The Future-Ready Podcast: Industry & Beyond

The ChatGPT moment for robotics is here,” Nvidia boss Jensen Huang said. And nowhere is that more obvious than on the factory floor, where machines aren’t just becoming more agile, but smarter, too. Last November, Money Talks took a trip to Siemens in Germany, to tour the factories of the future.© The Economist Newspaper Limited, London 2026This is a special episode, first recorded by The Economis...

Computers and software are becoming paramount to the future of industry, whether to automate automation engineering or expand the available design space for operational needs. Co-host Mark Hindsbo sat down to talk to the later and explain the transition happening in the world of production and manufacturing. There are so many interesting topics in the realm of operations software, but to start off...

Data is the core of a good AI solution and, while data is plentiful in enterprise and industrial settings, accessing and utilizing that data for AI training isn’t so easy. In industry, data sources are often fragmented and, even if they can be easily accessed, lack the critical context needed to support robust AI usage. This is where data fabrics shine, offering a single, unified way of accessing...

Digitalization is important for the future of automation, but how businesses get there is the critical discussion. It’s not about solving all problems by day one of production. Instead it is pinpointing pain points today and incrementally adopting it across the organization. Our co-host Rainer Brehm chatted with us about his perspective and the ways businesses are already adopting the technologica...

In this first episode of the Future Ready Podcast from Siemens, we are bringing you a conversation with Rainer Brehm – the CTO and the COO of our automation business at Siemens Digital Industries. His experience and understanding of automation technologies makes him a perfect co-host for our discussions on Software-Defined Everything. This first episode aims to define that exact term so that we ca...