Remaking Industry

We're all enamored with AI and tools like ChatGPT, which are proving to be hugely successful in the modern manufacturing facility. But cyber-attackers are using these technologies, too, to empower their methods of accessing your industrial facilities. In this episode, we chat with Daniel dos Santos, head of security research with Forescout Technologies, to learn how bad actors are using smart tools to cause big trouble. 

In this episode we connect with Tom Burke, global strategic advisor for the CC-Link Partner Association, to explore the current state of time-sensitive networking in manufacturing and focus on a case study of a Polish Toyota plant using this approach to increase availability of production lines, improve transparency of data, and integrate multiple devices from different vendors.

In this episode, we connect with Susan Nangle, SICK digital solution consultant, to explore new approaches to condition monitoring and spotlight new capabilities emerging as more manufacturers embrace tools and techniques that are enabling unprecedented visibility into asset performance. 

In this episode, we chat with OccamSec CEO Mark Stamford who regrets to inform us that we didn't learn a darn thing from the Colonial pipeline hack two years ago. (He does offer some solutions to get industrial cybersecurity up to speed.) 

In his downtime from being CEO of EOT, Matt Oberdorfer pens books. His latest explores the traits common to front-runners with digitalization programs. In this episode, we chat with Matt about trailblazing into the IIoT, the hurdles that emerge when leading the way, and the lessons we can all learn from those with the courage to push into our grand digital future. 

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For all of the robotic wonders on display throughout the miles of aisles at the ProMat 2023 event in March in Chicago, the focus for the vendors, the solution-providers, the manufacturers and the distribution-center personnel in attendance was decidedly human.

In this Smart * installment of the Remaking Industry podcast, Editor in Chief Chris McNamara marvels at the breadth of tools and topics under the "digitalization" banner and looks back, briefly, at prepping for his prom back in the early 90s. 

In this episode, we chat with Epicor's Kerrie Jordan about findings in their new workforce-focused survey. We dive into what attracts people to modern workplaces, what turns them off, and why the smart business owner does everything he or she can to make the tools in use similar to the devices workers use in their personal lives. Click here to access the report. 

The Remaking Industry podcast teams up with The Tool Belt podcast to feature a discussion with Plant Services Editor in Chief Tom Wilk. We explore trends revealed in the new Crystal Ball Report, get Tom's plant perspective, and consider where we're all headed in the coming months that (hopefully) promise a bit more stability and a lot more industrial efficiency.  

In this episode, we connect with Belden's Anne Vondrak to discuss the evolving value of ecosystems in the industrial space. We explore the importance of smart partners for your industrial ecosystem, the need for collaboration within the edge-to-cloud world, and what your ecosystem might look like a decade from now. 

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As-a-service is becoming commonplace in manufacturing. And like many trends, this one is showing sings of spiraling out of control. Smart Industry Editor in Chief Chris McNamara explores in this Smart * episode of Remaking Industry.

In this episode, Smart Industry Editor in Chief Chris McNamara shares his thoughts on the true value of the metaverse in manufacturing, touching on everything from "Being John Malkovich" to digital twins. 

In this episode we chat with Xavier Mesrobian, vice president of sales and marketing with Skkynet, to explore the evolution of the MQTT protocol in manufacturing. Obstacles are being overcome. Applications are widening. And, at least among those using it properly, huge gains are being won with MQTT. 

In this episode we connect with Endress+Hauser's Ashley David to discuss emerging, digitally enabled abilities to measure our output, our processes, and our assets. As new tools and savvier workforces using those new tools enable enterprises to monitor and measure the components that make their workplaces work more accurately, decision-makers need to stay informed about how to best capitalize.

 

 

In this episode we connect with Oracle's Surya Kommareddy and Didactic's Ted Rozier to learn about the new Oracle Industry Lab and discuss the value of real-world education for manufacturing in the digital realm.

In this episode we chat with Berardino Baratta, new CEO at MxD, on lessons learned as we emerge from the worst of the supply chain crisis, the evolution of cyber-threats and our efforts to secure our industrial enterprises, and the hidden value in fostering a diverse manufacturing workforce. (We also learned what a tech executive does during a decade-long sabbatical.)

 

In this episode, we connect with Daymon Thompson, Beckhoff Automation senior product manager, to explore how changes to OPC UA are changing the industrial landscape. Then we discuss the pub-sub specification and how its applications can benefit your business.