The Robot Industry Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jim Beretta in partnership with A3 Association for Advancing Automation and Painted Robot.
Podcast for the Automation, Robotics and Manufacturing Industries by host, Jim Beretta. The podcast is partnered with A3 | RIA Robotics Industry Association and PaintedRobot.com. We discuss trends, innovation, and important tech for advanced manufacturing.
Welcome to podcast # 150! My guest for this edition is Dr. Yun Yao.
Yun Yao, holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, is a dynamic professional known for her creativity and ambition. In 2010, she co-founded Tactile Labs, a non-profit organization that advances haptics research, where her leadership has fostered innovation and collaboration. After completing her PhD, Yun became a senior engineer, designing wireless communication systems, excelling both technically and in leading innovation initiatives. In 2021, she co-founded Soralink to integrate AI and IoT into the food manufacturing and processing industry, aiming to apply cutting-edge technologies to real-world challenges. Yun's career reflects her commitment to pushing technological boundaries, fostering collaboration and driving transformational change across industries.
Designed and made in Canada (Montreal), Soralink offers a complete solution for industrial machine condition monitoring, failure prediction, predictive maintenance, as well as productivity tracking. Their solution includes smart AI sensors, LTE connectivity, and AI prediction engine.
Yun thanks for joining me for the podcast.
Why did you start the company?
Montreal is kind of a hotspot in North America for AI, Why is that?
What is AI?
What is Model Drift?
What is an algorithm?
Tell us about Soralink (are you an integrator)?
People that think AI is Chat GPT?
How are companies ready for AI?
Fit bit for the machines
What are some of the challenges that you face in collecting information
Tell us about AI in Canada manufacturing
What is keeping mfgs awake at nights?
Who are you having the conversations with ? CEO CTO
How do you get started in the conversation; AI in manufacturing
Do you have some Use cases that you can tell us about
When is AI not a good fit?
Is it good to work on a simple project or a big, complex project?
How long does a project take?
Are there ongoing costs to an AI project?
What are the outcomes?
What are the deliverables?
Did we forget to talk about something?
How do people find out more about you and how do they contact you?
What is your booth number at ADM show
Some information about ADM Toronto 2025:
The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows
Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology
Here is the show URL:
https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html
You can use the code ROBOT to register. If that doesn't work try: SHIFT.
Some info on Soralink: https://soralink.co/en/
And to get in touch with Yun: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsinyun/
See you at the show!
Thanks,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction & The Robot Industry PodcastLondon, ONjim@customerattraction.com
519-716-2262 Mobile
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #149
This episode too is a little different for The Robot Industry Podcast. This episode is about sponsorships and their efficacy. Informa is a client for over 15 years (aka UBM, and Canon Communications).
I have been involved in the ADM (Advanced Design & Manufacturing) Toronto and ADM Montreal shows for many years. If you know me, you may have fielded a phone call or read an email about the show and the efficacy of being involved in trade events.
I have invited Gayle Hutchens, who directs sponsorships at shows.
Some information about ADM Toronto 2025:
The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows
Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology
Here is the show URL:
https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html
You can use the code ROBOT to register. If that doesn't work try: SHIFT.
See you there.
Thanks,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction & The Robot Industry PodcastLondon, ONjim@customerattraction.com
519-716-2262 Mobile
Hello Everyone,
This episode is a little different for The Robot Industry Podcast. I have invited some of my friends from the ADM Toronto 2025 show to join me to talk about the upcoming show. Informa is a client for over 15 years (aka UBM, and Canon Communications).
I have been involved in the ADM Toronto and ADM Montreal shows for many years. If you know me, you may have fielded a phone call or read an email about the show and the efficacy of being involved in trade events.
I have invited Kayle Kvinge, who is the show director, Annie Helfgott our mentoring expert and Gayle Hutchens, who directs sponsorships at shows ( we moved Gayle, and she is up on the next podcast #149) as we ran out of time.
Some information about ADM Toronto 2025:
Happens at Toronto Congress Center on Oct. 21-23, 2025
The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows
Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology
Who are some of the partners in the event?
- PAC Global the packaging association, Global Leader in Sustainable, Inclusive, and Accessible Solutions
- Invest Quebec
- Cosmetic Alliance Canada
- Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- Charged EV
- Volta Foundation
- Accelerate and Engineering Societies of Canada including Professional Engineers in Ontario and Society of woman engineers
There are lots of exhibitors:
- Fanuc Canada, Kuka Robotics, SEW, Beckhoff Automation
- Reiser Canada, NuMove, Plexpack, Capmatic and Shawpack, Premier Tech
- Proto3000, IKO Thompson, Stratasys
- Absolute Haitian, Kubota Brabender, Piovan and Tiger Vac
- Unitrack Corporation, Meridian Manufacturing, Soralink and Vooban
Here is the show URL:
https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html
You can use the code ROBOT to register. See you there.
Thanks,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction & The Robot Industry PodcastLondon, ONjim@customerattraction.com
519-716-2262 Mobile
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #147. My guest for this segment is Bruce Polson whom I have known for decades. He is a very smart guy.
Bruce has over 30 years of experience in automation and engineering. He began as a process engineer and consumer of automation, establishing a background in processes such as forming, welding, material handling, joining, and discrete assembly. In automation, he began as an application engineer and eventually migrated into business development, where he has been for the last 15 years.
Who is Ehrhardt Automation?
How do you buy and automation system?
So Bruce, how do you prepare as a manufacturer?
How do they, the prospective customer, set up a budget?
What if you don’t have a spec document?
What are the key elements of the type of automation company that you might want to engage in?
How about 3rd party suppliers, like robot companies, can they help?
Questions that a prospective customer should ask the supplier?
What if you are a new user of automation?
Did we miss anything?
If someone wants to find out more about how they can put automation into their facility, how do they get a hold of you?
Email and phones are still the best ways.
bpolson@ehrhardtautomation.com / 952-290-3384
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-polson-aa43b213
When you are not helping people get the automation that they need, what do you like to do?
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
Hello Robot Friends. Welcome to edition #146 of The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest today is Vivian Chu.
Vivian Chu is a roboticist with over a decade of experience in human-robot interaction. She created Moxi and Poli, and applied her HRI and machine learning expertise to platforms like PR2, Meka, and Kinova Jaco2. She has worked at Google[X], Honda Research Institute, and IBM Research. Vivian holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Tech and an M.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania. She’s been recognized by MIT Technology Review (35 Innovators Under 35), Fortune (40 Under 40), named a Google Anita Borg Scholar and Stanford EECS Rising Star, awarded Best Cognitive Robotics Paper at ICRA, and featured on Robohub’s 25 Women in Robotics list.
Questions:
Vivian, Tell us about Diligent, who are you and what do you make?
Where are you located?
How did you get interested in robotics and automation?
What is Moxi?
Why did you decide on hospitals as your first use case?
Who are the economic drivers and decision makers in hospital and what are their pain points?
What are some of the surprises that you learned from hospitals, about robotics?
Why Diligent chose to go AI-hybrid, vs all-in on AI?
The importance of execution > demos and what deployment taught Diligent that the lab couldn’t
Building robots with a “human-first approach,” designing robots to serve as coworkers instead of replacements.
The key design elements that make Moxi ultra- adaptable, dexterous, and safe?
Let’s talk about data? Is this something that hospitals are interested in?
You just brought in some new executives to your team.
What is next for Diligent — now that you have proven yourselves in hospitals, do you have plans to expand into offices, factories? What makes your stack capable of doing so?
Future of robotics working with people?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
You are a busy, new mom. When you are not automating, innovating, building robots, or working with companies and AI, what do you enjoy doing for hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you and find out more about Diligent?
I would like to mention A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world-leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/
Thanks, too, to our regular sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, located in Granite City, Illinois.
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
Welcome to episode #145 with Shaun Ghafari. Shaun holds a Ph.D., P.Eng. Dean, Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology (FAST) at Humber College in Toronto.
Faculty of Applied Sciences & Technology (FAST) is growing to meet the needs of industry in engineering, mechatronics, robotics, information technology, data analytics, cybersecurity, sustainable design, and the skilled trades.
Shaun, Tell me a bit about yourself.
Who is Humber College?
What are the most interesting courses?
You talk to Manufacturers….what are the Challenges for manufacturers?
What are they asking for?
Where do your grads go?
Engagement > Does everyone want AI and machine vision?
How are students prepare for industry? Are they doing anything else?
Support from the college
AI & robotics?
Cybersecurity?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
How can people get in touch and find out more?
I would like to mention A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world-leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/
Thanks, too, to our regular sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, located in Granite City, Illinois.
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
Welcome to podcast edition #144. I welcome my friend Konrad Konnerth to the pod
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the robot industry podcast . Thanks for joining us and for subscribing.
Konrad, welcome to the podcast. Can you take a few minutes and introduce yourself to our audience?
Tell me about your automation background here in southwestern Ontario (SWO).
What is happening from a high level in automation?
You have a strong background in precision indexing automation from Germany, correct?
Can you tell our audience about your Adapto Solution?
Who are your customers?
Success stories and use cases for Adapto?
Greenhouse automation?
You are involved in the innovation community here in London. Tell me about that.
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not innovating, robotics and automation, what kind of hobbies do you have?
How can people find you if they want to reach out and find out more about Konnexio.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/konradkonnerth
I would like to mention A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
Welcome to edition #143 of The Robot Industry Podcast. For this edition I am interviewing Andrew Perkins. He is a long time automation machine vision expert and is heading up TrueLight Machine Vision, a division of BOS Innovations.
Andrew, how did you get into this industry?
Who are your customers? Manufacturers or other integrators, robotics OEMs (or all three)?
Do you have a typical customer or are they all custom?
Who is TrueLight Machine Vision Integrations?
Tell me a bit about what is going on in automated vision (in the industry)?
Are you busy?
Lighting?, lenses, AI, data, security and robot guidance?
USE CASES
What kind of vision “inquires” do you get from customers?
How do you go about it, do you need a specification before you do a project?
Engineering study?
What does the future look like for vision, any predictions?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
If someone wants to find out how do they get a hold of you?
https://truelightvision.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perkinsandrew
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
MPI Solutions is a talented group of professionals helping industries across North America with AB, Siemens and Beckhoff machine control and system integration.
Scott Pytel, P. Eng is Co-Owner and VP at MPI. MPI Solutions invited me to tour the facility and chat with the founders.
Kevin van der Maarel is also a Co-Owner and a mechanical engineer. He enjoys the constant change brought about by automation.
What is happening in the world of machine control?
What is Industry 4.0 from your (or your customers') lens?
What type of work do you do at MPI?
Type of control systems do you work in?
You are a Beckhoff Control Systems Integrator. Why is that?
Is there a typical customer or customer project?
What else do you do at MPI Solutions?
Why PC controls?
What industries do you operate in?
Maintenance and support in controls and automation.
MPI Solutions Inc. is located at 980 Adelaide St South Unit 112, London, ON N6E 1R3, Canada
Telephone: 519-690-0494Email: sales@mpisolutions.ca
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or you can use info@customerattraction.com
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing produced today’s podcast and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsors Ehrhardt Automation Systems and our new sponsor Mecademic Industrial Robotics.
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to episode #127 of The Robot Industry Podcast. For this edition, I caught up with Dale Walsh, VP Strategy and Innovation at Roboworx. Here are my questions:
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into robotics?
What does Robotworx do? What problem are you solving?
We are not going to mention customers, today but what kind of robots do you service?
What is your customers challenge and their customers pain?
What kind of facilities (do you operate) in?
You mentioned NFL cities, what does that mean?
You mentioned about robots in the corner…
How do you work with clients?
Workers working with human co-workers?
What is an SLA
Let’s talk about training?
Spare parts?
Delivery robots and AMRs
Do you have some case stories that you can mention?
What are customer best practices?
Customer Success as well as
Preventative maintenance.
Franchises
Have we forgotten to talk about anything?
What hobbies do you like? I know that you have an RV
How can people find you if they want to find out more about Roboworx?
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, and project management, delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you info@ehrhardtautomation.com eh rh ar dt automation dot com
Our co sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn.
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsors, Ehrhardt Automation and Anchor Danly.
Best Regards!
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
Hello Everyone,
For this episode of The Robot Industry Podcast, I have picked one of my favourite podcast recordings. The robot industry needs more "Dave Goodenough's".
Enough said, enjoy the podcast.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, and project management, delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you info@ehrhardtautomation.com eh rh ar dt automation dot com
Our co sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. They are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn.
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsors, Ehrhardt Automation and Anchor Danly.
Best Regards!
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
For episode #126 of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, I have invited Saman Farid from Formic. I have been watching Formic for a long time and am excited for them and their approach and thrilled to have Saman join me for this edition.
Saman welcome to the podcast.
How did you get involved in automation and building a very cool, disruptive model for manufacturers?
What is going on in manufacturing ?
What is your customer’s pain?
What are some of the secondary motivations?
Can you give me some examples of applications that you are doing for your customers?
What is the process if I have an application in my factory that I think might be a good fit for Formic.
What kind of applications do you tend to stay away from?
Are you turnkey, do you provide design of the robot end of arm tool for example?
How long does this take from initial visit or virtual visit to getting a machine on my shop floor?
How do you charge for this service? How do you get paid? Are there any soft costs?
Can you describe the process ~ Let’s say I want you to help me automate a machine tending application.
What about uptime and OEE?
Who services the equipment?
How long will the machine last?
What happens when the program ends as a manufacturer?
Can I upgrade the automation?
Who are your favorite robot brands and controls technologies?
You have got a couple of success stories…?
Granola Business in California.
Cameron Coffee in MN.
What is Formic CORE?
Everyone is talking about AI, are you using AI?
Who is your key customer, is it a plant manager or CEO or CFO?
How do you find new customers and prospects?
What are some of the challenges that you are facing at Formic in this growing business?
When you are not automating, innovating, building food robots and AI, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you and find out more about Formic?
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, and project management, delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you info@ehrhardtautomation.com eh rh ar dt automation dot com
Our co sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. They are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn.
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsors, Ehrhardt Automation and Anchor Danly.
Best Regards!
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
London, ON
For this edition of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast (#125) I have invited Rajat Bhageria from CHEF Robotics for a conversation. We met recently at Automate show in Chicago and got reintroduced through Vention.
Chef Robotics: Empowering Humans to do what they do Best
Tell us about Chef Robotics and how you had this idea.Where are you located and tell us about the team.We talked in the warm up that you have been in stealth mode. Why stealth?how bad is the labor shortage in the food serving industry?You have food broken up food prep into three main areas, starting with preparation….Why is AI, artificial intelligence so critical to the mission and your competitive advantage in food?How does AI help your customers?What does a food automation system look like at Chef Robotics?Typical questions from your customers?Lets talk about food safety and cleanliness: how do you approach this?What food has given you the most challenges?What about spices?Tell us about your robot and your code.How does a customer add new foods. Maybe Sticky Rice?Who are your first customers?Are there any bulls eye customers that you are looking for?How do you charge for an automation system?What do you need from our community?Did we forget to talk about anything?Challenges with Scaling this business?When you are not automating, innovating, building food robots and AI, what do you like to do, hobbies?How can people get a hold of you and find out more about CHEF Robotics?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing.
RegardsJimCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces or find me on LinkedIn.Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor is Anchor DanlyThey are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Hello Gentle Readers and welcome to edition #124 of #therobotindustry podcast. Forgive my reference to Bridgerton, my partner is addicted. I also need to correct the title of this podcast edition, Canon Reeves company is actually called Pipedream Labs.
Pipedream is an autonomous underground rail system that offers near-instantaneous delivery of objects to and from homes and businesses.
This episode is about unprecedented convenience and a really big idea. Its a mash up of instant super convenience, getting trucks off the road making life better and disrupting...well everything.
Canon, tell us about yourself.
Tell us about Pipedream and how you had the idea.
What do you mean by hyperlogistics?
We talked in the warm up but give us some examples of how this works, today in fast food, near a parking lot.
What about some other examples of real life applications that you are working on?
Tell us about your new robot.
How is this a greener, cheaper, and more accessible solution?
Who are your first customers?
How do you demo your system to potential clients?
Who are your partners?
Are there any bulls eye customers that you are looking for?
Tell me about your big news…..$13 Million
What do you need?
When you are not automating innovating, building robots, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry PodcastIf you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces or find me on LinkedIn.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Welcome to edition #123 of The Robot Industry Podcast. I had the opportunity recently to travel to Fremont, Ohio and get a tour of the Motion Controls Robotics facility and meet with Scott Lang, president and CEO.
Scott, Tell me a bit about Motion Controls Robotics.
What is on your customer’s minds when they are looking for an automation solution? What is most important?
You have done work in building materials, food and bev, what other industries?
What do you mean by end-of-line robotics systems?
What is happening in palletizing?
What does Induction mean?
What is a modular palletizing system?
Are you finding that you are doing more work with smaller companies or larger companies?
What is more important, cycle time or uptime?
What does the ROI conversation look like - is it still 24 months?
You are Fanuc partner ~ what does that mean to you, Fanuc and your end customer?
Let’s talk about end of arm tools, are you seeing any trends?
