The show
Open architecture is the foundation. When control, data, and lifecycle work together across vendors and standards, modernization stops being a rip-and-replace bet.
The OT Crowd — Industrial Automation, Unfiltered. Jarie asks the questions you're thinking; David and Andrew tell you what's really going on. Each week: operators, integrators, ecosystem partners, and standards people — open control, O-PAS, OT/IT convergence, real plant-floor problems, and the marketing and storytelling behind how this industry sells itself. No hype. No brochure. Break room honesty worth your commute.
Seasoned integrator, OT leader picking your next platform, or just exploring what's possible — pull up a chair.
Producer
The one learning industrial automation in public. Jarie produces the show and asks the "dumb" questions so controls engineers, managers, and IT-adjacent listeners don't have to feel dumb. He keeps episodes moving and reacts honestly — no performing the deepest OT expertise in the room, just genuine "wait, explain that."
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Co-host
The OT veteran. David's seen the field cycles, the vendor lock-in, and the migration that almost went sideways. He explains without lecturing and demos when the topic needs showing, not telling. Pushes back on hype — respectfully, with stories.
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Co-host
The spec and the I/O vendor side. Andrew co-chaired the Open Process Automation Forum Technical Working Group, so he's seen how O-PAS actually gets written — and argued over. He also came up at an I/O vendor, so he knows what it takes to ship product into an open stack, not just specify it. Explains both without the brochure.
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Plant automation leaders and operators — the practitioners running it for real.
The SIs doing the modernization work, from platform specialists to shops modernizing the floor.
Connectivity, components, and the vendors who make the open stack actually connect.
Standards voices and analysts who see the whole board.
The people selling and explaining this industry — on the real struggles of marketing in automation. Because the stories we tell matter.
One-liner
The OT Crowd shows what open automation makes possible — break room honest, not a release notes read.
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