by Mike O'Connell | Oct 14, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 155 – Dr. Jae Son, Dr. Charles MacLeod, and Stu Shepherd “Now tactile is an array of information that gives you insight into the contact mechanics between two objects.” Pressure is a scalar value. Force is a vector. Tactile sensing, says Pressure...
by Mike O'Connell | Oct 9, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 154 – Lindsey Sullivan, Founder, Technical Marketing Manager, CCS America Machine vision teams will happily argue for hours about cameras, sensors, and AI models. Then they choose the light last — and wonder why the system can’t see the defect it was...
by Mike O'Connell | Oct 2, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 153 – Kyle Haworth, Founder, GuildHall Most discussions about industrial automation and analytics concern operations with hundreds of employees. This episode of Manufacturing Matters explores a less traveled quarter: Small shops with maybe a dozen people...
by Mike O'Connell | Sep 18, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 152 – Gerry Vannuffelen, CEO & Founder, Mantis Robotics “You can have a high speed industrial robot, any type of robot really. And it doesn’t need fences, it doesn’t need safety devices. Everything is there. So it adjusts in real time to its...
by Mike O'Connell | Sep 4, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 151 – Juan Aparicio of ReshapeX and Ajaiey Sharma of Novanta (ATI Industrial Automation) “It’s really a needle in a mountain of needles and you just want to find one.” For most manufacturers, the hard part of AI isn’t the model — it’s the knowledge...
by Mike O'Connell | Aug 21, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 150 – Dale Hopkinson, Senior Product Manager, Cloud Services, Thales “The value is moving from the metal to the code.” As manufacturers add AI and software to their products, the old one-time hardware sale is running out of runway when it comes to...