How long does it take to purchase, design and build a system?
Do you find more engineers in the building (ie in your customer's buildings)or less?
How are you attracting skilled trades?
How do you stay on target for machine deliveries?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not automating, integrating automation, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks too to the team at Motion Controls Robotics for putting this visit together, especially Nicole Busenbark.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry PodcastIf you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces or find me on LinkedIn.
If you would like to get in touch with Scott, LinkedIn is the best place or you can get in touch with me.
Motion Controls Robotics website is here.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Today for The Robot Industry Podcast (#122) I welcome Drew Wilson. Drew has been a leader in all things electrical and mechanical test and he is a friend. Drew is a brilliant engineer and is not afraid to speak his mind especially about all things automation and testing. He has helped educate hundreds of engineers and customers about common sense testing in the automation industry.
You have had a very interesting jobs and projects in your life. You have worked on the people mover in Detroit and in automotive, medical device, pharma machines and there are lots that we cannot talk about too.
Drew, Test is a challenge for manufacturers and machine builders, because I feel that they just want to buy something and move on and they, the machine builder and maybe even the end customer don’t really know why and what they are testing. They just want a Pass or a Fail…a simple answer to a complex problem. Would you agree?
Can you tell our listeners what a gauge R & R is?Why would you recommend a test company and not an automation company or machine builder to do the test part of an automated system?What are some trends that you have noticed in automated testing over the last few years?What are some of the best practices for test/testing?Do you have some favourite test equipment companies, hardware and software?Testing is a huge challenge to both the manufacturer and the automator, how would your recommend to some of our listeners who might be thinking ~ how can I specialize (or maybe how can my kid) specialize in test and test instrumentation, how do I learn about this?Maybe I want to start a test instrumentation company? How do I do that?Machine vision is sometimes confused with testing…what are your thoughts?A question about expensive test equipment.If I am installing test equipment in an automated system, am I best to distribute the test equipment throughout the machine or put it at the end of the line, what is your thoughts on this?What are the big mistakes that automation integrators, even very big and capable ones make when it comes to test?What do you like doing when you are not selling robots?How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry PodcastIf you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
If you would like to get in touch with Drew, LinkedIn is the best place:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-wilson-8206b43 or you can get in touch with me.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, Blanchard Ground steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
I welcome Andrea Mazzini and Chris Round to this edition (#121) of The Robot Industry Podcast. If you know me, you might have also met Chris, one of the best marketers and salesperson in our industry. We had this call while Chris was at HQ in Arezzo, Tuscany in Italy.
Some of my questions to Chris and Andrea:
Chris you have just ARS, can I excited you about the company and the opportunity?
Andrea There is a lot going on in Italy right now when it comes to automation?
What’s happening out there from your perspective?
What is Flexibowl? Are there any other major components?
How does it work?
What makes it innovative? What kind of parts are in its sweet spot?
Where are you having success? What is the typical cycle time?
Tell me about the vision system?
Success Stories / Case stories?
Does it compete with traditional bowl feeders or other feeding technologies?
Where is it made? What about service and support?
Tell us about Automate show. What is your booth number at Automate Show?
how do I find out more information about ARS and Flexibowl?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Ars Automation click here and you can check out Chris Round and Andrea Mazzini, via their LinkedIn profiles.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ars Automation, Chris Round, Andrea Mazzini, Flexibowl, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly
For this edition of #Therobotindustrypodcast (#120) I caught up with an old friend, David McCharles from Pineberry Manufacturing during Informa's ATX and PackEx Toronto show. David is an entrepreneur business owner and golfer.
David manufactures very specific machinery to the automation and packaging market: Friction feeders, pick and place dispensers, plastic card material handling equipment, card affixers, conveyors, leaflet dispensers, custom automation, labelling systems, inkjet, collation systems and more.
We talk about what's happening in packaging automation and his changes from 2009.
Automation integration, robotics integration.
One point of contact for end packaging companies.
Automation projects > What's Happening?
Pokey Man Cards
Personalization of letters inserted into boxes
Printing on envelopes, bubble mailers, paper bags, etc.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Pineberry click here and you can check out David McCharles, here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: David McCharles, Pineberry Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, Friction Feeders, Card Feeders, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly
Hello Automation Fans! I recorded this podcast at the ADM Toronto show in November. The team from Pilz Canada joined me to talk about something that we don't talk about very much on the podcast, and that is factory safety.
I am joined by Andreas Sobotta and Guillame Lavoie with background help from my friend Catherine Tran.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Pilz check them out https://www.pilz.com/en-CA
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is a sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of machine and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working, plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Andreas Sobotta and Guillame Lavoie, Automation Safety, Ehrhardt Automation Systems , #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, Anchor Danly
Ben Garvey, P.Eng. is the Founder & President of Enginuity Inc. in Halifax NS and he is my guest for podcast #118. I was onsite at his automation facility and we were able to record this podcast session. There is something that I really like about being face to face in an interview, and bonus - I get a tour of the automation facility.
Ben how you got involved in the automation industry and tell me about Enginuity?
What are some trends and technologies that you are seeing in your business?
What is keeping your customers up at night?
Interesting application stories?
Reducing risk for you and your customers > how is this done?
Labour crunch for your customers? East coast automation?
Attracting and retaining staff, is this a challenge?
Spin off technoloties from Enginuitiy?
Advice for young people trying to get into automation?
When you are not building robots and automation what do you like to do?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Enginuity check them out https://enginuityinc.ca/
Ben Garvey https://www.linkedin.com/in/garvey-ben-76752611/
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is a sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of machine and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working, plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Machine Builders, Tooling, Robot Integrators, Enginuity Automation, Ben Garvey, Ehrhardt Automation Systems , #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, Anchor Danly
The Automation Road Map
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #117. I am thrilled to introduce you to Ben Whitney from ARMO Tool and Abuma Manufacturing, both located in London, ON. Armo Tool is a long-time machine builder, robot integrator, and tool manufacturer with a specialty in dies and progressive dies. Abuma Manufacturing is a contract manufacturing and build-to-print company with specialties around aluminum, electro-mechanical, and stainless steel fabrication.
This is our title today: Creating an Automation Roadmap with Armo Tool’s Ben Whitney.
I am going to read your bio, Ben and let me know if I have left anything out.
Ben Whitney is the third-generation leader of Armo Tool, founded by George and Ross Whitney in 1969. Soon after graduation from U Of Toronto in 2000, he became a full-time employee at Armo Tool, where he had worked on a casual basis since age 14. Ben worked as a PLC programmer, die designer and project manager before taking on the role of president in 2008. In 2017, he earned a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2013 from Western Engineering.
Ben welcome to the podcast, I am glad you’re here. Here are my questions.
WHAT IS AN AUTOMATION ROAD MAP?
Ben, have you created an Automation Roadmap?
Let's talk about the steps to creating this road map.
Why is this so important?
Who owns this document?
Have you seen successes in doing this?
Do customers ever share the roadmap with you, an automation supplier?
How is this different from a specification document?
Can you help with an Automation Roadmap?
Who should be involved?
What kinds of things would be on the roadmap?
What shouldn’t be on the roadmap?
When do you start an automation roadmap?
Have we talked about everything?
How can people get in touch with you?
Fun fact that Ben Whitney and Armo Tool both appear in a film that I helped create called "Robotics in Action, Seeing is Believing" with CFIN, Canadian Food Innovation Network. Armo Tool builds automation in the food and packaging industry and was kind enough to let us shoot video and interview him and his team for this project around food, robotics and automation.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about ARMO Tool click here, for Abuma Manufacturing, here and you can check out Ben Whitney on LinkedIn, here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Machine Builders, Tooling, Robot Integrators, Armo-Tool, Abuma Manufacturing, London Ontario, Ehrhardt Automation Systems , #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, Anchor Danly
Hello Listeners. Welcome The Robot Industry Podcast #116.
Meet Frederic Vachon, the founder and visionary behind RBOT9, a company at the forefront of changing the rules for the long-range robotics landscape. Rbot9 is a manufacturer of suspended cable robots, operating with a unique and patented formula, able to operate efficiently in oversized environments. Whereas traditional robotics is overwhelmed by the needs of scale and reach, Rbot9 offers a versatile solution, supportive of any end effector depending on the application. Rbot9 aims to develop robotics in new spheres thanks to its ability to work in already used environments (brownfields). The Rocap is setting new standards in the long-range automation industry. In just two years under Frederic's leadership, RBOT9 transformed into a six-figure company, attracting top talents and forward-thinking engineers.
Welcome to the podcast, Frederic
How did you get started?
Tell us about your robot and your team.
Quebec is a hotspot for robotics and automation, how important is it that you are located in Montreal, St Hubert?
Who are your bulls-eye customers?
What applications?
What kind of end effector can be on the end of your robot?
Do you have some applications that you can talk about?
How are you finding sales?
Tell us about some of your partners?
Safety is so important, how do you ensure worker safety?
Where do you see the future for Rbot9?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about RBOT click here and you can check out Frederic Vachon, here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Robot, Robotics, Rbot9, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems , #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, Anchor Danly
Welcome everyone to The Robot Industry Podcast # 115. We recorded this podcast at Beckhoff Canada's HQ in Cambridge, Ontario. It is a wonderful facility.
Calvin Wallace is the President at Beckhoff in Canada with over 17 years of dedicated service where his expertise and leadership have been instrumental in the company's sustained success. His over 30 years of experience in automation technology, and unwavering commitment have played a pivotal role in the company's growth, making him a driving force in the field of automation and control systems. Under Calvin's leadership, Beckhoff continues to thrive in the automation industry, setting new standards for innovation and excellence.
Calvin welcome to the podcast!
Calvin, can you tell me what attracted you to work in the automation industry?
Can you tell us about Beckhoff, the company and the technology?
For some of our listeners What is PC vs PLC machine control?
What are some of the big picture themes that are happening at Beckhoff?
For our listeners that don’t know, what is TwinCAT and why is this approach different?
When do companies choose Beckhoff …… say for machine control, what are some of their big motivators?
Are there any industries that have grown recently that are surprising you here in Canada?
Let’s talk about intelligent transport systems. I understand Beckhoff offers two unique and innovative solutions named the XTS and XPlanar. First, could you explain what is an intelligent transport system followed by how those products can help customers?
Tell us about OCT, One Cable Technology
Beckhoff has a unique perspective on vision integration and safety?
I heard in a presentation that you gave about some innovative work that Beckhoff is doing around control cabinets. Can you expand on this?
What do you see as the future for machine and motion control systems perspective?
When you are not selling controls, motion and such what do you like to do in your free time?
Have we forgotten anything?
Calvin How can people get a hold of you or find out more about Beckhoff in Canada?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Beckhoff click here and you can check out Calvin Wallace, here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of robot and automation bases, high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Calvin Wallace, Beckhoff Canada, XPlanar, XTS, Intellgent Conveyor, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #114. We recorded this podcast at the ADM Advanced Design Manufacturing Toronto 2023 show.
My guest is my friend and industry expert, Feisal Hurzook, Chief Technical Officer at Archronix Corp. ARCX connects people to processes by making tools more intelligent for Poke Yoke (error-proofing) especially in the automotive industry, monitoring critical processes.
As a Professional Electrical Engineer in the province of Ontario Feisal has worked on high reliability and mission critical projects from military, aerospace and transportation to consumer and commercial touch panels and industrial process controls. Starting his carrier in welding automation and robots and patented designs of high power switched reluctance motors - Feisal went on to manage the IT infrastructure for the Ontario Government and later worked on the F35 program at Honeywell Aerospace. This diverse knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit led him to start his own automation device company in early 2000s as he witnessed a growing need in the shop floor automation space for network connected, error-proofing devices and industry's need to collecting vital manufacturing data in the modern factory.
Tell our audience about ARCX in Markham.
What is keeping engineers at EV companies up at night?
Let's talk about some of the challenges in EV automotive final assembly.
What is happening with variability in EV final assembly?
Why is quality so important in EV industry.
Traceability and safety in automotive industry final production.
Pressure, stakeholders and innovation in Electric Vehicle production.
Word of mouth "marketing" in EV final assembly automation.
Younger people building automobiles.
Equipment used to build cars and how they have changed. Who's computer is in charge?
Batteries as a structure of the car, adhesives and glue.
If you would like to find out about Feisal, you can check him out on LinkedIn. You can find out about ARCX in Markham, ON by clicking here. sales@ARCX.com is the best email address.
Thanks for listening, and subscribing!
Warm Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working, automation and plastics injection molding, machine bases, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: EV final assembly systems, Feisal Hurzook, #GRID, Andon systems, ARCX, IT vs OT, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly.
Hello Everyone and welcome to this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast #113 with Matt Jones from Micropsi Industries.
Matt Jones is the VP of US Sales and Operations at Micropsi Industries USA, Inc. He works out of San Francisco, California with offices and the HQ is in Berlin, Germany with an office in Brooklyn, New York.
I caught up with Matt on location at Automate Detroit show in 2023 and had a demo, and in 5 minutes, I was convinced (and I am a skeptic). So be warned, I am a fan.
Here are my questions for Matt:
Who is Micropsi and what problem are you solving?
Partners?
Applications?
Lighting?
Types of robots?
When you are not automating AI, do you have any hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
About Microspi:
Micropsi Industries develops software for robots. Their product, MIRAI, enables industrial robots to handle variance in production. MIRAI-powered robots use cameras and sensors to react in real time to dynamic conditions in a workspace.
With MIRAI, you can tackle not only classic tasks, like picking, but also work steps that are economically difficult to automate — placing workpieces, tracing cables or contours, joining with gripping variance, handling objects that move or deform. MIRAI also treats stray light and wear-and-tear as just another form of variance. Training efforts increase somewhat, but a robust implementation is possible.With MIRAI, you benefit from short software innovation cycles. MIRAI learns faster and can do more with each update (if that is what you want).
MIRAI enables you to retrofit real AI — trained on site by your own people — into existing production setups. This is AI not in colorful management presentations, not in a laboratory, not in a tradeshow demo, but where you make your money.
Thanks for listening, and subscribing!
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Micropsi click here and you can check out Matt Jones on LI here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working, automation and plastics injection molding, machine bases, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Matt Jones, Micropsi Industries, MIRAI, AI Machine Vision, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly.
Hello Everyone and welcome to this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast #112 with Johnson and Johnson's Martin Buehler.
Martin Buehler is Global Head of Robotics R&D for Johnson & Johnson MedTech. He is responsible for leading the end-to-end development for the MONARCH and OTTAVA robotics platforms, as well as strategy and innovation cadence across surgical robotics for MedTech. Buehler shapes and drives the innovation strategy for R&D teams across hardware and software and advances a collective vision and tactical program to make medical intervention smarter, less invasive, and more personalized.
Buehler has a strong track record of inspirational leadership in technology innovation and a diverse robotics experience across a variety of industry sectors, including medical, industrial, consumer, food, agriculture, logistics, entertainment, and defense. He has technical expertise in the full robotics software and hardware tech stack and the unique ability to lead the design, development and productization of complex, multi-disciplinary systems.
Most recently, Buehler was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Wavemaker Labs, a venture studio with startups in food and agriculture. He has held previous senior leadership roles at Creator, Walt Disney Imagineering, Medtronic, Vecna, iRobot, and Boston Dynamics.
He served as robotics professor at McGill University for 12 years, where he held a tenured position. His 130 peer-reviewed publications have been cited over 10,000 times. For his academic and industrial contributions and leadership in robotics, Buehler was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a recipient of The Joseph F. Engelberger Award in Technology, one of the most prestigious awards in robotics.
Buehler holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and completed his postdoctoral work in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at M.I.T.
You and I have met before at the Forum in Orlando when you were with Walt Disney Imagineering group, so it is my pleasure to have you here today, welcome to the podcast!
So you've told me that you are happy to be back in the healthcare industry with robotics. Why is that and what do you find compelling?
You have called this sector a "rich landscape." Can you talk a bit about what you mean by that?How important is leadership to your role in developing these complex systems?
Part of your job is leading your teams, your suppliers, commercial groups at J&J, physicians, and planning for patient outcomes. How do you balance all of these often likely competing priorities?
You specified in a recent LinkedIn post that Monarch is a urology platform. Can it be used for other areas of the body?
What about diseases such as lung cancer? Can you talk about how you’re realizing the future of medicine by being able to inject reactive agents or oncolytic virus into the tumor?
Since this robot is a diagnostic tool paired with a treatment platform, it reduces the number of times that a patient has to have a procedure or surgery—is that correct?
Digital is a big part of your life -- especially in medicine -- and it is hard to have robots without digital. How is digital changing the game?
We have lots of challenges when it comes to connectivity to the cloud, big ecosystem connectivity, robots to instruments, robot to robot. How is this changing?
Johnson & Johnson’s CEO has said that there will be more changes in the next ten years than have taken place in the last 100 years in medicine. How will robotics play a role in this?
You are a big fan of the startups in this field. What are your thoughts about robotics and competition in the sector?
In our initial conversation, you mentioned that you have a saying “The Patients are Waiting.” What are your thoughts on that?
Are cobots a good use and platform for human-to-robot procedures?
