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Welcome to Enabling Automation! The fifth episode of season 3 is "Reducing risk in the automation process". Join our season 3 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, Ryan Babel.
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In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:04 – Introduction
02:03 – How do you start the discussion on mitigating risk?
03:31 – Risk management tools
04:56 – Creating a risk heat map
06:06 – Writing down the process in detail and risk
08:09 – The proof of principle process
10:02 – Favourite proof of principle?
11:39 – How does new technology impact risk reduction? Or is it causing more risk?
13:36 – Using what you know and what has been done in the past
14:55 – Best practices for good team structures
19:34 – 3D printing and risk reduction
22:40 – How do you look at improving your process to identify and mitigate risk over time?
25:15 – Final thoughts
26:00 – Closing
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Why should vision systems be included in your automation project?
Season 3 · Episode 4
Thursday, September 5, 2024 • Duration 24:01
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The fourth episode of season 3 is "Why should vision systems be included in your automation project?". Join our season 3 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, Steve Wardell.
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Welcome to Enabling Automation! The seventh episode of this season 2 is "IP in Automation". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest Kuyler Neable.
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In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
How do automation and lean transformations complement each other?
Season 2 · Episode 6
Thursday, November 2, 2023 • Duration 24:56
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The sixth episode of this season 2 is "How do automation and lean transformations complement each other?". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guests, Cameron Moyer and Vetrivel Janakiraman.
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Welcome to Enabling Automation! The fifth episode of this season 2 is "Building a sustainable high-tech company". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, Cheryl Gasparet.
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Sustainability is about making sure that your company has the resources it needs to thrive today while ensuring that you have the resources you’ll need for tomorrow. When starting your sustainability journey, the first step is conducting a materiality assessment, which helps in identifying what's most important to your company and what will have the biggest impact.
Influencing the next generation
Season 2 · Episode 4
Thursday, September 7, 2023 • Duration 26:26
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The fourth episode of this season 2 is "Influencing the next generation".
Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, D'Arcy Oldfield.
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The third episode of this season 2 is "Building partnerships through automation". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, Udo Panenka.
Today's automation world is changing and some of the traditional factors that have driven custom automation are not the same ones driving the future of automation. Factors including shorter lead times and continuously evolving products are highlighting how the traditional approach to automation is limiting the potential automation can have.
These changes have led towards a lean approach to manufacturing, with Kaizen is one of the key tools utilized. Kaizen has a continuous improvement mindset, that drives process improvements, helps evolve different areas of a business and drives team members towards a common goal.
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The first episode of this season 2 is "The foundation of automation". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guest, Ben Hope.
When looking to start automation for the first time or looking at levelling up the amount of automation in your operation, the first thing to look at is ROI. Does it make sense for your business financially? For small or mid-sized businesses looking to start their automation journey or scale up, the biggest barrier is cost. Assembly automation is highly customized and costly. Are there areas of your assembly that can utilize a standardized platform? Starting with conveyance as your primary platform can help with standardization. When you standardize one piece of technology, your understanding increases and can help speed up the adoption of automation in your organization.
The most impactful choice you make when designing a system is the foundation of the assembly process. Conveyance is the first step in the design of any system as it brings the product through the assembly process and can easily be built upon. Starting with conveyance gives you a better understanding of the process and helps build a better automation system with stronger performance.
Building familiarity and understanding of the process has become easier in recent years. Hardware emulation and simulation tools are on the rise. Industry 4.0 made way for the concept of the digital twin. The digital twin enables engineers to conceptualize and simulate processes and makes implementing continuous improvements and optimizing processes easier.
The idea that automation is only for big corporations has started to change. Standardization is key to opening the door for more businesses to start their automation journey. Starting with conveyance will allow your business to begin the automation process and leave room to scale up.
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The tenth and final episode of season one of the Enabling Automation podcast. Join our season 1 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses “Identifying the type of automation you need” with special guest, Ryan Tavares.
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
When you talk about identifying the type of automation needed for a business, the future of your automation depends on what stage you are at currently in your automation journey. What phase are you on? Where do you want to go, are there any configurable or customizable needs? What is your end goal and what machine and accomplish all your requirements in the most economical way? All these questions will configure what your automation looks like in your business.
Before jumping into a customized or commercially available automation solution, it is important to understand the requirements, stakes, technical requirements, building requires as a foundation to what you can do, and then from there explore the solutions on the market that are standardized before looking at custom making a machine. There is always a level of customization for each process, however, the extent of the customization costs time and money. Explore the standardized solutions on the market first and see how well those examples suit the needs of your business.
The solution to your automation needs does not always have to be custom and is not always fully automated. There are semi-automated, fully automated, and then custom solutions that are available and can be implemented based on your current circumstances and requirements.
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:04 – Introduction
01:28 – What keeps you passionate about your career?
