Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 33 in total of Augmented Ops with the tag “ai”.
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Episode 166: Giving Robots "Common Sense": Inside RightHand Robotics with Yaro Tenzer
December 18th, 2025 | Season 6 | 30 mins 52 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, operations, supply chains, technology, workforce
Yaro Tenzer (RightHand Robotics) explains how LLMs give robots "common sense". He discusses the 10x drop in hardware costs and why purpose-built automation beats humanoid hype in factories.
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Episode 165: The Future Process Engineer with Chris Luecke of Manufacturing Happy Hour
December 4th, 2025 | Season 6 | 37 mins 42 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, operations, supply chains, technology, workforce
Chris Luecke of Manufacturing Happy Hour joins Natan Linder to explore how the process engineer role is changing, how AI is showing up on the shop floor, and why human insight still drives the best manufacturing teams.
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Episode 164: AI, Industry, and the Human Story with MIT’s David Mindell
November 13th, 2025 | Season 6 | 36 mins 36 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, operations, supply chains, technology, workforce
MIT Professor and author David Mindell discusses The New Lunar Society and what centuries of innovation reveal about AI, industry, and the future of human work.
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Episode 163: AI for Operations: From Everyday Tools to Agentic Systems
October 30th, 2025 | Season 6 | 22 mins 10 secs
4ir, agentic ai, ai, ai agents, automation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, operations, supply chains, technology, workforce
Manufacturing is shifting from dashboards to decision-making AI. Tulip’s product leaders share how agentic systems are reshaping work and amplifying human expertise.
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Operations Calling 2025 Recap: From AI Hype Into Real World Results
October 16th, 2025 | Season 6 | 31 mins 20 secs
4ir, agentic ai, ai, automation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, manufacturing ai, operations, supply chains, technology, workforce
Post-event reflections on Operations Calling 2025 — Tulip CMO Madilynn Castillo joins Natan to unpack the energy and community behind a turning point for operational AI and the next era of continuous transformation.
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Reindustrializing in 2025 — AI, Scale, and the Future of U.S. Manufacturing with MIT’s Liz Reynolds
August 14th, 2025 | Season 5 | 22 mins 36 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, economy, industry, industry 4.0, management, manufacturing, operations, policy, politics, supply chains, technology, workforce
Fresh from Detroit's Reindustrialize conference, Liz Reynolds, manufacturing and workforce expert at MIT, joins Natan to discuss America's reindustrialization momentum, AI adoption in operations, and the massive scale challenge facing US manufacturers globally.
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AI, Agility, and Enterprise Architecture – Reflections on Season 5 of Augmented Ops
June 18th, 2025 | Season 5 | 18 mins 38 secs
ai, citizen development, composability
Natan Linder and Erik Mirandette close the season, separating AI hype from shop-floor value, spotlighting citizen developers, charting the fall of monolithic MES for composable tech stacks, and stressing adaptability as the edge amid constant volatility.
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Hannover Messe Unfiltered: The Real State of AI in Manufacturing
April 9th, 2025 | Season 5 | 23 mins 53 secs
ai, hannover messe
Live from Hannover Messe, Natan Linder and Madilynn Castillo unpack the AI hype in manufacturing—cutting through marketing noise, legacy tech in disguise, and why real transformation starts with empowering frontline workers, not just flashy tools.
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How AI Agents are Closing the Loop with Composabl’s Kence Anderson
December 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 34 mins 19 secs
ai, composability, llm, machine learning
Kence Anderson, CEO of Composabl explains how AI agents are changing the way industrial companies operate, why LLMs alone cannot solve complex manufacturing problems, and his take on composable manufacturing systems.
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A New Approach to Pharma Manufacturing with Roche’s Daniele Iacovelli
October 9th, 2024 | Season 5 | 34 mins 18 secs
ai, architecture, citizen development, composability, mes, pharma, validation
Daniele Iacovelli, SVP, Global Head of Digital, Analytics (AI) & Operational Excellence at Roche discusses Roche’s digital transformation, his perspective on citizen development, and why the traditional software validation approach is no longer sufficient.