When can AI and machine learning help?
How can people find out more about Ethicon, Monarch and all the projects that are coming out of your work?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Johnson & Johnson MedTech click here and you can check out Martin Buehler here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our key sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our co-sponsor for this episode is Anchor Danly. They are the leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, machine bases, mining and construction equipment, and general fabrications
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Johnson & Johnson Medtech, Surgical Robots, Surgical Robotics, Martin Buehler, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast Anchor Danly, MONARCH and OTTAVA robotics platforms.
Welcome to edition #111 of A3 The Robot Industry Podcast.
HELLO everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast. We are glad you are here and thank you for subscribing and joining us today. My guest for this episode is Konrad Kurylo SEW Maxolution System Solutions
My questions for Konrad:
Tell the audience a bit about SEW Eurodrive, the company.
AGV vs AGVS vs AMRs? Tell us about Maxolution product
Where are you seeing growth in the industry, which sectors and what types of facilities?
What are average applications?
Payload and most popular AMR model?
Energy storage. Super capacitors mobi trans opportunity charging larger payload vehicles very creative approach power wireless inductive power the wet dirty dangerous boring tasks
Who buys the mobile robot? Plant manager, president, operations?
What is the process to order a system?
Is the system easy to grow?
A question about the flexibility?
A question about the control system, what happens if there are other autonomous robots in the facility such as a forklift?Use cases?
What does the future look like for AGR
What is the warranty?
How does a company mount a robot on an SEW unit?
What is the typical control system?
What are typical AMR accessories (conveyor segments)?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not automating, integrating and keeping workers safe, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about SEW Eurodrive visit their website or check them out on LinkedIn USA and if you are in Canada, LinkedIn. To check out Konrad, you can find him on LinkedIn here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: SEW Eurodrive, Konrad Kurylo, Maxolution, AMR, AGV, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #110. Ray Minato is an accomplished engineer, leader, and entrepreneur on a mission to build world-class product design, and manufacturing teams who deliver outstanding products and customer experiences.
With a professional career now spanning over 30 years, Ray is constantly learning and adjusting course. After graduating from Queen's University (Mech Eng), Ray started his career in automotive manufacturing, moving on to racecar engineering and design, and eventually business operations, entrepreneurship, and more recently, angel investor.
Prior to starting his company Inertia, Ray set out and accomplished his childhood dream of designing racecars and then competing as a race engineer (and winning) on the world stage at prestigious events such as the 24hrs of le Mans and the 24hrs of Daytona. Ray left that world of speed and excitement to create his own exciting entrepreneurial journey with the founding of Inertia in 2004.
Recently recognized as the #1 Best Place to Work in Canada, and one of Canada's fastest growing companies, Ray leads an outstanding team at Inertia a global hardware-product innovation, design, and manufacturing consultancy with offices in Toronto and Guangzhou. Inertia works with start-ups to multinationals across a wide range of industries spanning medical devices, agricultural robotics, internet-connected home products, and high-tech sporting equipment.
Who is your typical customer?
Tell us about yourself and your company, what do you do at Inertia?
What is their pain?
What is your value prop?
What is a microfactory?
We have some clients in common, can you give us some ideas of what you have done with LabForge or Kinova or other Use Cases.
What is happening in the industry?
Which projects are the most fun for you and your staff?
NGEN Organization and AI for Manufacturing Grant program
You must have staff with a varied background?
How do you train, or staff up?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are manufacturing and project managing, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Inertia Product Design visit their website or check them out on LinkedIn. To check out Ray, you can find him on LinkedIn here.
If you would like to get involved with A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ray Minato, Inertia Product Development, contract manufacturing, product development, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #TheRobotIndustryPodcast
Mentioned in the podcast:
Kinova Robotics https://www.kinovarobotics.com/sector/industrial-automation
LabForge https://www.labforge.ca/
NGEN https://www.ngen.ca
Pittsburgh-based Gather AI is the world leading autonomous inventory management company. Their solution uses autonomous, commodity drones and AI software to automate inventory monitoring for warehouse operators to decrease inventory costs, improve productivity, and boost revenue.
Hello everyone and welcome to A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast. We are glad you are here I am Jim Beretta. My guest for this episode is Sankalp Arora. Sankalp is from Gather AI they are a startup company that develops autonomous data gathering drones or UAVs for the supply chain industry.
Their mission is to provide reliable, efficient, and scalable solutions for inventory management, warehouse optimization, and asset tracking using cutting-edge technologies and algorithms.
Let me tell you a bit about Sankalp:
As a robotics expert, he has a strong background in motion planning, computer vision, machine learning, and data analysis. Sankalp holds a PhD in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he has worked on flying field robotics systems and published multiple papers at conferences. Fun fact that he also received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for his innovative research proposal. Sankalp is passionate about solving real-world problems using robotics and AI, and building a diverse and talented team that shares this vision.
My Questions:
Sankalp, How important is it for you to be in Pittsburgh?
Let’s talk about your team. Tell me about them?
What are some of the challenges flying drones in warehouses?
Use cases, examples?
What do your clients learn about their warehouse?
You must have some best practices for your clients, like labels must be able to be read by a drone…etc.
The importance of data, is your startup is all about data?
Who operates the drone?
What is they typical ROI for your clients
Who buys from you, how do they buy or test, what is the selling cycle like?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not thinking about drones and stock keeping, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
When you are not knee deep in software, drones, hardware and growing your team, what do you like to do for fun?
Thanks for coming onto the podcast.
How can people find out more about you/your company?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
To find out more about Gather AI, visit their website or check them out on LinkedIn. To check out Sankalp, you can find him on LinkedIn here.
Special thanks to Amanda Bell for getting this setup for both of us. I know @Amanda sometimes it is like herding cats!
If you would like to get involved with A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: GatherAI, Sankalp Arora, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation System, #TheRobotIndustryPodcast
Driving the Artificial Perception Revolution in Mobile Robotics
RGo Robotics’ AI-powered Perception Engine™ provides mobile machines with human-level visual perception, enabling them to see, understand and navigate autonomously in complex environments.
For episode #108 of the podcast, I welcome Amir Bousani. Amir is the co-founder and CEO of RGo Robotics which is pioneering an artificial perception technology that enables mobile robots to understand complex surroundings and operate autonomously just like humans. Prior to founding RGo Robotics, Bousani lead the Advanced Technologies and System Innovation Groups at Intel RealSense.
Tell our audience about you and RGo.
How did you get into the robotics industry, specifically vision and autonomy?
Let’s talk about intelligent autonomy, what does that mean?
SLAM and Visual SLAM?
How big is this industry?
Tell us about your team. What skills are important and where do you want to grow?
What is a perception engine?
This industry is so big, with lots of different markets, are you concentrating on logistics and last mile, for example?
What are the big challenges to autonomy?
I like your model, it enables a company to do the hardware of a robot and not spend years developing the hard challenge of navigation. You have a cost optimized solution, a standard and a premium offering. Can you explain the differences?
How do you charge for your perception engine?
You have offices in Europe, Isreal and now an office in Boston? How many people in each office and do you see US growing?
What about data?
Tell us about your partners.
Who are your customers or prospects?
What do you see as the future of autonomy?
Amir When you are not knee deep in software, hardware and growing your team, what do you like to do for fun? Thanks for coming onto the podcast.
How can people find out more about RGo Robotics?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor for this episode. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: RGo Robotics, Amir Bousani, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation System, Jim Beretta, #TheRobotIndustryPodcast
For edition #107 of #therobotindustrypodcast I invited Etienne Lacroix, the Founder and CEO at Vention. If you don't know the company, Vention is part Ikea and part Amazon for the automation industry and is aimed at the "Do it Yourself" or DIY part of the industry. But Vention is much more, the company has is a mix of CAD software, PLM software, motion control and programming software, e-commerce and an industry-leading user interface with thousands of modular hardware components: from robots and cobots to table bases and complete systems for palletizing, for example. This conversation took place in August 2023.
Here are some of the questions that I posed to Etienne:
Can you tell our audience about Vention and what inspired the creation of Vention's Manufacturing Automation Platform?
Vention offers a DIY approach to automation that has never been seen before. Can you provide insights on Vention's unique approach?
Building a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform must come with unique challenges. What are some of the major obstacles you faced during Vention's development, and how did you overcome them?
Vention published a DIY automation report a few weeks ago. Could you share any insights on the level of adoption of DIY across manufacturers?
What were the most surprising findings from the DIY report?
Automation has traditionally been more leveraged by large corporations. How do you see DIY automation disrupting this landscape?
Could you share a DIY success story or two with our audience?
Where do you see the future of manufacturing heading, and how does Vention plan to stay at the forefront of innovation?
Can you share any exciting upcoming features or development that Vention users can look forward to?
Etienne, anything else you want to share with our audience?
How can people find out more about Vention?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Note that Vention has their upcoming Demo Day in Montreal very soon, Thursday Oct 5th, 2023 https://vention.io/demo-day
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor for this episode. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Vention, Etienne Lacroix, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation System
My guest for this episode is Jeff Werner from Ethos Automation based in Brantford, ON. Today we are going to talk about safety: robot safety and safety on complex machines.
Jeff is no stranger to the automation industry and machine building for capital equipment industry. Jeff has worked with many large systems integrators as team lead in project management, he has held roles such as vice president and general manager and as VP and general manager for a packaging automation company. Welcome to the podcast Jeff.
Questions
Tell me a bit about Ethos Automation, Jeff
Jeff, When we first discussed this as a topic for a webinar I thought it was a really good idea. Then I started thinking about all the issues. It is not just robots. Robot safety is fairly well documented and it is pretty easy to get unto speed on robot safety, there are conferences, lots of experts, lots of opportunity
But robots are just part of the conversation. When you are talking about custom automation, you have so many players and technologies: Indexers, conveyors, welders, lasers, printers, feeders
You have worked for some great machine builders Jeff, where are you seeing some of the challenges in the automation industry regarding safety?
You have probably seen some errors in approaches to safety in many of your factory tours ?
A manufacturer may only build a few automation systems in a few years so they are not really experts in safety. What steps can end customers take to improve safety of their machines?
How can machine builders approach safety differently?
Whose responsibility is machine safety: Project Managers, Mechanical designers, applications engineers
Should I ask about unbiased third party experts?
What about machines going to far away places? Mexico for example?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not automating, integrating and keeping workers safe, what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
You can find out more about Ethos Automation here. To reach out to Jeff Werner, you can find his LinkedIn here.
Thanks to our partner and sponsor: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and Ehrhardt Automation.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Safety, Ethosautomation.com, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems
For this episode of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, #104, I welcome Scott Barnett, from 3M. Scott currently leads the 3M global abrasives application engineering team that is focused on engineering of robotic abrasive processes in collaboration with system integrators and end using customers.
Welcome to the podcast, I am glad you are here.
The last time that we connected was in February 7 of 2023 on an A3 webinar entitled Robotic Grinding & Finishing: Considerations and Benefits of Implementation. We had Michael Muldoon from AV&R and Tim Burns from ATI Industrial on the webinar.
Here are my questions that I posed to Scott, just ahead of the big A3 | 3M Robotic Grinding and Finishing conference happening July 25-26, 2023 at the Renaissance Hotel in Minneapolis, MN
What is happening in robotic grinding these days? Tell me about the conference? What are some of the highlights? Who is the conference aimed at? / are you surprised at some of the people that show up? What are the takeaways? How many people usually attend? Tell me about some of the speakers? What are common questions that get asked? Who are some of the partners? Are there themes that follow the conference?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are NOT recommending grinding media and automation to robot world what do you like to do, hobbies?
Scott, how can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partner and sponsor: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation Kinova Robotics and Ehrhardt Automation.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: A3 3M Robot Grinding and Finishing Conference, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
To find out more about the conference click here.
Ed Goffin is Senior Marketing Manager with Pleora Technologies, a leading supplier of AI solutions and video connectivity products for quality inspection and factory automation applications. Over his 25-year career, he has been widely published and is a featured speaker on topics ranging from packet switching and network timing to real-time video solutions for situational awareness in medical, factory automation, and security applications.
Pleora Technologies experts AI & Machine Vision and Smart Manufacturing, they are based in Ottawa, Ontario.
Here are my questions for Ed:
You have said before that People want more automation and they want to use AI. I want AI, what is AI again?
What are the first steps in digitizing and using technologies like AI?
Who are your bulls eye customers?
What is the ROI of automation, robotics, AI from your perspective?
You have said to educate your clients before they buy? How does that happen?
Do you have any use cases or challenges that you can talk about?
Where do you think vision and AI is going?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are not changing the automation world through AI what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
Thanks for participating.
To find out more about Pleora Technologies click here. If you would like to reach out to Ed Goffin you can find him on LinkedIn, here.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems and Kinova.
Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: AI, Vision, Machine Vision, Pleora Technologies, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
Yassir Rizwan is an Entrepreneur and technology enthusiast. His expertise is in robotics, computer vision, and AI, with over 10 years of experience. At Labforge, he focuses on product roadmap, business development, and strategic relationships, as well as hardware and software design. Yassir has engineering degrees in Mechatronics from the University of Waterloo and researched controls, non-linear control systems, and aerodynamics.
Before we get to the questions,
I would like to introduce one of our sponsors..Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
How did you get started in machine vision and cameras?
Tell our audience a bit about LabForge company and your partners.
Applications that you have been involved with, especially in the early days?
You designed and built a camera, that is a pretty bold step why?
What is "Bottlenose"? What kind of lenses does it use?
Who is your target customer?
Do you have any Use Cases that you can talk about?
I feel that your product, Bottlenose is a disruptive product? Why is that?
How have you made it easy for machine builders and end customers to install vision?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Labforge or you would like to reach out to Yassir, you can find more information here.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: AI Camera Manufacturer, Yassir Rizwan, Labforge Inc., The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
Charles Deguire is the passionate visionary behind Kinova, a leader of the modern robotics revolution. The organization is experiencing systematic growth by driving robotic adoption in multiple end markets, such as medical, industrial, and academics while making sure to keep a human-first approach. His mission is clear: empower individuals and organizations with better tools, robotic tools, to serve humanity’s most pressing needs. From people with disabilities to surgeons, and machinists to factory workers, Charles and his team help them to accomplish more by using robotic solutions.
The businessman’s achievements earned him several awards, such as the Governor General’s Innovation Awards, which is recognized as the highest innovation distinction in Canada. He is actively participating in the Canadian innovations ecosystem, connecting students and citizens to robotics and entrepreneurship. Motivated to share his passion, Charles is equally dedicated to robotics democratization on a global scale, reflected by a large majority of Kinova’s partners and customers being international.
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Tell us a bit about Kinova, for those people who may not have heard of Kinova Robotics and how you got started in assistive robotics?
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You are located in Montreal, and in a robot innovation and automation hotspot. There is lots of great technology coming out of MTL such as Kinova, Mecademic, Robotiq to name a few. How important is innovation to you and your business?
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Charles, you have made deep inroads into the medical and surgical market with customers like Johnson and Johnson. This must have been a game changer for Kinova?
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You are now a player in the industrial cobot market. Can you tell us a bit about the applications that your are targeting?
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There are a lot of competitors in the market. What does Kinova (robot model) Link6 bring to collaborative side of the robot business?
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How important is being AI ready?
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You are manufacturing in North America, so service and support, spare parts are all local. This gives you a big competitive advantage, yes?
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Where do you think the future for collaborative technologies will go?
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One of the big challenges for any company today is attracting talent, how are you addressing this challenge?
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Have we forgotten anything?
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What do you like to do when you are not inventing and driving innovation?
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How can people get in touch with Kinova to find out more information?
To find out more about Kinova or you would like to reach Kinova Robotics you can find more information here.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
Hello Everyone, this is a bit of a milestone. #therobotindustrypodcast number 100th episode! I got to say, I am happy to publish this episode with my good friends, and brothers in the robotics industry: Scott Marsic and Chris Round.
Chris Round is the East Central Regional Manager for Epson Robotics . He has over 25 years marketing and selling globally in the Automation, Packaging and SMT Industries with a diverse background in conveyors, electronics and robotics. He is currently on the Robotics Industry of America’s marketing committee. Chris resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Linda and three kids, all currently in college. Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Bowling Green State University.
Scott Marsic has over two decades of experience successfully transforming diagnostic, technical, and business intelligence products into innovative, market-leading goods and services. As Group Product Manager at Epson America, Scott is responsible for developing strategic initiatives to help drive channel growth and end-user demand across the industrial robotics product category. Scott holds a BS from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MS from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from San Francisco State University.
Scott, I remember that famous video of Epson bots making watches. Can you give our audience an overview of Epson Corp and Epson Robotics?
Chris, I heard that you have a lot of configurations of robots at Epson, give me a flavor of what that looks like?
Scott, What new products are coming from Epson recently? What are you excited about?
Chris, what are your integrators and end users purchasing and what sectors are they operating in?
Chris can you tell our listeners about your flexible feeding solution?
Scott, you are gearing up for the Automate show. What technologies and demos will I see in person in the EPSON booth?
Scott What is your booth number?
Why has EPSON been so successful?
Business climate and supply chain?
