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
113 episodes
Episode 112 – Rajat Bhageria, president of Chef Robotics
“While many applications within the food manufacturing space have been successfully automated, some gaps exist when it comes to high-mix automation, including the handling of prepared sandwiches, salads, and other meals. By augmenting robots wi...
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Episode 112
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Episode 111 - Anthony Jules, Founder and CEO of Robust AI
"As much as we feel like the change is never ending right now, that's going to be the constant for the next couple of decades. We're going to have more options for how we increase productivity, how we collaborate with robots and each other, and...
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Episode 111
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Episode 110 – Vikas Gupta, Senior Director of Product Management for Silicon Photonics at GlobalFoundries
“From a fab perspective, you’re not only looking at submicron structures, but then some of these fiber interfaces may be centimeters. You have to be able to inspect and fabricate structures which vary in orders of magnitude.” Photo...
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Episode 110
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Episode 109 – Craig Coyle, Founder and CEO of Operation Lead
"How can lessons learned as an Apache pilot in the military translate into aerospace engineering and the general world of manufacturing?"Lead like a pilot means placing an importance on structure, guidance, and community, says Operation...
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Episode 109
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26:50
Episode 108 – Chris Matthieu, and Fred Angelopoulos of RealSense
"With AI technology, anyone can be a programmer. If you have an idea, whether you can code or not, AI can write the RealSense code, and you can deploy an AI-enabled 3D camera for less than $100."Walk any robotics show floor and ...
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Episode 107 – Dunchadhn Lyons and Allison Lilly, Spot AI
"Today, video AI agents exist that turn your existing cameras into AI teammates across a range of applications. If you can leverage this technology to make your assembly line operate 1% more efficiently, that can result in hundreds of millions ...
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Episode 107
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Episode 106 – Kence Anderson, founder and CEO of Composabl
Artificial intelligence has been around for many years, but the face of AI is continually changing. Today, by applying well-engineered AI to manufacturing toolsets, we can get closed-loop control and automation that has more humanlike character...
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Episode 106
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Episode 105 – Gerd Walter, President and CEO of Creative Automation
"Manufacturers and businesses of all types must always be ready to pivot, whether it means dealing with tariffs and geopolitical strife, labor shortage, supply chain issues, or other disruptions, everyone must be ready to pivot. Indeed, it’s a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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