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Whitepaper: IT-OT convergence successes and failures

As part of our special focus this summer, which has included not one but two episodes of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Smart Industry offers this special e-handbook on IT and OT convergence and what's worked and what hasn't.
June 25, 2026
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Smart Industry has a lot on tap this summer when it comes to IT and OT convergence, and we add this whitepaper to the mix of special coverage.

Part of this coverage was a special episode in June of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, during which Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl spoke with two SMEs, Scott Woodward and Trentyn Beekman of Lincoln, Nebraska-based Huffman Engineering, about the challenges and opportunities of OT/IT convergence in industrial environments.

And we've got two more on deck for another Great Question episode, scheduled for a July 7 premiere: West Chester, Ohio-based E Tech Group's Nick Hasselbeck, the company’s VP of IT, and Matt Martin, the industrial automation and engineering firm’s principal engineer.

Hasselbeck and Martin will talk about how your AI strategy might be built on a blind spot and more, how legacy OT systems and lack of network visibility are quietly undermining digital transformation.

So tune in to the two informative Great Question episodes and please enjoy this special whitepaper, available for download if you're a member and brought to you by Smart Industry.