02:44 – Do you have a favourite vision application?
05:54 – What makes vision a critical aspect of an automation project?
12:22 – How can you train AI?
14:18 – Utilizing tools in our toolbox
16:00 – Guidance for when AI tools vs traditional tools are beneficial on a line
18:16 – How do vision systems work to identify defects?
21:28 – Final thoughts
23:27 – Closing
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Timestamps
00:04 – Introduction
02:18 – How to stay on track of an IP/Patent strategy?
04:44 – Is there a deadline for filing a patent?
07:03 – How can an invention receive a patent?
11:35 – Product vs process, patent vs trade secrets
16:03 – Are there guidelines for when you should not obtain a patent?
21:10 – Partnering and the impact on IP
26:00 – What are good habits to protect IP inside of a business?
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:04 – Introduction
01:51 – How do you define lean principles and automation.
02:49 – Where do you start your lean journey?
04:00 – What happens if lean is not considered first?
05:40 – What impacts implementation of lean approaches and automation.
08:40 – Proudest moment as a lean practitioner?
15:52 – Value stream map
20:54 – Automation applied to a process without lean tools.
23:23 – Trying lean approaches.
24:16 – Closing
One effective way to perform a materiality assessment is to conduct a survey that includes both internal and external stakeholders. Asking investors, customers and employees what issues are most important to them when it comes to sustainability can help determine your path forward.
Sustainability also comes into play with automation. Automation can help in reducing waste of resources, whether that's packaging waste, product waste or footprint. Utilizing automation can increase manufacturing capability which decreases errors while shrinking the footprint the customer needs. This results in less material waste and a reduction in energy consumed in the process.
Investing time, money and resources in sustainability initiatives feels like a big undertaking but it’s made up of small actions taken together to build something bigger. Start with a small issue and work up from there. The sustainability journey is not about finding a quick solution, it's about identifying, step by step, incremental improvements that your company can make that moves you in the right direction.
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:16 – Where should companies begin their sustainability journey?
03:38 – How do you determine what is important to your company’s sustainability journey?
07:40 – Different perspectives through sustainability objectives
08:45 – Example of return on investments
10:22 – Working with your partners
14:17 – One step at a time
16:33 – How long does it usually take to see a return on investment?
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Automation is several different components, technologies, processes and people coming together to create something unique. That's why it's so heavily reliant on an ecosystem with various experts. With it being so reliant on that large ecosystem, it is important to know what to do to grow that ecosystem and build up the next generation.
Building the next generation not only provides value to the future of automation, but also provides value to those currently in the field. Working with the next generation brings new perspective, room for growth and more resources for the company to draw from. Investing in the future generation is also investing in the company and its current wo...
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:04 - Introduction
01:31 - Partnerships in the Industrial Automation segment
05:29 - One company, one goal - approach
09:09 - Joint kaizen events best practices
27:34 - Final thoughts
29:17 - Closing
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Supply chain is an integral part of any manufacturing business and needs to be considered when planning an automation project. Thinking about the objectives of your operation and how output and processes will change will help you identify where supply chain will be impacted. How supply chains operate has been changed by the implementation of automation technology. Incorporating new technologies into your manufacturing process can automate the supply chain process and connect it to IT systems. This provides more stability, less room for errors and a more efficient, cost-effective supply chain.
Identifying suppliers that fit into strategic growth plans is an important part of the automation implementation process. While some suppliers will be able to grow with your business, others may no longer suit your needs and new ones that fit your future business model will need to be considered.
Technology can be utilized to drive improved process with key supply partners. The use of automation technology provides more data from the operational and supply chain side which helps businesses effectively manage the supply chain. Sharing this data with suppliers is also valuable and will allow them to support your supply chain better.
Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
01:39 – Why is it a mistake to not consider supply chain in your automation project
04:43 – Key changes for incorporating new technologies
08:01 – Do suppliers change once the implementation of automation or technology happens
11:53 – How should you look at supply chain differently once automation is implemented
13:39 – Does automation change what makes a good supplier?
14:30 – Example of suppliers growing and changing with their partner
15:33 – Sophistication in supply chain and automation
16:46 – How can you leverage existing supply chain to be more effective?
In this monthly podcast series, join industry leaders from across ATS as they share and discuss the latest industry trends, new innovations, and more! ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies.
Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
02:56 – Where should someone start when wanting to get automation into their business
05:23 – What area should a business narrow in on for automation?
09:18 – Does using standardization speed up the design phase of automation?
12:07 – Is the foundation of automation conveyance?
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
01:03 – Identifying automation needs
02:35 – How to narrow down what you need in automation
03:49 – Top standard equipment in automation
05:28 – Collaborative robots as a standard technology
07:58 – Combining the best automation approach to fit your automation needs
08:46 – How do you determine if you should go with manual, semi-automated, fully automated, and/or a cu...
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