Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 23 in total of Augmented Ops with the tag “automation”.
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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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Lighthouses, Lean, and the Human Factor in Digital Transformation with AstraZeneca’s Jim Fox
May 7th, 2025 | Season 5 | 24 mins 49 secs
automation, change management, lean, pharma
Jim Fox, SVP Americas Supply Operations at AstraZeneca, shares his perspective on humans vs. automation in pharma manufacturing, building trust in emerging tech, and how agility and lean principles drive innovation in an increasingly personalized industry.
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Episode 141: Reindustrializing America with Liz Reynolds
July 1st, 2024 | Season 4 | 28 mins 12 secs
4ir, ai, automation, economy, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, machine learning, manufacturing, policy, politics, science, software, tech, technology, trade, venture capital
Elisabeth Reynolds, MIT Professor of the Practice and former White House policymaker joins Natan Linder to discuss the building momentum around reindustrialization in the United States, and what it means for the economy, national defense, and manufacturing.
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Episode 140: A Frontline Perspective on Industry 4.0 – Reflections on Season 1 of Augmented Ops
June 26th, 2024 | Season 4 | 34 mins 44 secs
4ir, ai, automation, computer science, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, machine learning, manufacturing, mes, science, software, tech, technology
Natan Linder and Erik Mirandette recap what they learned from Season 1 of Augmented Ops, highlighting the advancements in AI, the value of democratization and open ecosystems, the need to focus on the frontline worker, and more.
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Episode 139: How to Architect Your Digital Strategy with Jeff Kramer
June 12th, 2024 | Season 4 | 29 mins 51 secs
4ir, ai, automation, computer science, data science, digital strategy, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, machine learning, manufacturing, mes, quality, science, software, tech, technology
Jeff Kramer, VP Technology & Digital Factory at Kason Industries lays out best practices for manufacturers to develop their digital strategy, including citizen development, governance, balancing IT vs OT, and more.
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Episode 138: Democratizing Computer Vision with LandingAI’s Kai Yang
May 29th, 2024 | Season 4 | 30 mins 38 secs
4ir, ai, automation, computer science, computer vision, data science, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, machine learning, manufacturing, mes, quality, science, software, tech, technology
Kai Yang, VP of Product at LandingAI, lays out the need for a data-centric approach to AI, how new techniques like visual prompting are making computer vision accessible to anyone, and why vendors should build tools rather than solutions.
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Episode 137: AI for the Frontline Engineer with Instrumental’s Anna Shedletsky
May 15th, 2024 | Season 4 | 32 mins 37 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, kpi, manufacturing, quality, science, software, tech, technology
Anna Shedletsky breaks down which manufacturing KPIs really matter, why engineers need to be able to show the ROI of tech investments, how you can use data and machine learning to solve quality problems on the production line.
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Episode 136: AI Takes Center Stage at Hannover Messe
May 1st, 2024 | Season 4 | 23 mins 57 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, engineering, hannover messe, industry, industry 4.0, it, manufacturing, ot, science, software, tech, technology
Natan Linder and Madilynn Castillo explore the lackluster state of AI in industrial software, the rise of composable software architectures, and how open technology ecosystems are becoming the norm throughout the industry.
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Episode 135: Bringing Spatial Intelligence to Operations with Zerokey's Matt Lowe
April 10th, 2024 | Season 4 | 28 mins 45 secs
4ir, ai, automation, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, it, manufacturing, ot, rfid, rtls, science, software, tech, technology
Matt Lowe explains what makes ultrasound-based positioning systems ideal for manufacturing environments, how spatial intelligence offers new ways to solve problems on the shop floor, and how open architecture can eliminate the need for system integrators.
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Episode 134: Building Industrial Architectures with MQTT with HiveMQ’s Dominik Obermaier
March 27th, 2024 | Season 4 | 36 mins 56 secs
4ir, ai, analytics, automation, data, dataops, digital transformation, engineering, industry, industry 4.0, manufacturing, mqtt, operations, ot, software, technology, unified namespace, unified namespace it, uns
Dominik Obermaier explains how MQTT is reshaping data architectures, the merits of cloud vs. on-prem, and what the emergence of Unified Namespace means for manufacturers.