Welcome to The OT Crowd

Show notes

Jarie, David, and Andrew 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 — Jarie produces and asks the questions you’re thinking; David and Andrew co-host
• Why this exists — break-room talk vs vendor keynotes
• The host dynamic — Jarie learns out loud; David’s seen the alarm floods; Andrew’s the TWG / I/O vendor angle (spec plus shipping product)
• 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.