,000 people.

578
00:19:45,009 --> 00:19:46,630
Right? So in any case,

579
00:19:47,410 --> 00:19:49,009
I was waiting there for the media tour.

580
00:19:49,009 --> 00:19:50,289
They gave me a pair a pair of,

581
00:19:50,529 --> 00:19:53,329
earbuds and a little receiver, and the guy

582
00:19:53,329 --> 00:19:55,410
giving the tour had a microphone, which worked

583
00:19:55,410 --> 00:19:57,934
really well because as the as the, show

584
00:19:57,934 --> 00:20:00,095
floor filled up, it it could be hard

585
00:20:00,095 --> 00:20:02,414
to hear people. So in any case, here

586
00:20:02,414 --> 00:20:04,575
is our tour guide. This is,

587
00:20:05,055 --> 00:20:05,555
Jesse,

588
00:20:05,934 --> 00:20:08,894
who's super nice guy, super great guy, and,

589
00:20:09,710 --> 00:20:11,150
he's hold I asked him if he'd hold

590
00:20:11,150 --> 00:20:12,349
up the picture because at one point, he

591
00:20:12,349 --> 00:20:13,809
was talking about the history of,

592
00:20:14,190 --> 00:20:16,349
the their industrial products, and he had a

593
00:20:16,349 --> 00:20:18,990
picture of the Monacan o 84. And so

594
00:20:18,990 --> 00:20:20,509
I asked if he could hold it up

595
00:20:20,509 --> 00:20:21,630
so I could take a picture because I

596
00:20:21,630 --> 00:20:23,335
wanted to send it to Chuck who was

597
00:20:23,335 --> 00:20:25,255
on that team who developed that product because

598
00:20:25,255 --> 00:20:27,575
we just interviewed him. So just kinda say,

599
00:20:27,575 --> 00:20:29,434
hey. They're still talking about you guys.

600
00:20:29,735 --> 00:20:30,795
But in any case,

601
00:20:31,255 --> 00:20:33,515
Jesse was pretty awesome to work with and

602
00:20:33,575 --> 00:20:35,095
a good spot for holding up that picture.

603
00:20:35,095 --> 00:20:35,910
And then, of course,

604
00:20:36,390 --> 00:20:37,769
as they're going through the

605
00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:40,250
energy side after a while, I'm like, okay.

606
00:20:40,309 --> 00:20:41,830
I need I need to go see some

607
00:20:41,830 --> 00:20:43,349
industry stuff. So I went over and I

608
00:20:43,349 --> 00:20:45,190
saw the Edge IO, which you guys all

609
00:20:45,190 --> 00:20:46,630
know I and I should say Edge IO

610
00:20:46,630 --> 00:20:48,730
NTS because they have other Edge IO products,

611
00:20:49,430 --> 00:20:51,029
like the the well, we'll see in a

612
00:20:51,029 --> 00:20:52,475
minute. But in any case, they had all

613
00:20:52,475 --> 00:20:54,335
of the, Edge IO products out.

614
00:20:54,955 --> 00:20:57,934
And, they had a nice, display for the

615
00:20:58,154 --> 00:20:58,654
Modicon,

616
00:20:59,195 --> 00:20:59,695
m

617
00:21:00,955 --> 00:21:01,455
five

618
00:21:01,835 --> 00:21:02,335
eighty.

619
00:21:02,715 --> 00:21:04,075
I think it's an e pack. I'll have

620
00:21:04,075 --> 00:21:05,934
to put my glasses on for this one.

621
00:21:07,195 --> 00:21:08,589
And And it was interesting because they had

622
00:21:08,589 --> 00:21:10,210
redundant power supplies, redundant

623
00:21:10,750 --> 00:21:11,869
controllers. They had,

624
00:21:12,509 --> 00:21:14,049
some Hirschman redundancy,

625
00:21:14,589 --> 00:21:15,650
redundant switches.

626
00:21:16,029 --> 00:21:17,410
It was just a very interesting,

627
00:21:18,349 --> 00:21:19,329
layout and,

628
00:21:20,315 --> 00:21:21,755
you know, just showing off this line. I

629
00:21:21,755 --> 00:21:23,355
don't I don't I haven't had anybody come

630
00:21:23,355 --> 00:21:25,434
on to talk about this in-depth, so I

631
00:21:25,434 --> 00:21:27,755
don't know much about it, but, it looked

632
00:21:27,755 --> 00:21:28,255
impressive.

633
00:21:28,795 --> 00:21:30,634
And, then they also had you know, they

634
00:21:30,634 --> 00:21:33,580
own Foxborough, the Foxborough DCS system. So you

635
00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:35,840
could see some Foxborough there. They had Tricon.

636
00:21:36,220 --> 00:21:37,759
I believe that's part of Triconix.

637
00:21:38,059 --> 00:21:40,160
So they had some Triconix stuff there.

638
00:21:40,860 --> 00:21:42,640
I wanted to say hi to the Triconix

639
00:21:42,779 --> 00:21:45,200
guys for Gary, but I I got distracted.

640
00:21:45,259 --> 00:21:46,845
I had so much going on. And then

641
00:21:46,845 --> 00:21:49,085
they, of course, had the Monicon x 80

642
00:21:49,085 --> 00:21:50,684
IO, which is the what we saw on

643
00:21:50,684 --> 00:21:53,244
the five eighty, and then, the Edge IO.

