Automation Tech Talk
Building Systems with CompactLogix vs Micro800s: Automation Tech Talk for August 15, 2025
Shawn Tierney (Host): Giovanni, thank you for coming on the show. I really appreciate you coming on. I know we’ve talked a lot about ControlLogix and CompactLogix over the months and years, But I recently saw you did a project, and I know your company and you guys do a lot of different projects. But I noticed you recently did a project on the micro eight hundreds. And I wanted to ask you, well, just a bunch of questions.
It just really got me curious. So if you don’t mind, I would like to start off with why you chose the micro 800. And I just for so everybody knows, I teach both Logix, you know, Compact Control Logix micro 800. You know, I teach other brands as well. And, you know, I like them all.
But I a lot of times people who use Logix never use the micro 100. So this really piqued my interest. So I wanted to start, asking you and, really, before we get to that, tell us a little bit about what you do. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Sure. Well, first thing, thanks a lot, Shawn, for, having me here. It’s, it’s an honor to be on your podcast. Yeah. So I am a systems integrator, essentially.
A, I’m a business owner here in California. And so we do a lot of, bakery automation, but we just dug into the, foam molding industry with this project. So that one was very cool. Yeah. You know, I know that’s pretty much all we do as far as our typical projects, you know, logic stuff.
But we pretty much had to ask the customer what was their budget.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And, you know, I have used the micro eight hundreds at home. And I know they were very, you know, versatile as far as what you can do with them. So and the cost was awesome. You know? The Yeah.
Very justifies the cost for the customer and whatnot. And so we sat down with the customer, and we were like, hey. Like, what are you guys expecting with this project? What are you expecting it to do? What do you wanna see on, like, a screen?
What is it that you guys want? And the application was very simple. It’s a hydraulic press, essentially, that was, automated with a MicroLogix 1,100. But
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): The entire program wiped out, and the person that programmed it was long gone and actually passed away many, many years ago. Ugh. The there was no records or anything that we can pretty much use for, essentially, just to get kinda, like, a picture of what was going on.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So, thankfully, the process was very basic.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And so, you know, the customer was a little bit on a tighter budget, and so we couldn’t really justify the cost to put in, like, a CompactLogix in there. So we picked out the micro 800. And, the environment I know there’s a lot of people that don’t really like CCW for Mhmm. You know, many reasons. Sometimes the software is a little different in certain aspects.
Right?
Shawn Tierney (Host): It is. Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): But, it wasn’t bad for the application. You know, we had a lot of inputs, but only a couple outputs. So that was pretty nice. And it was cool in the aspect that we we were able to combine the HMI and the PLC program into one file, right, all in CCW.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So pretty much it you know, it was very cool to just you’re working on your your programming, and then at the same time, you got the HMI popped up in the same file.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep. You know,
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): you don’t have to open up a separate software. You know, it’s all conjuncted into one. So it was very easy as far as, you know, integration goes. You know, we were, you know, jumping around two softwares and, you know
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Doing all that stuff. So it was it was cool. You know? It was all in one whole piece. And it was nice because we were able to just, you know, put it in a small file, email it out.
It’s just one just one simple file they have to save in there. So, yeah, I I definitely, this was the first time we cut our teeth into really providing a micro 800 for a process. So, you know, definitely not as bad as, you know, some people say as far as the software platform goes. Definitely did its job. I I really did enjoy the migrate 100.
I think it was it’s very, very powerful controller indeed.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. You know, I was surprised how powerful it was when I did my training course on it. Gee, it must be almost going on ten years now. I’m actually in the process of upgrading, all my training courses. But one of the things I wanted to do first was solve the Factory IO lessons.
So I did three factory IO courses. And so I decided to do them in the order of Micrologix, controller CompactLogix, and then Micro 800. And I really get to see the differences between the three packages. And the micro 800, you know, I think, like, an eight twenty, if somebody’s out there thinking of getting one for a small project, I just looked up the list price today. It’s August, you know, 2025, and it’s it’s about $3.97 list price.
