Industrial Evolution

Industrial Evolution

By Chad PerryTechnology
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Industrial Evolution episodes

  • Ep 8 Drones in the Enterprise: Flying High with Auterion

    Today we're speaking with Laurent Zimmerli, Head of Product Marketing at Auterion out of Zurich, Switzerland.


    Auterion produces an enterprise drone software platform built specifically for commercial applications like mapping, inspection, public safety, and even cargo delivery - which powers drones from some of the most advanced manufacturers in the world, including General Electric (GE) Aviation and the U.S. Department of Defense.

    And Laurent, with a background in software engineering, is responsible for making sure that drone manufacturers and their end users out in the field, understand how to remain competitive as drone capabilities continue to evolve.

    Those end users may be energy and utility companies, mapping data providers, or really anybody operating in environments that could potentially put humans at risk while keeping eyes and ears on critical infrastructure.

    So Auterion is the company whose autopilot, mission control, and workflow integration software is enabling this futuristic version of Industry 4.0 - and Laurent is here to fill us in on the latest in drone technology, and more importantly how this technology fits into enterprise workflows in the field.

    1 hr
  • Ep 7 Connecting the Future: Data + Power with TE Connectivity

    Today we're speaking with Davy Brown, CTO & VP of Industrial Solutions at TE Connectivity out of Zurich, Switzerland.


    If you've never heard of them before, that's okay because TE is one of those companies that sits quietly in the background but enables much of the physical world around us with connectivity and sensor products built for harsh environments.

    And to support their role as an industrial leader, TE employees over 80,000 people that serve a wide range of sectors, from energy to medical to aerospace and automative, and pretty much anywhere that you might find heavy duty components.

    Because TE sits on the physical side of Industry 4.0, the demand for their products very much reflects the changing nature of industrial productivity, so that's exactly what Davy is here to discuss with us.

    As a CTO, Davy's job is to understand the needs of his industrial customers, both today and tomorrow... and to make sure that TE is delivering the future, so to speak.

    In fact, one of the key themes Davy has seen over the past 20 years is two waves of heightened focus on automation. The first coming after the 2008 global recession, and the second just over a decade later in response to the current global pandemic.

    The bad news is, the landscape is becoming hyper competitive. But the good new is, there are more opportunities than ever before to reduce cost and introduce new streams of revenue, which Davy is going to shed some light on.

    53 min
  • Ep 6 Tools of Innovation: Creativity and Co-Creation (Siemens, Part 2)

    Today we're speaking with two individuals from Siemens, which of course is perhaps THE most reputable industrial organization in the world, with 173 years of engineering excellence behind them, including both in-house manufacturing and professional services.


    Yet, one of the problems with being so successful is companies tend to get stuck in their ways and lose their competitive edge. So Siemens has had to undergo their own transformation in recent decades, which has been underpinned in part by a capability that tends to be ignored by older institutions... creativity.

    But today we're not talking only about creativity in the artistic sense, we're talking about creativity as a skill that can be developed as the foundation of a larger digital transformation strategy.

    So this isn't going to be your typical conversation about the latest technology. This is so much more than that... it's about your people and nurturing their ability to be truly innovative, to come up with radical new products and ways of doing things.

    And here with us to have that discussion are Joan Mulvihill and Dr. Julia Jonas.

    Joan is a Digitalization Lead for Siemens Ireland - while Julia is a Senior Consultant at Siemens Advanta out of Germany.

    But these aren't your average corporate leaders.

    In addition to being a multi-award-winning, former CEO of the Irish Internet Association, Joan is also a commissioned artist - meaning she gets paid to indulge her passion for putting colors to canvas. And by extension, represents the creative potential that goes untapped in many companies.

    And Julia's role at Advanta gives her a front-row seat to the challenges faced by the world's other leading industrial organizations that Siemens serves through management consulting.

    (part 2 of 2)

    24 min
  • Ep 5 Tools of Innovation: Creativity and Co-Creation (Siemens, Part 1)

    Today we're speaking with two individuals from Siemens, which of course is perhaps THE most reputable industrial organization in the world, with 173 years of engineering excellence behind them, including both in-house manufacturing and professional services.


    Yet, one of the problems with being so successful is companies tend to get stuck in their ways and lose their competitive edge. So Siemens has had to undergo their own transformation in recent decades, which has been underpinned in part by a capability that tends to be ignored by older institutions... creativity.

    But today we're not talking only about creativity in the artistic sense, we're talking about creativity as a skill that can be developed as the foundation of a larger digital transformation strategy.

    So this isn't going to be your typical conversation about the latest technology. This is so much more than that... it's about your people and nurturing their ability to be truly innovative, to come up with radical new products and ways of doing things.

