The Manufacturing IT Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode of The Manufacturing IT Podcast I speak with Tom Hectman - Founder/CTO at Sepasoft MES

In this episode I speak with Mo Abuali - Director, Digital Strategy, Wipfli.

Dr. Mo Abuali is a senior director at Wipfli with over 23 years of experience in providing consulting services to manufacturing companies. Mo is a transformative technology and business management leader in driving and sustaining change in Manufacturing. He serves industrial and manufacturing clients providing Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and digital transformation technology solutions, services and training. Mo has worked with companies like IBM, P&G and Toyota.

Explore Mo’s insights through his article on ‘Tips for a Successful Industry 4.0 Transition: ⁠https://www.automationworld.com/factory/digital-transformation/article/33037209/tips-for-a-successful-industry-40-transition⁠, a free Industry 4.0 Rapid Assessment: ⁠https://www.wipfli.com/industries/manufacturing-and-distribution/industry-4-0/industry-4-0-rapid-assessment ⁠and a webinar recording on achieving zero downtime and zero defects with Industry 4.0: ⁠https://www.wipfli.com/insights/webinars/mad-tc-reaching-zero-downtime-and-zero-defects-with-industry-4⁠

You can find more about Wipfli on their website: ⁠https://www.wipfli.com/⁠

You can find more information about Manufacturing IT Recruitment from their website: ⁠https://mitrec.com/⁠

In this episode I speak with Søren Schønnemann, CEO of Factbird.

Søren Schønnemann is a dynamic and forward-thinking CEO spearheading Factbird's mission to revolutionise the future of intelligent manufacturing. Søren brings over 15 years working in tech to the table and is responsible for taking Factbird from scale-up to global leader in manufacturing intelligence and optimisation

As CEO of Factbird, Søren's vision and leadership continue to propel the company forward, redefining the boundaries of manufacturing intelligence and promoting operational efficiency, process optimisation, and sustainable practices on a global scale.

About Factbird: Based in Copenhagen, Capital Region, Factbird is a pioneering provider of Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions. With a focus on real-time data collection and analysis, Factbird empowers companies to optimize operations, reduce downtime, and boost productivity. They are on a mission to bring more efficiency and less waste into manufacturing through plug-and-play data collection and easy-to-use analysis.

Factbird has a new podcast series that they launched.

https://www.factbird.com/blog/manufacturing-matters-podcast-challenges-facing-food-and-beverage-industry-2024

Tune in to join the conversation where manufacturing truly matters.

You can find more information about Factbird from their website: https://www.factbird.com/

You can find more information about Manufacturing IT Recruitment from their website: https://mitrec.com/

In this episode I speak with Ryan Kuhlenbeck, CEO and Co-Founder of Pico MES.

Ryan's career spans a wide range of automotive manufacturing at General Motors, Tesla, and Alta Motors.

He has experienced firsthand the real-world issues that the digital divide creates and decided to do something about it!

About Pico Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) have never been human-centric. Poor data management, broken traceability, and not designed for the average factory worker. Not anymore - we’ve fixed it.

Pico MES is a fresh approach to factory operating systems and enables a connected environment to limitless factory tools, capturing data for visibility into the supply chain.

Pico MES has migrated dozens of mid-sized factories off of paper-based systems and helped improve product quality for American factories in battery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace.

Pico MES is designed by end users, for future end users. 

In this episode I chat with Keith Bowen, Senior Vice President of Industry Engagement (Global)  

Keith Bowen is an industry leader with 25 years of experience in the Life Science manufacturing space and a BEng, Chemical Engineering.

Based in Ireland, Keith brings decades of global expertise to his role of Senior VP of Global Industry Engagement for Seabrook Technology Group. He concentrates on building customer engagement and working closely with marketing, product partners and services to drive strategic growth for the business. His focus is on addressing and solving current and future customer challenges, and guiding them on the value that Seabrook Technology Group can add to their business.

Starting with Pfizer in the late 90s with a BEng in Chemical Engineering from Aston University (UK), Keith has worked with and for many of the top 10 Pharma, Biotech and Medical Device companies, expanding his knowledge on and experience with automation and MES systems, MES product development, MES solution design, integrations, implementations, and support services for both large and small projects and cloud data solutions.

With personal experience with BMS, AbbVie, GSK, J&J, West Pharma, and Merck and a frequent speaker at MES events such as Pharma MES (Berlin), Keith is a trusted thought leader in the field.

