Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 16 in total of Augmented Ops with the tag “operations”.
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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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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.
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Episode 133: Rethinking Our Approach to AI with Dr. Jay Lee
March 13th, 2024 | Season 4 | 31 mins 11 secs
4ir, ai, analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, data, digital transformation, engineering, generative ai, industry, industry 4.0, machine learning, manufacturing, ml, operations, software, technology
Dr. Jay Lee lays out how AI is reshaping industrial operations, global supply chains, and how our education system needs to adapt to train the next generation of AI practitioners.
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Episode 132: Open Source Software for Manufacturing with UMH's Alex Krüger
February 28th, 2024 | Season 4 | 26 mins 34 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
Alex Krüger explores the state of open source software in manufacturing, how to bridge IT and OT worlds with a Unified Namespace, the future of MES, and more.
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Episode 131: MQTT, Unified Namespace, and The New Industrial Data Stack with Litmus’s Vatsal Shah
February 14th, 2024 | Season 4 | 26 mins 7 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
Vatsal Shah explores how new technologies like MQTT and the Unified Namespace architecture are transforming industrial data infrastructures and opening up new opportunities for manufacturers.