644
00:21:53,244 --> 00:21:55,085
So as I'm walking around here, I'm seeing

645
00:21:55,085 --> 00:21:56,944
a lot of stuff I've never seen before,

646
00:21:57,724 --> 00:21:59,244
you know, especially when it comes to the

647
00:21:59,244 --> 00:22:01,345
Foxboro DCS system or Triconix.

648
00:22:02,269 --> 00:22:05,150
But, in this, your Foxborough Edge IO, so

649
00:22:05,150 --> 00:22:07,390
that's a different type of Edge IO, n

650
00:22:07,390 --> 00:22:09,650
t h instead of n t s.

651
00:22:10,509 --> 00:22:11,009
So

652
00:22:11,390 --> 00:22:13,630
in any case and then this guy, the

653
00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:16,214
Monacan m six sixty. So I was, talking

654
00:22:16,214 --> 00:22:17,434
to Kareem, who I interviewed,

655
00:22:17,815 --> 00:22:19,335
and some other folks there, and they were,

656
00:22:19,335 --> 00:22:21,195
like, really hyped about this. So

657
00:22:21,575 --> 00:22:23,734
it looks like an IPC. Okay? So think

658
00:22:23,734 --> 00:22:24,555
of an IPC.

659
00:22:26,134 --> 00:22:28,535
I don't know. Eight inches by three inches

660
00:22:28,535 --> 00:22:29,035
by

661
00:22:30,130 --> 00:22:30,630
six

662
00:22:31,009 --> 00:22:32,529
inches. Kinda like, you know, that, you know,

663
00:22:32,529 --> 00:22:34,049
a box. Right? It's a box. A shoe

664
00:22:34,049 --> 00:22:34,549
box.

665
00:22:35,410 --> 00:22:36,210
In any case,

666
00:22:36,769 --> 00:22:38,869
they were hyped about this because this unit

667
00:22:39,250 --> 00:22:42,130
comes with Linux and comes with machine expert

668
00:22:42,130 --> 00:22:43,650
run time, a code sys run time on

669
00:22:43,650 --> 00:22:45,184
it. And they said it can do up

670
00:22:45,184 --> 00:22:46,964
to 300 axis of motion.

671
00:22:47,424 --> 00:22:49,025
It has Intel chips in it, so it's

672
00:22:49,025 --> 00:22:50,945
very fast. But it also can,

673
00:22:51,345 --> 00:22:52,805
also run simultaneously

674
00:22:53,345 --> 00:22:53,845
Windows.

675
00:22:54,305 --> 00:22:56,305
So you can run your skater or HMI

676
00:22:56,305 --> 00:22:57,684
on there as well.

677
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,039
And they tell me that you could also

678
00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:02,220
put in automation expert run time.

679
00:23:02,679 --> 00:23:04,359
So you can make it a a a

680
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:04,859
DPAC

681
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,119
or a,

682
00:23:06,679 --> 00:23:09,179
or just a regular, machine expert PLC,

683
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,179
all simultaneously.

684
00:23:12,255 --> 00:23:14,434
And so they're very excited about that, especially

685
00:23:14,575 --> 00:23:16,815
they kept saying 300 axes of motion. I'm

686
00:23:16,815 --> 00:23:18,994
like, wow. That's a lot of axes.

687
00:23:19,615 --> 00:23:22,255
So that's the Monacan m six sixty. And

688
00:23:22,255 --> 00:23:23,154
then, of course,

689
00:23:24,590 --> 00:23:26,750
I I was interviewing different people, and when

690
00:23:26,750 --> 00:23:28,430
we're talking about drives, we started talking about

691
00:23:28,430 --> 00:23:30,430
soft starters. So I went over to see

692
00:23:30,430 --> 00:23:32,269
a look at their current gen soft starter,

693
00:23:32,269 --> 00:23:34,190
which has too many features for me to

694
00:23:34,190 --> 00:23:34,690
even,

695
00:23:35,390 --> 00:23:36,990
mention, but it has a lot of features

696
00:23:36,990 --> 00:23:39,075
you would think of in a drive and

697
00:23:39,075 --> 00:23:41,474
not in a soft starter. So very interesting

698
00:23:41,474 --> 00:23:43,875
there. And then, because we took the look

699
00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:45,015
at the brand new,

700
00:23:45,954 --> 00:23:46,454
HVAC,

701
00:23:48,194 --> 00:23:50,194
drive from Schneider. Now they have an existing

702
00:23:50,194 --> 00:23:51,634
one. This is the one that's in beta

703
00:23:51,634 --> 00:23:53,940
right now. So coming out in 2025.

704
00:23:54,159 --> 00:23:55,759
So they have a brand this brand new

705
00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:57,759
HVAC drive. They're gonna have multiple versions. This

706
00:23:57,759 --> 00:24:00,159
is just one of the different versions, but,

707
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,019
the stuff it does,

708
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,480
you know and it's designed for for the

709
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,720
HVAC industry, so it has all those protocols.

710
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:07,220
Right?

711
00:24:07,694 --> 00:24:10,494
And then, they had this, simple on machine

712
00:24:10,494 --> 00:24:10,994
drive,

713
00:24:11,454 --> 00:24:14,174
which was or machine Mount Drive, which, had

714
00:24:14,174 --> 00:24:16,174
IO link in it. So I grabbed some,

715
00:24:16,414 --> 00:24:17,794
grab a picture of that.

716
00:24:18,255 --> 00:24:20,894
And then, of course, they process VFDs as

717
00:24:20,894 --> 00:24:21,954
well or VSDs.

718
00:24:23,170 --> 00:24:23,670
K.

