Webinars
To the Forgotten Automation Engineers: It's Time for Industrial DevOps
Originally Recorded November 14, 2024 | 1 PM - 2 PM ET
ABOUT THIS WEBINAR
It’s not a secret! While modern cloud and application development tools have taken hold across IT, industrial control systems have grown fragmented and outdated. The majority of today’s skilled automation engineers are rapidly approaching retirement age, and qualified technicians are becoming harder and harder to find.
To attract young, digital-native talent, manufacturers must appeal to them with IT-like DevOps tools like the ones they grew up with. Enter Industrial DevOps for operational technology (OT).
Attend this session to learn how manufacturers can apply cloud principles and IT best practices for development and operations to industrial automation and understand how end-to-end Industrial DevOps, such as code version control, browser-based engineering, automated backup, secure remote access, AI-generated code documentation, and advanced OT security for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), robots, and drives, can help you recruit and retain a new generation of automation engineers.
Key Takeaways:
- Why it's time to rethink the PLC engineering process
- How implementing DevOps methodology can significantly improve automation software development efficiencies, save lifecycle costs, and enable your automation engineers to focus on projects that matter
- What manufacturers can do to centralize code repositories, enable remote collaboration, enforce enterprise and regulatory standards, and streamline testing and deployment
Exclusive Sponsor
Founded by manufacturing, industrial software, and cloud experts, SDA envisions a future where PLC management and development is simple, secure, and efficient, so that factories can increase uptime, reduce mean time to recover, and maximize the productivity of their assets. The company is headquartered in Boston with offices in Munich, Germany. For more information, visit www.softwaredefinedautomation.io.
Leo Kilfoy, Vice President, Product, Software Defined Automation
Leo Kilfoy joined Software Defined Automation (SDA) in January 2024 with 35+ years of software, engineering, manufacturing, and global business leadership. As their VP of product, Leo helps guide SDA’s comprehensive manufacturing software portfolio, which includes advanced code version control, browser-based engineering, secure remote access, automated backup, and AI-generated code documentation for industrial PLCs and devices along with virtual PLC management.Throughout his career, Leo has occupied numerous executive positions in engineering and product management. Before joining SDA, he led teams at Rockwell Automation, focusing on cloud-based manufacturing design, digital engineering, and device management. Prior to Rockwell, he spearheaded a product management SaaS team at Hexagon, where he developed strategies and a suite of products for web, mobile, and cloud-based Industry 4.0 solutions.
Leo holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach.
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