Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerd.

Today, we've got David Stevens.

And David, welcome to the show.

Please give us a little bit of your history and tell us about yourself.

All right, thank you.

My name is David Stevens.

I'm the Vice President of Information Technology at TIE Industrial and just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

We have two sites up in Michigan as well, along with our main site here.

We are an aftermarket robotics, CNC controls shop that does a lot of rebuilding,

kind of solves different problems between our three different sites.

So our IT side is always something new with all three different kind of disparate business units.

Aftermarket robotics.

So tell me a little more about that.

Like you said you're doing a lot of repair, but what kind of robotics are you repairing?

It's a lot of the larger arms that you see that, you know, used for the automotive industry,

but it's actually across a lot of different industries.

Our main core business here traditionally has been around the CNC,

which is used by a lot of the machine shops for a lot.

You know, it can be used for any kind of machining.

They're usually very large items.

And we do the controls and the motors for those.

And they're like I said, the robots, the larger robot arms.

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