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...
by Mike O'Connell | Aug 7, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 149 – Ed Garstkiewicz, Senior Business Development Manager, Emerging Markets, HARTING “The more we can do with it, then the more likely the humanoids are going to take off and be adopted.” Connectors rarely get top billing. Nobody designs a device around...
by Mike O'Connell | Jul 30, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 148 – Andre Marino, Senior Vice President, Industrial Automation, NAM, Schneider Electric “AI needs data, and industrial data is not available on the general internet.” “It’s not like you do either AI or manufacturing. If you’re...
by Mike O'Connell | Jul 24, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 147 – Dr. Ray Hoare, Founder Concurrent EDA “What we bring to the table is we understand how to take the data, do real-time compute, and turn it into knowledge. So, you got raw data coming in, you got knowledge coming out.” Modern machine vision and...
by Mike O'Connell | Jul 17, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 146 – Sheldon Zimmerman & Isabelle Durso, Rockwell Automation “The end goal for a lot of clients is this dream of a lights-out factory. Before you get there, there’s a stepping stone in between — and it’s this connected factory.” Autonomous mobile...
by Mike O'Connell | Jul 2, 2026 | Episodes
Episode 145 – Denise Chludzinski from Miller Resource Group This episode of Manufacturing Matters features Winn Hardin in conversation with Denise Chludzinski, vice president of business development at Miller Resource Group, a leading recruiter specializing in...
