Software Toolbox: OPC Server, Router, DataHub and more (P248)

Shawn Tierney meets up with Connor Mason of Software Toolbox to learn their company, products, as well as see a demo of their products in action in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For any links related to this episode, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video.

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The Automation Podcast, Episode 248 Show Notes: Special thanks to Software Toolbox for sponsoring this episode so we could release it "ad free!" To learn about Software Toolbox please checkout the below links:

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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Welcome back to the automation podcast. My name is Shawn Tierney with Insights and Automation, and I wanna thank you for tuning back in this week. Now this week on the show, I meet up with Connor Mason from Software Toolbox, who gives us an overview of their product suite, and then he gives us a demo at the end. And even if you're listening, I think you're gonna find the demo interesting because Connor does a great job of talking through what he's doing on the screen. With that said, let's go ahead and jump into this week's episode with Connor Mason from Software Toolbox.

I wanna welcome Connor from Software Toolbox to the show. Connor, it's really exciting to have you. It's just a lot of fun talking to your team as we prepared for this, and, I'm really looking forward to because I just know in your company over the years, you guys have so many great solutions that I really just wanna thank you for coming on the show. And before you jump into talking about products and technologies Yeah. Could you first tell us just a little bit about yourself?

Connor Mason (Guest): Absolutely. Thanks, Shawn, for having us on. Definitely a pleasure to be a part of this environment. So my name is Connor Mason. Again, I'm with Software Toolbox.

We've been around for quite a while. So we'll get into some of that history as well before we get into all the the fun technical things. But, you know, I've worked a lot with the variety of OT and IT projects that are ongoing at this point. I've come up through our support side. It's definitely where we grow a lot of our technical skills.

It's a big portion of our company. We'll get that into that a little more. Currently a technical application consultant lead. So like I said, I I help run our support team, help with these large solutions based projects and consultations, to find what's what's best for you guys out there. There's a lot of different things that in our in our industry is new, exciting.

It's fast paced. Definitely keeps me busy. My background was actually in data analytics. I did not come through engineering, did not come through the automation, trainings at all. So this is a whole new world for me about five years ago, and I've learned a lot, and I really enjoyed it.

So, I really appreciate your time having us on here,

Shawn Tierney (Host): Shawn. Well, I appreciate you coming on. I'm looking forward to what you're gonna show us today. I had a the audience should know I had a little preview of what they were gonna show, so I'm looking forward to it.

Connor Mason (Guest): Awesome. Well, let's jump right into it then. So like I said, we're here at Software Toolbox, kinda have this ongoing logo and and just word map of connect everything, and that's really where we lie. Some people have called us data plumbers in the past. It's all these different connections where you have something, maybe legacy or something new, you need to get into another system.

Well, how do you connect all those different points to it? And, you know, throughout all these projects we worked on, there's always something unique in those different projects. And we try to work in between those unique areas and in between all these different integrations and be