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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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  • The Big Maintenance Dilemma: In-House vs. Outsourcing

    The Big Maintenance Dilemma: In-House vs. Outsourcing

    Determining whether to use in-house staff to perform maintenance or to outsource to a contractor is a source of continual headaches for many a company. The decision-making process will come down to three approaches to maintenance management
    By: Bill Lydon
    10 October, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Automation Controllers & Word Processors Embrace the Technological Shift or Die

    The foundations of the automation industry are being reshaped right now from the torrent of ideas driven by Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Given today’s trends, are industrial automation controllers headed down a path to extinction?
    By: Bill Lydon
    19 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Cybersecurity: Where Does the Reasoning Begin?

    Cybersecurity: Where Does the Reasoning Begin?

    Usually during cybersecurity presentations, the speakers talk about serious consequences of cyber security and then overwhelm people, who are not familiar with the topic, with deep levels of details and intricacies. This one answers a simple question: Where does the reasoning begin?
    By: Bill Lydon
    22 July, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • ISA Members Develop Key Standards That Advance the Industrial Automation Industry

    ISA Members Develop Key Standards That Advance the Industrial Automation Industry

    ISA members develop standards in everything from cybersecurity to process safety to interfaces between industrial process control computers and subsystems
    By: Bill Lydon
    22 June, 2016 | 2 minutes
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