719
00:24:24,049 --> 00:24:26,049
And then this one, and that's, Kareem in

720
00:24:26,049 --> 00:24:27,330
the picture. I did get a chance to

721
00:24:27,330 --> 00:24:29,009
interview him. He was great. We talked so

722
00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:29,509
much.

723
00:24:29,890 --> 00:24:32,450
Mahua came over. We talked to her, and

724
00:24:32,450 --> 00:24:33,890
I hope to do an interview. I I

725
00:24:33,890 --> 00:24:35,625
actually owe her an email. Hope to get

726
00:24:35,625 --> 00:24:37,464
her on the podcast to talk all about

727
00:24:37,464 --> 00:24:39,404
this assistant AI.

728
00:24:40,025 --> 00:24:41,865
So, you know, we we see all the

729
00:24:41,865 --> 00:24:42,525
big companies

730
00:24:42,825 --> 00:24:45,085
working with Microsoft, working with Copilot

731
00:24:45,625 --> 00:24:47,625
to to produce products. And and one of

732
00:24:47,625 --> 00:24:49,144
the things I thought was interesting about this

733
00:24:49,224 --> 00:24:50,430
and now this comes with

734
00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:52,450
automation expert platform,

735
00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:53,890
and I believe

736
00:24:54,430 --> 00:24:54,930
you,

737
00:24:55,390 --> 00:24:56,369
actually can,

738
00:24:56,990 --> 00:24:58,690
license this, like, as a subscription

739
00:24:59,390 --> 00:25:01,630
for an on premise solution, but that's not

740
00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:03,464
out today. But in any case,

741
00:25:04,505 --> 00:25:06,184
they're training it on what they have, so

742
00:25:06,184 --> 00:25:07,865
it'll actually bring up samples out of their

743
00:25:07,865 --> 00:25:09,325
own sample code libraries.

744
00:25:10,265 --> 00:25:12,265
But you and when it's released, you will

745
00:25:12,265 --> 00:25:13,964
be able to train it on your processes.

746
00:25:14,184 --> 00:25:15,404
It'll be your own

747
00:25:16,019 --> 00:25:16,680
on premise

748
00:25:17,539 --> 00:25:20,019
AI that you can train, that the information

749
00:25:20,019 --> 00:25:21,779
will never be sent to Schneider or anybody

750
00:25:21,779 --> 00:25:23,700
else. And I think that's cool because a

751
00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:25,859
lot of companies have you know, you have

752
00:25:25,859 --> 00:25:27,779
people getting ready to retire, and they wanna

753
00:25:27,779 --> 00:25:29,160
start training the AI

754
00:25:29,585 --> 00:25:31,664
with you know? Here's the questions, and here's

755
00:25:31,664 --> 00:25:32,325
the answers.

756
00:25:32,785 --> 00:25:34,785
And, you know, so the next generation will

757
00:25:34,785 --> 00:25:36,305
be able to come in and say, hey.

758
00:25:36,305 --> 00:25:37,585
What did Joe used to do when this

759
00:25:37,585 --> 00:25:39,585
happened? Right? So I thought that was very

760
00:25:39,585 --> 00:25:41,184
cool, and I'm I'm I I like the

761
00:25:41,184 --> 00:25:43,380
way people are deploying these. When I I'm

762
00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:45,220
finding myself more and more going to a

763
00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:47,960
GRONC or a GRONC or a CHAT GPTP

764
00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,920
when Internet searches fail me because

765
00:25:51,299 --> 00:25:53,700
Internet searches, they seem to have gotten dumber

766
00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:55,940
over the years. And, the AI, though, is

767
00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:57,565
trying to put it in the context, you

768
00:25:57,565 --> 00:25:59,744
know, put the information in the context. So,

769
00:26:00,365 --> 00:26:02,285
it's just a much better way to search.

770
00:26:02,285 --> 00:26:02,785
Right?

771
00:26:03,244 --> 00:26:04,924
So in any case, in a quest, they

772
00:26:04,924 --> 00:26:06,924
always had the machines in motion just like

773
00:26:06,924 --> 00:26:09,244
every show. They had, you know, robots, and

774
00:26:09,244 --> 00:26:11,579
they had the track systems and whatnot. So

775
00:26:11,659 --> 00:26:13,500
that's kind of a view of the industry

776
00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:14,859
side. I do wanna show off this. This

777
00:26:14,859 --> 00:26:16,000
was a full size,

778
00:26:16,619 --> 00:26:17,980
I don't know how many inches, a 100

779
00:26:17,980 --> 00:26:20,220
or over a 100 inches, probably well, I

780
00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:22,460
don't wanna guess. But this is a curved

781
00:26:22,460 --> 00:26:24,240
screen that was running a video

782
00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:25,339
talking about,

783
00:26:26,255 --> 00:26:28,735
liquid cooling data centers, which I thought was

784
00:26:28,735 --> 00:26:29,394
so interesting.

785
00:26:29,775 --> 00:26:32,654
But, just this beautiful, gorgeous, large screen, and

786
00:26:32,654 --> 00:26:33,695
I got to meet the guy who did

787
00:26:33,695 --> 00:26:35,315
all the three d work for it.

788
00:26:35,695 --> 00:26:36,755
Very cool company,

789
00:26:37,295 --> 00:26:38,975
and very cool job they did on that

790
00:26:38,975 --> 00:26:39,715
three d.

791
00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:40,750
Alright.

792
00:26:41,289 --> 00:26:42,570
So that that was a lot of the

793
00:26:42,570 --> 00:26:43,769
day, and then I had a session to

794
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:45,690
go to. It's how real companies are using

795
00:26:45,690 --> 00:26:46,590
today's technology

796
00:26:46,970 --> 00:26:49,049
to scale innovation and set records doing that.