Now this doesn’t have, like, a huge discount off it typically. This product line, you gotta call your local representative, and they’ll give you your actual price. But don’t expect, like, 50% off that price. Right? That’s been my experience anyways.
But, still at that price, you know, list price on the $400, it’s you know, when I started this, it was $2.50. So, you know, you know, over time, over the decades, it goes up over time, of course. But, it can do a lot. Now, you know, I there are some people out there who say, if it’s not a lot if it’s not Studio five thousand we used to say Logix. If it’s not Studio five thousand, I won’t use it.
And, you know, I I really found there are some things in the ladder editor that are just great, drag and drop. You know? You can change, you can change, you know, different instructions and do do the things you’re used to doing. They added in the where you can edit the rung in text. They added that a few years ago.
So if you’re one of those guys who do that a lot, I just happen to be one of those guys who like to do that. Because in the June Micrologix, we kinda had to do that because you couldn’t just toggle a destruction from XIC to XIO or latch to unlatch or whatever. But, you know, I really like that feature. They do have a, a a a Logix theme, which I love the idea behind, but I’ve had some students get in trouble with that when they did a lot of subroutines and the way it handled those subroutines. I haven’t I haven’t done a lesson on that yet.
But, you know, there are some usability things that I’m just used to, you know, like, putting in the tag values, right, into different instructions. So if I have a bunch of rungs that are very similar, I just wanna go through and change each of the tag values. I find that tag browser did you find this as well? The tag browser is a little clunky. It depends on where you click, which browser you get, and then it just seems a little bit harder to navigate than the other packages.
Did did you find the same thing, or was that not a big deal for you guys?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. It it was. You know, it is kind of a challenge with tag browser that they have, even just to kind of, put in descriptions on the tags
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): They have to open up the tag browser and then kinda just pop up another page and then put all your info in there. So, yeah, it was a little clunky, compared to, you know, the Logix environment where you could create a tag on the fly and then, you know, just open up the tag properties and just put in your descriptions or, you know, do the alias tags if you’re you’re gonna do that. So, yeah, in that aspect, it was a little bit, challenging, but, you know, it’s it wasn’t too bad.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And for those people who say and I know the MicroLogix says only the 1,400 left and, you know, it’s end of life. Right? And or active and mature, I think, is the correct way to say it. You know, talk to your Rockwell people to get actual information.
I’m just a I’m just a, instructor. But, you know, the Micro 800 supports, you know, function blocks and structured text, and I think it does a good job at it. So, you know, as much as I love my old MicroLogix and I use the 1,100 in, 14 and here’s the thing too. If you wanna you program the 1,400, you’re gonna have that $300 package of, software. You know?
The software is free for the, for the, 1,100, and it has an emulator built in, a simulator built in. Yeah. With the free software, it only runs for ten minutes, but still, you don’t get that with Logix. Right? You don’t get a free simulator built in.
Other vendors do that. The other big vendors include that for free. And with Rockwell’s Studio 5,000, they don’t. And I also, you know, I also like the integration of the panel view 800, formerly the panel view component or, the what we used to call the PVC slow because it was so slow. But the 800 has been very of a very good product line.
You know, and and, did you do the HMI on that as well? Did somebody else do it? Did you we did you do the HMI? Yep. What did you think of that?
I mean, it’s simple, but functional. Right? Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): You know what? I’ve I’ve used their, the eight hundreds, the panel v eight hundreds a lot more than the micro eight hundreds.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So it’s yeah. You know, it’s a very it’s a very good platform, and, and I’m sure you know this. But with the eight hundreds, you can also connect to certain, Logix controller. So it’s very cool where, you know, you can just you know, if the customer is on a budget and you just they want something simple, then you can just get, like, an 800 and, you know, do everything on there. And it it’s very it works well.
You know? I I I personally do like the, HMI environment. There is a couple things that I feel like it, you know, it is missing out, you know, like, you know, you have on, you know, factory talk to you
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Is, like, you know, animations. Right? You don’t have any animations. Yeah. That would be the only downside that I don’t like on, creating HMIs on, CCW.
