Manufacturing Happy Hour · 3 Dec 2024 · 50m
Adam Gluck, CEO and Founder of Copia Automation, explains how his background in software engineering and sociology led him to bring DevOps practices to industrial OT code. He details Copia's evolution from source control to disaster recovery and the development of Copia Copilot, an AI tool designed to solve specific pain points like code documentation and generation for controls engineers. Gluck also discusses the growing venture capital interest in 'reindustrialization,' the strategic choice of New York as a hub for hard tech, and the cultural challenges of selling software to traditional manufacturing enterprises.
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Engineering & simulationCopia Copilot
The AI tool generates natural language descriptions of industrial control code to automatically create documentation, addressing a major pain point for plant-level personnel who maintain code they did not write.
“a natural language description of your code is actually really valuable. So that documentation feature has become like really big. We've seen people like jump into the product and just document things.”
Adam Gluck · Hear it at 21:57
Engineering & simulationCopia Copilot
The AI tool generates baseline ladder logic code for highly repetitive functionality, allowing engineers to render and edit the logic visually in a browser rather than starting from scratch.
“just like saying, let's generate a baseline here. You know, of code and we decide we were going to make everything visual. So like chat GPT or whatever is all, you know, text-based, or like we can render the latter in the browser.”
Adam Gluck · Hear it at 21:57
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