797
00:26:49,049 --> 00:26:50,170
And I was supposed to do a sponsored

798
00:26:50,170 --> 00:26:52,410
video on this, except when we got in

799
00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,255
there, these four are very nice,

800
00:26:54,974 --> 00:26:55,795
very smart,

801
00:26:56,414 --> 00:26:58,275
very what's the word I'm looking for?

802
00:26:58,734 --> 00:26:59,634
Earnest people.

803
00:27:00,654 --> 00:27:02,494
We're not talking about how real companies are

804
00:27:02,494 --> 00:27:03,714
using today's technology

805
00:27:04,015 --> 00:27:06,299
to scale innovation and set records doing it.

806
00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,539
They were talking about I I would have

807
00:27:08,539 --> 00:27:10,240
called this four different

808
00:27:10,539 --> 00:27:11,039
companies

809
00:27:11,740 --> 00:27:12,720
journey through

810
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,160
four different companies take a journey into

811
00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:17,200
carbon

812
00:27:17,660 --> 00:27:18,160
sequestration.

813
00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,335
So or carbon neutral power because that's what

814
00:27:22,335 --> 00:27:23,775
they all did. They were all about taking

815
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:25,934
carbon out of the atmosphere. That's what I

816
00:27:25,934 --> 00:27:27,615
got out of it. At some point, I

817
00:27:27,615 --> 00:27:29,634
kinda even threw my hands up. I'm like

818
00:27:29,694 --> 00:27:31,875
I'm like, are we gonna talk about

819
00:27:32,414 --> 00:27:35,454
using today's technology to scale innovation and set

820
00:27:35,454 --> 00:27:37,789
records, or are we gonna talk about how

821
00:27:37,789 --> 00:27:39,549
can we take carbon out of the atmosphere?

822
00:27:39,549 --> 00:27:40,910
And I get it. I get it. One

823
00:27:40,910 --> 00:27:41,890
guy's like, yeah.

824
00:27:42,430 --> 00:27:43,650
I we have the biggest,

825
00:27:44,190 --> 00:27:47,570
carbon with, you know, open air carbon withdrawal

826
00:27:47,630 --> 00:27:49,630
system, c o two sucker out of the

827
00:27:49,630 --> 00:27:51,170
ear system in the world.

828
00:27:52,005 --> 00:27:54,404
They weren't they were doing it because they

829
00:27:54,404 --> 00:27:56,025
wanted to sell the c o two.

830
00:27:56,404 --> 00:27:58,244
And they were doing it they were owned

831
00:27:58,244 --> 00:28:00,345
by, like, a oil company or petrochemical

832
00:28:00,644 --> 00:28:02,904
company. So I'm like, alright. Whatever.

833
00:28:03,285 --> 00:28:05,785
In any case, they were all very earnest.

834
00:28:05,849 --> 00:28:07,609
They all had their heart in their missions

835
00:28:07,609 --> 00:28:08,970
that this was what they wanted to do

836
00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:09,789
with their lives,

837
00:28:10,089 --> 00:28:12,089
but I was waiting for how they were

838
00:28:12,089 --> 00:28:13,309
using Schneider technology

839
00:28:13,609 --> 00:28:16,490
to, to scale innovation and set records doing

840
00:28:16,490 --> 00:28:19,450
it. And that title was probably some marketing

841
00:28:19,450 --> 00:28:21,845
person, And that happens at every show. Every

842
00:28:21,845 --> 00:28:23,365
show I've been to, there's been one like

843
00:28:23,365 --> 00:28:25,684
this where the the title doesn't really meet

844
00:28:25,684 --> 00:28:28,105
the meet my expectations anyways.

845
00:28:28,484 --> 00:28:30,884
But, then we had a session, how connected

846
00:28:30,884 --> 00:28:32,424
networks are fueling industrial

847
00:28:32,724 --> 00:28:33,224
growth.

848
00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:35,450
And so this was

849
00:28:36,630 --> 00:28:37,210
really how

850
00:28:37,670 --> 00:28:38,650
connect networks

851
00:28:39,109 --> 00:28:41,289
in our systems, whether they be automation,

852
00:28:41,670 --> 00:28:42,650
industrial automation,

853
00:28:43,190 --> 00:28:44,570
power, energy buildings,

854
00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:45,930
fueling,

855
00:28:47,430 --> 00:28:48,329
I would say

856
00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:52,914
how how AI is using that information to

857
00:28:52,914 --> 00:28:55,414
help people be more effective and more efficient.

858
00:28:55,634 --> 00:28:57,955
And so they had ServiceNow in there, and

859
00:28:57,955 --> 00:28:59,974
they were really talking a lot about

860
00:29:00,595 --> 00:29:01,095
AI

861
00:29:01,930 --> 00:29:04,250
and how you can now use that data

862
00:29:04,250 --> 00:29:05,630
you have on the plant floor

863
00:29:06,009 --> 00:29:06,910
to help you

864
00:29:07,690 --> 00:29:09,930
either prompt you that something's wrong or help

865
00:29:09,930 --> 00:29:11,230
you walk through a scenario,

866
00:29:12,410 --> 00:29:14,509
you know, through using some an automated,

867
00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:18,025
instead of using a standard operating procedure, use

868
00:29:18,025 --> 00:29:19,944
something that's a little bit more automated and

869
00:29:19,944 --> 00:29:21,704
a little bit more intelligent. So it was

870
00:29:21,704 --> 00:29:24,105
an interesting session as well, and,

871
00:29:25,224 --> 00:29:27,625
they're really talking about the the collaboration of

872
00:29:27,625 --> 00:29:30,345
Veeva and ServiceNow. They're going out of different

873
00:29:30,345 --> 00:29:32,480
ways. You know, ServiceNow is more about the

874
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,039
standard operating procedures, automating that, where Aviva is

875
00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:37,279
more about automating alarms and events and data

876
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:39,859
collection and, you know, analytics and all that.

