When Trust Matters More Than Your Spec Sheet with Zoie Rittling
Edge computing sounds clean on a slide deck, but the factory floor is where the definition gets real fast. We talk with Zoie Rittling, an edge computing specialist at TEGUAR, about what “compute close...
18 Sep 36min
Automate mini series: Whitney Sales
“We do it with AI” is easy to say. Making robots work through contact, uncertainty, and variation on a real factory floor is the hard part. We sit down with Whitney Dills from Thought Forge AI to unpa...
10 Sep 54min
Automate mini series: Dylan Caufrier
Paper schematics feel “reliable” until they are the reason a shutdown drags on, a cabinet print is wrong, or a tech makes a split-second mistake under pressure. We sit down with Dylan from Lightstream...
3 Sep 52min
You Can Learn People Skills Like You Learn PLCs with Alice Rystov and Cassy Gardner
Your engineering degree taught you equations. Then your first job asks you to troubleshoot a VFD, commission a skid, and explain the problem to five different people without melting down. That jump is...
27 Aug 48min
Automate mini series: Amanda Beaton
Most people in industrial automation agree we have a skills gap, but we keep aiming the message at ourselves. We sat down with Amanda Beaton from Siemens to talk about the side of Automate that deserv...
20 Aug 22min
The Future of Automation: Physical AI, Robotics, and What’s Next with Dennis Gansen
AI isn’t just a software story, it’s a power story, a controls story, and a “how do we actually build this stuff” story. After the EPC show in Houston, I sit down with Dennis Ganson from Schneider Ele...
13 Aug 1h 1min
Automate mini series: Christine Bush
ROI math can be brutally simple, and that’s exactly why it often fails in industrial automation. If your spreadsheet only asks “how many heads are we replacing,” you might get a clean payback number, ...
30 Jul 24min
The Skills Gap Is Your Fault with Matt Kirchner
“Manufacturing is still the place where you can start out sweeping the floor and end up running the company” is a bold claim, so we brought on someone who has lived the full arc. I’m joined by Matt Ki...
16 Jul 1h 6min
