Manufacturing Matters

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Episode 153 – Kyle Haworth, Founder, GuildHall

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2026/10/02

Most discussions about industrial automation and analytics concern operations with hundreds of employees. This episode of Manufacturing Matters explores a less traveled quarter: Small shops with maybe a dozen people on the floor, a founder who has run the place for decades, and a spring sales bump nobody has ever been able to explain. Our guest, Kyle Haworth, built his career building large-scale enterprise data systems before co-founding GuildHall to bring that same discipline to manuf...

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Episode 152 - Gerry Vannuffelen, CEO & Founder,...

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2026/09/18

“You can have a high speed industrial robot, any type of robot really. And it doesn’t need fences, it doesn’t need safety devices. Everything is there. So it adjusts in real time to its environment.” A fence is usually the price of speed: put a high-speed industrial robot on a plant floor and you cage it off, or slow it down into a cobot and accept the productivity hit. Mantis Robotics founder and CEO Gerry Vannuffelen built the company to close that gap — fenceless robots that run at...

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Episode 151 - Juan Aparicio of ReshapeX and Ajaiey...

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2026/09/04

“It’s really a needle in a mountain of needles and you just want to find one.” For most manufacturers, the hard part of AI isn’t the model — it’s the knowledge locked in the heads of veteran engineers. In this special Automate 2026 episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll sits down with ReshapeX’s co-founder and CEO Juan Aparicio and Novanta’s Ajaiey Sharma (ATI Industrial Automation) for a candid case study of how the two companies turned decades of tribal ...

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Episode 150 - Dale Hopkinson, Senior Product Manager,...

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2026/08/21

“The value is moving from the metal to the code.” As manufacturers add AI and software to their products, the old one-time hardware sale is running out of runway when it comes to improving AI models for manufacturing. For Thales’s Dale Hopkinson, the real opportunity — and the real risk — sits in how that software and AI actually get monetized: not as a bolted-on price tag, but as a flexible, recurring business built to change as fast as the technology does. In this episode of M...

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Episode 149 – Ed Garstkiewicz, Senior Business...

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2026/08/07

“The more we can do with it, then the more likely the humanoids are going to take off and be adopted.” Connectors rarely get top billing. Nobody designs a device around a connector — yet these humble components increasingly determine whether a smart factory, an edge deployment, or a humanoid robot works. As manufacturers push more data, more power, and more intelligence through the same shrinking footprint, the demands on interconnect technology are evolving as fast as the systems they serve....

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Episode 148 - Andre Marino, Senior Vice President,...

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2026/07/30

"AI needs data, and industrial data is not available on the general internet." “It's not like you do either AI or manufacturing. If you're smart, you optimize what you have. You would be amazed how much you can gain by just retrofitting your old asset.” AI is finally moving “from PowerPoints to the real world” on the factory floor, but it can’t deliver when fed siloed, proprietary data. For Schneider Electric’s Andre Marino, the foundation comes first: open, software-defin...

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Episode 147 - Dr. Ray Hoare, Founder Concurrent EDA

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2026/07/24

“What we bring to the table is we understand how to take the data, do real-time compute, and turn it into knowledge. So, you got raw data coming in, you got knowledge coming out.” Modern machine vision and imaging systems can throw off a firehose of data far faster than a general-purpose computer can absorb it. Concurrent EDA founder Ray Hoare, PhD, has spent two decades on the other side of that firehose, taking algorithms and moving them into electronics so the compute happens right a...

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Episode 146 - Sheldon Zimmerman & Isabelle Durso,...

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2026/07/17

“The end goal for a lot of clients is this dream of a lights-out factory. Before you get there, there’s a stepping stone in between — and it’s this connected factory.” Autonomous mobile robots spent years confined to warehouse aisles. Now, driven by a persistent labor shortage and a wave of AI, they’re moving into the heart of the factory — handling the material movement between “islands of operation” that people increasingly don’t want to do, and taking on mission-critical roles once ...

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Episode 145 – Denise Chludzinski from Miller Resource...

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2026/07/02

This episode of Manufacturing Matters features Winn Hardin in conversation with Denise Chludzinski, vice president of business development at Miller Resource Group, a leading recruiter specializing in food and industrial automation manufacturing sectors. They discuss current talent trends, labor market challenges, and growth opportunities in manufacturing for 2026. Support the show

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Episode 144 - Charlie Andersen and Shelby Allen from...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2026/06/19

"Every Burro turns on with 12 eyes … and if one robot makes a mistake in a train depot yard in Australia, or an airport in South America, or doing vegetation management alongside a road in Pennsylvania, the entire fleet learns from that lesson.” For years, autonomous robots largely stayed indoors, confined to the predictable aisles of warehouses and factories. Leveraging his experience growing up working on a farm, Burro Co-Founder and CEO Charlie Andersen sought to develop rugged autonomou...

