About the Podcast
Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast offers news and information for the people who make, store, and move things and those who manage and maintain the facilities where that work gets done. Manufacturers from chemical producers to automakers to machine shops can listen for critical insights into the technologies, economic conditions, and best practices that can influence how to best run facilities to reach operational excellence.
Software-defined industrial automation and AI have unleashed a new era of productivity and efficiency in manufacturing.
But as OT teams are starting to accelerate their digitization efforts and use more software and IT technologies to run their OT infrastructure, what should they prioritize? And what does a good network infrastructure in the AI era actually look like?
Podcast: One expert’s insights on coaching, reliability culture, and overcoming maintenance challenges
In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast sponsored by Cisco Systems, host Scott Achelpohl asks Samuel Pasquier, who is head of product management for Cisco's Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, to weigh in on the evolution of network infrastructure.
In this episode, Pasquier discusses next-generation manufacturing use cases, implications around increased OT digitization, and the networking capabilities required to future-proof operations.
In this episode, he also chats about:
- Machine vision
- Autonomous vehicles and tele-remote operations
- Software defined automation
- AI robotics and cobots
- Edge to cloud
- IE switching portfolio
- AVGs/AMRs on the plant floor
- Recently launched: Wi-Fi + CURWB
- Planet Farms (watch Cisco Live session)
About the Author
Scott Achelpohl
Head of Content
I've come to Smart Industry after stints in business-to-business journalism covering U.S. trucking and transportation for FleetOwner, a sister website and magazine of SI’s at Endeavor Business Media, and branches of the U.S. military for Navy League of the United States. I'm a graduate of the University of Kansas and the William Allen White School of Journalism with many years of media experience inside and outside B2B journalism. I'm a wordsmith by nature, and I edit Smart Industry and report and write all kinds of news and interactive media on the digital transformation of manufacturing.