Remaking Industry

Smart Industry Editor in Chief Chris McNamara provides an update from a recent conference in Orlando, Florida, where the outside air is suffocating, the inside air is frozen, and professionals are actually interacting with one another in person. How about that!

In this episode, we connect with GE Digital's Vikram Mankar to discuss with the principal product manager how new workers' expectations and processes are changing, how technology and employers must follow suit, and how making these updates can enable smarter factory operations.

We chat with Jake Hall, aka The Manufacturing Millennial, about the motivations of young workers, the needs of the manufacturing industry, and how both camps can work together to achieve their goals. 

“Digital transformation is not always a straightforward path,” explains Divya Prakash, director of SICK’s business consulting for Industry 4.0, in this discussion about how artificial intelligence and deep machine learning are empowering enterprises that not just embrace these technologies, but also commit to broader changes in their processes, their management and even the wider culture of their companies.

In this episode we connect with Capgemini Engineering Chief Software Officer Jiani Zhang to discover the challenges and opportunities with employing the metaverse to optimize manufacturing processes. We keep hearing about this metaverse thing...how can we make it work for us?

In this episode we chat with IOTICS' Ali Nicholl to explore how deeper, richer, more accessible data ecosystems can enable all members of the supply chain to access and benefit from new data pools. We also discuss how the metaverse plays into this new approach. 

Coinciding with the launch of Smart Industry's 2022 Crystal Ball Report, we connect with Jason Bergstrom, Deloitte Consulting's smart factory go-to-market leader, to discuss emerging trends, persistent challenges and tips for capitalizing on opportunities in the coming year. 

In this episode we connect with Uptake CEO Kayne Grau to dispel the myth of complexity with data analytics and explore ways to keep it simple, regardless of the size of the company or the mountain of data generated by the assets. 

In this episode, we chat with Tom Davasia, ServiceNow's director of partner solutions and strategy for the manufacturing industry, and Jason Bergstrom, principal with Deloitte's Smart Factory Division, to unearth  common sense advice to enable success with your digital transformation.

In this episode, we chat with Jose Rivera, CEO of the Control System Integrators Association, about the evolving role of system integrators as digital transformation in manufacturing gains momentum. Also, as IT and OT teams increasingly play nice, how does this change the work of the system integrator?