Episode 7 - How Inductive Automation has enabled industry disruption and created innovation

The automation industry is a slow-moving machine. It’s encumbered not only with complex, specialized processes and long-life legacy equipment, but also the lasting effects of automation vendors focused on closed systems and vendor lock in. Taken together, it’s created a landscape primed for disruption. That state has been further exposed by IT/OT convergence and digital transformation. In today’s episode, I talk with Inductive Automation’s Travis Cox about the state of the industry, how Inductive Automation approach has enabled industry disruption, and forward looking trends on where the IA community is creating innovation.