How is Epson helping small to medium manufacturers, especially with a lot of new users?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
I learned a lot about EPSON Robotics in this episode, especially how quartz played a in the sequence of events that created the Epson brand. Have a listen.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Scott Marsic, Chris Round, Epson Robots, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #98. Sina Afrooze is the CEO of Apera. He leads an elite team of visionaries helping manufacturers make their factories more flexible and productive. Robots enhanced with Apera’s software have 4D vision—the ability to see and handle objects with human-like capability. Challenging applications such as bin picking, sorting, packaging, and assembly are now open to fast, precise and reliable automation. Apera is led by an experienced team from high-growth team members focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing.Sina has 20 years of startup and large corporate experience in machine learning, deep learning, software, and systems architecture. He holds ten utility patents in his portfolio around AI, digital imaging, image processing, and media streaming.
Questions:
How did you get started in the business?
What are some of the challenges in traditional bin picking using vision?
What is synthetic data when it comes to training Apera AI?
How long does it take to teach your system?
You use the term 4D, what do you mean by this?
Can you tell us some of the use cases?
Who is your perfect customer?
What is your booth number?
When you are not changing the robot AI world what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Apera AI or you would like to reach out Sina, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Apera AI, Sina Afrooze, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
Anubis 3D Industrial Solutions Inc #97
Founder and President of Anubis Corporation and Anubis 3D, Tharwat draws upon years of solid experience in Engineering Management with Procter & Gamble, Apotex Pharmaceutical Company, and Anubis Corporation, where he managed a variety of functions including Project Management, Engineering and Operations. He established Anubis 3D with the objective of transforming the additive manufacturing from a prototyping industry to a viable production technology.
Tharwat is the inventor of the first optical solids flow meter - a breakthrough in solids flow measurement. He also holds several other patents in the powder handing industry. Tharwat has managed in the Billion dollars range in several manufacturing industries including Chemical Process Automation, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Automatic Packing lines, Logistics & Material Handling, Spray Drying Towers and Pharmaceutical vaccine production lines.
Tharwat, welcome to the podcast.
How did you get started in the business?
You have been very successful, why is that?
There are some challenges in perception of 3D in industry and in automation, what are they?
Now tell me about one of the big advantages of 3D printing?
What are some of the most popular end of arm tools that you create for robots?
You just had a very successful Automate show in 2022. How did these conversations go?
Tell our audience about vacuum surface grippers and whey they are a good fit for light weighting?
Why is light weighting important?
You also have a specialty for bottle grippers. What is the big challenge for bottle grippers
What will you be showing at your booth in 2023? What is your booth number?
When you are not lightweighting the robot world what do you like to do, hobbies?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Anubis 3D or you would like to reach out Tharwat, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Our other sponsor is Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: 3DP, 3D Printed Robot End of Arm Tools, Anubis3D, Tharwat Fouad, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics.
Welcome to A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast # 96. This is part of our Automate 2023 series of podcasts.
Sebastien Schmitt is the Robotics Director, North America but before that he worked as an application engineer, technical support manager and user interface software. Welcome to the podcast!
My questions for Sebastien:
Can you tell our audience a bit about Staubli Robotics?
Where does Staubli fit in the robotics industry?
How big is Staubli and how many employees?
What are some of the big trends that you are seeing from your big picture perspective? Are there any applications that are growing or not growing?
When I think about Staubli, I think high quality, but I also think of food, and cheese handling and pharmaceutical automation, medical device, aseptic environments, and solar cell wafer handling. Are there market segments that you see growing for Staubli?
What about Stericlean series of robots?
What is your product: SCOPE?
You have a new 3 Ton AGV, give us a little bit of background on this product innovation?
What is in the future for Staubli and robotics?
What will you be showing at Automate 2023?
What do you like to do when you are not selling and marketing robots?
What is your booth number at Automate?
To find out more about Staubli Robotics or you would like to reach out Sebastien Schmitt, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsors for this episode are Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Another sponsor includes Kinova Robotics. Kinova is a global leader in professional robotics. Founded in 2006 in Montreal, the company's mission initially was to empower individuals with upper-body limitations through the use of assistive robotics. The company has evolved its product line to service researchers, medical professionals, governments, businesses and educational institutions achieve their innovation goals through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts. Today, with robotic technologies built up over more than a decade of inspired ingenuity, Kinova’s dedication is to provide solutions to professionals in industries such as agrifood, healthcare, security, nuclear, hazmat and advanced manufacturing.
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Staubli Robotics, Sebastien Schmitt, Kinova Robotics, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
For The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #95, I have a chat with Alan Taliaferro.
Alan is a Partner leading the Smart Factory initiative in Canada. The Smart Factory consists of both Smart Warehouse and Smart Factory visit experiences. He also leads the Logistics and Distribution practice in Canada with over 20 years of experience in supply chain strategy, network design, facility design and implementation, transportation, and corporate transformations in various industries and countries.He is experienced in automation business case development, distribution center design and implementation, and distribution network strategy.Alan is a recognized guest speaker at important supply chain conferences across North America related to smart warehousing, supply chain strategy, logistics and distribution, and transportation.
ALAN Welcome to the podcast, thanks for joining us!
I read recently that Deloitte Canada opened The Smart Factory @ Montreal, a first-of-its-kind facility showcasing an interconnected ecosystem of more than 20 cutting-edge solutions and technologies and intent on transforming manufacturing and warehousing through digital transformation.
Alan, Why have you created this, and I understand Canada is not alone?
What are the expected outcomes?
You have a full staff complement? The Smart Factory
It’s not a showroom, it is a use-case centered facility, correct?
Lets talk tech. What kinds of technology are you showing?
You mentioned to me that Smart factory well suited to Canadian companies, can you elaborate?
Alan to give some examples of a fruit distributor packing and repacking, others
Who are some of your sponsors in this facility?
What about educational partnerships?
What were some of the surprises that you ran into on the execution. You mentioned the server room and cybersecurity, which is a huge challenge to every factory in the world.
I understand that you have had some initial success in the Smart Factory (80 visits)
Who are you attracting?
I know that you just got started, What does the future look like for The Smart Factory?
How can other companies get involved with Deloitte Canada The Smart Factory?
How can people get in touch with you?
Thanks for participating. How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Deloitte's Smart Factory or you would like to reach out Alain Taliaferro, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Deloitte, Smart Factory Montreal, Smart Warehouse, Alain Taliaferro.
Welcome to A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast # 94.
Steven Green is well known in the industry of robotics and automation in North America thanks to his diverse career of 28 years. He is a graduate of mechanical engineering from Queen’s University and has had leadership roles in several well known contributors to our industry including Prodomax Automation and KUKA Robotics. Steve is also an advocate and promoter of the next generation of automation specialists by working collaboratively with colleges on curriculum and student lab modernization projects, and has also been privileged to sponsor many high-school level robotics teams. Steve is a fellow Canadian but is currently working on the south side of the border in Michigan. Most recently Steve joined Kinova Robotics based out of Montreal, Quebec as their VP of industrial markets, responsible for Kinova‘s industrial market strategy and deployment.
Questions:
You have just joined Kinova can you tell our audience about the company?
You have worked for some other robot companies, what do you like about Kinova?
Montreal is a bit of a technology hotspot these days with robotics and automation can you tell our audience about the ecosystem in MTL?
Can you tell our audience about collaborative robots and some of the advantages to using collaborative technologies in their manufacturing operations.
What are the differences that Kinova offers?
How many people are at Kinova?
What robotic applications are you and the team at Kinova focusing on?
What is the Kinova Gen3 cobot?
Tell me about Link 6 cobot by Kinova?
You are going to be exhibiting at the Automation show in Detroit, can you tell us what you will be bringing to the show and what you hope to accomplish?
Tell me about some of your partners?
What is your booth number at Automate?
What do you see in the future for collaborative technologies?
What about Service and Support?
When you are not marketing and selling robots, what do you like to do?
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
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If you would like to get in touch with us at A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn.
We will see you next time. Thanks for listening, be safe out there.
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank Chris Gray for the music, Geoffry Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsor Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for episode Drew Frohmann is a creator, writer and voice director at TA2 (pronounced: Tattoo) Sound + Music in Toronto. There, he writes and directs original podcasts, branded podcasts like Breadwinners, animated properties like Crack-Duck and Terrfficland, and countless award-winning advertisements, including US Super Bowl ads for Bud Light. Drew has zero expertise in robotics, AI, or anything else that may be useful to humanity.
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Drew Welcome to the podcast.
Tell me about Human-B-Gon
Why did you start it?
What do you do on the show?
Tell me about your cast? And their voices.
Who are the main characters?
What is currently happening on the show?
What are your goals with the show?
You are on instagram and I see that you have 10K followers,, congrats
How long are your episodes, 40 minutes?
Some fun words: Builtday?
What is the future for the podcast?
When you are not producing podcasts, what do you like to do?
How do people support the show? How can people get in touch with you?
The Buggy Eddie job takes a dark turn. Kit must confront his stance on hominid rights. Influx's Builtday party hits a snag.
Content warning: stupidity, violence (but only to humans)
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The voice talent:
Kit: Paul J. Piekoszewski
Hundo: Kat Letwin
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Poopoo: Greg Allen
Buggy Eddie: John Gallagher
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Additional voices: Oliver Wickham, Manny Ching, Tom Goudie, Ryan Abedi
Written & Directed by: Drew Frohmann
Mix & Sound Design: Adam Ive
Music: Oliver Wickham
Human-B-Gon created by Drew Frohmann and produced at TA2 Sound + Music by Dana Gadsden and Heather Ngo
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Thanks for listening. If you have any questions, get in touch with me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn.
The human brain is critical to a child’s development. Within a few years of life, it enables us to sit, walk, talk and eventually make decisions. But for those suffering from neurological conditions, such as epilepsy, that journey can be complicated.
I am Dr. Sandrine deRibaupierre, paediatric neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada, and today I’ll be talking about The ROSA Robotic Arm, a life-changing technology that allows teams at LHSC’s Children’s Hospital to perform curative neurosurgeries on children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
The ROSA allows us to provide leading-edge care while saving staff time and resources, reducing wait and recovery times, and ultimately enhancing the quality of life for children with epilepsy.
My introduction for Dr. deRibaupierre:
Dr. Sandrine de Ribaupierre earned her MD at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. After a Neuro surgery residency in Lausanne, Switzerland, she completed an epilepsy fellowship in the Fondation Rothschild in Paris, then a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship in the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Dr. deRibaupierre is currently working as a pediatric neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, in London, Ontario, with some involvement in adult trauma and skull base cases.
In April 2022, she was appointed as Research Chair of Paediatric Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at Children’s Hospital at LHSC. In this role, she leads a multidisciplinary team to improve neurosurgery outcomes by furthering our understanding of brain development and how it is impacted by complex diagnoses like epilepsy, hydrocephalus, tumours and traumatic brain injury. The team also leverages augmented and virtual reality tools to improve surgical planning and the patient experience. Dr. deRibaupierre is also a Professor at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, where her main research areas are medical education, using virtual and augmented reality as an educational tool, with a special interest in neuro anatomy, and neuro imaging investigating both the normal brain development and how it is affected by some neurological pathologies.
Here are my questions for Sandrine:
Q. As a dad to a physician I understand that the road to your practice and research is rarely a straight one. Can you tell us about your path to this very niche practice and application of your surgical skills?
Q. Tell us about the impact the ROSA has had on patients and the neurosurgical team at LHSC’s Children’s Hospital?
Q. Is the technology developing rapidly and what work are you doing to advance children’s neurosurgeries through these technologies?
Q. So how do you stay ahead of the training and practicing skills when you’re just trying to get OR time and keep up with caring for your patients?
Q. You are focused on using a device called the ROSA One Brain Robotic Arm, allowing you to perform a procedure that pinpoints the location of epileptic seizures in patients for subsequent brain surgery.Can you tell us more about the ROSA and how the robot assists you in this procedure?
Q. What does the ROSA mean for patients and families in your region? What is the reaction you would have from patients or their parents when they find out there will be a robot involved in their surgery?
Q. I understand that the ROSA robot came to you in March 2022. How much have you had the opportunity in the last year to work with the technology? What is notable about it? Does it improve speed or accuracy? Does it allow you to increase the number of surgeries can you do in a year?
Q. So I’m pretty sure that as in any surgery you have a team around you. How does a team in robotic surgery differ from a typical OR team?
Q. Where does the surgeon stop and the robot begin or are you one in the same in that OR?
Q. What does the future look like for robotics at London Health Sciences Centre? Through either your clinical practice or research, what things do you see yourself working on?
Q. When you are not performing surgeries or working on your clinical research what do you like to do in your free time? That is if you have any.
Thanks to the awesome staff at London Health Sciences Center of London, Ontario including Elizabeth Summers, Steve Robinson, Dr. deRibaupierre, Allie Vandershot, Lauren McAlea-Phillips from Children's Health Foundation CHF and Tammy Quigley.
As always, enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
If you are interested to make a donation, to Child Health, it is just one click away
https://childhealth.ca/donation/
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn.
Our sponsor for this podcast edition is Children's Health Foundation.
Established in 1922, Children’s Health Foundation (CHF) inspires caring people to donate to support health care excellence at Children’s Hospital, TVCC (Formerly, Thames Valley Children’s Centre) and Children’s Health Research Institute. Children’s Health Foundation help strengthen and transform the health care experience by funding equipment, programs, and research that ensure better childhoods for kids with life-threatening or life-limiting diagnoses.
Thanks to the generosity of Children’s Health Foundation donors, Children’s Hospital was able to purchase the ROSA One-Brain Robotic arm and begin performing leading-edge surgeries that CURE children of their epilepsy.
Purchasing the ROSA was funded 100 percent by donors. Having the ROSA is only possible because of community-minded leaders, like the podcast listeners today.
You can start learning about leading-edge care for our kids by joining us online at childhealth.ca or on socials @chfhope.
Children’s Health Foundation is honoured to gather our community together in support of life-changing technology and medical innovations like the ROSA. We are so grateful to support the best possible care for our children, youth and their families.
Show Notes:
ROSA One Brain Robotic Arm
Helps to facilitate brain surgery in kids with drug-resistant epilepsy
"Game-Changing" Robotic Arm, ROSA, Arrives for Purple Day | Children's Health Foundation (childhealth.ca)
A video of the ROSA in action: https://youtu.be/P6XWBn2QlXQ
Keywords and terms for this podcast: LHSC, London Ontario, Children's Health Foundation.
If you would like to get in touch with Dr. Sandrine de Ribaupierre you can touch base with LHSC Media If media@lhsc.on.ca
Our Team | LHSC
Our guest for this edition #92 is Evan Haley - Vice President of Global Sales, ATI Industrial Automation.
After working independently for ATI Industrial Automation for several years, Evan Haley joined the organization permanently as Director of International Sales in 2012. He was promoted to Vice President of Global Sales in 2022. Evan employs a balanced management approach that blends mentoring and open communication. With disruptive ideology and a strong focus on collaboration, leading his team they build long-term relationships with our customers, while driving growth through ATI’s various sales channels.
Evan, Tell us about ATI Industrial Automation, a little bit of history.
- Who are your customers, in general?
- End of arm tools have really seen some major changes in the last 5 years, what are some of the drivers?
- You are leaders in robot accessories, tool changers, force torque and compliance devices. Are there some devices which are keeping you busier?
- What industry verticals are buying products from you?
- Are you doing more work in cobots?
- What are some of the trends that you are seeing in manufacturing?
- What does the future look like?
- Who is Novanta and how has this acquisition changed things at ATI?
- Did we forget to talk about anything?
- When you are not helping integrators and the robot world what do you like to do, hobbies?
- How can people get a hold of you?
If you would like to find out about ATI Automation or check out Evan Haley here is his LinkedIn profile.
As always, enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: ATI Industrial Automation, The Robot Industry Podcast, Evan Haley.
ATI is now a Noventa company portfolio member.
919-772-0115 is the phone number at ATI Industrial Automation
Note that I mentioned in the show the podcast from July 29, 2020. It is very interesting, if I do say so myself.
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #91. My guest is Edward Mehr.
Edward Mehr is an entrepreneur and engineer with a background in smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence. He is the co-founder and CEO of Machina Labs, a company that is developing next generation of manufacturing plants through use of robotics and artificial intelligence. Previously at Relativity Space, He led a team, in charge of developing the world’s largest metal 3D printer. Relativity Space is working to become the first company to print a rocket on Mars. Before Relativity Space, he was CTO and founding member of Averon. Averon develops fully automated internet authentication solutions that don’t require any human intervention. His work has been featured, on the main stage of TED, TechCrunch Disrupt, and Cable Lab’s invocation showcase. Early in his career, he worked as an engineer in companies such as SpaceX, Google, and Microsoft.
Edward, you have some very cool customers, can we talk about some of them?
- What is happening in manufacturing? What is keeping them up at night?
- What is next gen manufacturing from your perspective?
- Can you give our listeners an idea of a typical, difficult project that you build? I am thinking about two robots working in concert in my mind from your videos
- What industries are you working in?
- Can you give us some use cases? Aerospace, defense, rockets, drones?
