Hello everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #161. I welcome Hugo Lessnick from Averna in Montreal to the podcast. Hugo is the Engineering Manager at Averna, we are going to talk about test, automation, test software and well, all things test.

Hi Hugo, welcome to the podcast.

Can you tell me about Averna, the company?

What kind of systems do you build: integrated, standalone?

How did you get into this industry?

What is "testing" to you?

Are there some big overall trends in automated test?

In our warm-up, we talked about budgeting for test equipment, and it seems that people or companies tend to underestimate the costs for testing equipment.

How do you work with customers?

Test specification documents, can they be better?

Lets talk about machine vision and AI.

Do you ever work with companies to make their test specifications better, even though it might be harder for you?

You work with automation integrators and machine builders, because machine builders really dont have a specialty around precision testing?

When you are working in some industries like for medical devices it’s tricky because a company is trying to concurrently build the automation for the device and the test system at the same time, what happens then when you have to build in flexibility to your test or fixturing?

Do you have some projects that you can talk about?

Is there a really difficult test project that sticks out in your mind?

Are cycle times getting faster or slower?

Is there an ROI for the test solution?

What about GUIs and ergonomics, does that come into play a lot? Safety?

You have to commission automation around the world, different cultures, languages that is difficult, correct?

When you are recruiting for new people, what makes a good hire? Curiosity?

What is the future of test equipment and automation?

How can people get a hold of you?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-lessnick-eng-86b039115

https://www.averna.com/en/home?

Thanks for listening. Special thanks also to Amy Share the Content Marketing Team Lead at Averna for making this podcast easy, peasy.

Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production, and my business partner Janet. 

And I would like to thank my Senior Audio Software Engineer, Geoff Bremner and you can find more information on his Linketree, linktr.ee/gbaudio

Be safe out there!

Jim

Jim Beretta

Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

London, ON