But otherwise, you know, it’s it’s not too bad. I like it.
Shawn Tierney (Host): I remember when it first came out, maybe fifteen, twenty years ago, I recreated the, demo that’s in the panel view plus in CCW. And the animation thing was painful, so you had to use, like, a multi state indicator and Yeah. Have multiple pictures of what you wanna do. And, but but aside from and and that animation feature is just, you know, the panel view plus, gee, it must be 30 years old now, but, well, maybe not that old. 25 years old.
But, it was alright. Maybe, well, maybe 20 years old. Alright. 20. I keep going down.
I’m like, oh, not that old. But, the Panelview Plus was just because RSVUE, you think RSVUE predated the Panelview Plus. RSVUE was, like, ninety five ish. I was a beta user. Then FactoryTalk View, I’m thinking early two thousands.
So and don’t quote me on that. I’m not looking at my notes. But, you know, it really pull force all all of that same that same technology with the animations as identical. So if you go back to ’28 let’s say, nineteen ninety five, ninety six, you open up RSVU, which is the predecessor RSVU 32, the animation window looks almost identical to what you’re using today in factory talk view. And it just kick it’s it’s I don’t wanna say any bad words, but it’s really cool.
And and and some of the features, you know, very powerful features that even comp the competition don’t have yet, is still in that product. Kinda, you know, I understand why they’re doing the factory talk optic. Have you used any factory talk optics?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I have not. Okay. You know, I I I have definitely seen it and, you know, it’s it’s talk of the town at the moment, but I haven’t really dug into it.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I, you know, I it’s kinda sad that with it almost feels like we’re seeing the end of an era of the panel views, because of factory talk optics, and I have not used it. I do like that the development is free for, you know, especially for students who wanna play around with it and try it. That we used to give away demo discs for the panel view plus software, Effector Talk Vue Machine Edition. Now you gotta call somebody to get a demo, and they get you an email.
And it still runs for two hours, you know, in demo mode forever, but you still have to call somebody and and, you know, and and do all that. So it’s there’s a little friction there to get a demo of it. But, you know, I think you also recently did if I if I’m following you, correct me if I’m wrong, I also saw your company did something with Logix, and I think you had some servos on it as well. Was that something you recently posted on LinkedIn?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): That was about a month ago. Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep. Can you tell us a little about that project and what you used on that?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So that was actually just a troubleshoot. But, it yeah. It was just a it was a tissue paper line
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): With, well, I’m sure you saw the panel. It’s, like, twenty, twenty five servos in there. So, yeah, very big system. Yeah. No.
Definitely not something I integrated. Just working on the line. But Just
Shawn Tierney (Host): working on the line.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): A really interesting, production environment, though. That was the first time I ever been to a, tissue paper manufacturer, so that was pretty cool to see.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Oh, yeah. They do some cool stuff. We have some tissue mills in the area, like, with an hour of where I am, and it’s just amazing to watch them run. And and I think all paper machines actually, the building I’m in that at least my office is out of used to be a paper, a a paper mill. And, then it was a printing press for the Berkshire Eagle.
So, and, I don’t know if they I don’t think they print the paper here anymore. I don’t quote me on that. But in any case, they do have so the big printing press in the in in in the side of the building. But in any case, you know, I think when it when it comes to the the micro 800, I think you summed it up. It is nice working in one environment.
Have you had a chance to use the Panelview 5,000 at all?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I have. Yes. I used it recently, first time on a cookie mixer. Oh. So that yeah.
That one was pretty cool. That wasn’t on my LinkedIn, so that that’s why, no one’s really seen it yet.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So Tell us a little bit about that project. You know, in comparison to the micro 800, you know, PanelView 800 using that was probably a CompactLogix or a ControlLogix? Okay. It was. And so both of them did they both they kinda both lived in the same GUI.