- Where are you seeing growth?
- In our precall you mentioned Robot cells as craftsmen. What you do you mean by this.
- What do you mean by dynamic load?
- You probably get the really tough automation jobs?
- What other technologies do you use, other than robots?
- Any more thoughts on the future of manufacturing?
- Have we forgotten anything?
- How can people get a hold of you if they are interested to find out more?
If you would like to find out about Machina Labs or check out Edward Mehr here is his LinkedIn profile.
As always, enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Edward Mehr, Machina Labs, Robotics, Next generation manufacturing, AI, Artificial Intelligence, #SheetMetal, #RobotCraftsmen
For podcast #90 I welcome Amit Moran. He is Co-Founder and CTO of Indoor Robotics, developing autonomous indoor drones for safety and security monitoring missions. Amit holds a bachelor's and master's degree in software engineering from INSA de Lyon, France.
Prior to founding Indoor Robotics, he served as VP Technology Innovation at a start-up company called Temi which develops a personal assistant robot where he focused on developers' experience and prototyped new capabilities.
Before Temi, Amit worked at Intel in the "Perceptual Computing" (RealSense) department in the "Innovation and Advanced Technologies" group. During this time, Amit established a research and development team in the field of robotics and computer vision where he led the development of software and hardware products for computer vision and robotics.
Amit, welcome to the podcast. How did you get involved with Indoor Robotics?
Can you describe your drone? What does it look like? You have a unique mounting device?
How big is the security industry?
When is it used?
How do you sell it, is it robots as a service?
Is there a particular environment that works best?
How is the navigation performed? Are there any tricky environments or obstacles?
Drones are not replacing people?
What does the drone see?
What kind of sensors/sensing technologies are you using?
Who is your bulls-eye customer?
Can you give us some customer use cases?
What does the future look like?
When you are not programming drones what do you like to do?
What are some of the future technologies that you are working on?
Thanks for participating. How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Indoor Robotics If you would like to reach out Amit Moran, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Amit Moran, Indoor Robotics, #therobotindustrypodcast #ai, #drones, #robotics, #technology, and #machinevision
Warehouse automation: from no bots to robots
For podcast #89, I am pleased to welcome Craig Malloy. Craig is the CEO of Vecna Robotics, the leader in flexible material handling automation. Craig has more than two decades of experience founding, scaling and leading global companies in venture capital, publicly traded and private equity environments, including Lifesize, Bloomfire and ViaVideo. Before entering the corporate world, he served as a Lieutenant, Surface Warfare Officer and Nuclear Weapons Officer in the United States Navy. Craig holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.
What is happening at Vecna, can you give our listeners an update?
What does a Vecna robot look like?
What are your customers and prospects' pain points?
Is there a key industry that you are serving, a bulls eye customer?
You went to a trade event recently and took some polls of the visitors. Can you tell me a bit about what the question was and what you learned?
I am a warehouse owner or manager and I want to put robotics or automation in. How do I go from no bots to robots? What are the steps?
Who are the stakeholders? CEO, CFO, Plant managers?
How do you sell the robots?
USE Cases, typical and unusual?
What does the ROI discussion look like, has it changed with our complex labor situation?
How important is data to your customers and prospects?You produce locally, correct?Has supply chain affected production of bots?
You are located in Boston area, a very competitive industry for robotics. Is it challenging to keep talent and for what positions are you hiring?
Did we forget anything?
When you are not knee deep in autonomous robots, what do you like to do?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Vecna Robotics If you would like to reach out Craig Malloy, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at (617) 444-9263
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Craig Malloy, Vecna Robotics, #fromno-bottorobot #therobotindustrypodcast
The easy Automation Solution is Hard “The right solution that works all the time for anybody” is HARD
Scot Lindemann, CEO of Mission Design & Automation, has 30+ years of leadership in Automation and Robotics. Formerly of JR Automation where he served for many years in various leadership roles and was instrumental in helping them achieve record growth until he left in 2016 as its co-CEO. Scot then took the role of President of BACA Systems, a stone robotics fabrication equipment provider in southeast Michigan, from 2017-2020. Scot has a passion for intelligent automation and robotics, leadership development and customer service.
A Lake Superior State University (LSSU) graduate in Robotic Systems Engineering, Scot Lindemann has served the automation and robotics industry for over three decades. Beyond his time working on the industrial automation integrator front, he has also been active in FIRST Robotics and has been a member of and served as a Director for the Association for Advancing Automation. Scot is also one of a limited number of recipients of FANUC’s President’s Circle award. Scot has also served on the LSSU board of Directors as well as served as a Board Member and as Chairman of the Board for Lakeshore Advantage, a West Michigan nonprofit economic development organization.
Scot, joins me for podcast #88 and we have a conversation about ease of use in the robotics and automation industry.
Scot, welcome to the podcast, Let’s talk about automation and especially what is getting easier?
But Scot, as easy as it is, we know that it really is getting more complex…
Do you feel that the industry or the media is talking too much about simplicity and maybe not enough about preparation, training, talent, timelines?Scot, what other things are making it harder?
Are parts and part families, part feeding, getting harder? Is Budgeting (for automation, maintenance) is getting more complex? Do you find the conversation between OT and IT becoming simpler or harder, or is it even happening? Are you dealing with clients around Cybersecurity, or is this one more complexity? Thanks for coming onto the podcast, What do you like to do when you are not building automation? How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Mission Design & Automation If you would like to reach out Scot Lindemann, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at 616.239.1258
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Mission Design, Scot Lindemann #therobotindustrypodcast
For podcast #87, I invited Alessia Alfieri to join me at their automation facility. Alessia is a Project Manager at Ethos Automation Inc. located in Brantford, Ontario. She has worked in Tier 1 Automotive industry where she met her now new boss, Peter Botros.
Alessia, welcome to the podcast, thanks for joining us.
Here are some of my interview questions:
Was there an influence in your life that led you to engineering? Were you just good at all the STEM subjects?Did your co-op experiences help you define your interests more clearly or help you figure out what you DIDN’T want to do?So how does being a Project Manager differ from other engineering jobs you’ve held in past?As a woman in male-dominated profession and workplace, can you talk about some of the challenges you may have had?What advice would you have for young women considering entering engineering? Manufacturing?What about ETHOS made you want to work there?
When you are not saving the world what do you like to do?
How can people get a hold of you?
If you would like to find out more information on Ethos Automation, you can reach out to Alessia on her LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ethos Automation, Automation Systems Integrators, Alessia Alfieri, #therobotindustrypodcast
I caught up with Joe Campbell from Universal Robots at The Assembly Show this fall 2022 in Rosemont, Illinois. We had a great conversation about what is happening in the world of collaborative robots, Universal Robots and assembly automation.
I wanted to find out what was happening with UR from Joe's perspective. Full disclosure that I have worked with UR for several years, but it was nice to meet with Joe face to face.
To find out more about Universal Robots If you would like to reach out Joe Campbell, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at
www.universal-robots.com by email at ur.na@universal-robots.com and by phone: 844-462-6268
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Universal Robots, Cobots, collaborative robots Joe Campbell #therobotindustrypodcast
Kristian Tazbazian is the Co-Founder/COO at Gastronomous Technologies, and we have a bit of history.
Tell us a bit about Gastronomous, you have just moved locations, I understand.
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What is the market for automated robot chefs?
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Who are your bulls-eye clients?
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Partnerships are really important here. Tell us a bit about some of these?
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What are the motivators for your prospect customers?
- Is there any AI in your application?
- Where do you think we will see the robot, or will we even see it?
- You are doing the really hard work, innovating kitchens with a modular perspective, why this modular approach?
- You have had a lot of interest from around the world, what gets you most excited for this technology?
To find out more about Gastronomous If you would like to reach out Kristian, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at info@gastronomous.ca
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
BTW you can check out our history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ELIu0vpAg
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Gastronomous, Robot chefs, Robots that cook, #therobotindustrypodcast
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #84.
Daniel Theobald is my guest. He is the Chief Innovation Officer and founder of Vecna Robotics, a flexible, intelligent material handling automation company. Daniel has decades of experience leading research scientists and teams of engineers in developing cutting-edge technology. He has 67 issued patents and more than 30 patents pending.
Daniel has been on the forefront of robotics for more than 20 years, working closely with DARPA, DOD, NASA, NIH, USDA and many others to advance the use of robots and AI software to improve supply chain automation. In addition to founding Vecna Robotics, Daniel also co-founded MassRobotics, a non-profit dedicated to the global advancement of the robotics industry. Daniel is dedicated to the idea that technology can be used to empower people worldwide to live more fulfilling lives.
Here are some of the questions that we talk about on the pod:
Let’s talk about what is going on in the industry from a high level at Vecna (trends, etc)
Interoperability, how did we get here?
How do we fix it?
What are company motivations?
Cultural motivations in the robotics industry.
How does Mass Robotics fit into this?
How do you actually do this – invent a standard?
When you are not writing standards what do you like to do?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Vecna, Mass Robotics or you would like to reach out Robert, here is his LinkedIn profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Vecna Robotics, Robot Interoperability, Mass Robotics, Robert Theobald, Jim Beretta, #therobotindustrypodcast
I was thrilled to be able to catch up with Ethos Automation's Calvin Kimura recently, and I was able to record this podcast live at Ethos Automation's facility in Brantford, ON which is an easy drive from London. Calvin is an automation specialist and also co-founder of Ethos Automation. He is a graduate in the electromechanical engineering technology program from Humber College. Calvin also worked in Tier 1 Automotive for Magna Corporation.
There is a lot going on at Ethos, for such a young automation company. For example both Calvin Kimura and his business partner, Peter Botros were named winners in Manufacturing Automation's Top 10 Under 40 program and are setting the bar for young professionals across the industry in automated manufacturing.
Calvin was also recently on a webinar with Manufacturing Automation magazine's editor Sukanya Ray Ghosh on the Future of Automation Virtual Event 2022, and I was involved as well.
Here are some of the questions that we talked about for podcast #83:
Can you describe the types of automation that you are building? Are there any specific tools or technologies that you are seeing now, that maybe you weren’t a few years ago? Machine vision? What kind of trends are you seeing in automation for welding? Are parts getting bigger or smaller? Are projects getting simpler or more complex? What about industry 4.0 and maybe iiot in the machines that you are building? A question about robots, etc. Bigger, more of them, etc. Do customers need more help, more training?
To find out more about Ethos Automation or you would like to reach out Calvin, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team via their contact form.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ethos Automation, Calvin Kimura, #ethosautomation #robotwelding #therobotindustrypodcast
I was thrilled to be able to catch up with Ethos Automation's Calvin Kimura recently, and I was able to record this podcast live at Ethos Automation's facility in Brantford, ON which is an easy drive from London. Calvin is an automation specialist and also co-founder of Ethos Automation. He is a graduate in the electromechanical engineering technology program from Humber College. Calvin also worked in Tier 1 Automotive for Magna Corporation.
There is a lot going on at Ethos, for such a young automation company. For example both Calvin Kimura and his business partner, Peter Botros were named winners in Manufacturing Automation's Top 10 Under 40 program and are setting the bar for young professionals across the industry in automated manufacturing.
Calvin was also recently on a webinar with Manufacturing Automation magazine's editor Sukanya Ray Ghosh on the Future of Automation Virtual Event 2022, and I was involved as well.
Here are some of the questions that we talked about for podcast #83:
Can you describe the types of automation that you are building? Are there any specific tools or technologies that you are seeing now, that maybe you weren’t a few years ago? Machine vision? What kind of trends are you seeing in automation for welding? Are parts getting bigger or smaller? Are projects getting simpler or more complex? What about industry 4.0 and maybe iiot in the machines that you are building? A question about robots, etc. Bigger, more of them, etc. Do customers need more help, more training?
To find out more about Ethos Automation or you would like to reach out Calvin, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team via their contact form.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ethos Automation, Calvin Kimura, #ethosautomation #robotwelding #therobotindustrypodcast
For podcast #82 I finally got to connect up with Sean Dotson. We talk about a lot of things from human capital, vacations, HMIs, flexibility, innovation and ease of use of automation systems.
Sean Dotson, PE is President and founder of RND Automation. A Florida native he received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. Sean has been in the industrial automation and robotics industry his entire career, founding RND in 2005. In 2020 he sold RND Automation to a private equity firm and now serves as both RND’s president and CAS Holding’s CTO
HE manages the 3 divisions: RND, iAutomation & PanelTek.
Now retired from racing, Sean used to compete in triathlons ranging from Olympic to full Ironman distance.
But he's considering a comeback soon... :)
TODAY we are going to talk about culture in hiring in the automation industry.
We all talk about culture. What elements make up a culture in a company?
How can you tell if a company has poor culture?
What is your process to make sure that you have a good cultural fit.
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How important is culture in your company and in the industry? Very!
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Do you have a code or written document?
- Do you hire for culture? What are the downsides to this?
- What do you do to drive (the) culture in the business?
- I would like to talk around innovation – What about innovation. In your business innovation is everything or not?
- Can you reward innovation?
Do you think that your customers recognize the company culture at RND and do you think that customers reward innovative companies?
When you are not building automation, what do you like to do?
Are you in hiring mode right now?
How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about RND Automation If you would like to reach out Sean, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at sales@RNDautomation.com
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: RND Automation, hiring for talent, #automation, #packaging, Sean Dotson, #therobotindustrypodcast
Notes: DIVISIONS OF CAS HOLDINGS: RND AUTOMATION | iAUTOMATION | PANELTEK LLC
For podcast #81, I welcome Brian Powell to The Robot Industry Podcast. With over 30 years of experience in factory automation, Brian is well versed in robotics, machine vision and product development. In his current role with Brooks Automation, he is responsible for sales of robotic and control automation to a diverse group of OEMs across laboratory automation, medical device and electronics industries. Prior to Brooks, Brian held sales and program management positions with Precise Automation, Xyratex International, Adept Technology and RVSI, now part of Siemen’s Simatic Sensors. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from California State University and an MBA from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Brian, welcome to the podcast.
Can you tell our audience a bit about where Precise Automation has come from and the early business focus?
What types of cobots do you design and build?
Precise Automation has become part of Brooks, and that is your big news. You must feel like a kid in a candy store, what does this mean for Precise?
Who is Brooks Automation?
Has this acquisition expanded your market focus? What is in your bulls-eye?
What sectors are you delivering robots into, have you got any robot stories?
Let’s talk about safety.
Tell me about Dynamic Feed Forward?
What trends are you seeing in robots and automation?
What is PreciseFlex brand?
When you are not educating the world about collaborative bots what do you like to do?
How can people get a hold of you?
Contact Info
Brian Powell Director, Sales & Marketing
Brooks Automation brian.powell@brooks.com
925-437-4119 www.brooks.com
If you would like to know more about Brooks Automation you can cliand click on the link to find out more about to connect with Brian on LinkedIn, click here.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Kim van Kirk, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to the robotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Cobots, PreciseFlex, Collaborative Robots, Brooks Automation, Precise Automation, Brian Powell #therobotindustrypodcast
For podcast #80, I had the chance to speak with Patrice Roulet Fontani Vice President, Technology and Co-Founder of ImmerVision based out of Montreal.
After completing his Master’s degree in image processing and computer graphics, Patrice joined the INRIA, contributing to research in the robotic surgery field. He also co-founded Immervision where he leads the engineering team.
In addition, Patrice contributes to IP growth and the adoption of Immervision’s technology by global corporations. He has overseen the integration of wide-angle imaging technology in numerous industry verticals and is also an IEEE Senior Member, invited speaker at various conferences, and co-author of multiple publications and patents.
Questions:
Tell us about Immervision, and what you do with regard to vision systems for robotics?
What unique research/work are you doing in the field of Robotics, and in particular for vision systems?
What are you seeing as the biggest challenge for vision systems in robotics?
What makes your approach different?
Explain, why robot vision must integrate with human vision. Provide a solution to overcome this challenge.
Can you elaborate on the problem of dual computer and human vision, and what you are seeing as the most viable solution?
With over 20 years of innovation, Immervision creates solutions that see beyond human vision. Its Deep Seeing technology and renowned experts in wide-angle optical design and image processing enable smart devices with superhuman eyes to capture high quality visual and contextual data. The company invents, customizes, and licenses wide-angle lenses and imaging software technology for AI, machine vision and user applications, from capture to display, in the mobile, automotive, robotics, security, and other industrial and consumer product industries.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Patrice Roulet Fontani, a very professional Paige McEachren, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Immervision, #therobotindustrypodcast, Patrice Roulet Fontani
For more information: www.immervision.com.
Armando Gonzalez joined Bosch Rexroth in 2021 and is the North American business leader for AMR/Robotics. He’s been in industrial automation for almost 20 years and working with robots since for over 16 of those years. Armando currently resides in Dallas, TX and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. In his time off he’s enjoying the outdoors with his (2) boys or teaching them about NFT’s.
Armando, I am sure everyone knows who Bosch Rexroth is, but remind us who you are?
What is an AMR?
What are some of the misconceptions of Robotic Automation from your perspective?
What’s the best advice you can give someone who is looking to bring in Robotics to
their facility?