877
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,839
But, I thought it was a very interesting

878
00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:42,980
session as well

879
00:29:43,444 --> 00:29:43,765
and,

880
00:29:44,404 --> 00:29:46,805
really didn't, you know, didn't come away with

881
00:29:46,805 --> 00:29:49,045
anything I could actually use, but still wasn't

882
00:29:49,045 --> 00:29:51,065
as interesting to talk about and think about.

883
00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:52,484
And then after that, I had I had

884
00:29:52,484 --> 00:29:53,845
to do an interview, and then I had

885
00:29:53,845 --> 00:29:55,365
to sit down, I shouldn't say I have

886
00:29:55,365 --> 00:29:56,724
to. I had the pleasure of doing an

887
00:29:56,724 --> 00:29:59,220
interview with a Schneider product manager, and then

888
00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:00,920
I sit I sat down with,

889
00:30:02,259 --> 00:30:05,059
a product team from France. So three different

890
00:30:05,059 --> 00:30:06,179
people and,

891
00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:07,160
Bobby,

892
00:30:08,179 --> 00:30:10,819
Robin, and Olivia. And it was just such

893
00:30:10,819 --> 00:30:11,720
a great conversation.

894
00:30:12,274 --> 00:30:13,794
I learned so much. I didn't even know

895
00:30:13,794 --> 00:30:15,554
what control expert was. They explained it to

896
00:30:15,554 --> 00:30:17,315
me, and it was we we I wanted

897
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:18,994
to do an interview. That didn't work out,

898
00:30:18,994 --> 00:30:20,674
so I got the I actually saw Louis

899
00:30:20,674 --> 00:30:22,674
Arone there too for a moment, when I

900
00:30:22,674 --> 00:30:24,194
went to sit down with these folks and

901
00:30:24,194 --> 00:30:26,279
got to say hi to him. And, we're

902
00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:28,359
gonna try to get together up in, Andover

903
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:31,000
someday. I'd like to see the, the Modicon,

904
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:33,159
o 84 they have up there. But in

905
00:30:33,159 --> 00:30:35,000
any case, that was a great sit down.

906
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,599
I really appreciate them taking time out of

907
00:30:36,599 --> 00:30:39,704
their afternoon. And then there was this fireside

908
00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:42,105
chat with NVIDIA's Rev

909
00:30:43,365 --> 00:30:43,865
Labarian.

910
00:30:45,044 --> 00:30:46,724
Probably didn't pronounce that right. But in any

911
00:30:46,724 --> 00:30:48,585
case, I thought this was very interesting.

912
00:30:49,444 --> 00:30:51,924
And, you know, NVIDIA was talking about so

913
00:30:51,924 --> 00:30:54,264
this is a VP who handles Omniverse,

914
00:30:55,349 --> 00:30:57,450
and, well, you think digital twin.

915
00:30:57,829 --> 00:31:00,250
And he went through this the conversation of,

916
00:31:00,869 --> 00:31:03,690
number one, I never thought of this, but

917
00:31:03,750 --> 00:31:06,230
NVIDIA has always kinda done digital twins because

918
00:31:06,230 --> 00:31:07,369
they had to simulate

919
00:31:07,990 --> 00:31:10,454
how the chips they designed worked because they're

920
00:31:10,454 --> 00:31:11,755
very expensive to make.

921
00:31:12,134 --> 00:31:13,894
So you don't wanna make a whole bunch

922
00:31:13,894 --> 00:31:16,154
of platters of chips that don't work. Right?

923
00:31:16,855 --> 00:31:19,015
And so early on, they learned to create

924
00:31:19,015 --> 00:31:19,515
simulations,

925
00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:22,075
or digital twins of their microprocessors,

926
00:31:22,615 --> 00:31:23,355
their GPUs,

927
00:31:23,809 --> 00:31:26,230
and other chips so that they could ensure

928
00:31:26,289 --> 00:31:27,190
that they worked

929
00:31:27,809 --> 00:31:29,890
as desired, as designed, as, you know, they

930
00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:31,970
wanted them to work. And it was it

931
00:31:31,970 --> 00:31:33,730
was really awesome to hear that kind of

932
00:31:33,730 --> 00:31:35,490
part of the conversation. I mean, he went

933
00:31:35,490 --> 00:31:37,335
as far as saying, if an engineer tried

934
00:31:37,335 --> 00:31:39,654
to sabotage us by to make the trip

935
00:31:39,654 --> 00:31:41,414
chip not work, we would never produce it

936
00:31:41,414 --> 00:31:43,434
because we would find that in the simulation.

937
00:31:44,295 --> 00:31:45,894
I wouldn't have thrown the gauntlet down to

938
00:31:45,894 --> 00:31:47,654
that one, but in any case, he made

939
00:31:47,654 --> 00:31:48,855
a good point about that. And so it

940
00:31:48,855 --> 00:31:50,474
was a very interesting conversation.

