Manufacturing Matters

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Episode 114 - Ken VonderHaar, Director of Client...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/09/12

When manufacturers miss deadlines for capital project startup, that can have a huge impact on product and business success. Operational readiness is not just about production hitting set goals — ultimately, it’s about getting product to consumers faster. For its latest Horizons report, Operational Readiness, project delivery experts at CRB surveyed almost 400 consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers to tackle questions from planning to commissioning — what works and what doesn’t. In this e...

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Episode 113 - Darcy Bachert, CEO of Prolucid...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/09/05

"Businesses in manufacturing and beyond face significant challenges today, whether their reshoring operations, skill shortages, labor shortages, or political strain, but today’s automation technologies can help solve these problems." In this episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Darcy Bachert, CEO of Prolucid Technologies and Chairperson of the A3 Board of Directors joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to take a high-level look at some of the biggest challenges in...

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Episode 112 – Rajat Bhageria, president of Chef Robotics

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/08/29

“While many applications within the food manufacturing space have been successfully automated, some gaps exist when it comes to high-mix automation, including the handling of prepared sandwiches, salads, and other meals. By augmenting robots with advanced AI, automation can be scaled to all parts of the food supply chain, starting with manufacturing.” In the automation of food manufacturing, certain challenges are inherent to the industry, particularly when it comes to handling a highly varia...

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Episode 111 - Anthony Jules, Founder and CEO of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/08/15

"As much as we feel like the change is never ending right now, that's going to be the constant for the next couple of decades. We're going to have more options for how we increase productivity, how we collaborate with robots and each other, and how we build value. " Right now, we are at such an incredible moment in history in terms of AI and robotics, and we’re just at the beginning of this journey, suggests Anthony Jules, Founder and CEO of Robust AI. The hard part, he says, is going to be ...

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Episode 110 – Vikas Gupta, Senior Director of Product...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/08/01

“From a fab perspective, you’re not only looking at submicron structures, but then some of these fiber interfaces may be centimeters. You have to be able to inspect and fabricate structures which vary in orders of magnitude.” Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which use light instead of electricity to transmit and process data, will enable faster, more efficient communication critical for applications like data centers, telecom, and advanced sensing. GlobalFoundries, a major semicond...

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Episode 109 – Craig Coyle, Founder and CEO of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/07/24

"How can lessons learned as an Apache pilot in the military translate into aerospace engineering and the general world of manufacturing?" Lead like a pilot means placing an importance on structure, guidance, and community, says Operation Lead’s Craig Coyle. A former Apache pilot, Coyle joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll on this episode of Manufacturing Matters to discuss this concept and its applicability to manufacturing today. The discussion covered workforce challenges, leadership ...

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Episode 108 – Chris Matthieu, and Fred Angelopoulos...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/07/18

"With AI technology, anyone can be a programmer. If you have an idea, whether you can code or not, AI can write the RealSense code, and you can deploy an AI-enabled 3D camera for less than $100." Walk any robotics show floor and chances are you will see RealSense cameras in many of the robots and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) on display, which made it surprising years ago when erroneous reports said that Intel was winding down the RealSense division. Things have changed drastically since th...

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Episode 107 – Dunchadhn Lyons and Allison Lilly, Spot AI

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/07/03

"Today, video AI agents exist that turn your existing cameras into AI teammates across a range of applications. If you can leverage this technology to make your assembly line operate 1% more efficiently, that can result in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue in a year." In this episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Dunchadhn Lyons, Director of Engineering and Allison Lilly, Director Product Marketing at Spot AI joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to discu...

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Episode 106 – Kence Anderson, founder and CEO of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/06/27

Artificial intelligence has been around for many years, but the face of AI is continually changing. Today, by applying well-engineered AI to manufacturing toolsets, we can get closed-loop control and automation that has more humanlike characteristics than ever before. For this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Aaron Hand caught up with Kence Anderson, founder and CEO of Composabl, at Automate 2025. Anderson puts Composabl’s multi-agent AI systems into pers...

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Episode 105 – Gerd Walter, President and CEO of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/06/20

"Manufacturers and businesses of all types must always be ready to pivot, whether it means dealing with tariffs and geopolitical strife, labor shortage, supply chain issues, or other disruptions, everyone must be ready to pivot. Indeed, it’s a dance." When tariffs were first announced, many businesses, including systems integration company Creative Automation, already had containers full of parts and equipment on the water making their way to headquarters. While this presents significant cha...

