Automation Ladies

Automation Ladies is a podcast and live show diving into the personal stories and tech behind the industrial automation industry. Listen on Spotify and join our LinkedIn Lives! About your hosts: Ali G was born in Mexico. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Before starting her own engineering company she spent 10 years in engineering. She started in process engineering and then transitioned to controls. She was part of a greenfield build early in her career and learned how procurement works. She eventually went on to run a UL508a panel shop and spent years traveling the US starting up burner and gas train control applications. Today she provides controls engineering services across the US through her company Process and Controls Engineering LLC. She also Founded the 501c3 Non Profit Kids PLC Kits to expose the younger generations to real industrial controls. Nikki Gonzales was born in Iceland After graduating from the University of Texas she started her career as a sales engineer in machine vision and mechatronics where she spent 10 years in the field implementing and supporting automation solutions in a variety of industries. She then transitioned to the design side of engineering with multi-physics simulation for virtual prototyping, and later jumped into the world of tech startups applying big data and AI to the supply chain chain for accurate forecasting and inventory optimization. Today she is Head of Partnerships at Quotebeam a software company providing modern ecommerce to industrial automation distributors. She also serves as a member of the board of directors at PCE. Courtney Fernandez is an occasional co-host. We need to ask her for a bio to put on this page :) Thank you to our sponsors Clarify, Siemens, Tractian, ePLAN, Software Defined Automation, Quotebeam, PCE LLC, Mavens of Manufacturing, Banner, Rockwell Automation, Opto22, Inductive Automation, and many others!