Best Industrial Automation Podcasts for Practitioners

The best industrial automation podcasts depend on the work in front of you. Talking Industrial Automation covers integrators and suppliers, along with manufacturers and end users. Manufacturing Hub goes deep on controls and plant technology. The Automation Podcast tracks products and vendors, while The Robot Industry Podcast focuses on robotics. Automation Ladies adds career and personal experience to technical coverage. Ignited serves the Ignition ecosystem. Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered starts with practical questions from manufacturers.

Choose an industrial automation podcast by the problem you own

A controls engineer researching SCADA architecture needs a different queue from a plant leader weighing an automation project. A robotics supplier may want sensor and deployment discussions. An Ignition integrator needs material tied to that platform and its ecosystem. Broad labels hide those differences.

This shortlist uses official show pages and publisher-controlled feeds. Each source was checked for editorial scope and interview format, along with recent production. Popularity claims and audience estimates were left out because the reviewed publishers did not provide comparable evidence for them.

The Convokast podcast directory can widen the search beyond this group. Its show records are discovery leads. The current publisher page or feed should decide the final label for scope and activity, along with access.

Talking Industrial Automation connects technology with the people using it

Talking Industrial Automation is produced by the Control System Integrators Association. Its official feed describes a show about the people behind modern manufacturing and processing. Technology and trends appear alongside operating challenges through conversations with executives and practitioners.

This is the broadest integration-oriented choice here. A system integrator can hear how another firm approaches a manufacturing problem. An end user can learn how suppliers and integrators frame implementation. Vendors can follow the issues their customers and delivery partners are discussing.

The breadth requires selective listening. An episode about an executive's path through the sector serves a different purpose from a technical conversation about solving a plant problem. Read the episode description and choose by the decision or role it addresses.

The official sources confirm current interviews. They do not publish an open guest application. The show page lists a sponsorship contact, and that commercial purpose should not be relabeled as editorial permission.

Manufacturing Hub puts controls work inside the plant context

The Manufacturing Hub official feed covers manufacturing news and opportunities, along with insights and technology, with automation named directly in its remit. Vlad Romanov and Dave Griffith host practitioner interviews and technical conversations, along with occasional discussions without an outside guest.

Its subject mix includes PLCs and SCADA, along with systems integration and industrial data. It also includes ISA-95 and digital twins. That combination suits people who need to connect a controls choice with operations. A protocol or platform matters because it affects maintenance and ownership, along with information flow and production decisions.

Manufacturing Hub also offers a clearly bounded access signal. An official episode page from January 2025 invited suggestions for future topics and guest recommendations, then linked to the hosts and show on LinkedIn. That is a recommendation path rather than a self-application. The date belongs with the claim because the feed is current while the latest explicit invitation located is older.

The Automation Podcast follows industrial products and technologies

The Automation Podcast mixes interviews and product discussions, along with demonstrations and host updates. Recent conversations in its official feed include representatives from automation suppliers, which makes the show useful for listeners tracking product categories and vendor approaches.

Choose it when the subject depends on what a product does and where a technology fits. It can also show how a supplier explains a technical change. The mixed format also means that a company name in the archive does not guarantee a conventional independent interview. Check whether an episode is a discussion or demonstration, feature or host update.

The producer publishes a route for becoming a guest or sponsoring an episode, but its contact page is headed around sponsorship and lists industry interviews among marketing services. Treat this as a commercial vendor-interview path. It does not establish a free earned-editorial application.

The Robot Industry Podcast focuses on robotics and advanced manufacturing

The Robot Industry Podcast covers automation and robotics, along with manufacturing and innovation. It also covers advanced-manufacturing technology. The official feed identifies a partnership with the Association for Advancing Automation. Host Jim Beretta interviews specialists and executives about subjects such as industrial sensors and supply-chain robotics, along with physical AI and test systems. Manufacturing analytics also appears.

This is the clearest choice when robotics is central rather than one part of a wider controls discussion. The archive can help an integrator compare enabling technologies around a robot deployment. It can also help product teams hear how adjacent specialists describe sensing and software, along with testing and data.

The site provides general contact and newsletter options. Neither one grants permission to send an unsolicited guest proposal. The reviewed site and feed confirm interviews without publishing an application or nomination process, or a recommendation process.

Automation Ladies joins technical practice with career experience

Automation Ladies covers PLCs and HMIs, along with SCADA and IIoT. Its scope includes machine vision and robotics, along with pneumatics and control systems. It also covers process automation and factory automation, plus systems integration. Its stated format also makes room for careers and personal journeys. The hosts use a conversational, narrative approach with people from across industrial automation.

That editorial range gives practitioners two ways into the archive. They can choose an episode for its technical subject or for the experience of building a career and doing the work. The second route can expose the judgment and relationships, along with the setbacks that a narrowly technical summary leaves out.

Automation Ladies publishes both an intake and a nomination option, but those paths need accurate labels. The intake asks who invited the prospective guest, so public availability does not amount to a booking promise or proof that every cold submission is eligible. The separate contact form includes "Suggest a Guest" and requests the nominee's background and fit. Sponsorship remains a separate category.

Ignited serves the Ignition ecosystem

Ignited: Striking Industrial Automation Conversations is produced by Inductive Automation. Its official description centers on Ignition and open standards, along with modern architectures and enterprise integration. It also covers industrial applications. Hosts Travis Cox and Thomas Burke interview end users and system integrators, along with ecosystem partners and industry specialists.

The defined ecosystem is useful for listeners already working with Ignition or comparing architecture choices that intersect with it. Episodes can connect platform capability with deployment experience across industries. The focus also creates a firm fit boundary. A general automation story has little reason to appear unless it helps that ecosystem understand an application and architecture, or a standard and integration decision.

The feed confirms a current interview format. It does not publish a guest application or nomination route, or a recommendation route. Vendor ownership and a guest archive should not be stretched into permission for unrelated pitches.

Automation World starts with end-user questions

Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered builds focused episodes around questions submitted by end users in discrete and process manufacturing. A host connects the question with a supplier or specialist who can address the technical or operating issue. Some episodes carry an explicit sponsorship label.

This format works well when you have a narrow question about implementation and maintenance, or equipment and process. It is less suited to browsing for broad personal stories. The question gives each episode its job, while the expert supplies the explanation.

Question submission and expert selection are separate processes. The official sources invite end-user questions but do not say experts may apply to answer them. The publisher's general contact page also lacks a guest instruction. No self-application or nomination route was verified.

Build a queue around a live automation decision

Start with the work. Manufacturing Hub fits controls and plant-system questions. Talking Industrial Automation offers a wider integration and industry view. The Robot Industry Podcast narrows the lens to robotics, while Ignited narrows it to the Ignition ecosystem. The Automation Podcast helps with product and vendor research. Automation Ladies adds career and personal context. Automation World is strongest when a focused end-user question drives the search.

The audience overlap guide helps compare a show's actual editorial audience with the people who own your subject. If you are considering an appearance rather than building a listening queue, the guide to podcast guesting for manufacturing and industrial leaders covers plant and customer boundaries, along with safety and security boundaries.

When your approved topic is ready, build a concise guest one-sheet with Convokast for the premise and direct experience, along with public evidence and recording details.