What are some of the typical low-hanging fruit use cases, esp for AMRs?
Tell us some stories?
This is fairly new technology…What are some of the big challenges (interoperability?) that industry faces?
What about small manufacturers and AMR’s is there a perception that you have to be big to execute?
Let’s talk about mixed fleets, indeed mixed fork lifts, AMRs in the same warehouse. Who’s in charge?
How do companies have to change: Do we need a traffic cop in our factories? Do we have to have flow experts?
Who is GeekPlus? QR Bots? ASRS systems?
What do you predict the future will look like?
Armando, what do you like to do when you are not selling bots?
Thanks for coming onto the podcast, how can people reach you?
If you would like to know more about Bosch Rexroth you can click here, and click on the link to find out more about Armando.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Armando Gonzalez, Gina Mudie and Sarah Poliski from Godfrey, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Armando Gonzalez Bosch-Rexroth #AMRs #therobotindustrypodcast
OhmniLabs | Thinking Outside The Bot | Podcast #78 OhmniLabs™ is changing the paradigm of robotics development. They thrive at creating flexible robotics modules and scalable additive manufacturing processes. Every engineer at Omnilabs including their software, electrical, mechanical professionals is cross trained on production engineering. This tight vertical integration ensures that they solve problems at the most efficient level.
Dr. Thuc Vu is the CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. He previously founded Katango and Tappy which were acquired by Google and Weeby.co, respectively. Thuc has deep expertise in game theory, machine learning, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. In 2017, Thuc was named as one of the “40 Under 40” of Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal for his tireless efforts to bring about a significantly positive impact in the business world.
Our conversation and Questions.
Benefits of the robots
Social impacts of Telepresence Robot
- What are the big challenges?
- Values vs. Costs
- Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases
- How has pandemic changed the business?
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How do you sell costs
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3d printing?
- UV disinfection robot
- Data?
- Future trends
- Have we forgotten anything?
- How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Ohmnilabs, check them out. If you would like to reach out Thuc, here is his LinkedIn proflie.
Thanks to Laura Guy for her help in putting this conversation together.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our friends: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ohmnilabs, Telepresence Robots, disinfectant robots, #therobotindustrypodcast
I am pleased to have Peter Keane from Qualifi join me for this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast. Peter works for Informa, and they have been a long time client of mine with the ATX Toronto and ATX Montreal show.
Here are some of my questions for Peter:
What is Qualifi, who is informa Markets?
Qualifi – new digital marketing division that takes 1) 1st party data mixes this with 2) Audience Intelligence and activates via 3) programmatic media to reach the exact audience a marketer wants to reach.
What is first party data?
Why is 1st Party Data Important?
What does Qualifi do with this 1st Party Data?
What is a lookalike audience and how does it relate to 1st Party Data?Talk about Audience Intelligence?
How does Audience Intelligence work?
Let's talk about the funnel, everyone is after leads?
Activation – programmatic media can you explain programmatic?
What kind of media to you deliver?
How effective is programmatic advertising?
This sounds a bit too good to be true, is it legal?
Who is this program good for?
How would you use this?
Companies that want advanced targeting, more accuracy, less waste
Easy, didn't have to hire an ad agency – will address the turn key nature of the program, just like hiring a digital agency without the cost, big advantage
One more tool in their toolbox? A big tool in the toolbox
Typical length of a program?
How do customers consider the ROI?
Project management / client success?
What do I need to do to get started?
What do you like to do when you are not connecting sellers and buyers?
How do people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Peter, the team at Qualifi and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Qualifi, Peter Keane, The Robot Industry Podcast, audience intelligence, programmic advertising, media buying.
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #76.
My guest for this podcast is Ted Larson.
Ted Larson is CEO and Co-Founder of OLogic, Inc. an embedded systems research and development company with a focus on robotic applications and technologies. Ted has over 30 years of experience designing and building commercial software applications. His current interest areas are robotics, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems in consumer and professional electronic devices. Ted graduated from California Polytechnic State University with BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. He has worked on numerous robotics projects with leading corporations including Google, Hasbro, Savioke and Panasonic. Ted has spoken at several of the past ROBOBusiness Expos, the annual Silicon Valley conference that has helped business leaders understand where the market is going, and which has assisted in implementing their robotics vision within their organizations.
Ted Welcome. I am excited for the conversation today.
- What do you do at OLogic?
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Who are your typical customers?
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You have been involved in many robot projects, how do you get involved usually? Prototype?
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Do you get involved when people have problems?
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What products might our listeners recognize?
- What has been the most challenging?
- What has been the most fun?
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You have built some toys?
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What famous projects have you been involved with (that you can talk about)?
- You have about 27 people working with you. What are their backgrounds?
- What tools are in your toolbox?
- What robot technology is high up on your radar (AI, GPS, Safety, Raas)
- Can you give us some use cases?
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How long does a project take?
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When you are not building robots, or fixing them, what do you like to do in the off time?
- Have we forgotten anything?
How can people get in touch with you?
To find out more about OLogic check them out. If you would like to reach out Ted, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at ted @ ologicinc .com
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
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Thanks to Ted Larson, Juliana Orr, and Simon Wright from Qrius Minds and the team from OLogic and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of thei
For this 75th edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I welcome Jared Evans from MAJiK Systems Inc in Waterloo, ON to the pod.
Jared is Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and manufacturing industry. He is skilled in sales, corporate management, technical writing, and engineering. Jared has a strong operations background. He has earned his Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) focused in Engineering/Industrial Management from University of Waterloo.
Jared, welcome to the podcast. Can you tell our audience about MAJiK Systems and how you got started?
What is happening in your industry?
What trends are you seeing? Industries?
You are doing complex work what are some of these challenges?
Can you share some of the projects that you have worked on recently? Use cases?
How important is the manufacturing culture and getting operators onboard?
How do you work with clients?
How do customers get ready to engage you?
Do you sell through distributors?
What does success look like for your end customer?
How are you working to set customers up for success with Visual Factory Production Monitoring Practices.
You can follow MAJiK Systems on LinkedIn and you can reach out to Jared on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-evans-69056771/
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Jared Evans and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Jared Evans, MAJiK Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
Podcast #74 of The Robot Industry Podcast and I am happy to have Pablo Molina, Chairman, CTO, VP of Product & Co-Founder of Avidbots Inc. join me. Avidbots is an automomous robot company located in Kitchener, Ontario. I disclose that Avidbots is a past client when, they were just getting started in their commercialization.
A bit about Pablo: Pablo’s vision is to live in a world where robots and humans work together in everyday life. He has been building robots since the early days of his undergraduate program at the University of Waterloo. After graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechatronics Engineering, Pablo received his Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University in Space Robotics. He quickly applied his space robotics know-how working as an autonomous navigation designer at NepTec Design Group before co-founding Avidbots with Faizan Sheikh in 2014. When Pablo isn’t working with robots or thinking about tasks to automate, he enjoys playing keyboards in music bands, working out, and playing soccer.
Pablo, welcome to the podcast. It’s good to talk with you again. Can you tell our listeners about Neo, your floor-scrubbing autonomous robot?
We know that cleaning floors is a perfect match for robotics and automation. Have you seen more interest in Neo, especially post-pandemic?
You are on the 8th edition of the robot that you built from scratch, correct? Can you tell us some of the recent advancements for Neo?
Your focus has been on clean warehouses, airports, retail malls and universities, and larger retail spaces. Is this still the case or has your customer target changed?
You are building robots in Kitchener, Ontario, correct? Can you talk about your Canadian and global reach?
What are the big motivators for your customer base? What is their ROI? Cleanliness, staffing?
There are a lot of sensors in Neo. What is most important and what other sensors are you thinking about? Do customers provide any specific sensor requests?
How important is data to your customer base? How is Neo leading the way in leveraging data for an efficient and effective clean?
Can you talk about the purchasing journey for a floor-scrubbing robot?
Can you talk about the rise of multi-functional robots?
What is the future of cleaning robotics? How must the commercial AMR market evolve and challenge the status quo to make robots more accessible?
Personal question, what do you like to do when you are not thinking about floor-scrubbing robots? (you can opt out if you are not comfortable)
How can people get a hold of you or learn more about Avidbots?
To find out more about Avidbots, check them out. If you would like to reach out Pablo, here is his LinkedIn and you can also reach out to Avidbots on their website https://www.avidbots.com/
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Pablo Molina and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with
Welcome to A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, Edition #67
Herbert ten Have is an innovative business leader with more than three decades of experience in building high-tech products and services. In his career, he has held leadership positions, from Product and Marketing Manager to International Sales and Marketing Director. As a serial entrepreneur, Herbert has successfully founded and run multiple high-tech companies. He effortlessly rides the wave of inherent challenges that come with technology and loves sharing his expertise. Today, as CEO of Fizyr, Herbert is committed to building the best vision software product to enable Fizyr’s partners to provide cutting-edge robotic picking solutions for the logistics industry.
• Tell me a bit about Fizyr.
• How did you get started?
• What are the big challenges?
• Won the big Amazon pick challenge
• Partnership with AWL?
• Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases getting involved in?
• Truck unloading, depalletizing, and truck unloading what is most popular?
• What are the industry challenges?
• How do you charge - how does a company subscribe to your service? How do you work with integrators?
• Can you name some of your partners or integrators?
• How has pandemic changed the new normal, esp in Europe?
• People used to online shopping? End user structure changing
• Tell our audience about the Fizyr Team
• Team activities
• How do you engage with your people?
• Where is Delft and why Delft?
• What do you like to do when you are not selling AI software?
Enjoy the podcast.
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Herbert ten Have and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
To get in touch with Herbert, you can find him on LinkedIn or contact the company on their website.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Fizyr, Deep Learning Vision Software, Herbert ten Have #Netherlands #Delft #therobotindustrypodcast
Augmented and mixed reality expert, Duncan McSporran joins me for podcast #73 of The Robot Industry Podcast. I have known about Kognitiv Spark for a while from a friend in Cambridge, but I met up with the Kognitiv Spark team at a trade event in Toronto recently, and thought it would be interesting to have Duncan on an episode of TRIP.
What got you into this industry?
Let’s talk about AR and VR right now, where is the industry?
Why is it important?
How does your product work?
One of your big competitors is the Iphone?
What industries are in your bullseye?
How do you sell your product, through integrators?
Do you have any use cases that you can discuss, I heard of a very Northern Canadian city that is using your product?
Are you venturing into healthcare sector?
What is the future of your industry?
Have I forgotten to ask you anything?
What do you like to do when you are not selling VR?
How can people get in touch with you?
To find out more about Kognitiv Spark, check them out. If you would like to reach out Duncan, here is his LinkedIn profile, you can also reach out at duncan @ cognitivspark.com
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Duncan McSporran, Kim Holland and the team from Kognitiv Spark and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Kognitive Spark, Duncan McSporran, AR, VR, Mixed Reality, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Robotics advanced manufacturing, Custom software, #therobotindustrypodcast
For this 72nd edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I welcome Hugues Foltz from Quebec City, Quebec
Hugues Foltz has been supporting companies in the development and execution of their digital transformation for more than 20 years. In 2018, he became co-owner and executive vice-president of Vooban, a firm recognized for its expertise in artificial intelligence and the development of custom software solutions.
Hugues, welcome to the podcast, I am glad that you are here.
Tell our audience a bit about Vooban, and how you got started.
- You are based in Quebec, why is that?
- There is a certain confusion on AI and ML, how do you explain the difference?
- What is happening in Artificial Intelligence especially in advanced manufacturing and robotics? Trends? Is there a fear in AI?
- Who is buying AI – is it C Suite, the president, IT or OT?
- What is the typical project look like?
- How long does AI take?
- Use Cases of robotics and manufacturing
- Do people your prospects do prototype projects, like small projects?
- ROI of AI? Is the time period a few months or a few years?
- On the hardware side, for projects that you are building, are they new builds or retrofits?
- How much are people spending, maybe as a percentage of machinery?
- How can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about Vooban, check them out. If you would like to reach out Hugh, here is his profile.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Hugh and Annie O'farrell from Vooban and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Vooban, Hugues Foltz, Digital Transformation, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Robotics and manufacturing, Custom software, AI for manufacturing #therobotindustrypodcast
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For The Robot Industry Podcast #71, I welcome Yehuda Elmaliah, CEO of Cogniteam and Ari Yakir, VP of Research and Development. Yehuda is formerly Dean of Computer Science at COMAS near Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a leading expert on algorithms for robot autonomy. Ari Yakir has over 15 years’ experience developing and managing cutting -edge algorithms and products for autonomous robots.
Cogniteam, the company has been developing artificial intelligence technologies for robots for over ten years, working with blue chip companies on mapping, navigation and autonomous decision-making.
They have packaged their unique suite of algorithms together as a single product, bringing cloud-based robotic artificial intelligence solutions in one easy-to-use place that allows robot startup companies to get to market faster, develop, prove and scale.
Here are some of the questions that I ask Yehuda and Ari:
How did you get started?
- What are the industry’s biggest challenges from your perspective?
- Who are your bulls eye customers?
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Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases getting involved in?
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Can you name some of your partners or integrators?
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How do you sell to your perspective clients?
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How has pandemic changed the new normal?
- Your growth plans?
- How can people get a hold of you?
- What do you like to do when you are not programming robots
To find out more about Cogniteam in Israel, check them out. If you would like to reach out Ari or Yehuda, here are their LinkedIn profiles.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Dor Livny from Cogniteam and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Cogniteam, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Nimbus Software, Autonomous Robots #therobotindustrypodcast
Humanizing robots to make them more human, so they can be easily introduced into manufacturing plants, regardless of their field.
Michael’s bio: Michael has a strategic spirit, focused on the Robotics industry’s evolution, and motivated to enable innovative products focused on market issues. His goal? Maximize the potential of all, to conquer the world as a team!
Michael is the Director Of Product Development at AV&R located in Montreal
Let’s talk about AV&R can you give our listeners a brief about what you do
AV&R started in precision inspection and grinding, polishing of aerospace components
When did you start using the things that you learned in aerospace and apply them to medical device and which devices are we talking about
There is an difference between accuracy and repeatability in robotics, can you explain the difference?
Any how did you overcome this issue with respect to vision inspection and polishing
You have a big partnership with FANUC, it is a bit unusual to be tied to one robot brand?
Let’s talk about data, is this something that is important to your customers?
ROI - has that discussion changed
Has pandemic affected business?
How do you attract personnel to AV&R?
Where do you see the industry going from here
Personal question - optional, what do you like to do when you are not selling robot solutions
Michael, thanks for coming onto the podcast, how can people get a hold of you?
To find out more about AV&R in Montreal, check them out. If you would like to reach out Michael here is his LinkedIn.
Also, please have a listen to AV&R's podcast: Robotics for all https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robotics-for-all-podcast-by-av-r/id1543217034
Mentioned on the podcast: Rolls Royce Aletheia AI Framework https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/14-12-2020-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-rolls-royce-publishes-pioneering-bias-control.aspx
AV&R episode on the AI Aletheia Framework:
https://www.rolls-royce.com/sustainability/ethics-and-compliance/the-aletheia-framework.aspx
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Michael and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt
Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast for episode #59. For this edition, I welcome Victor Darolfi from Robotire. Victor and his team are attempting to change the retail automotive service department by adding, you guessed it: robots and automation.
The first area and low hanging fruit of the retail car store service department is changing automotive car tires. It is a perfect example of dull, dirty and monotonous work - a great target for robots and automation.
Here are some of my questions:
How did you get started?
How important was Y combinator?
Value proposition
How does the system work?
What is the vision and what is the ROI for a system?
Who are Robotire's Bulls Eye Customers?
What are your big challenges
What is next for Robotire?
How can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast!
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our Victor and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to find out more about Robotire, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile you can find Victor on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-darolfi-92b17311/
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Robotire, Victor Darolfi, automotive service, robots, robotics, car tires, car tyres, Y Combinator #therobotindustrypodcast.
For this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I have invited AJ Meyer from Pickle Robots to talk about the why and the how of the problem that they are going to solve: to unload trucks automatically with robot arms.
This is really hard, difficult work: hot, cold, repetitive work and there is lots of it.
We talk about the market size, market segments, the complexities, the bullseye customer and the human side of unloading trucks.
To find out more about Pickle Robot, check them out. If you would like to reach out AJ, here is his LinkedIn.
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to AJ Meyer and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: unload trailers, unloading trucks, Pickle Robot, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
My guest for episode #69 of The Robot Industry Podcast is Neil Tardella.
Neil Tardella is President of Energid Technologies, a division of Universal Robots (A Teradyne Company). Energid focuses on developing software for cooperative robot motion planning and simulation. Energid’s software platform, Actin, is used by government agencies and commercial companies to simplify development and speed deployment of multi-arm/high-axis systems in the medical, industrial, energy, and space robotics sectors.
As a cofounder of Energid, Neil helped navigate the bootstrapped company through various phases—from having an initial focus on government R&D, developing software for NASA and the Department of Defense, to a commercial engineering services company, to a profitable software/licensing/services company that was ultimately purchased by Teradyne in 2018.
Neil holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford and a M.S. in Computer Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Institute of New York University).
