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E01 Welcome

Welcome to The OT Crowd

Who are we — and why listen?

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Show notes

Jarie and David introduce The OT Crowd — Industrial Automation, Unfiltered. No theme music, no keynote voice. David roasts Jarie on PLC vs DCS before the first sentence is finished.

Run of show

  • Who they are
  • Why this exists — break-room talk vs vendor keynotes
  • The host dynamic — Jarie learns out loud; David’s the OT veteran who’s seen the alarm floods
  • Show format — the E02–E06 mini-series (≤15 min each); full guest episodes from E07
  • Running bit plant: Jarie’s OT vocabulary / setpoint pop quiz
  • OPA series arc tease — why → vision → architecture → O-PAS/OPAF → what’s next
  • What the show will and won’t cover
  • Crowd Reactions intro
  • Outro

Next: E02 — What Is OPA? Part 1 of 5.

  • #welcome
  • #hosts
  • #opa
  • #break-room