Episode 12: Electric Vehicle Revolution
Kenny and Carrie get the latest industry scoop on the navigation from traditional gasoline engines to EV in the automotive market from Strategic Account Manager Bryan Monty and our Senior Director of ...
About Our Guests
Jeff Hall
Senior Director of Technology and Strategic Sales
Jeff Hall is the senior director of technology and strategic sales at Omron Automation Americas. He is responsible for strategy development, execution and global alignment for all technology and strategic sales efforts within the Americas region. He took on this role in April 2021 after spending several years managing the automotive, food and commodity, semiconductor/digital, infrastructure and logistics, and life sciences vertical markets as executive director of strategic sales. Prior to joining Omron in 2018, Hall was the director of automotive and turnkey solutions for Siemens USA. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing all development, marketing and sales for the automotive vertical within the Digital Factory division of Siemens in the United States. Hall joined Siemens in 2012 as the US account manager for Ford Motor Company.
Bryan Monty
Strategic Account Manager-Automotive
Before joining Omron in 2014, automotive Strategic Account Manager Bryan Monty spent 15 years in automation. He previously represented Rockwell, Siemens and Omron. Monty is from the Detroit area and grew up in a family business in the automotive paint industry where he gained controls experience as a machine tool electrician.
Recent Episodes
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Episode 11: The Factory of the Future
Mike Chen, Sr. Director of Solutions & Technology Development, joins hosts Carrie Lee and Kenny Heidel to talk about the evolution of factories with advanced production capabilities and other new tech...
Episode 10: IO What? IO-Link!
Special guest Mike Hamoy joins the podcast to talk about all things IO-Link -- the first standardized IO technology worldwide for communication with sensors and other machine devices on the ever-chang...
Episode 9: Shedding some light on machine safeguarding
Join hosts Carrie Lee and Kenny Heidel to understand where it is beneficial to use certain types of machine safeguarding and the evolution of new machine safeguarding solutions.
Episode 8: Where have all the maintenance people gone?
Join Carrie Lee and Kenny Heidel while they discuss the industry challenge of an aging and retiring skilled workforce and how Omron can support this transition.
Episode 7: 'Into the Unknown'
Are people “webinar-ed out” and itching to go back to in-person events? Or will we keep some of the virtual interactions we’ve been perfecting for the past year and a half? Join Carrie Lee, Kenny Heid...
Episode 6 : 'Making sense of IIoT's alphabet soup'
Join Carrie Lee, product manager for controllers, and Kenny Heidel, product manager for safety light curtains, in their inaugural podcast. In this episode, Kenny and Carrie help us better define commo...
Episode 5: 'We Can Integrate Safety if We Want To'
What’s integrated safety, and how does it improve system validation and troubleshooting? Join Carrie Lee, Kenny Heidel, and special guest Pamela Horbacovsky (Product Manager – Safety Controllers and C...
Episode 4: 'Air Supply Chain'
It seems 'Global Supply Chain Challenges' are a daily topic these days, across industries. Join Carrie and Kenny as they talk with Omron's experts Juli Harvey, director of supply chain for Omron Autom...
Episode 3: 'She's Got the Whole World in Her Hands'
What’s around the corner in packaging? Hear it from the experts in this podcast featuring Omron Global Account Manager Terry Kiesling, who discusses the challenges of deplasticking, eCommerce, and why...
Episode 2: 'Back to the Future of Predictive Maintenance'
Join Carrie Lee and Kenny Heidel to learn from special guest Justin Lantin, who is a former Omron product manager for components, about how customers can migrate to a predictive maintenance model with...
Episode 1: 'Veep Talks'
An interview with Omron Automation Americas Vice President of Marketing, Mark Sadie. Mark shares some perspectives and lessons learned during his long career at Omron. We discuss work force changes, t...