We talk about
Energid, products and services (high level)
What is happening in the robot / motion control industry right now?
What do you mean by cooperative robotics?
How does having more axes help solve industrial automation problems?
Who are your typical customers?
What are some problems you solve for customers with examples?
How do you work with them?
Real time path planning? What is it and why is this so hard?
Specific to medical robots. How mature is the industry?
Where are medical robotics used?
What are some of the challenges?
How do you innovate and work with partners?
To find out more about Energid, check them out. If you would like to reach out Neil, here is his LinkedIn.
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Neil, Nena and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Energid, Teradyne, Surgical Robots, Neil Tardella, Cooperative Robots, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
Eigen Innovations is a Fredericton-based technology company that provides software solutions for the Industrial Internet. Eigen has a patented multi-dimensional non-linear software algorithm that leverages "big data" information from industrial equipment and, based on the algorithm's optimization capability, provides control input into the key devices that operate the manufacturing process. The end result is a more efficient manufacturing operation.
Scott Everett is the co-founder and CEO of Eigen Innovations Inc., an independent software vendor based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada that delivers advanced AI-enabled machine vision solutions and software for industrial manufacturers. Scott is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick where he graduated with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. Driven by a passion for bringing technology to the factory floor to solve complex and unseen process and quality problems for manufacturers, Scott and his team have designed a machine vision platform that’s been successfully adopted by tier 1 automotive suppliers across the globe and that’s scaling rapidly with partners like Intel and Amazon Web Services helping to kick open the right doors.
How did you get involved/started with Eigen Innovations?
Machine vision is a hot space right now, can you define the difference between AI and ML?
Vision has suffered thorough robustness and certainly, and you are out to solve this challenge?
What makes your approach different?
What is OpenVINO toolkit?
Let’s talk about the data. Where is it? How does quality access it?
Who calls you? Industry 4.0 person? Plant Mgr, Quality Professional, CEO?
What are the benefits and savings?
IS ROI gone?
How do you sell your product, through systems integrators?
What is the future hold for AI in manufacturing?
One of my favorite quotes from our conversation: "If you don't want to make bad parts, just don't make bad parts"
To find out more about Eigen Innovations, check them out. If you would like to reach out Scott, here is his LinkedIn.
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Scott and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: EIgen Innovations, Scott Everett, FLIR, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
Welcome to A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, Edition #67
Herbert ten Have is an innovative business leader with more than three decades of experience in building high-tech products and services. In his career, he has held leadership positions, from Product and Marketing Manager to International Sales and Marketing Director. As a serial entrepreneur, Herbert has successfully founded and run multiple high-tech companies. He effortlessly rides the wave of inherent challenges that come with technology and loves sharing his expertise. Today, as CEO of Fizyr, Herbert is committed to building the best vision software product to enable Fizyr’s partners to provide cutting-edge robotic picking solutions for the logistics industry.
• Tell me a bit about Fizyr.
• How did you get started?
• What are the big challenges?
• Won the big Amazon pick challenge
• Partnership with AWL?
• Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases getting involved in?
• Truck unloading, depalletizing, and truck unloading what is most popular?
• What are the industry challenges?
• How do you charge - how does a company subscribe to your service? How do you work with integrators?
• Can you name some of your partners or integrators?
• How has pandemic changed the new normal, esp in Europe?
• People used to online shopping? End user structure changing
• Tell our audience about the Fizyr Team
• Team activities
• How do you engage with your people?
• Where is Delft and why Delft?
• What do you like to do when you are not selling AI software?
Enjoy the podcast.
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Herbert ten Have and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
To get in touch with Herbert, you can find him on LinkedIn or contact the company on their website.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Fizyr, Deep Learning Vision Software, Herbert ten Have #Netherlands #Delft #therobotindustrypodcast
Brain Corp is the global leader helping to create the largest fleet of autonomous robots - over 16,000 units. Brain has products organized around Clean, Move, Sense and Flow categories. My guest is Jeff Heller.
Jeff has been with Brain Corp for more than two years, leading the Product Management Team and overseeing all robotic applications within the Clean, Move, Sense and Flow categories. Jeff’s first exposure to Robotics was in High School where he participated in the F.I.R.S.T. (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program, founded by Dean Kamen, who’s possibly best known for the Segway. This program involved partnering with local engineering firms to build task-oriented robots and competing against other high schools on a national level. Prior to joining Brain Corp Jeff worked at Wag Labs, Inc. and LifeLock.
Here are some of the questions that I pose to Jeff:
Tell us a bit about Brain and what your job is at Brain
Your products are around CLEAN MOVE SENSE and FLOW. Why is that?
What is happening in the industry around autonomous floor cleaning?
Challenges and opportunities?
You are taking a partner approach to manufacturing products, explain
Who is making the buying decision when it comes to cleaning?
Let’s talk about data - something your customer never had before. How valuable is cleaning data?
What does the ROI discussion look like? Who makes the purchase decision?
This is kind of a show-me industry, how does the customer buy?
Should we talk about other autonomous vehicles that you are building? Retail?
What do you see as the future?
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
You can get in touch with Jeff on LinkedIn or through the Brain Corp site.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: BRAIN CORP, Brain OS, Cleaning Robots, Floor scrubbing robots, Retail robots, shelf scanning robots, self driving robots, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
Welcome to podcast #64. Dave Johnson is the CEO at Dexai Robotics. He often talks about our current labor shortage, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robots, consistency and the messy environment of an industrial kitchen.
Some of the questions that I ask Dave:
How did you get involved in robotics?
Tell me and our audience about Dexai and about Alfred
Why would I want a robot in my kitchen as a restaurant owner?
Robots as a service
What are the main markets that you are pursuing
The tech, control systems, vision inspection, the bot
Why is this only possible today?
Low hanging fruit for a robot chef? Salads, burgers, pizza, ice cream, coffee?
What are and what were some of your big challenges?
Safety, food allergies?
Let’s talk about data. How important is it?
Where could this go? Robots in homes?
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Dave and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to find out more about check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Dave, here is his LinkedIn profile.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Dexai Robotics, Robot Chefs, Cooking Robots, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast
Welcome to podcast #63. Chad Ramsey is the Director of Automation for Ehrhardt Automation Systems. He often talks about #test, #quality, #assembly, #automation, and #processimprovement. Chad is also an expert in automated press integration.
Some of the questions that I ask Chad:
I know it sounds like an obvious question, but why do companies want to reduce risk?
What are the most common ways that manufacturers can reduce the risk in automation?
What can you do with your staff to reduce culture issues, esp if they have never been exposed to automation.
Let’s dig into the specification document. Perhaps you are a manufacturer and have no idea how to start? What do you do?
What is an engineering study, and how do you approach it? Who owns the IP and why/how can this save money for automation?
How much does an engineering study cost?
We have spoken before about project management when it comes to automation. How important is this before the project gets let?
Legal NDAs etc, as long lead time items.
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Chad and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to find out more about Ehrhardt Automation Systems, check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Chad, here is his LinkedIn profile.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ehrhardt Automation Systems, reducing risk in automation, Chad Ramsey, concurrent engineering study, risk assessment, proof of concept, engineering study, communication, project management.
Hello everyone, and welcome to this special edition of #the Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for this edition is Jim Carroll.
Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurist, trends and innovation experts, with a massive Blue Chip client list. Over the last 25 years, Jim has shared his insight with more than 2 million people in attendance at his events.
Jim’s client list is extensive and covers virtually every industry sector, including the World Bank, Volvo, NASA, PGA of America, the Walt Disney Organization, the World Government Summit in Dubai, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the Wall Street Journal, National Australia Bank, WorldSkills, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson & hundreds more.
We are talking about the future of automation, manufacturing, farming, innovation and AI.
Follow Jim on Twitter @jimcarroll
disruption@jimcarroll.com and jimcarroll.com and manufacturing@jimcarroll.com
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Jim and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: #therobotindustrypodcast, Futurist Jim Carroll, Painted Robot, A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, Customer Attraction
Costas Charalambous is the Technical Sales Manager at Zimmer Group US Inc, which is based in Hickory North Carolina. He has almost 25 years’ experience in the automation industry, mostly working with grippers and other end-of-arm tooling.
Current Trends Toward more flexible End Effectors and End of Arm Tooling Gives Industrial Robots a Helping Hand.
Zimmer Group US is a subsidiary of Zimmer Group GmbH, based in Rheinau Germany. Founded over 40 years ago, they one of the industry leaders in handling technology, particularly grippers, linear clamping and braking products, as well as industrial damping components.
Here are some of the questions that I asked Costas on the pod:
What is happening in end of arm tools? Are you seeing any short, medium or long-term trends?
How has COVID-19 affected automation companies? Are you working differently? EOAT trends during the pandemic?
EOAT in general Trends: smaller, bigger, smarter?
What industries are keeping you busy today?
Complex EOAT or simple?
Can you tell me and our audience about MATCH?
The Future: Are End effectors getting smarter?
Enjoy the podcast.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Costas and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to find out more about Zimmer Group check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Costas here is his LinkedIn profile.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: EOAT, End of Arm Tools, #therobotindustrypodcast, Costas Charlambous, Zimmer Group.
Good day everyone and welcome to this edition of A3 #therobotindustrypodcast. Welcome as well, to the future of manufacturing: it's on-demand. My guest for edition #60 of the pod is Greg Paulsen. Greg leads the Application Engineering team at Xometry, a global on-demand manufacturing marketplace. With 14 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, Greg's expertise includes additive manufacturing, machining, sheet metal, injection molding, casting, and quality assurance.
Here are some of the questions that I posed to Greg in the pod:
Greg, Tell me a bit about the company, you are a public company, number of employees?
How does Xometry work?
Idle machines are a manufacturers worst feat, you help fix this?
How many customers and how many manufacturers?
You are suggesting or setting a price?
How does the AI engine work?
How do you qualify the manufacturers on the network?
How do you guarantee the quality?
What happens when the price for a component is too low? How does your AI handle this?
What about materials/availability, a big challenge is supply chain?
Next big issue and expense for many companies is shipping, do you help here?
What are your financial instruments?
Your support line, what are some of the FAQs
Greg, thanks for coming onto the podcast. How can people get in touch with you?
Enjoy the podcast and check out Xometry's 3D printing service and CNC machining service today.
Regards,
Jim
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to Greg and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.
If you would like to find out more about Xometry check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Greg, here is his LinkedIn profile.
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: on demand manufacturing, Xometry, Greg Paulsen, and #therobotindustrypodcast.
I welcome Milton Guerry from Schunk USA for this episode of The Robot Industry Podcast. Milton is a busy man. He is involved on committee work with the Robot Industry Association, the umbrella organization of A3 Association for Advancing Automation as well as IFR, International Federation of Robotics, and leading Schunk in the USA.
Automation has stepped up is the theme of the podcast today.
We talk about the technology of gripping and clamping
The new robots: Collaborative technologies and the evolution revolution
The new technologies: Van der Waall principle of adhesion gripper: ADHESO
Reaching new industries: food, electrical vehicles, packaging, and others
Keeping automation simple
Bundling smarter software tools by packaging tooling for automation integrators and end users
Apprenticeship, next generation workforce development, talent development, and working with colleges and competitors
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our Milton and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot
If you would like to find out more about Schunk, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile you can find Milton on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/milton-guerry-0036615/
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Schunk, innovation, Milton Guerry, end of arm tools, EOAT, clamping, gripping, robotics, robots, workforce development, skills gap, apprenticeships, Morrisville, #therobotindustrypodcast.
I welcome Milton Guerry from Schunk USA for this episode of The Robot Industry Podcast. Milton is a busy man. He is involved on committee work with the Robot Industry Association, the umbrella organization of A3 Association for Advancing Automation as well as IFR, International Federation of Robotics, and leading Schunk in the USA.
Automation has stepped up is the theme of the podcast today.
We talk about the technology of gripping and clamping
The new robots: Collaborative technologies and the evolution revolution
The new technologies: Van der Waall principle of adhesion gripper: ADHESO
Reaching new industries: food, electrical vehicles, packaging, and others
Keeping automation simple
Bundling smarter software tools by packaging tooling for automation integrators and end users
Apprenticeship, next generation workforce development, talent development, and working with colleges and competitors
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our Milton and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot
If you would like to find out more about Schunk, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile you can find Milton on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/milton-guerry-0036615/
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Schunk, innovation, Milton Guerry, end of arm tools, EOAT, clamping, gripping, robotics, robots, workforce development, skills gap, apprenticeships, Morrisville, #therobotindustrypodcast.
Do you know what machines dream of? To finally see the world in motion!
Svorad Štolc is the sensor division CTO at Photoneo. He is an expert in 3D Machine imaging, machine vision, artificial intelligence and parallel computing. In 2001 he gained a masters degree at Comenius University in Bratislava - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics and he earned PhD. degree in 2009 jointly at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Technical University of Košice. For several years, he worked at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, where he led a research group focused on computational photography and 3D sensing. During this time he published a number of internationally awarded scientific articles. At Photoneo, Svorad is responsible for research and development of the company's 3D sensing technology.
In the podcast we talk about innovation in 3d machine vision as well as:
Standard Structured Light - Spatial Multiplexing of Light
Parallel Structured Light - Temporal Multiplexing of Shutter
Photoneo has picked up some impressive hardware for their innovations including the VISION Award 2018, Vision Innovators Award Bronze 2018 and Platinum 2019, inVISION Top Innovation 2019 and 2021, as well as IEEE, IERA Award 2020.
Thanks to Michal and to Zuzana at Photoneo for putting this interview together.
If you are building a system and would like to get in touch with Photoneo you can find them at https://www.photoneo.com/
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim B
Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: Photoneo, Machine Vision, 3D, A3 Association for Advancing Automation, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #therobotindustrypodcast.
I am thrilled to welcome David Dechow to The Robot Industry Podcast.
David L. Dechow is a globally recognized expert in the integration of machine vision, robotics, and industrial automation technologies. He is the Principal Vision Systems Architect for Integro Technologies Corp., where he performs application evaluation and design of complex automated imaging solutions for inspection, metrology, and robotic guidance. Prior to his position at Integro, he was Staff Engineer for Intelligent Robotics/Machine Vision at FANUC, and earlier was the founder, owner, and principal engineer for two successful systems integration firms. His career in machine vision and industrial automation spans more than thirty-five years.
Mr. Dechow is a recipient of the AIA’s Automated Imaging Achievement Award honoring industry leaders for outstanding career contributions in industrial and/or scientific imaging. He is a member of the Association for Advancing Automation Imaging Technology Strategy Board, and is contributing editor for Vision Systems Design magazine, and technical advisory board member with Saccade Vision Ltd.
As a key educator within the industry, David has participated in the training of hundreds of engineers as an instructor with the A3 Certified Vision Professional program. He also is well known for his frequent informative technical articles, papers, webinars, and conference sessions and classes covering a wide range of technical topics involving machine vision and enabling technologies in industrial automation.
Thanks to our Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Integro-Technologies, here is the link to their site https://www.integro-tech.com/ you can find David on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddechow/
In the podcast, we start off by talking about Integro Technologies, where David hangs his hat. My questions include:
Diversity of machine vision
Getting the challenging and difficult automation jobs
What is happening in machine vision currently
Enabling technology of computer vision: feeding the data and AI
Chasing new technologies
When vision systems fail
What is happening in camera and hardware advancement
Inspecting French Fries (again)
Hyperspectral, infrared and near infrared technology
Reducing the risk with machine vision applications
AI and Deep Learning explained
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
Thanks to our David and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot
If you would like to find out more about Integro, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/company/integro-technologies-corporation/ you can find David on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddechow/
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Welcome to episode #55 of The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for this episode is Jeff Mahler, from Ambi Robotics. Dr. Mahler is the CTO and co-founder of Ambi Robotics. He received his PhD in AI and robotics from the University of California, Berkeley for his work with Prof. Ken Goldberg on the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net), a state-of-the-art method for rapidly teaching robots to pick up items they've never been trained on before. His robot vision research has appeared in The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, and Forbes, and has been nominated for numerous awards at international research conferences including Best Manipulation Paper and Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper. Jeff also holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he was the co-founder and lead computer vision engineer at Lynx Labs, a 3D scanning startup that was acquired by Occipital in 2015.
Here are some of the questions that we talk about in this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast:
What do you do at Ambi robotics?
How did you get started?
Who is your ideal customer?
What is their big problem?
Are you robot agnostic?
What is adaptable AI?
How do you use simulation software? Which one?
How important is data for your customers?
What other problems do you solve than just picking and placing?
Robots as a service, data, kitting, packing and pick and place.
Partners and contract manufacturing with DWFRITZ company
Thanks to our Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Ambi Robotics, here is the link to their site https://www.ambirobotics.com/ and you can find Jeff on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-mahler-64b56138/ and you can email him at jeff@ambirobotics.com
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ambi Robotics, Ambidexterous Robotics, Warehouse automation, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Adaptable AI, AmbiOS, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Jim Beretta, parcel sorting robots, Pitney Bowes, A3, DWFRITZ, Dexterity Network, #therobotindustrypodcast.
