Guest
Richard Beeson
Best Quotes
“You can do dumb things a whole lot faster.”
Richard Beeson on Four Decades of Industrial Data
“I think this is as significant as the introduction of electricity to operations and manufacturing.”
Richard Beeson on Four Decades of Industrial Data
“I think you give AI to OT and you are creating the next version of spreadsheet hell.. It's AI hell.”
Richard Beeson on Four Decades of Industrial Data
“I called the distraught engineer and the process engineer and he's like, why did you delete my PI system? And I'm like, okay, it's Christmas, it's not April Fool's Day.”
Richard Beeson on Four Decades of Industrial Data
“The original AF was designed as a fundamental abstraction to enable model driven analytics.. Most people now think of it as a hierarchical namespace of organizing things and abstracting some of the data.”
Richard Beeson on Four Decades of Industrial Data
Appearances
Podcast Episode · Sep 21, 2026