August 21, 2024
2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 hour
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Summary
As industry shifts towards more intelligent, better connected, and more flexible industrial I/O systems, operators are continuing to search for innovations that drive efficiency, reliability, security and sustainability in industrial operations.
Of course, it all starts with good data, and our panel of experts discusses how operators can better leverage today’s I/O systems to not only gather useful data, but also how they better analyze it for your operations. They’ll discuss the benefits and challenges of advanced data analytics including I/O hardware, cloud data, cybersecurity protections, and emerging networking capabilities such as Ethernet APL. In addition, they’ll discuss how I/O systems can better work with artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Speakers
Jesse Hill | Process Industry Manager | Beckhoff USA
Jesse Hill is the Process Industry Manager for Beckhoff USA. Based at the Beckhoff Process Industry Technical Center in Houston, Hill works with multinational process industry customers throughout the U.S., overseeing sales and market share development in segments such as oil & gas, petrochem, hydrogen, water/wastewater, food processing and more. Hill is dedicated to solving diverse industry challenges with transformative automation, safety and digitalization solutions from Beckhoff.
Hill has nearly 20 years of experience with process automation technologies from a variety of industry management and sales roles over his career at Beckhoff, Bedrock Automation, Turck, WAGO and Pepperl+Fuchs, among other positions. Hill is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in Information & Operations Management, Business.
Azad Jafari | I/O Product Manager | Beckhoff USA
Azad Jafari is the I/O Product Manager for Beckhoff USA. Based at Beckhoff’s Silicon Valley Technical Center in San Jose, Jafari manages the company’s I/O systems, EtherCAT and other industrial networking solutions across the U.S. In addition to extensive knowledge on advanced automation solutions, Jafari has accumulated considerable expertise over the decades in business development and industry management.
He has over 30 years of automation industry experience from serving in a variety of key technical roles at Beckhoff, Siemens and EandM, an automation distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jafari graduated with a Master of Engineering (Electrical Engineering and Control Systems) from the University of Applied Sciences in Hagen, Germany.
Moderator/Host:
Len Vermillion
Editor in Chief
Control & ControlGlobal.com
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