Digital transformation is everywhere — but what does it really mean for manufacturers? In this episode of Ctrl+Alt+Mfg, hosts Gary Cohen and Stephanie Neil sit down with Alicia Lomas, founder of Lomas Manufacturing, to talk about the practical side of Industry 4.0. From connecting data and building smarter control rooms to bridging IT and OT teams, Alicia explains how real transformation starts with context, collaboration, and curiosity.

Learn how AI fits into today’s factories, why “context is king,” and what it takes to make digital transformation actually work.

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• (00:00:00) - resetting and rethinking manufacturing
• (00:01:48) - AI's Future of the Control Room
• (00:06:06) - Controls Engineers: The Right Time for Digital Transformation
• (00:08:50) - Controls Engineers: The Digital Transformation Challenge
• (00:14:06) - I Sneaked In a Historian or Data Logging
• (00:16:19) - What Does Digital Transformation Mean to the Plant Floor?
• (00:20:06) - Control & IT: The Unified namespace
• (00:26:38) - What is the first thing that you would have done differently on a
• (00:29:02) - Getting out there in the controls world
• (00:30:57) - Alicia on Being a Leader in Manufacturing
• (00:36:30) - Lomas Manufacturing Consulting