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Bill Lydon

Bill Lydon, an experienced industrial automation technical and business professional, is currently a consultant providing insights, facilitating thinking and coaching for digital manufacturing transformation. Lydon has 35 years of experience, including industrial, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), process control/DCS, electrical power/utility and building automation with technology and business experience ranging from design, application engineering, corporate experience, co-founder & president of a start-up company. He started his career as a designer of computer-based machine tool controls; in other positions, he applied programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and process control technology. He's trained and experienced as a group Creative Problem Solving & Value Engineering facilitator.

Working at a large company, Lydon served a two-year stint as part of a five-person task group, that designed a new generation automation system including controllers, networking and supervisory and control software. He also designed software for chiller and boiler plant optimization. Bill was the product manager for a multimillion-dollar controls and automation product line and later cofounder and president of an industrial control software company with solutions for factory and process control and automation.

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  • John Deere Digitalization & Automation Increases Farming Productivity

    John Deere Digitalization & Automation Increases Farming Productivity

    In addition to automation in factories, John Deere has applied a wide range of technologies to the difficult task of automating farming. Leading edge technologies and Industry 4.0 concepts are incorporated in John Deere’s new products, increasing productivity enabling farmers to produce more to feed a growing global population.
    By: Bill Lydon
    15 February, 2021 | 3 minutes
  • Moderna Builds Native Digital Process Automation on Amazon Web Services

    Moderna Builds Native Digital Process Automation on Amazon Web Services

    Moderna’s award-winning cGMP clinical development manufacturing facility—based in Norwood, Mass.—has a native digital process automation design built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It serves as a great example of the integration of an entire manufacturing business using the latest technological building blocks, architecture and IoT ecosystem.
    By: Bill Lydon
    09 February, 2021 | 3 minutes
  • 26 Automation Trailblazers Who Changed the World

    26 Automation Trailblazers Who Changed the World

    The International Society of Automation (ISA) explores the lives and careers of some of those who have made the biggest impact on the world of automation.
    By: Bill Lydon
    22 January, 2021 | 11 minutes
  • Amazon Industrial Digitalization Platform

    Amazon Industrial Digitalization Platform

    Discrete and process manufacturers constantly struggle to create integrated manufacturing systems using disparate automation systems within a facility. Amazon Web Services now provides a flexible and open solution for achieving effective holistic operations, from sensor to enterprise.
    By: Bill Lydon
    06 January, 2021 | 6 minutes
  • OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) Enables Integrated Manufacturing Business

    OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) Enables Integrated Manufacturing Business

    The OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) initiative revolutionizes industrial communications to achieve integrated manufacturing business operations from sensor to enterprise and cloud.
    By: Bill Lydon
    04 January, 2021 | 5 minutes
  • Automation Fair at Home 2020: Rockwell Automation Evolution

    Automation Fair at Home 2020: Rockwell Automation Evolution

    The annual Rockwell Automation conference, Automation Fair at Home 2020, included a range of presentations highlighting the company’s Lifecycle Services, support of IT/OT integration and digitalization offerings with partners including Accenture and PTC.
    By: Bill Lydon
    11 December, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • ODVA Discusses New Principal Member, Cybersecurity, 2021 Directions

    ODVA Discusses New Principal Member, Cybersecurity, 2021 Directions

    ODVA’s briefing included naming HARTING a new principal member, details on CIP Security enhancements for EtherNet/IP that enable user-level authentication, and the standard organization’s strategic priorities for 2021.
    By: Bill Lydon
    10 December, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • SPE Pioneer Summit 2020: Revolutionizing Industrial Automation at the Edge

    SPE Pioneer Summit 2020: Revolutionizing Industrial Automation at the Edge

    Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) and Advanced Physical Layer (APL) are building blocks for a dramatically new manufacturing and process automation digitalization architecture.
    By: Bill Lydon
    02 December, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Schneider Electric Climate Change & Sustainability Commitment: Innovation Summit World Tour 2020

    Schneider Electric Climate Change & Sustainability Commitment: Innovation Summit World Tour 2020

    Attending the Schneider Electric Executive Briefing as part of the Innovation Summit World Tour 2020 provided insight into the company’s leadership values, thinking and direction from Chairman and CEO Jean Pascal Tricoire; Philippe Delorme, executive vice-president, energy management; Peter Herweck, executive vice-president, industry automation; and Chris Leong, chief marketing officer.
    By: Bill Lydon
    06 November, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • Industrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event

    Industrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event

    The PAS OptICS 2020 virtual event explored the key operational and cybersecurity challenges facing industrial organizations as well as best practices and strategies to address them.
    By: Bill Lydon
    05 November, 2020 | 6 minutes
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