Webinar Archives

COVID-19 is forcing new policies from social distancing in control rooms to increasing the number of remote workers. Workers in critical infrastructure and manufacturing need access to relevant, actionable, and secure information from these critical industrial environments. Operators and technicians, whether working remotely or in control rooms, need access to real-time data to keep their facilities operating smoothly and avoiding unplanned downtime. Most facilities are already working “close to the bone” in terms of staffing, and even a couple of sick workers can create a scheduling nightmare. End users and owner/operators are scrambling for ways that allow workers secure remote access to critical information from control systems. WIN-911 will overview their offerings for remote alarm & event notifications along with suggested best practices for implementing. 
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We will review how Covid-19 has increased the risks employers face in workers’ compensation, employment practices, and cyber liability and how insurance treats those risks today.

Speaker: Gloria Forbes, ECBM

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As federal and state governments work to stabilize the US economy, Clayton & McKervey will provide an update on the latest developments impacting small to mid-sized businesses.
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Join Jose Rivera and Steve Goldberg as they present the CSIA Awards Ceremony in lieu of the 2020 CSIA Executive Conference. Come celebrate the winners of the 2020 Integrator of the Year, Partner of the Year, Rising Star Award, and Charlie Bergman Award.
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Industrial process control methods are changing daily, especially for remote site integration. FreeWave Technologies invites you to join us for our webinar to understand the challenges in remote site IIoT implementation while focusing on modern edge computing and connectivity based solutions. From SCADA platforms to Cloud services running on the edge, FreeWave offers innovative remote connectivity and edge compute solutions, bringing remote site integration into the modern IIoT age.
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In house projects that provide maximum return on investment and make you more competitive once the economy picks up. Detailed project management, training for new engineers, financial controls, automation software libraries – how to produce these documented systems that will make your systems integration business stronger.

Speakers: Rick Pierro & Bob Patrick
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The world-wide pandemic has disrupted commerce like never before. Entire countries are in lockdown and companies are struggling to understand how to continue business operations when both suppliers and customers are reeling themselves.

What can System Integrators do to assure that their finances will enable them to endure during this extraordinary event?

This presentation will be divided into two main parts: 1) KPIs and what they mean for managing your business in these extraordinary times and 2) financial projections tools you can use to help predict whether you will be in a cash crunch in the near future.

Speakers:

Don Roberts brings almost 40 years of domestic and international systems integration experience to the position of Principal at Exotek LLC. Due to the diversity of his professional experiences and his commitment to the future focus of the industry, Don has become a leader in providing guidance to control systems integrators as they steer their companies through periods of significant growth. In addition to sitting on the board of a number of companies, Don also is responsible for performing business level audits globally to assess companies’ compliance with the CSIA Certification program.

Bryan Powrozek is a manager within Clayton & McKervey’s system integrators team, joining the firm in 2011 after a dozen years working as a mechanical engineer. He uses his background in systems and processes on a regular basis to support the needs of the manufacturing and system integration industry; including project management for Research & Experimentation Tax Credits and accounting services for domestic and international clients. Known for making complex issues easy for clients to understand, Bryan is skilled at anticipating and addressing the needs of business owners during the start-up phase and beyond; allowing them to focus on what they do best.

Michael has been at the helm of iLumen for the past 7 years, a company founded fourteen years ago by a CPA to help companies grow revenue and manage risk by making it easy to turn financial data—from any source, in any format—into actionable insights. For the past 8 years, iLumen has been supplying CSIA with tools to survey and report on the business metrics of CSIA SIs, namely CSIA Pulse, Talent Retention Toolbox, and EZ Stats.

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With news of the programs aimed to navigate the COVID-19 crisis, CSIA members may have questions on the best options available. To help, CSIA is hosting a discussion comparing the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan on Monday, April 6. Clayton & McKervey Shareholder Tim Finerty, CPA will facilitate the conversation and share what we know. Bring your questions and join us then!

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Timothy Finerty (Industrial Automation Team Lead @Clayton & McKervy)
As an owner of the firm, Tim provides high-level tax, accounting and consulting services to business owners of domestic and foreign-owned subsidiaries. He is particularly attuned to the needs of manufacturing, distribution and system integrators industries. Tim has been an advisor since 2001, and collaborates with clients to help reduce their tax burden, make their global expansion seamless, and reduce the amount of time spent on their financial analysis and KPIs by utilizing the firm’s internal and external network of experts.

Bryan Powrozek (Manager, System Integrators @Clayton & McKervey)
Bryan is a manager within the firm’s system integrators team, joining Clayton & McKervey in 2011 after a dozen years working as a mechanical engineer. He uses his background in systems and processes on a regular basis to support the needs of the manufacturing and system integration industry; including project management for Research & Experimentation Tax Credits and accounting services for domestic and international clients. Known for making complex issues easy for clients to understand, Bryan is skilled at anticipating and addressing the needs of business owners during the start-up phase and beyond; allowing them to focus on what they do best.
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In Verne Harnish's book called Scaling Up, he says that "only 4% of US firms ever reach more than $1M, only 0.4% make it to $10M, ... and data indicate that there are similar ratios in other countries." At Exotek, we’ve certainly seen the common challenges that systems integrators face as they scale up their business. In this presentation, we’ll discuss the common barriers as you grow your business and how to overcome them.
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Do you know all the ways integrators can go beyond traditional HMI/SCADA? Find out how you can increase revenue and reduce development costs with modern HMI/SCADA technologies. Join GE to learn how: - Technology, user experience, and data can work together to enhance the value you bring to customers. - New Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools leverage models, speeding configuration, deployment, and maintenance. - Obsolescence presents revenue opportunities for reducing customer risk. - New standards-based capabilities ease connectivity, improve security, and increase efficiency.