Chris Tur is President & CEO of Roboworld. He is a Robotic protection expert, patent holder and a TEDx presenter and a really interesting guy. Chris has worked in marketing for GE Aviation, business operations for GE Energy and Global Product Manager for GE Lighting. He has been involved in protecting robots for over 30 years and now has expanded to protecting robot teach pendents.
In this edition of A3 the #robotindustrypodcast we talk about:
Why protect robots?
What are we protecting?
Protecting teach pendants (which are very expensive to replace) with Pendant Armour
Becoming a fabric expert to protect robots and robot seals
What are the worst environments that Roboworld has designed protection against?
Flowing air into a robot suit
Technical materials that get used include Kevlar, Hypalon, Norfab (Aluminized Kevlar), Teflon,
Environments and elements that Roboworld protects against: Splatter, slurry, slag, heat, cold, humidity, sandblasting, abrasives, investment casting, bacteria, caustic wash downs environments and even corrosion inhibitors.
Thanks to our Chris, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Roboworld, here is the link to their site: https://roboworld.com/ and you can find them on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/roboworld/
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Keywords and terms for this podcast: Roboworld, robot suits, robot protection, robot covers, robot jackets, teach pendant protectors, Pendant Armour, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Jim Beretta, A3 #therobotindustrypodcast.
The big topic of interoperability is a big challenge for the robotic industry and something that Meili is aiming to fix. Meili Robots is based in Copenhagen, Denmark is a startup company that provides a universal fleet management system for mobile robots. Their focus is in distribution centers and the last mile of delivery.
The promise of Meili is to control your fleet of various robot types and makes on one platform, with automated allocation of jobs to the robots. The company is robot agnostic, and they don't care what is being transported.
Aldus von der Burg is the founder and CEO. In our conversation we talk about:
The last mile of automation
The advantage of being a startup and being robot agnostic
The future of data
The challenge of overlapping software in the autonomous robot deployment space
Fun fact: Meili Robots is named after the lesser-known brother of the Norse god Thor, and allegedly the god of travel.
If you are operating a distribution center and would like to get in touch with Meili or Aldus, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldus-von-der-burg-15287941/ and if you would like to find out more about the company, https://www.linkedin.com/company/meilirobots/ and https://www.meilirobots.com/about and info@meilirobots.com
Thanks to our Aldus, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Beretta | Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: AGVs, AMR, Autonomous Mobile Robot, The Last Mile of Delivery, Robots, Meili Robots, Aldus von der Burg, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast, info@meilirobots.com
Jeff Huerta is the Vice President of Sales at Vecna Robotics, a Boston based software company that helps retail and distribution companies automate their facilities. Jeff brings more than 15 years of automation leadership experience to Vecna Robotics, with a strong track record of building world-class sales operations. Prior to joining Vecna Robotics, Jeff was Vice President of North America Sales at Balyo, where he led the go-to-market strategy for the company’s self-guided trucks. Previously, Jeff held sales and marketing positions with SICK, where he managed and developed the OEM packaging sales team for the North American market.
Vecna Robotics delivers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions featuring self-driving vehicles operated by their learning Autonomy Stack. Their solutions deliver value for customers in the distribution, e-commerce, warehousing, and manufacturing sectors. Their unique orchestration engine technology, Pivot.al, allows diverse robot types and humans to work together seamlessly and to flexibly yield an adaptive business solution, capable of meeting the increasingly unpredictable market needs.
Vecna's technology goes beyond traditional automation and focuses on maximizing human and robot capability to create fulfilling jobs, increase productivity, and encourage innovation.
We talk about:
Following The Pallet.
The challenge of attracting and retaining forklift drivers
New forklift drivers and the opposite of an UBER driver
Ergonomics and safety
The boring task of sitting on a forklift, 8 hours a day
24 month payback in Autonomous Mobile Robot Industry
The importance of collecting and reporting data
The future of forklift autonomous industry: sensors and software
Vecna only builds their automation around new fork lifts, they partner with OEMs to build the robots.
If you are operating a material handling and would like to get in touch with Matt, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-huerta-3463b030/ and if you would like to find out more about the company, https://www.linkedin.com/company/vecna-robotics/ and https://www.vecnarobotics.com/connect/
Thanks to our Jeff, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot (dot com) and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated man
Designing Robots is hard. Building them shouldn't be. This is the topic of our podcast today.
My guest today for the podcast is Matt Wicks. Matt has more than 25 years of experience in the robotics industry with expertise in the areas of logistics systems, motion and industrial controls and software integration for large scale manufacturing and distribution systems. He has extensive experience in the field of advanced robotic solution development, including robotic solution integration and design. Matt is a thought leader in the robotics industry, holds numerous robotics patents and is a featured speaker at various robotics industry events. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla (Missouri S&T) and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Missouri. He currently serves on the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) Board of Directors and as the Chairman of the Robotics Industry Association (RIA) Board of Directors.
Matt's job is to engage and attract robot companies to have Celestica build their robots for them on an outsourced basis. If you haven't heard about Toronto based Celestica, Celestica enables the world's leading brands. Through their customer-centric approach, they partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their customers most complex challenges. Celestica is a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With teams across North America, Europe and Asia, they imagine, develop and deliver a better future with their customers. Celestica is a publicly traded company on NYSE: CLS and on TSE: CLS in Toronto. Celestica has approximately 28,000 employees and is controlled by Onex Corporation.
In the podcast, we talk about the use cases, electronic documentation, supply chain, driving costs out of robotics and why robots are so difficult to manufacture at production level scale. We talk about when companies need to outsource their robot builds and also talk about the startup community.
If you are building a robot and would like to get in touch with Matt, you can find him https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrwicks/ you would like to find out more about the company, Celestica, https://www.linkedin.com/company/celestica/
Thanks to our Matt, and his Toronto based marketing team at Celestica HQ: Crystal Wong, Nicki Lakhani, Sandra Moretti, our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot (dot com) and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision
I caught up with Sam Bouchard, CEO of Robotiq based out of Montreal. He started Robotiq with his co-founders: JP and Vincent in 2008. Their motivation was that they could bring something better to the industry. But 2008 and 2009 was a difficult time in manufacturing industry for any business, let alone a startup robot accessory company.
Flexibility was at their core, and their first product was a three finger gripper that came out of the Laval Robotics Lab, developed for the nuclear industry and the Canada Arm. They eventually simplified the gripper for industrial applications and at the same time the collaborative robots hit the market.
Topics discussed in the pod:
Applications: machine tending, palletizing, assembly
Flexibility and ease of use, manipulation and force control, sensing.
Robotiq's DOF Degrees of Freedom online community, for sharing manufacturing know how.
e learning on the Robotiq website - how to build cobot applications
LeanRobotics.org
Robotiq's innovation and approach includes deep customer listening, prototyping, with a focus on iteration
We talk about Montreal as being a center of innovation robotics and labs and now commercialization from those early investments with companies such as Vention, Mechademic
Sam sees a bright future with collaborative robots with a shortage of people and robot programmers.
Thanks to our Sam Bouchard for coming onto the podcast, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, www.PaintedRobot.com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: Sam Bouchard, https://www.robotiq.com, lean startups, palletizing, collaborative robots, cobots, Robotiq, DOF, Degrees of Freedom
Sam Bouchard has written a book called Lean Robotics: A Guide to Making Robots Work in Your Factory you can get it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Lean-Robotics-Making-Robots-Factory-ebook/dp/B075VCLT8G
How do autonomous robot companies - and robot integrators get to market and get to scale? They call Go West Robotics. Thanks go to Gerry Ens, CTO and Alex Irwin, CEO for joining me on #TheRobotIndustryPodcast.
We talk about customer onboarding, implementation, research, project management, software architecture, deployment, and technical needs for software at robot companies. At Go West Robotics, they have a single focus value proposition: they are able to hit the ground running creating control software and operating software in autonomous and industrial robotics. From early code to scaling code, version control and processes to go industrial.
Project management and the customer experience are of critical importance to Alex and Gerry. It is one of their differentiators. Like many successful companies, engagement early is critical.
Some of the trends that they are seeing are:
PLC and making sure that PLCs are used correctly and not over-used
Linex based development languages
Speed of development, maintainability
Cloud technologies and open source
Shoehorning complex software into PLC
HMIs
OEE on the fly, from anywhere in the cloud
If you would like to get in touch with Gerry or Alex, you can find them https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexirwin/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardens/ Their website is https://www.gowestrobotics.com/
Thanks to our Gerry Ens, Alex Irwin and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot dot com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: Autonomous robotics, automation systems software, self-driving robots, outsourced software development, machine tool companies, robotics, HMI, Industrial PC, OEE, Predictive Maintenance, Custom Software
My guests for this podcast are Lloyd Arnold from Asyril and Stan Glaxer from Mecademic Robotics.
Lloyd Arnold is Product Marketing Manager from Asyril, Switzerland he has 15 years working with automation products across all industries and is a product specialist in machine vision and 3D bin picking. Lloyd has a strong passion for application solving, born out of beginning his career as an Application Engineer. He has just relocated his family from the UK to Switzerland last year during the lockdown to work for Asyril.
Stan Gleizer is Director, Applications and Support at Mecademic Robotics. He has a background in Mechatronics and has worked with industrial robots for the past 8 years in aerospace and automotive, with a focus on high precision applications around vision and force feedback.
He has always wanted to work for a robot OEM, so when he heard about a robot manufacturer starting up in Montreal, he was thrilled to join Mecademic. This podcast is recorded in Montreal, PQ, London, Ontario and Villaz-St-Pierre in Switzerland.
Mecademic develops and manufactures the world's smallest and most precise six-axis industrial robot arm and Asyril are experts in flexible feeding systems, especially in small parts. They manufacture a line of products called Asycube and EYE+ an AI powered controller. Asyril was born out of the watch industry and has it's roots out of academia.
A fun fact is that both companies have their roots in academia.
In this edition of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast we discuss:
- Small part manipulation
- Miniature industrial robots
- Precision, accuracy in robotics and automation
- Automation and part feeding in the watch manufacturing industry, medical device, electronics industries
- Flexible feeding equipment
- Desktop factory and miniaturization in precision manufacturing
- The high cost of space in modern manufacturing
If you would like to get in touch with Stan, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stangleizer and if you would like to get a hold of Lloyd he is also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydwarnold
Thanks to our Lloyd Arnold, Stan Gleizer, Asyril, Mecademic and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot dot com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast!
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: Asyril, Mecademic, Lloyd Arnold, Stan Gleizer, Academia, Micro Factories, Vibratory Feeding, Miniature Robots, Desktop Factories, Harmonic Drives, Maxon Drives https://www.asyril.com/en/ and https://www.mecademic.com/
My guest today is Liz Stortstrom from Hewlett Packard.
Liz Stortstrom is a 3D Printing Application Engineer with expertise in using HP's Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) Technology for industrial applications. She has a background in Mechanical Design and joined HP to support the development of the JF500 series. She now utilizes that experience to find optimal solutions for customers aiming to push their businesses to the next level with additive manufacturing. Liz received her BS & MS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and currently resides in Portland, OR.
I first met Derek from HP at the ATX Anaheim show a few years ago, pre-COVID and was really impressed with the robot End of Arm Tools that they had on display. For this installment on #TheRobotIndustryPodcast we are going to talk about 3D printed End of Arm tools and the efficacy of using printed tools as robot end effectors, where they fit and how integrators and robot designers can get started.
Here are some of the questions that we will discuss on the pod:
3D printing has come a long way in the past few years, I remember seeing all kinds of early EOATs, what has happened along the way? Improvements?
From a high level, what are some of the big advantages for 3d printed eoats?
Are there particular industries that might be better suited to 3D EOATs, packaging? Geographies? What are people picking up with 3d printed EOATs from HPs perspective.
Do you have some USE cases that you can talk about?
What are some of the challenges? Thin walled designs? Leaking in the air lines? Educating mechanical designers? Supply chain professionals, etc.
Printing in color, can you tell where this can be an advantage?
When do I buy a printer vs using a service bureau?
If you would like to get in touch with Liz you can find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizstortstrom/ or if you have a 3D or additive application, https://hp.pathfactory.com/us-en-3dprint-industrial-robotics-eoat
Thanks to our Liz, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot.com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
Enjoy the podcast,
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words and terms for this podcast: 3D, HP, EOAT, Liz Stortstrom, 3D Printed End of Arm Tools, additive manufacturing, ATX West Anaheim
I am happy to welcome John Burg from Acieta LLC. If you haven’t heard about Acieta they are a 38 year old robot automation integration company located in Council Bluffs, IA, and Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Along with his father, John founded Automated Concepts, Inc., which would eventually grow into Acieta LLC. For nearly 40 years he's devoted most of his time to this passion by helping customers find better ways to manufacture their products, by lowering their part costs and increasing their productivity.
In the pod, we talk about:
- The greatest challenges for manufacturing in the United States today
- What steps can manufacturers take to deal with the labor shortage and retain good employees
- The trends that you are seeing in automated welding?
- Today's robotic automation includes tools that help get a consistently good part. Are they too complex for a company with no robotic experience?
- Can robots do all of our welding
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Are systems getting bigger and more complex, or are they getting leaner and decentralized?
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What does success look like in automation systems design and build.
If you would like to get in touch with John you can find him here https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnburg/ or if you have a conveyance need, and want to get in touch with the staff Acieta, you can find them at https://www.acieta.com/contact-us
Thanks to our John, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.com
Enjoy the podcast,
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces.
The sponsor for this edition of #therobotindustrypodcast is New Scale Robotics
New Scale Robotics designs and builds the Q-Span™ Automated Small-Part Measurement Systems that Automates digital caliper measurements, data logging and part handling . Q-SPAN Pick-measure-record-and-places
The Q-Span™ System is the new standard for QC solution for high-mix, small batch manufacturing and works with Universal Robots line of collaborative robots, so it is easy and safe to deploy in your QC lab.
Key words and terms for this podcast: Acieta, automated welding, robotic welding, John Burg, Automated manufacturing of metal components
"Automation systems are sometimes designed around conveyors - any why that is completely backwards" - Kevin Mauger.
Kevin Mauger is our guest for podcast #46. He is a father, husband and entrepreneur. He is the president of NCC, Glide-Line Conveyors, SideDrive Conveyor Company, and a new company coming up which we did not talk about. A disclosure that Kevin and Glide-Line are past clients of mine at Customer Attraction and we remain friends and trade fishing photos over Instagram.
Food, packaging and optical eyeglass market make up a big part of Kevin's life. Kevin's frustration waiting for conveyor manufacturers to deliver simple product led him to create his own conveyor line, for his own consumption and clients.
A chance meeting on the shop floor, led to an order of 120 units of conveyor segments. That led to more investigation. It was a simple value proposition: Companies want complete conveyor systems, they want fast, flexible and easy.
We talk about culture, conveyors, configurators, the Amazon Effect, how to start a company, building a brand and changing your company to an employee owned, purposeful, positive entity.
If you would like to get in touch with Kevin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mauger-b376164/# or if you have a conveyance need, and want to get in touch with the staff at Glide-Line, you can find them at https://www.glide-line.com
Thanks to our Kevin, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.com
Enjoy the podcast,
Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com
Key words for this podcast: Kevin Mauger, Glide-Line, NCC Automated Systems, SideDrive Conveyors, The Robot Industry Podcast, Automation, Robotics, Employee-owned
For this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I am joined by Jeff Burnstein the president of A3. Jeff is a native of Detroit, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Literature, Science & the Arts, and is a life-long resident of the state of Michigan.
The A3 organization is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has been the umbrella organization for the RIA, AIA, MCMA and A3 México. That is, the Robotics Industry Association, The Automated Imaging Association, and Motion Control Motors Association.
These 4 associations combined represent over twelve to thirteen hundred automation manufacturers, component suppliers, system integrators, end users, research groups and consulting firms from throughout the world that are driving automation forward.
But that's all changed.
For those of you who have joined a webinar, received an email, or visited automate.org recently – you probably noticed a change in the branding and website! Formally known as the RIA, AIA, MCMA and A3 Mexico, the Association for Advancing Automation has changed its name, but remains the leading automation trade association in the world for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies.
It is now called A3.
In my conversation with Jeff we find out the why, the when and the how to this big rebranding effort which has been in the plans for the last 24 months and has involved many of the members, stakeholders, board and employees.
Here are some of the reasons that you might want to join A3:
1 - A3 is the Leading Automation Association in the World
2 - Network with Your Industry
3 - Add Visibility to Your Company with a Company Profile on A3
4 - Share News, Editorials, and More with a Large Audience
5 - Member-only Advertising Opportunities
6 - Discounts to A3's Most Successful Shows
7 - Access to our Automation Advocacy Toolkit
8 - Participation in A3 Mexico
Thanks to our Jeff, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.com. As an association member, A3 remains the hub for all your automation resources: products, partners, new applications, training and information on the latest technologies and innovations.
Here is Jeff's 411. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-burnstein-25b5138/ You can find the Association at https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-advancing-automation/mycompany/ if you are interested to join A3, https://www.automate.org/a3-content/join
Enjoy the podcast and be safe out there.
Regards,
Jim Beretta, Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast
If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn.
Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com