Right?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So how did you find the Panelview 5,000 as a new user?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): A little bit of a small learning curve, but it wasn’t really that different from, you know, like, a Panel v plus environment. We I where I kinda struggled a little bit was, making a recipe selector. So that one was pretty interesting. Yeah. Because you have to use pretty much, like, indirect addressing to really, go through a list to see your recipes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So that one was kinda fun to figure out. And, of course, you know, as far as the rest of the whole programming was for that line, I thought it to be very easy, you know, as far as there’s a lot of, features to it that, you know, I thought were pretty cool. So, you know, there’s, like, ways to pretty much like, if you bring in a, like, an image of, an object that’s in there Mhmm. And I’m sure you probably do this in the panel view. I just really haven’t spent too much time on it, but, it it’s already preset so that you can if you wanna make, like, the level indicator on the tank Yeah.
You just put the tag in there for your level indication, and it automatically already does, you know, all the, logic for you, in other words. So, yeah, definitely a cool environment. You know? It wasn’t too bad other than the recipe stuff.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I find it to be, pretty pretty, pretty useful as far as if I were to consider those, on another project.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I, when when they were getting ready to launch it years ago, I was really excited for it. Yeah. And and it really it took a while to come out. There was some hardware changes. There was a lot of going on in the industry at that time.
And when they decided to make it Ethernet only and make it Logix only, it’s kinda like, well, what what kind of life can this product have? You know? And and I’ve had the product manager on the show, and we’ve talked to him. I think it’s a great product. But for the longest time, it didn’t have some of the basics, that you think of an HMI having, like alarming.
Right? And I think that really hurt its development. Not a Rockwell bought the, ASIM or ASIM, however you wanna say it, company, and they had the factory tuck optics. I could I could definitely see that. It seems to me that their their focus is on optics and not on the 5,000.
And quite honestly, again, I’ll say it. I’m sad that we won’t have a Panelview Plus product because that product is, you know, a a Panelview Plus, you know, nine or 10 or 11 or because I just such a favorite product that has you know, so many people know how to use that product inside and out, you know, parameters and, you know, just, and and they’ve you know, I was just working in version 10. So one of the things I’m doing is I’m giving away a free panel view plus project with my PLC courses. It’s not out yet, but it’s coming soon. So I have a lot of students, and I I know you have a lot of stuff in your office.
You guys are building stuff, so you can hook up buttons and lights and switches if you need to. But I’ve had a lot of students over the years where they’re either using an emulator or a simulator or a VectorTalk echo or, you know, they just don’t have the physical hardware that when they wanna learn everything on their laptop, maybe they’re on a plane or or they’re you know, they do it during lunch. And so, I’m releasing simulation code that goes with the the that students can use to simulate the hardware. So I wrote the code. It’s like a subroutine.
It’s like, don’t touch this, but this will simulate what I have in the videos. Right? And that way, they can write the programs and test it in whatever. You know, if you’re using a MicroLogix, then it would be emulate. If you’re using the micro 800, it’d be the simulator that’s built in for free, the CCW.
And then if you’re using I actually show how to get Factor Talk Echo. It’s only a thirty day license, but you can get it for free right from Rockwell’s website. I wish they would do that with more products because it it really was easy to get a free thirty day trial right from their website. And I’m gonna be the first one I did just because I know it so well is the panel view plus. So it’s a a little screen that, you know, with a bunch of buttons and pilot lights, kinda like the simulator you would have if you were in a classroom.
And, the the thing the reason I did that one first, of course, I know it first, but, also, the, PanelView plus development software, it goes into a demo mode if you don’t have a license, which is great
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, great for students. But the PanelView five the the the Studio 5,000, you know you know, what they call view designer, right, instead of Logix designer. It is it comes with if you have a Studio five thousand’s license, you know, you get that software. So Yeah. There’s that about it.
And I do like like you said, all of they have all these canned objects that are smart objects, like the tank. You put it in there. You just put level into it and boom. You don’t even have to do the animation. So I I really like that.
Did you use any of, like, the direct to PLC push buttons? They have, like, some high speed push buttons you can integrate directly to the PLC.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): No. I did not. Okay. No. Yeah.
