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Winner of the 2022, 2023 & 2024 Apex Awards of Excellence for Best Podcast. Join Executive Editor Theresa Houck for Automation Chat, where she talks with industrial automation leaders, executives, and practitioners for their insights about technologies and trends affecting manufacturing and industrial automation professionals. Published by The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine (http://rok.auto/thejournal). We chat about digital transformation, analytics and information management, networks & security, motion control, motor, drivess & electrical systems, workforce challenges, business challenges, robotics, CPG and food & beverage, and more. And get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day.
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Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
In this episode of “Automation Chat," Executive Editor Theresa Houck highlights news in industrial automation and manufacturing. Learn about new research on IT spending growth, enterprise adoption of GenAI, and an increase in both manufacturing jobs and facilities and how companies are dealing with the worker shortage.
You’ll also get news on:
- How the EPA’s Clean Air Act air-monitoring ruling will affect chemical processing companies, and implications of the EPA’s ban on methylene chloride.
- Unilever Ice Cream’s $21 million awarded to reduce carbon emissions.
- How marketing pros plan to protect their social-media brands from deceptive GenAI practices.
- How students and young professionals can win $1,000 from the IEC.
As always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day.
Resources from this episode:
- Download the MIT Technology Review Insights report, “The Great Acceleration: CIO Perspectives on Generative AI.”
- Read results of the “2024 Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute Talent Study.”
- Learn about and enter the IEC U.S. National Committee Don Heirman Award Program.
- To subscribe to our 4 print magazines (Feb., May, July and Oct.), e-mail Anna Hicks at ahicks@endeavorbusinessmedia.com.
- Subscribe to our 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe.
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** Named Best Podcast 2 Consecutive Years! 2022 & 2023 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence.