S4x26 keynote: Industrial DevOps for Velocity and Resilience
Industrial environments have long operated as a “Wild West” of PLC code, with binary files, manual check-outs, and no version control. In this S4X26 keynote, Adam Gluck, Founder and CEO of Copia Automation, makes the case for bringing modern practices to the plant floor. Drawing on conversations with thousands of industrial companies, Adam walks through the four fundamental challenges that separate OT from IT and the playbook for overcoming them to achieve real velocity and resilience.
Key Takeaways
- OT is not just IT with ladder logic. Industrial environments have their own physics: decentralized plants, binary code formats, outsourced developers, and operators who sustain code rather than write it. Applying IT DevOps directly does not work.
- DevOps does not hurt resilience, the perception does. The biggest barrier to adoption is the belief that moving faster means breaking things. Done right, Industrial DevOps equally prioritizes speed and reliability.
- 90% of your team are sustainers, not developers. Tools and processes must be designed for the people maintaining code on the plant floor, not just the engineers who originally wrote it.
- You cannot govern what you cannot see. Secure cloud adoption is the bridge from decentralized, bespoke environments to standardized, centralized control across sites.
- The future is Industrial Code Lifecycle Management. Resilience over speed, governance over collaboration, decentralized by design. That is the framework powering the industrial environment of the future.
Ready to bring DevOps velocity and resilience to your industrial operations? Watch Adam Gluck’s full S4X26 keynote and discover how leading manufacturers are transforming the way they manage PLC code.