941
00:31:50,855 --> 00:31:52,075
Then he talked about,

942
00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:54,320
he had a conversation here about

943
00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:57,259
how they were looking to model the real

944
00:31:57,259 --> 00:31:59,180
world. They wanted to make their digital twins

945
00:31:59,180 --> 00:32:01,259
better and how they couldn't find they weren't

946
00:32:01,259 --> 00:32:02,960
looking to look and couldn't find a system.

947
00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:04,539
They stumbled upon what,

948
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:05,599
the folks,

949
00:32:06,474 --> 00:32:08,474
Pixar, who makes Toy Story, they stumbled upon

950
00:32:08,474 --> 00:32:09,454
what they used.

951
00:32:09,914 --> 00:32:12,154
Right? And they built on it over time,

952
00:32:12,154 --> 00:32:13,994
and they ended up it's this,

953
00:32:15,434 --> 00:32:15,934
something,

954
00:32:16,315 --> 00:32:17,454
virtual scene,

955
00:32:17,914 --> 00:32:18,414
descriptor,

956
00:32:19,194 --> 00:32:21,799
language, or something. Anyways, long story short,

957
00:32:22,099 --> 00:32:24,279
they ended up developing that more,

958
00:32:24,819 --> 00:32:25,319
and,

959
00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:27,940
they have other partners on it, including Pixar,

960
00:32:27,940 --> 00:32:30,339
but other people from industry as part of

961
00:32:30,339 --> 00:32:32,740
this group that's managing this new spec so

962
00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:34,694
that when you have a digital twin, you

963
00:32:34,694 --> 00:32:36,075
have descriptions for

964
00:32:36,534 --> 00:32:38,714
everything that's part of that digital twin,

965
00:32:39,095 --> 00:32:41,974
including, you know, size, dimension, color, texture, all

966
00:32:41,974 --> 00:32:44,694
that good stuff. And, Schneider announced that the

967
00:32:44,694 --> 00:32:46,454
event in in the session that they had

968
00:32:46,454 --> 00:32:48,009
joined that consortium

969
00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:51,609
around that, that standard. And I cannot remember

970
00:32:51,669 --> 00:32:53,750
right now, but, I just thought that was

971
00:32:53,750 --> 00:32:55,049
very interesting as well.

972
00:32:55,349 --> 00:32:57,690
And, so that was it for day one.

973
00:32:59,190 --> 00:33:01,275
Date so I was beat because, you know,

974
00:33:01,275 --> 00:33:02,555
I matter of fact, they were supposed to

975
00:33:02,555 --> 00:33:04,095
go to dinner with them at 06:30

976
00:33:04,394 --> 00:33:06,154
to a very fancy restaurant, but that was

977
00:33:06,154 --> 00:33:08,154
seven, eight, 09:30 my time. I'm usually in

978
00:33:08,154 --> 00:33:09,434
bed by that time, and I was just

979
00:33:09,434 --> 00:33:11,914
wiped out because of, you know, having gotten

980
00:33:11,914 --> 00:33:14,154
up so early. So I spent the day

981
00:33:14,154 --> 00:33:15,674
two, the morning, and, yeah, I got got

982
00:33:15,674 --> 00:33:17,200
up at, like, 02:30 in the morning. And

983
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,039
I worked, for eight hours on the first

984
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,279
video I was sponsored to do. And then

985
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:23,359
I, did some sessions, hit the show floor,

986
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:24,720
and then I had four more interviews to

987
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,160
do, and then I had another video to

988
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,160
do. So that was my day, the second

989
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,335
day. And so spent that eight hours in

990
00:33:30,335 --> 00:33:32,335
the morning creating that sponsored video because it

991
00:33:32,335 --> 00:33:33,394
was due that day.

992
00:33:33,695 --> 00:33:36,174
And then, I jumped into a session called

993
00:33:36,174 --> 00:33:37,795
Igniting Industrial Competitiveness

994
00:33:38,575 --> 00:33:40,674
with Open Software Defined Automation.

995
00:33:41,230 --> 00:33:42,990
Like, that is a mouthful, but I think

996
00:33:42,990 --> 00:33:45,250
this has more to do with Automation Expert.

997
00:33:45,950 --> 00:33:48,450
And, what they talked about really was,

998
00:33:48,990 --> 00:33:50,210
again, very interesting.

999
00:33:50,829 --> 00:33:54,429
You know, why did Schneider Electric even move

1000
00:33:54,429 --> 00:33:57,224
forward with Automation Expert? Right? So they started

1001
00:33:57,605 --> 00:33:58,585
just shortly

1002
00:33:59,524 --> 00:34:01,544
before, if I understand the timeline,

1003
00:34:01,845 --> 00:34:04,644
I sat down with Louis Arone in 2022.

1004
00:34:04,644 --> 00:34:06,904
I think they probably started around 2020.

1005
00:34:08,244 --> 00:34:09,929
And the whole idea was,

1006
00:34:11,210 --> 00:34:12,889
and I I even asked them at some

1007
00:34:12,889 --> 00:34:14,730
point, and they didn't say anything, not in

1008
00:34:14,730 --> 00:34:16,650
this session, but other people. It almost seems

1009
00:34:16,650 --> 00:34:18,650
like they're competing with code system a little

1010
00:34:18,650 --> 00:34:19,150
bit.

1011
00:34:19,449 --> 00:34:20,269
So this

1012
00:34:20,809 --> 00:34:24,909
their open software defined platform or automation platform,

1013
00:34:25,335 --> 00:34:27,974
you know, basically, it's you program it with

1014
00:34:27,974 --> 00:34:28,954
Automation Expert,

1015
00:34:29,655 --> 00:34:31,914
and you can download it to any any

1016
00:34:32,054 --> 00:34:35,275
device you want, and that supports Automation Expert.

