A stamping machine goes haywire because someone hit play on a Netflix movie. Welcome to the hidden chaos of factory networks.

In this episode, Justin sits down with John Rinaldi, founder of Real Time Automation, to expose the hilarious (and horrifying) tech issues that haunt modern manufacturing—from ghost nodes and dying Ethernet cables to the real reason Industry 4.0 often fails.

If you're a future engineer, this episode is your crash course in everything they don’t teach you in school—but will absolutely call you at 3am to fix.

This is why engineers can’t have nice things.

Topics include:

• Why IT and OT are basically oil and water

• The 1919 tea machine that still runs like a champ

• Why documentation dies the second an intern leaves

• How to become the most valuable person in the plant