Bill Lydon

Bill Lydon, Digital Manufacturing Transformation Consultant LinkedIn Profile linkedin.com/in/blydon Bill has deep controls & automation experience designing and leveraging technology controls & automation in nonresidential buildings, industrial manufacturing, and process industry applications. He spent a number of years at Johnson Controls (JCI) in Building Automation in roles including application engineer, design, skunk works designing the JC/85, and Building Automation Product Manager. Subsequently Bill was primarily involved in industrial & process manufacturing including co-founder and president of an industrial control software company, industrial applications, and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). In 2003 he became an independent consultant and in addition was editor in chief of the International Society of Automation publications Automation.com and InTech Magazine. In July 2023 he retired from editor roles with the title of Editor Emeritus and continues to write the Automation.com annual Annual Industrial Automation & Control Trends Report. Bill focuses on consulting in the automation industry working on projects and advising companies on strategy, applications, and technology to achieve Digital Transformation. Bill Lydon www.wlydon.com