1017
00:34:35,494 --> 00:34:37,335
So there it seems to me like they're

1018
00:34:37,335 --> 00:34:39,815
almost taking the place in this area of

1019
00:34:39,815 --> 00:34:40,315
Codesys.

1020
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,239
But the the reason for this is

1021
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,619
and this, gentleman, Whit from ExxonMobil,

1022
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,739
explained how expensive it is for them to

1023
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,500
upgrade from legacy systems to new systems. Right?

1024
00:34:53,755 --> 00:34:56,014
And so we don't see this a lot

1025
00:34:56,875 --> 00:34:58,795
if your system's only twenty years old because

1026
00:34:58,795 --> 00:35:00,795
most of the 20 old systems can be

1027
00:35:00,795 --> 00:35:03,594
easily migrated into today's system. Right? But if

1028
00:35:03,594 --> 00:35:06,074
you go farther back, right, if we go

1029
00:35:06,074 --> 00:35:08,429
thirty, forty years ago, you know, we all

1030
00:35:08,429 --> 00:35:08,929
know,

1031
00:35:09,230 --> 00:35:11,309
like, on the on probably side, migrating a

1032
00:35:11,309 --> 00:35:12,609
PLC five to ControlLogix,

1033
00:35:13,550 --> 00:35:14,829
there's some work they have to do. You

1034
00:35:14,829 --> 00:35:16,750
know, the import utility will import a lot,

1035
00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:18,190
but there's still a lot of work to

1036
00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:19,630
do, a lot of engineering work. I mean,

1037
00:35:19,630 --> 00:35:20,764
days. Right?

1038
00:35:21,304 --> 00:35:22,204
And so,

1039
00:35:24,264 --> 00:35:26,105
you know, for them, they they don't have

1040
00:35:26,105 --> 00:35:26,764
no downtime.

1041
00:35:27,065 --> 00:35:28,744
So they have to do this, like, systems

1042
00:35:28,744 --> 00:35:31,704
in parallel, and it's crazy. So it it

1043
00:35:31,704 --> 00:35:33,545
can cost them hundreds of millions of dollars

1044
00:35:33,545 --> 00:35:36,389
to make do these migrations, especially large DCS

1045
00:35:36,389 --> 00:35:38,789
systems. And so they they'll they were really

1046
00:35:38,789 --> 00:35:41,769
looking for, you know, open software automation

1047
00:35:42,070 --> 00:35:44,230
or, you know, OPath, or they were looking

1048
00:35:44,230 --> 00:35:47,030
for something that would reduce this. They want

1049
00:35:47,030 --> 00:35:49,934
a common software layer like c plus plus.

1050
00:35:49,934 --> 00:35:50,434
Right?

1051
00:35:50,735 --> 00:35:52,255
And not that they they said that, but

1052
00:35:52,255 --> 00:35:54,255
think about, like, every computer can run programs

1053
00:35:54,255 --> 00:35:56,494
made with c plus plus. Right? So that's

1054
00:35:56,494 --> 00:35:58,255
what they wanted. They wanted the hardware to

1055
00:35:58,255 --> 00:35:59,555
be separate from the software.

1056
00:36:00,175 --> 00:36:02,335
And so Schneider jumped in on this and,

1057
00:36:02,335 --> 00:36:03,954
you know, with automation expert.

1058
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:05,179
And,

1059
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,599
to me, again, very similar to Codesys from

1060
00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:09,980
my viewpoint in many ways

1061
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,359
because, you know, if you have a Codesys

1062
00:36:12,359 --> 00:36:14,679
prep program, you can should be able to

1063
00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:16,280
use it in any Codesys PLC. Right?

1064
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,339
Especially if you're making it into a library.

1065
00:36:19,905 --> 00:36:22,085
I'm assuming that. I'm not a CodeSys expert.

1066
00:36:22,625 --> 00:36:23,684
But in any case,

1067
00:36:24,224 --> 00:36:26,065
you know, that's what their thought was with

1068
00:36:26,065 --> 00:36:27,765
open automation. But, also,

1069
00:36:29,184 --> 00:36:31,585
the thing here is that your programs can

1070
00:36:31,585 --> 00:36:33,184
actually when you have a program, it can

1071
00:36:33,184 --> 00:36:35,285
actually be for multiple devices.

1072
00:36:35,799 --> 00:36:37,639
So you may have one control scheme that

1073
00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:39,880
actually downloads to a controller and to a

1074
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,219
VFD. Right? And some of their VFDs,

1075
00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:44,199
do have a d packs on them. Right?

1076
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:46,299
Or the capabilities have d packs.

1077
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,139
So very interesting.

1078
00:36:48,519 --> 00:36:49,900
I don't think I did it justice.

1079
00:36:50,204 --> 00:36:51,885
I did create a sponsored video on this

1080
00:36:51,885 --> 00:36:54,045
kinda going through what what said because he

1081
00:36:54,045 --> 00:36:56,864
went into detail about how, you know, migrating,

1082
00:36:57,485 --> 00:36:59,485
is so expensive, and that's why they want

1083
00:36:59,565 --> 00:37:01,744
they they love having industrial hardware.

1084
00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:04,319
But just like computers in their in their

1085
00:37:04,319 --> 00:37:06,079
data center, they wanna be able to upgrade

1086
00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:06,579
them

1087
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:08,799
to the best in breed when they want

1088
00:37:08,799 --> 00:37:11,380
and still take forward that software. So

1089
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,139
is this the future?

