Manufacturing has come a long way since the textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Recently in the United States, the state of the manufacturing industry has sparked a debate around a possible contemporary revolution thanks to more competitive global costs and increasingly efficient technologies. One company making a difference in the manufacturing industry today? SMC Corporation of America. SMC provides companies with ways to automate their manufacturing -- delivering products that meet global standards and have the power to help industries automate processes and increase efficiency. Experts in providing physical devices that streamline everyday tasks, SMC realized they needed a solution to make the cloud applications they use every day as accessible as their products. We sat down with Bob Stephan, IT application services manager at SMC Corporation of America, to learn how Okta is securing SMC’s network, making applications accessible and ultimately improving the lives of employees on.