People B4 Machines, powered by Eclipse, cuts through the noise—and calls BS on factory automation hype. This isn't your typical tech-first podcast. It's a wake-up call for B2B leaders who are done with buzzwords and ready to lead with a human-first edge. Each episode dives straight into what engineers and plant leaders are actually dealing with on Monday mornings—real problems, real pressures—while also looking 1 to 3 years ahead at the future of factory automation. It's not about eliminatin ...
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Eclipse Automation Podcasts
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Eclipse 4diac™ EN presented by Franz Höpfinger
Franz Höpfinger, Meisterschulen am Ostbahnhof, München, Landmaschinenmechanik
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A podcast by Paessler all about monitoring IT, IoT, OT...and everything in between. Get monitoring deep dives, best practices, industry trends, and more from experts in the monitoring field. Let's get monitoring!
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IEC 61499 Power Up: Feature Freeze Reveals the Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Revolution for Industrial Automation
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IEC 61499 Power Up: Feature Freeze Reveals the Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Revolution for Industrial Automation Source: Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Enters Feature Freeze! Tune in to explore the Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Revolution! After over two years of development and a "tremendous community effort," Eclipse 4diac 3.0 has entered the feature freeze phase, marking a major …
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Top floor to shop floor: Why is it taking so long to connect these floors?
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Send us a text In this episode of People B4 Machines, Amanda Cupido dives into the persistent disconnect between the top floor and the shop floor in factory automation. Joined by Jeff Burnstein, President of the Association for Advancing Automation, they explore strategies for bridging this gap through effective communication, smart automation impl…
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Beyond the numbers: The next wave of industrial evolution
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Send us a text In the debut episode of People B4 Machines, host Amanda Cupido dives into the evolution of Industry 4.0 and the emergence of Industry 5.0 with guest Jeff Winter, a globally recognized thought leader in industrial automation. Together, they explore the shift toward human-centric, sustainable, and resilient industrial models, emphasizi…
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Send us a text In this trailer, get a sneak peek of Season 1 as our guests share a tantalizing glimpse of what’s in store. Don’t miss the first episode featuring Jeff Winter, airing on November 4, 2025. For more bold questions and sharp insights, visit www.peopleb4machines.com. Remember, the future isn’t fully automated—it’s people-powered.…
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Send us a text In this trailer, you'll hear a quick taste of what's to come. First episode airs November 4, 2025. Conversations on the chaos of factory automation, from Monday morning to the very near future. For more bold questions and sharp insights, visit www.peopleb4machines.com. Remember, the future isn’t fully automated—it’s people-powered.…
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Eclipse 4diac: Unpacking Open-Source Industrial Automation and the Power of Application-Centric Design
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The Future of Industrial Control: Decoding IEC 61499
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The Future of Industrial Control: Decoding IEC 61499Source: https://github.com/eclipse-4diac/4diac-documentation/blob/main/src/intro/iec61499.adoc"Dive into the evolving landscape of industrial automation with 'The Future of Industrial Control: Decoding IEC 61499.' In this episode, we break down the foundational IEC 61131-3 standard for PLC program…
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From Pyramid to Plug-and-Play: The Rise of Self-Configurable Industrial Automation
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From Pyramid to Plug-and-Play: The Rise of Self-Configurable Industrial Automation Eclipse Insight: Self-Configurable Automation Systems
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Eclipse 4diac: Revolutionizing Industrial Control with Open-Source Cyber-Physical Systems
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Eclipse 4diac: Revolutionizing Industrial Control with Open-Source Cyber-Physical Systems
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Eclipse 4diac and FORTE: Unlocking Next-Gen Industrial Automation with Open-Source Power
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Simplifying Industrial Control: Your Deep Dive into Eclipse 4diac and IEC 61499
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Working in IT 20 years ago: two IT veterans reminisce
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Doing tech support in people's houses, dealing with smoky workplaces, and finding dead birds in PCs...Greg and Simon look back at their jobs 20 years ago, as well as considering some things that have changed since then. Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TO…
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The story of Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker, and monitoring MQTT
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Roger Light is a Co-founder and Senior Developer at Cedalo, as well as the Lead Developer of Eclipse Mosquitto. He started Mosquitto as a hobby project in 2009, which gained rapid popularity and contributed to the widespread adoption of MQTT as an IoT protocol. Resources and tips for monitoring MQTT: Description of MQTT and more: What is MQTT? Deep…
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Automating a trace heating system with monitoring data
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Simon Bell needed a way to automate turning his trace heating system on and off. He was already collecting weather data with his Davis Weather Station, and so he decided to use this as a trigger for the trace heating. His solution? When the temperature drops below a certain threshold, his monitoring tool sends a notification to a smart plug to turn…
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How to use DICOM and HL7 to monitor medical infrastructure
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Steve Guthman has been working in medical IT for decades. He joins us to discuss recent trends in healthcare IT (such as 3D imaging and AI), and then he explains what DICOM and HL7 are. These two medical industry standards can be leveraged to monitor healthcare infrastructure, specifically the modalities (imaging devices) and the systems around the…
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Airport infrastructure - what happens behind the scenes
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Chances are, when you are in an airport, you don't give much thought to what's going on behind the scenes. But there are a lot of systems and interfaces involved in getting you from your arrival at the airport to boarding your flight. There is passenger check-in, baggage drop-off, flight info displays, physical security devices, and much more. And …
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Monitoring school infrastructure: connectivity, bandwidth and content filtering
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In this episode, Jeremy Cioara and Erik Pope of Veeya join me to discuss how monitoring helps them provide technology services to chartered schools. Modern schools are highly connected and digitized. Students are "walking devices" (as Jeremy puts it) and the school itself has dozens of connected devices. This brings with it the need to manage the i…
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Greg Sheridan and Glen Anderson have implemented a solar power system a their home lab in Sydney, Australia. Their system includes 400W solar panels with microinverters (which essentially lets them monitor each panel separately) and a Tesla Powerwall. But what metrics are they monitoring? Greig and Glen differentiate between health status metrics, …
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Typical healthcare IT infrastructure has classic IT elements - routers, switches, firewalls, printers, and so on - as well as healthcare devices and systems. And if the infrastructure is large, there is even more complexity: not only are you dealing with disparate systems and devices, but also a lot of them. And that complexity is even more compoun…
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Daren Fulwell of IP Fabric joins Simon Bell and Shaun Behrens of Paessler to talk about network automation. They cover what the perception of network automation is for IT administrators, their own perception of it, and how to approach it. Some tips that came out of the discussion for dealing with network automation: Start with individual tasks Focu…
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To understand how wastewater treatment plants are monitored, it first helps to understand the processes behind how water is treated. David Montoya, our monitoring expert in this episode, takes us through the different phases that water goes through in a treatment plant, which include filtering, clarifying (such as with ozone or bacteria), and disin…
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Greg Campion is the monitoring expert who joins Shaun to discuss observability in this episode. According to Greg, observability is observing a system in the sense that you take in as much of it as you can, without necessarily looking at something specific. For him, it's about the ability to observe things from a much wider perspective. Here's what…
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Shaun drops in to briefly introduce The Monitoring Experts podcast by Paessler. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes in your feed every second Wednesday. In each episode, your host Shaun will be joined by a monitoring expert who will discuss different aspects of monitoring IT, OT and IIoT. Just as an example: the first episode wil…
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