Manufacturing Matters
The Manufacturing Matters podcast aims to get to the heart of automation technology and how it plays into the growing manufacturing industry. Join us for insights and interviews discussing trends, innovations, and advanced automation technologies, such as robotics, machine vision, AI, and much more. Follow our social channels here: http://linktr.ee/m_mp
Episodes
105 episodes
Episode 104 – Ben Hussey, Co-CEO Katana Cloud Inventory
Katana Cloud Inventory powers inventory and manufacturing workflows for 1500+ small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and routinely tracks over $300 million in monthly procurement data. That gives Katana a unique near-real-time window on the s...
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Episode 104
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31:43
Episode 103 - Vikas Enti, CEO and Co-Founder of Reframe Systems
"We’re on a mission to build climate resilient homes for all…leveraging the latest robotics and automation technologies." Construction costs have doubled in the last decade, and we have a shortage of skilled workers to build them a...
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Episode 103
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40:05
Episode 102 - Suzy Teele, Chief Strategy Officer, ARM Institute
"We must teach kids that they can be a manufacturer too – not just a doctor, lawyer, or fireperson. You get to work with cutting-edge machines and with your hands, but we haven’t really been able to create this feeling yet."There’s a lo...
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Episode 102
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26:50
Episode 101 - Naresh Ram, Chief Science Officer at AAXIS
"When it comes to AI in the industrial world, it represents supply chain optimization with demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, machine vision for quality control, and much more. But it also represents the elimination of manual tasks."
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Episode 101
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29:05
Episode 100 – Automation Panel: Tariffs, Supply Chains, and What’s Next
“Whether its tariffs, COVID-19, the chip crisis, shipping issues, changes in EV direction, or beyond; every market disruption is a chance to adopt or adapt your strategies and methods of getting things done.”In this special panel discuss...
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Episode 100
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47:36
Episode 99 – Scott Jordan, Head of Photonics, Physik Instrumente
The waveguides, modulators, microscopic lasers, photodetectors, and other optical components that form photonic integrated circuits (PICs) all need to be perfectly aligned to minimize signal loss on the chip. PICs simply cannot improve yields, ...
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Episode 99
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26:03
Episode 98 – Doug Harriman, Vice President of Engineering, Simplexity Product Development
When systems integrators hit roadblocks where they must design something brand new that’s never been done before, that’s what we’re good at.There are a lot of great systems integrators out there that build industrial automation systems ...
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Episode 98
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25:00
Episode 97 – Fredrik Rydén, CEO, Olis Robotics
Systems integrators can become victims of their own success. In these cases, remote support becomes a much more viable and cost-efficient option.Some systems integrators can become victims of their own success. When integrators deploy m...
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Episode 97
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19:30
Episode 96 – Dr. Tom Hausken, Senior Industry Advisor, Optica
By some measures, the production of optics and photonics core components is $400 billion a year market now, and the technology’s downstream value far exceeds that figure — particularly when calculating in new developments like photonic integrat...
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Episode 96
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29:08
Episode 95 – Al Dekin and Vered Tomlak, Locus Robotics
If you're selling a limited number of products over the course of Q1-Q3, and then suddenly you have this incredible spike in demand with peak season, that variability doesn't lend itself to sort of traditional forms of automation.The wo...
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Episode 95
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Episode: 94 – Jason Covar and Jeremy Bergh, The Imaging Source
Whether it’s in retail, robotics, or quality inspection, our customers today are finding ways to leverage AI to merge multiple different components at once instead of having a single line for one component.While the attention of the mas...
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Episode 94
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26:30
Episode: 93 – Eelko Brinkoff and Jorn Smeets, PhotonDelta
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) technology is sparking transformations in applications as diverse as LiDAR systems, agri-food, and hyperscale data centers. But manufacturing PICs at scale demands a level of complexity beyond the scope of an...
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Episode 93
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21:33
Episode: 92 – Jay Swank, Business Development Manager – North America, Lynxeo
Whether you’re programming robots, working in a clean room environment or a dirty steel mill, people working in manufacturing jobs can make a fantastic living and should be proud.Industrial cables are the silent technology that ...
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Episode 92
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26:25
Episode: 91 – Nino LaDuca and Simon Kenworthy
Customers always said to us, we can't find individuals to work on second shift or third shift. We need automation. So, the game changed for us as a companyIn this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Nino LaDuca, CEO, Shape Technol...
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Episode 91
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28:44
Episode: 90 - Patrick Iulianello, VP / co-founder, AccuCoat inc.
Sometimes the gap separating conventional optics from advanced high-precision performance is only an angstrom thick.Even cutting-edge optics don’t always cut it for the most demanding applications in imaging, laser systems, ...
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Episode 90
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27:42
Episode 89 - Alex Rudolph, Head of Applications Engineering, SensoPart
Manufacturers rapidly address new challenges with AI-enabled vision sensors and simplified calibration for robotic applications. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, SensoPart’s head of applications engineering, Alex Rudolph, ...
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Episode 89
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19:24
Episode 88 - Robotics Panel Discussion at 2025 A3 Business Forum
In this special robotics panel discussion episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Juan Aparicio (Reshape Automation), Josh Cloer (Mujin), SK Gupta (GrayMatter Robotics), and Suzy Teele (ARM Institute) join TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin...
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Episode 88
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54:20
Episode 87 - Matt Bush, COO and Co-Founder, Hirebotics
“Let's not treat the humans like a robot. Let's treat the robot like a robot.” Welding and fabrication can be tedious and unfulfilling when you’re creating the same part over and over. This is just one factor ...
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Episode 87
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30:49
Episode 86 - Roei Ganzarski, CEO, Alitheon
What comes to mind when reading the term “no-touch serialization?” and how does that fit into the machine vision space?Can you imagine taking images of each blank piece of paper in a full ream, “feature printing” (think digital ...
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Episode 86
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44:53
Episode 85 - Machine Vision Panel Discussion at 2025 A3 Business Forum
In this special machine vision panel discussion episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Jason Covar (The Imaging Source), David Dechow (Motion AI), and Dale Deering (Teledyne) join TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to dis...
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Episode 85
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46:46
Episode 84 - Etienne Lacroix, Founder and CEO, Vention
I felt the pain of being an integrator and envisioned a world where an entire workflow could be entirely digitalized.Picture building an automation system in hours, just like with LEGOs. This is what Vention set out to do when Vention b...
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Episode 84
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39:29
Episode 83 - Berk Birand, CEO, Fero Labs
With “explainable, industrial-grade AI” the goal is not just predict an issue but understand why.In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Berk Birand, CEO, Fero Labs joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll to talk about the deploymen...
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Episode 83
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34:34
Episode 82 - Reinhold Niesing, Vice President, Automotive & Battery Vertical Markets, Siemens
You should expect more from your automation.In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Reinhold Niesing, Vice President, Automotive & Battery Vertical Markets, Siemens joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to talk...
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Episode 82
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20:42
Episode 81 - Martin Ettenberg, CTO, Princeton Infrared Technologies
“I’ve been doing this technology long enough that I can almost see in shortwave infrared.” In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Martin Ettenberg, CTO, Princeton Infrared Technologies joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll an...
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Episode 81
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22:25
Episode 80 - Sue Susenburger, giddyUp! Innovations
For startups entering the automation and manufacturing market, the road ahead can be a difficult one. But those coming from Europe into the United States, that road is much bumpier, even with significant funding behind them. In this episode, Su...
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Episode 80
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20:49