Gary On Manufacturing - Gary Mintchell

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Where Operations Technology and Information Technology come together. Essays and interviews with Gary Mintchell.

Episodios

  • 218 Is Data Real

    15/01/2021 Duración: 15min

    I worked with data ever since it was handwritten or typed. We can just generate much more of it these days. We can contextualize, analyze, visualize. The question is--are we using it adequately to make better decisions?

  • 217 Disrupting Manufacturing Technology

    18/12/2020 Duración: 14min

    Congratulations to Eddie Habibi, Pat Kennedy, Corky Ellis, and others for building companies and getting a good exit. Where are the next generation of new companies coming from? Will they be disruptive to the manufacturing technology market? What is disruptive anyway? Podcast supported by Inductive Automation.

  • 216 Quality Not Perfection

    01/11/2020 Duración: 11min

    This podcast is sponsored by Ignition from Inductive Automation. The project engineer came to me, "We can't ship this machine, because it is not yet perfect." What is quality? When is it "good enough" to ship. What is meeting spec? When is "good enough" not sufficient?

  • 215 Pursuing Quality

    16/10/2020 Duración: 14min

    I moved to a new state a few months ago and have been searching for a good local, independent coffee shop with ethically traded coffee--in vain. So, I go to Starbucks a few times a week. The concept of quality at Starbucks is not the coffee, which is probably why people doctor it with flavored sugars and milk. Its quality has always been environment. One of my first jobs was with Airstream, manufacturer of quality recreation vehicles. Everyone in the company was aware of the need for quality. The question for you today is are you contributing to building quality, ethical products that serve your customers and society? On a personal development note, I leave you with Seven Daily Habits from Richard Koch in The 80/20 Principle.

  • 214 Stress, Covid, and the Art of Manufacturing

    04/10/2020 Duración: 10min

    Manufacturing and production can be stressful occupations. Add in the constant stresses of a pandemic and there is the recipe for affecting health. Take a stress break and get a new focus.

  • 213 Bright Ideas Beyond Automation

    17/09/2020 Duración: 09min

    Did you ever get a bright idea for a new product or service? You might have even sketched it and written a product outline. Then you filed it. One day you noticed someone else had taken that same idea and created a billion-dollar company? Bright ideas and doing the work.

  • 212 Future of Work

    14/08/2020 Duración: 14min

    With AI and automation and robots, what will humans do for work in the future? Will we all be destitute? Will we finally be able to take time and "smell the roses"? Gary offers thoughts.

  • 211 Passion for Teaching Thinking

    03/08/2020 Duración: 14min

    Teaching and Mentoring the next generation of engineers and technologists.

  • 210 They Don't Look Like Athletes

    21/07/2020 Duración: 08min

    The first writer to seriously look at the new phenomenon of data-driven analytics in baseball found himself allowed to sit in the locker room of the major league baseball team. He observed the players. Something naggged at his consciousness. Then it dawned on him—they didn't look like athletes. Showering, getting dressed, no one really looked like a standout athlete. Yet, they were winning. Yes, said data-driven baseball exec Billy Beane, everyone else evaluates how players look. We look at their performance and indicators that they have future potential. But I really wanted to discuss Digital Transformation. And to transform digitally, you need to be (digital) data-driven.

  • 208 Like a Cog in a Gear Train

    02/07/2020 Duración: 12min

    The original visionaries who established the modern education system in the early 20th Century were following and expanding upon a vision of the founders of the USA—an educated population is essential for the success of a democracy and for a fruitful life. What became of this education system? Hi This is Gary. This podcast is brought to you with support from Inductive Automation. Discover a whole new view with Ignition 8 by Inductive Automation. Packed with features for the modern control system like unlimited licensing, high-powered tags, and a mobile-first flexible design environment for all devices, Ignition 8 supports enterprises of any size. See all ignition has to offer at https://inductiveautomation.com/ . Did the system you grow up in seem like the one I did? It was more like you were groomed to sit still, follow orders, give back the answer the teacher wanted, don’t make waves. It was designed originally to give just enough basic skills in English and math so that mostly boys could fill the slots in

  • 209 From Chaos and Crisis Come Innovation

    19/06/2020 Duración: 14min

    Perhaps the #BlackLivesMatter protests will lead to real change if organization leaders step up and do instead of say. Likewise, innovation in technology and manufacturing is leaping ahead spurred on by the Coronavirus pandemic.

