Our guest for this edition of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast is Kyle O'Reilly from VKS. They digitize work instructions. VKS is an industry 4.0 software platform that helps companies that assemble and have high-mix, medium volume assembly automation.

We talk about best processes, quality, productivity, real-time manual assembly, training, managing talent, and bottlenecks in high-mix contract manufacturing.

VKS built the software tool themselves because of their needs in their sister company CMP, which manufactures a wide range of metal-based products. They needed to document processes to improve quality, get rid of work instruction binders and PowerPoint.

VKS software is intuitive to use. It shows step-by-step instructions of whatever they need to build. Think real pictures, videos, sketches. It is used in all kinds of industries, universities, around the world.

Trends in the industry: trends to industry 4.0, adoption of technologies, scalable software, digital IoT, digitization, companies are turning away from paper for scale as a cost of doing business.

If you would like to get in touch with Kyle, his email is [email protected] and you can find VKS on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/vks---visual-knowledge-share/

Enjoy the podcast.

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