So we just had a couple, you know, just regular momentary push buttons on the screen
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And, a recipe selector. So it was very, very basic. Mhmm. But definitely, it was, you know, I know I noticed there was a couple other things that kind of, got me a little curious to pretty much test it when I had a chance.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Was it a customer request for the 5,000, BMW 5,000?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): It was. Yeah. They actually That’s interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
They have a 5,000 on their, laminator line. So I guess the operators are already used to that kind of environment and, you know, they didn’t wanna really teach anyone a new, like, I guess, a new platform. I tried to explain the customer. I was like, you know, Amity plus isn’t gonna be too far off away from what the 5,000 looks like. But, you know, they just wanted to standardize on just
Shawn Tierney (Host): having Totally. You know?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Right. So
Shawn Tierney (Host): that will
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): not all do. Right?
Shawn Tierney (Host): Especially if you can have just one spare or one platform to teach people on. So Right. You know, I know I know you’re a busy guy. I don’t wanna take up too much of your time. I do appreciate you coming on the show.
Was there anything else that you’ve used that you wanna share your experience with, maybe to the other students or to any of the people listening to the podcast, any of the products you’ve run into, any any insight you can share with us?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): You know what, Shawn? I just started getting into IO Link. First time I ever cut my teeth into IO IO Link. And, I have sent off this
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yes.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Little IO Link of
Shawn Tierney (Host): Oh, yeah. That’s a small one. It looks like an eight port or six port.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): The four port. Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Four port. Yeah. Yeah. Power, Ethernet, and then four ports. How did you like integrating that?
You use the, they have add on blocks for that, add on instructions?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): They do. You know what? They have pretty much all the AOIs for every almost every sensor that IFM has to offer that’s, that works on IO Link. So it was totally awesome. Just I mean, I I was only integrating a a a little laser photo eye, but it was very cool, all the data that you can actually get and grab from all the sensors.
So, you know, and and I see this as something very innovative in the aspect that, you know, it cuts your labor costs. Right? You know, guys like me, we’re looking to, you know, try to do as least less physical work as far as pulling cables and having to have a contractor come in to run conduit
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And all these sorts of things. Right? So this is, like, something that I feel like is is gonna be a a a very good platform to use for for guys like us that, you know, all you need is communication, some power, and, you know, you just run-in all your sensors into the the hub and, you know, you pull all your data from them. Right? And, yeah, we we I pretty much got the starter kit for testing purposes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And I was able to finally use it at a bakery. Okay. So we finally used it in a real world application where we installed, three humidity sensors inside a proof box, and they were in different zones. And it was awesome. You know, we had a contractor come in just, you know, run a small three quarter inch pipe with, you know, a a shielded CAT six and then some 24 volt power on the hub master, and then all the humidity sensors go into the, the hub.
And, integration time, I did it in about two days. So it was very, very easy as far as, you know, bringing in all the data, setting up the AOIs, and, you know, installing the EDS files for, RS links. And, I I personally think it was awesome. You know? It was very cool.
Like I said, I’m very recent to IO Link, so I’m definitely yeah. I don’t have any expertise there yet, but it’s definitely something that I feel like a lot of people have been talking about, and it’s definitely very innovative.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I glad I’m glad you brought that up. IFM, I worked with them a lot, especially early in the company’s, history and, just a great company. I’m I am adding, like, the unit you have, I have two two different units that will be added as lessons. They’re actually sitting in my garage on the workbench being mounted to a demo board, so I can actually add those lessons to all of the courses that I can add it to. So the the the problem I have with the micro 800 is the Ethernet IP capabilities of that.
It’s, I believe we’ve, find that it’s explicit on implicit. So, you know, with logic, she just add it to the IO tree, and it’s easy peasy. Right? So may not come to the micro 800 lessons right away unless I could find an easy how to to do that. But, you know, I I think I think, you know, IO Link just keeps growing.