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Episode 104 – Ben Hussey, Co-CEO Katana Cloud Inventory

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/06/12

Katana Cloud Inventory powers inventory and manufacturing workflows for 1500+ small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and routinely tracks over $300 million in monthly procurement data. That gives Katana a unique near-real-time window on the shifting interplay between unit costs, inventory and market demand in sectors like manufacturing. In this episode of “Manufacturing Matters,” TECH B2B Marketing’s Aaron Hand and Dan McCarthy invite Katana co-CEO Ben Hussey to share what trends Kata...

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Episode 103 - Vikas Enti, CEO and Co-Founder of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/06/06

"We’re on a mission to build climate resilient homes for all…leveraging the latest robotics and automation technologies." Construction costs have doubled in the last decade, and we have a shortage of skilled workers to build them anyway. In addition, climate events are getting more severe, so how can we start designing products that are climate-friendly, more resilient to changing weather patterns, and significantly less expensive? That’s Reframe Systems in a nutshell, explained Vikas ...

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Episode 102 - Suzy Teele, Chief Strategy Officer, ARM...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/05/28

"We must teach kids that they can be a manufacturer too – not just a doctor, lawyer, or fireperson. You get to work with cutting-edge machines and with your hands, but we haven’t really been able to create this feeling yet." There’s a lot of work to be done when it comes to reaching down further into school systems to help them understand, and to help teachers and faculty understand that manufacturing is a viable career, said Suzy Teele, Chief Strategy Officer at the ARM Institute. In this e...

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Episode 101 - Naresh Ram, Chief Science Officer at AAXIS

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/05/23

"When it comes to AI in the industrial world, it represents supply chain optimization with demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, machine vision for quality control, and much more. But it also represents the elimination of manual tasks." Views on AI have changed drastically over the last five or so years, suggests Naresh Ram, Chief Science Officer at AAXIS. Today AI represents the elimination of manual and repetitive tasks that no one wants to do or should be doing in the first place. F...

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Episode 100 – Automation Panel: Tariffs, Supply...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/28

“Whether its tariffs, COVID-19, the chip crisis, shipping issues, changes in EV direction, or beyond; every market disruption is a chance to adopt or adapt your strategies and methods of getting things done.” In this special panel discussion episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Jeff Stello (Metaphase Technologies), Jason Covar (The Imaging Source), Gerd Walter (Creative Automation), and Stu Shepherd (this year’s Engelberger Award recipient; Shepherd Solutions, Inc., joined TECH B2B M...

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Episode 99 – Scott Jordan, Head of Photonics, Physik...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/25

The waveguides, modulators, microscopic lasers, photodetectors, and other optical components that form photonic integrated circuits (PICs) all need to be perfectly aligned to minimize signal loss on the chip. PICs simply cannot improve yields, lower costs, or efficiently scale without ever-faster alignment tools able to perform with nanometer precision. In this episode, TECH B2B’s Dan McCarthy chats with Physik Instrumente’s Scott Jordan about the advanced alignment tools and AI algorithms th...

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Episode 98 – Doug Harriman, Vice President of...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/24

When systems integrators hit roadblocks where they must design something brand new that’s never been done before, that’s what we’re good at. There are a lot of great systems integrators out there that build industrial automation systems that can do exactly what you need, bringing together industrial robots, controllers, vision systems, control cabinets, PLCs, and so on, explains Doug Harriman, Vice President of Engineering at Simplexity Product Development. These integrators know the space, ...

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Episode 97 – Fredrik Rydén, CEO, Olis Robotics

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/23

Systems integrators can become victims of their own success. In these cases, remote support becomes a much more viable and cost-efficient option. Some systems integrators can become victims of their own success. When integrators deploy many systems and the crew that built the cells don't have the bandwidth to travel and see all these customers and can’t staff up massive service departments – it can become an issue. Companies looking for a more cost-effective means of keeping customers happy ...

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Episode 96 – Dr. Tom Hausken, Senior Industry...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/14

By some measures, the production of optics and photonics core components is $400 billion a year market now, and the technology’s downstream value far exceeds that figure — particularly when calculating in new developments like photonic integrated circuits (PICs). But will photonics ever challenge the value of electronics? Or is it more of an analog to electronics’ early days? Or is photonics simply one of the electronics industry’s more interesting corners? Optica’s senior industry advisor, D...

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Episode 95 – Al Dekin and Vered Tomlak, Locus Robotics

Manufacturing Matters ·

2025/04/07

If you're selling a limited number of products over the course of Q1-Q3, and then suddenly you have this incredible spike in demand with peak season, that variability doesn't lend itself to sort of traditional forms of automation. The world is changing, day to day, week to week, and what you are selling today may not be what you are selling tomorrow. In addition, consumer e-commerce demands can shift drastically – whether it’s the pandemic, the labor shortage, or seasonal spikes – different ...

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