User:CHazlewood

Welcome.  My name is Chris Hazlewood and I am working for Mitsubishi Electric, Factory Automation Systems Division in Japan. I am involved in many aspects of factory automation and see it as a goal to help explain complex things in simple ways for the benefit of the widest audience. This is especially relevant today as there is a cross over of technologies happening in manufacturing as the FA (or OT) and IT worlds come together to form Industry 4.0/IIoT inspired solutions. This means that there are two groups who need to work together but do not always share a common lexicon or methodology.  I feel I can help close that gap through greater transparency and common understanding. I hope it is clear that while there is a natural "conflict of interest" from my employment by Mitsubishi Electric, a company deeply involved in factory automation, that in order to spread a common understanding some foundation of knowledge in this specialist field is required to actively contribute to the spread of knowledge. I would encourage my peers from other automation related companies to feel both welcome and free to share ideas through Wikipedia's Talk pages and correct or improve anything I post. I commit to upholding Wikipedia's principles and operational requirements as laid out in the community guidelines.