Talking Industry tackles automation in post-Covid era

Published: 05 October, 2020

DFA Media, the publisher of Drives & Controls and its sister magazines Smart Machines and Factories and Plant & Works Engineering, has announced the second in its Talking Industry series of live, digitally broadcast panel discussions with leading experts from the industrial, automation and manufacturing sectors.

The free-to-attend Webinar – called Increasing Automation in the post-Covid Era – will take place at on Tuesday 13 October, starting at 10am. It will focus on three broad areas:
• Adopting automation and robotics in the UK: barriers and opportunities
• Condition-based Monitoring for Asset Health
• Embedded Security for Trusted Data

The panellists for the event will be:
• Brendan O’Dowd, General Manager, Industrial Automation at Analog Devices
• Mike Wilson, Chief Automation Officer (Technology Strategy), Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
• Susan Scurlock MBE, Founder, Primary Engineer
• Vaibhav Boricha, Director, Vikaso

The Webinar will be chaired by Andy Pye, consultant editor at DFA Media

Each of the three topics will be discussed for about 20 minutes, and will include an interactive Q&A session with input from the viewers. Attendees can tune in for all or part of the broadcast.

For those who are unable to attend the live event, it will be made available afterwards for download from DFA Media’s Web sites.