  • 207 Engineering Response to Covid 19

    14/06/2020 Duración: 11min

    Years ago machine and process safety were first ignored and then addressed as an add-on Then engineers began evaluating the problem and engineered safety from the beginning design. Not only was safety enhanced, but also reliability and productivity improved as well. We are seeing the same thing already in response to solving problems due to Covid-19. I take a look at a variety of responses just in the first couple of months of the crisis. This podcast is sponsored by Inductive Automation and its flagship Ignition 8.

  • 206-OEMs How To Innovate To Win More Business

    01/06/2020 Duración: 14min

    Whether you are building machines to a spec or some other product or you are a systems integrator or supplier--experience shows that those who think laterally and find a value add are more likely to get more business from good customers. I even share a story about a software developer who started playing with 3D printing and then organized a manufacturing line to produce face masks for Polish hospital workers in response to SARS CoV 2. Check out The Podcast https://thepodcast.fm/episodes/206 . This podcast is brought to you with support from Inductive Automation. Discover a whole new view with Ignition 8 by Inductive Automation. Packed with features for the modern control system like unlimited licensing, high-powered tags, and a mobile-first flexible design environment for all devices, Ignition 8 supports enterprises of any size. See all Ignition has to offer at inductiveautomation.com Check out my blog at https://themanufacturingconnection.com

  • 205 Digital Transformation is a Journey

    15/05/2020 Duración: 14min

    When I would go to NI Week, National Instruments would always talk about solving big problems. I began to approach the history of digital transformation that same way. GM had a problem involving the changeover of machines from one model year to the next. It took too long to change the machines due to the relay logic. They went to Odo Struger of Allen-Bradley and Dick Morely who then founded Modicon for a solution. Each built a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to solve the problem and the race was on. We can then look at all the digital advances from then to now as the solving of successively more difficult problems. Today we have IoT, data science, edge computing, analytics, visualization, AR, VR. And we go on. It is a journey not a destination. This podcast is sponsored by Ignition by Inductive Automation.

  • 204 Wirelessly Charging IoT Devices With Light

    16/04/2020 Duración: 29min

    This episode is an interview with Yuval Boger, CMO of Wi-Charge, who talks about wireless remote power for charging IoT devices with light. There was a gap between this and my last podcast. In the interim, we sold a house, bought a house, and moved to another state--all at the beginning of the covid-19 rise and the shelter-in-place orders. It has been crazy times. Now, we've plenty of time to get used to the new house. I hope everyone listening is doing well.

  • 203 Unlocking Data

    24/02/2020 Duración: 16min

    Computing at the Edge was a constant theme in the two tech forums I visited in early February. Mostly what that means is that many enterprise applications need data from the plant or process. Data must be unlocked. Other topics included speculation over anticipated benefits of 5G and a sprouting of Open and Open Source initiatives.

  • 202 Industrial Challenges 2020 Edition

    30/01/2020 Duración: 14min

    In the late 1970s I worked in an engineering department where one of my responsibilities was the custodian and distributor of all engineering data. In addition, I did all the corporate new product quoting--such things as UPS truck bodies and the bodies for the original Atlanta Airport People Movers. Everything was paper and manual. Drawings to bills of material to routings to costing. Today we do the same tasks, except that everything is digital. The drawings are all digital files, the BOM--digital, sorting/costing/checking all faster and digital. We adapt and adopt technology to do things better. The problem remains--leadership and management of the systems to implement all these technologies in order to reap the rewards. That--is the challenge before us.

  • 201 Intelligent Application of Technology

    14/01/2020 Duración: 14min

    You are an engineer in a factory or plant. The machine or process is down. Production has stopped. The general manager is yelling. The CEO has vowed to investors, customers, and media that he'll sleep in the plant until production is back up. I've never had it as bad as the people at Tesla with Elon Musk beating on them, but I've lived that life. I helped start a magazine with the stated editorial goal of writing about the intelligent application of automation. After several years of Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, digital twins, digital transformation, I think it is past time to look at our projects in terms of how do we employ technology intelligently for improved profitability, work conditions, quality, customer satisfaction, supplier satisfaction, and environmental sustainability. Thank you to my sponsor for another year--Inductive Automation.

  • 200 Best Use of Tech in Industry

    03/12/2019 Duración: 13min

    Recap of previous 199 episodes over the past 12 years. We reviewed Ethernet (when it was new for manufacturing), safety, video interviews, and thought pieces. Looking ahead, we are challenged to get tech out of the way while we support Lean, human decision-making, making work more meaningful, and solving difficult manufacturing/industrial business problems.

  • 199 Artificial Intelligence

    08/11/2019 Duración: 12min

    Despite all the dystopian views of technology promulgated over the past 20 or so years, artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool for solving some complex problems. We in industrial applications need it as part of the tool kit.

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