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Episode 143 - Eric Utley, Applications Engineering...

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2026/06/12

"Computational design and 3D printing go together like peanut butter and chocolate." For most of its history, 3D printing was considered speculative, risky, even fringe. Today, says Eric Utley, 3D printing applications engineering manager at Protolabs, it's boring, and that's exactly the point. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing's Jimmy Carroll sits down with Utley, a 16-year veteran of the additive manufacturing industry, to explore how 3D printing has quie...

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Episode 142 - Alex Sandoval, founder and CEO of Allie

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2026/05/29

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in manufacturing right now. But for many plant teams, it still feels more like a concept than a practical tool. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Aaron Hand sits down with Alex Sandoval, founder and CEO of Allie, to break down what AI actually looks like on the factory floor. Sandoval explains how AI co-pilots can connect to PLCs, quality systems, and maintenance data to act like a 24/7 expert supervisor — surfacing problems before they cau...

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Episode 141 - Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan

Manufacturing Matters ·

2026/05/22

“One of my biggest complaints with public policy is we're too reactive. And because technology now changes so rapidly, if you're reactive, by the time you have a policy in place, it's outdated.” -Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan The United States accounts for just 9% of global robotics installations while China accounts for 54% — a gap that Congresswoman McClellan believes demands a proactive response from Washington. That's the driving force behind the National Commission on Rob...

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Episode 140 - Mark Gagas, COO Sensory Robotics

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2026/05/15

"Engineers can now start thinking about cell design not from the cages, but from the actual work." A significant if not obvious factor that all companies implementing robotic systems must consider is safety. While robotic guarding has been the industry standard for years, Sensory Robotics COO Mark Gagas believes another way offers more flexibility and space for manufacturers. After 19 months of rigorous testing, his company now has UL certification to prove it. In this episode ...

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Episode 139 - Erik Reynolds, Founder of Reynolds and...

Manufacturing Matters ·

2026/05/07

Artificial intelligence is quickly making its way onto the manufacturing floor. But when it comes to safety, the stakes are different. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Winn Hardin and Aaron Hand talk with Erik Reynolds, founder of Reynolds & Moore, about what it really takes to bring AI into safety-critical systems. For decades, safety engineering has relied on deterministic, fully explainable systems. AI challenges that foundation, introducing models that learn, adapt, an...

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Episode 138 - Aaron Royster, Group Manager –...

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2026/05/01

Robots may get most of the attention, but what happens at the end of the arm often determines whether an automation project succeeds or fails. As manufacturers push for greater flexibility, faster changeovers, and more complex handling, the demands on grippers and end-of-arm tooling are evolving at least as quickly as the robots themselves. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Aaron Hand talks with Aaron Royster, group manager of automation at Schunk, about how end-of-arm tooling is sha...

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Episode 137 - Robert Franz, CEO of Allied Vision...

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2026/04/22

Computer imaging (aka Machine Vision) is having a moment, and Allied Vision CEO Robert Franz explains why. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, he joins Winn Hardin to talk about Allied Vision’s brand unification, the shift from components to customer-first solutions, and why AI, edge intelligence, SWIR imaging, and open smart cameras are opening up huge new opportunities across automation, agriculture, healthcare, robotics, and beyond. It’s a fast-moving conversation about where vision ...

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Episode 136 - Arne Leinse, CEO of LioniX International

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2026/04/10

In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, host Dan McCarthy of TECH B2B Marketing sits down with Arne Leinse, CEO of LioniX International, to explore the manufacturing realities behind photonic integrated circuits (PICs) — one of the most technically demanding frontiers in semiconductor manufacturing. As CEO of a module supplier built around silicon nitride waveguide technology, Leinse highlights the challenges that make PICs so difficult to produce at scale, from the need for sub-nano...

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Episode 135 - Clint Bundy, Managing Director at The...

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2026/04/03

In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, host Winn Hardin sits down with Clint Bundy, managing director of the Bundy Group, to pull back the curtain on the world of mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising within the industrial automation sector. As the manufacturing industry faces a "graying" C-suite and shifting economic forecasts, Bundy provides a masterclass on how business owners can navigate these high-stakes transitions. Support the show

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Episode 134 - Paul Osterhaus, Managing Partner at QOC...

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2026/03/26

Manufacturers are generating more data than ever — from machines on the production floor to purchasing, inventory, and finance. Yet many companies still struggle to turn that data into clear answers to the questions that matter most: Are we profitable on a given job? Do we have the capacity to take on more work? Where are bottlenecks slowing us down? In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Winn Hardin and Aaron Hand talk with Paul Osterhaus, managing partner at QOC Innovations, ...

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