“I have been working in the Life Science Manufacturing space for a long time. Right now is an incredibly exciting time for both medical device manufacturers with all the innovation being seen, and for the biotech space with so many new therapies and cures developing, and I am loving being part of it all.”

Outside of work, Keith is passionate about his family, sport, and technology as a whole.

In this episode of The Manufacturing IT Podcast, I speak with Johannes Liegert from Paessler on all things Connectivity, IIoT and Networking Monitoring for industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing

Johannes is Product Manager for IoT & Industry at Paessler. He is an experienced Product Owner and Product Manager, with a great history of working in the computer software industry.

Skilled in healthcare protocols IHE Process, HL7 Standards, DICOM and industrial communication especially OPC UA. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Science - MS focused in Medical Informatics from Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg.

Paessler believes monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind's consumption of resources. Monitoring data helps its customers save resources, from optimizing their IT, OT and IoT infrastructures, to reducing energy consumption or emissions – for our future and our environment. More than 500,000 users in over 170 countries rely on PRTG and other Paessler solutions to monitor their complex IT, OT and IoT infrastructures.

Hope you like the episode, and look forward to hearing your feedback!

In this episode I chat with Matt Barber the VP and GM of MES at Infor.

Matt has 15 years of MES experience, starting out as a Software Engineer at Lighthouse Systems, swiftly transitioning to Project Delivery and later heading the Shopfloor-Online Product team.

In 2021, Infor acquired Lighthouse, rebranding the product to Infor MES and in 2024 Matt took the VP of MES role at Infor and is responsbile for Infor MES.

His focus is on all things MES, including Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing, and Product Growth and Strategy.

Matt always had a passion for training others on MES, and has now taken this a step further by regularly posting educational content on LinkedIn and introducing MES Matters (mesmatters.com) where his mission is simple....educate the world about:

- MES / MOM

- Smart Manufacturing

- Digital Transformation

- AI in Manufacturing

- IIoT

Lot's of great information shared, I hope you like the episode!

In this episode of The Manufacturing IT Podcast, I chat with Daniel Pomeranz Founder and Head of Digital Transformation at Low Code Operational Intelligence.

Daniel started his career working industry side on enterprise software projects with SAP EWM, Camstar/OpCenter MES, and IBM Cognos. After years of frustration with the rigidity of these applications, he joined Tulip Interfaces in 2021 and helped grow their internal services team as the company grew rapidly in size.

After being a part of Tulip's internal services team, Daniel left to start his own business, Low Code Operational Intelligence, focusing on broader applications of Low Code technology for custom applications and data engineering in operational industries.

LCOI is a business dedicated to educating the industry on how Low Code can increase profit through both short term use cases and long term strategy and mindset changes.

The business is also predicated on providing services to support these businesses along the way. If you or someone you know might be interested, check out Daniel's LinkedIn profile and reach out.

He is truly passionate about this topic and always excited to answer any questions and demonstrate what he believes in!

In the episode of The Manufacturing IT Podcast, I sit down with the esteemed Deepak Turaga, Chief Technology Officer at Oden Technologies.

Previous to Oden Technologies, Deepak was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager of the AI First ML and Planning group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

He holds a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and one book on large-scale data stream processing. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University since 2009.

Oden Technologies is a manufacturing analytics company that provides solutions to give all teams frictionless plant-floor insights and artificial intelligence without complex data querying and management. A real-time, adaptable, and innovative data infrastructure that uniquely merges, cleans, and enriches all production data sources automatically provides the unshakeable foundation for turnkey, actionable, and highly adopted solutions. Learn more about us at oden.io.

Hope you find some value in the episode!!

In this episode of The Manufacturing IT Podcast, I speak with the VP of Global Sales at Eyelit.. Mr Dan Wilson.

Dan Wilson has over 20 years of experience in helping manufacturing organizations accelerate their digital transformation and improve their business outcomes by adopting new technology, implementing new processes and adapting to new business models.

Dan is passionate about the impact manufacturing has on prosperity, progress and innovation in our society, and strive's to take a leadership role in enabling smart manufacturing and digital transformation for innovative, visionary and ambitious manufacturing organizations.

As the Senior Vice President, Global Sales at Eyelit and MESTEC, Dan leads the global sales and sales engineering team for the entire Eyelit manufacturing software portfolio.

He is responsible for driving growth, expanding market share, and delivering customer satisfaction across different industries and regions.

Hope you enjoy the episode!