    And here with us to have that discussion are Joan Mulvihill and Dr. Julia Jonas.

    Joan is a Digitalization Lead for Siemens Ireland - while Julia is a Senior Consultant at Siemens Advanta out of Germany.

    But these aren't your average corporate leaders.

    In addition to being a multi-award-winning, former CEO of the Irish Internet Association, Joan is also a commissioned artist - meaning she gets paid to indulge her passion for putting colors to canvas. And by extension, represents the creative potential that goes untapped in many companies.

    And Julia's role at Advanta gives her a front-row seat to the challenges faced by the world's other leading industrial organizations that Siemens serves through management consulting.

    (part 1 of 2)

    42 min
  • Ep 4 Modern Material Handling: Automated Forklifts with Rocla AGV

    Today we're speaking with Oskari Lindstedt, American Sales Director for Rocla AGV, a pioneer of electric warehouse trucks originating in Finland that is now a division of industrial super-giant, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.


    Rocla designs and builds automated ground vehicles. Which for our conversation today means robotic forklifts.

    And that puts Oskari squarely on the front lines of digital transformation, where he is responsible for helping warehouses and distribution centers across the country become more productive... and safer.

    But it's not as simple as setting loose some robots in your facility, because there are multiple layers of technology that makes this level of automation possible.

    There is, of course, the actual robots that are built from scratch, which completely redefine the look and behavior of traditional forklifts.

    And then there's the software control system that coordinates where the vehicles go, what they do, and prevent collisions with both objects and people.

    And finally there's the integration back to the warehouse management system which is where the actual business value is derived from having intelligent ground vehicles.

    So there's a lot going on that has to take into account people, process, information, and physical movement. And that's where Rocla steps in to guide its customers from the strategic decisions to the ground-level implementation.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep 3 Cloud Collaboration: PLM Grows Up (Canvas GFX)

    Pat Hume, CEO of Canvas GFX, a leader in technical illustration software, reveals the future of engineering collaboration across the entire product lifecycle, improving productivity from sales to design to support - from ideation to sunset.


    We're looking at how critical product data is moving from data silos to the cloud, ushering in a new era of competitive efficiencies for some of the largest aerospace, defense, and manufacturing companies in the world, as well as startups - and one very unique small business that is 3D printing food for deep space applications.

    This is the next generation of cloud-based product lifecycle management tools that frees up skilled engineers to focus on design while enabling downstream stakeholders to do their jobs faster and with fewer mistakes!

    https://www.canvasgfx.com/

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep 2 Not Your Grandpappy's ERP! (Epicor)

    This ain't your grandpappy's ERP.


    Two senior tech and marketing leaders from Epicor discuss the present and future of cloud-based ERP for manufacturing, moving beyond yesterday's cumbersome on-premise databases that were expensive to maintain and of marginal use for mission critical business insight.

    Terri Pruett Hiskey (VP of Global Product Marketing) and Stephen Edgington (VP of Engineering) lean on experience serving over 20,000 customers to shed light on what they call the "digital core," an informational epicenter (no pun intended) that ingests, transforms, and intelligently presents data based on who's using the software and what they're doing at any given moment from the factory floor to the top floor.

    Terri and Stephen also talk AI assistants and perhaps most importantly, what customers are increasingly demanding: out-of-the-box IoT data solutions that support new capabilities and productivity with minimal effort and disruption.

    Finally, we look at some real-world success stories from race cars to the kitchenware brand that's probably sitting in your cupboard right now.

    https://www.epicor.com/

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep 1 Beyond Prototyping: 3D Printing at Scale with Carbon

    Jon Bruner, Head of Enterprise Strategy for San Francisco-based Carbon, explores how their industrial-scale 3D printers are enabling product engineers to go all the way to high volume production on the same hardware used for prototyping, a capability the industrial world has been waiting for since the introduction of hobbyist 3D printers over a decade ago.


    Jon describes the technical innovations that make Carbon's story possible, as well as how engineers and business leaders can introduce production-grade 3D printing into their organizations with practically no risk...

    We also geek out on real-world customer transformations that Carbon has recently supported for some of the world's best-known brands - including crazy new shoes from Adidas, a space-aged bicycle seat from Specialized, and Riddell's new football helmet designed by AI to perfectly fit an individual player.

    Get in touch with Carbon here: https://www.carbon3d.com

    54 min
  • Launch Trailer

    Introducing a new interview series that highlights the innovators of Industry 4.0 and provides industrial enterprise leaders with strategic guidance for adopting new technologies to stay competitive. First episode drops in August...

    3 min

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Industry 4.0... VR, AI, IoT, drones, 3D printing - The future is here, but many industrial enterprise leaders are left wondering where to get started. We're interviewing the world's leading innovators…