And you may not know this because I didn’t tell you. But next week, I’m recording an episode of the podcast with the folks who are, who who are in charge of IO Link, the marketing group for IO Link. So they’re coming on, and they’re actually having hands on IO you know, for first time users, hands on IO Link sessions throughout the country. So that’s gonna be pretty exciting to to get that out there. So anybody interested in IO Link?
If you haven’t used it yet, check out that, upcoming episode. But what I would say is, you know, I really feel like your feedback is excellent because I’ve gotten the same feedback from some people I know personally in this area. And not only about IFM being easy to use and having great added instructions, but also about how much they like IO link and how much wiring it saves them, especially people I think people like it for stack lights because, you know, you think about if you don’t have a stack like on a network, then you got a bunch of signal wires you’re gonna send to it. Right? So it’s painful.
And now now the stack lights do, like, you know, bazillion different colors. Right? So, really cool stuff you could do with those and, and excellent. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that.
So if there was one tip you could share with the audience on using IO Link or using that IFM starter pack, what would it be?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Definitely, sometimes the, the manuals are a little clunky as far as, the setup goes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So I would just really recommend, you know, just using them to their their you know, like, as best as you can. But, really, you know, this the setup is is very easy to the point where you can probably avoid the manuals on certain things. But, yeah, definitely, there’s a couple things that I feel like the manual missed out as far as the setup goes for, you know, things like, the, sensor AOIs Mhmm. As far as setting them up. So So that would be the only thing that, I would just kinda look out for.
That that’s probably the only thing.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Did you salvage just through trial and error, or did you have to get in touch with them?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I had to get in touch with them for the, yes, the the radar. Sorry. Not the radar. The, laser photo eye because it I wasn’t really reading any, distance from it. So, I told them, hey.
You know, I I didn’t see this on the manual, and they’re like, oh, we haven’t updated the with the new the new, edited version of the new manual. So I was like, oh, okay. Could you send it out? And sure enough, you know, I got it sent out. And Yes.
So, really, I would just watch out for the versions of the manual.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Could be some updated ones that aren’t there yet.
Shawn Tierney (Host): But But you did find you found them helpful, though? They were responsive?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Oh, yeah. IFM’s customer support is probably the most awesomest customer support I’ve dealt with.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So That’s awesome. Yeah. I’ve heard that too.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. They’re very, very good. You know, any questions that, pretty much you need answered, they there’s always someone there as long as it’s in, between the the hours that they’re operating.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Right? So open hours. Well, that’s awesome. I’ve heard that from so many people too, so it’s good to hear it from somebody else. Else.
Well, I don’t wanna take up your whole day. Anything else you wanna, you wanna say to the show? You wanna tell them a little bit, how to get in, contact with your company if they need some, if they need some of your expertise?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Sure. If you guys wanna reach out, you could go to ww.gmautomationandcontrols.com. Okay. We service pretty much all of California. K.
So, of course, we have some travel work here and there. I just recently posted this. I’m sure you saw it. We’re kind of expanding over there to Omaha. So that’s
Shawn Tierney (Host): that’s been pretty good.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. So we’re trying to move over a little bit over there, as far as, you know, we know the area a little bit. I actually lived there for about a year and a half, with a couple cousins, a couple family members that were out there. And, you know, it was it was it was pretty nice to be out there, and now I’m trying to expand the company over there. So, definitely, if you guys need help, just reach out.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And just for the video audience, he’s really not 16. I know he’s clean shaven, and he looks like he’s only 16. Yeah. But he’s he has a lot of experience under his belt.
He’s not a he’s not a teenager.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. Yeah. I get that a lot. I go to sites and then they look at me and they’re like, how old are you? Can you be in here?
I’m like, I Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Yeah. So, in any case, it’s a blessing to look young. And, and so that’s good. That’s good.
And, you know, you got a great company, and I just wanna thank you for coming on the show and sharing your experiences. And we just kinda pulled this together last minute. It was like, hey. Let’s chat. And, you know, I think I learned some things, and hopefully, the audience enjoyed it too.
So, Giovanni, thank you again for coming on the show.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Thank you, Shawn. I appreciate you having me here.
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