1090
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,039
I don't know. I don't know. You know,

1091
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:16,799
Apple is still doing great out there with

1092
00:37:16,799 --> 00:37:18,744
its iPhone. It's not part of the Android

1093
00:37:18,744 --> 00:37:19,244
ecosystem.

1094
00:37:20,025 --> 00:37:22,184
Right? So, we see people trying to come

1095
00:37:22,184 --> 00:37:24,505
in and challenge that. Windows phone didn't challenge

1096
00:37:24,505 --> 00:37:27,065
it well, but we're seeing, we're seeing people

1097
00:37:27,065 --> 00:37:29,324
continue to try to challenge that two dominant,

1098
00:37:29,730 --> 00:37:31,329
you know and I actually see them more

1099
00:37:31,329 --> 00:37:33,829
and more Linux on the personal PC side

1100
00:37:34,050 --> 00:37:36,449
because even in gaming, they're getting they're getting

1101
00:37:36,449 --> 00:37:37,250
so good at,

1102
00:37:39,250 --> 00:37:41,329
taking Windows games and running them on Linux

1103
00:37:41,329 --> 00:37:43,625
that, you know, if that trend continues, that's

1104
00:37:43,625 --> 00:37:45,704
gonna put a hurt on Windows as the

1105
00:37:45,704 --> 00:37:47,164
dominant platform in

1106
00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:49,005
in PCs. Right? So

1107
00:37:49,385 --> 00:37:50,445
interesting stuff.

1108
00:37:51,625 --> 00:37:52,605
And with that,

1109
00:37:53,385 --> 00:37:55,804
that was kind of it for the show.

1110
00:37:57,210 --> 00:37:58,989
What do I have content? So

1111
00:37:59,369 --> 00:38:02,349
already, I have the slideshow from the keynote.

1112
00:38:02,889 --> 00:38:05,130
I have two sponsored videos that I've already

1113
00:38:05,130 --> 00:38:08,409
done. I recorded five podcasts. There's another one

1114
00:38:08,409 --> 00:38:10,045
I'm supposed to record at some point, but

1115
00:38:10,045 --> 00:38:11,385
I recorded five already.

1116
00:38:12,244 --> 00:38:14,324
Mahua, I can't wait to get together with

1117
00:38:14,324 --> 00:38:15,924
her and schedule a time to do a,

1118
00:38:16,164 --> 00:38:17,464
an episode on

1119
00:38:18,244 --> 00:38:18,565
the,

1120
00:38:20,005 --> 00:38:20,904
on the AI.

1121
00:38:21,684 --> 00:38:24,449
And then, we got this podcast. I I

1122
00:38:24,449 --> 00:38:26,609
did some other posting, but just a lot

1123
00:38:26,609 --> 00:38:27,909
of content from

1124
00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:30,449
the summit. It was very interesting. I'm glad

1125
00:38:30,449 --> 00:38:32,489
I went. The flight out there and have

1126
00:38:32,609 --> 00:38:34,150
not having coffee, I'll tell you.

1127
00:38:34,690 --> 00:38:36,710
I don't mean to be a crybaby, but

1128
00:38:36,929 --> 00:38:37,909
give me my coffee.

1129
00:38:38,344 --> 00:38:40,105
In any case, I did wanna share that

1130
00:38:40,105 --> 00:38:42,184
with you. Just just my what I did.

1131
00:38:42,184 --> 00:38:43,625
And, look, I traveled most of the day

1132
00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:45,944
Monday and all and all day Thursday. So

1133
00:38:45,944 --> 00:38:47,385
it was two days of a show, but

1134
00:38:47,385 --> 00:38:49,005
four days. So I thank Schneider

1135
00:38:49,464 --> 00:38:51,885
through their different media partners for the sponsorship

1136
00:38:51,944 --> 00:38:52,440
because

1137
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,139
none of that would have been possible.

1138
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:56,679
And we just spent 2 just just just

1139
00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:59,800
the travel expenses alone was was $2. So,

1140
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,420
you know, when you're self employed,

1141
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,319
you have to find a a way to

1142
00:39:03,319 --> 00:39:04,380
cover every expense.

1143
00:39:04,724 --> 00:39:05,224
But,

1144
00:39:06,085 --> 00:39:08,164
I'm hoping you guys enjoyed that. Please check

1145
00:39:08,164 --> 00:39:10,005
out the content. And, again, in the links,

1146
00:39:10,005 --> 00:39:12,244
I'm gonna include links to the show, to

1147
00:39:12,244 --> 00:39:12,905
the keynote.

1148
00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:15,445
To go to the twenty eight thirty to

1149
00:39:15,445 --> 00:39:17,144
see that awesome video on the history.

1150
00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:20,159
I'll include links to the automation blog where

1151
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:21,699
I have all the videos I've done,

1152
00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:24,000
some of my members only, which depending if

1153
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,440
you're on YouTube, you'd go to YouTube and

1154
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,460
see the members only. And then,

1155
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,559
really, I just hope you guys, found this,

1156
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:31,300
interesting.

1157
00:39:32,295 --> 00:39:34,695
I did wanna share what I, my experience

1158
00:39:34,695 --> 00:39:36,394
of being out of that show with you.

1159
00:39:36,454 --> 00:39:38,775
And, with that, I wanna just wish you

1160
00:39:38,775 --> 00:39:40,074
all good health and happiness.

1161
00:39:40,454 --> 00:39:42,155
And until next time, my friends.

1162
00:39:43,574 --> 00:39:44,074
Peace.