Manufacturing Matters

Airy3D’s Ron Low, senior vice president of business development and marketing, and Pier-Luc Tardif, director of business development, join Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to discuss advancements in 3D sensing to enhance machine vision applications. They discuss the current landscape of vision systems, pitfalls, and how 3D sensing can enhance vision applications in industry, consumer electronics, aut...

The increasing automation of industry requires billions of sensors. As sensor technology pushes forward, it also accelerates camera technologies along with machine vision and other imaging systems. Everix is focused not only on advancing the technology of thin-film filters for optical sensors but on producing them through much more economical and scalable methods—thus enabling more growth in the i...

As digital transformation surges ahead, manufacturers need to understand how their data moves through their operations and across networks. To reduce vulnerabilities, it’s more important than ever to make sure strong cybersecurity protections are in place through the entire stack. For this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Dan McCarthy and Winn Hardin sat down with David Bader...

The search for skilled workers continues to challenge many manufacturers as young people pursue college degrees in lieu of the skilled trades. If both paths can offer lucrative careers, how do we attract more students to into skilled trades? In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and Aaron Hand will speak with Darnell Epps, founder and CEO of Thurgood Industri...

In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Fritz Carlson, CEO of Acme Manufacturing, joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to discuss robotic machine tooling integrations around the globe. They discuss the benefits of industrial robot arms paired with sensing mechanisms for highly accurate and repeatable machining of complex parts, such as knee and hip implants in the medical dev...

In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and John Lewis speak with Randall Hinton, Business Development Manager at Edmund Optics to learn more about the evolution of laser integration with machine vision systems and the challenges that come along with it, like focus, laser damage threshold, rapidly evolving machine vision technologies, and more. They cover some...

Digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), and industry 4.0 have all been industry buzzwords for some time. However, in the past few years, these buzzwords have come to fruition as they start bringing real value to the manufacturing space. In this live episode, Bryan DeBois, director of industrial AI at RoviSys, joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll to explore how advanced technolog...

In any manufacturing process, products – whether that be raw materials, parts, or full assemblies – need to be moved from point to point. Efficient conveyor systems for industrial automation can help ensure all demands are met. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, mk North America’s Scott Blais, Jr., sales and business development manager, and Michael Zampano, mechanical project engineer, sat...

How have advances in edge computing and artificial intelligence helped democratize hyperspectral imaging? In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Headwall’s Mark Willingham and Christian Felsheim join TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll to answer this question and share how the increased performance and decreased cost of hyperspectral imaging has opened the doors to myriad applica...

The manufacturing industry has had an image problem for a while. We’re all familiar with the three Ds of manufacturing — dull, dirty, dangerous — and we know that this perception has steered many potentially skilled employees toward college-based careers. The problem is, the three Ds haven’t defined manufacturing for many years. So how do we change this perception to build a pipeline of talent? Te...

After the COVID-19 pandemic, many manufacturers have talked about reshoring. But is it worth it? In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin sits down with Dave Spaulding, president and CEO of Smart Vision Lights, to learn about the machine vision lighting manufacturer’s successful shift to in-house production of circuit boards, LED boards, and enclosures. Spaulding...

Labeling a technology as “smart” — like a smart phone, smart watch, or smart toaster — indicates that it can perceive things about its environment, communicate them, and possibly even adapt performance accordingly. Motion control technology has become more accurate and precise over the years. Now it too is becoming smart. Iris Dynamics co-founder and CEO Patrick McFadden joins the latest episode o...

Less than 10 years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning were being billed as game changing technologies in the industrial automation space. While perhaps overhyped at the time, today these technologies are bringing real value to manufacturing processes. To explore the practical application of AI in manufacturing, Musashi AI’s Frederick Reinink joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carrol...

Collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots, and AI were technologies that stood out at Automate 2024 in terms of the number of demonstrations and presentations on the topic at this year’s show. For NEURA Robotics, who made waves at the event with its cognitive robots, this is the company’s wheelhouse.  TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Carroll had the opportunity to s...

In this episode, TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and John Lewis sit down with Alexandre Fong of TechnoTeam Vision to discuss imaging photometers and colorimeters. The highly specialized technology is designed and calibrated to accurately measure brightness or luminescence and color, allowing manufacturers to precisely measure whether requirements are met in lighting applications. They discuss u...

In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and Winn Hardin are joined by Matt Wicks, Vice President and General Manager of Robotics Automation at Zebra, to discuss some of the advancements that are helping drive growth in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). They’ll discuss the impact the labor market is having on the need for these technologies in warehouses across t...

Laser triangulation is a great 3D scanning technique for high-speed applications. But what happens when the CMOS chip in your 3D sensor can’t keep pace? In this episode of the Manufacturing Matters podcast, Gretchen Alper of Automation Technology (AT) GmbH joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and Amanda Del Buono to discuss how this challenge led to the development of a CMOS chip with on-senso...

Last week’s Automate 2024 event hosted its first ever Women’s Empower Hour, which highlighted the growing number of women working in the automation space. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Amanda Del Buono and Morgan Chang, US Business Development Manager at LexxPluss, continue this essential workforce development conversation. They discuss navigating the automation in...

For applications where imaging needs to go beyond the visible spectrum, hyperspectral imaging offers a power means for capturing and analyzing data from a large number of narrow, contiguous bands across the electromagnetic spectrum. On this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Jeff Oleske, Business Area Manager at Specim, joins Jimmy Carroll and John Lewis to discuss how this technology that used to...

Employee training programs have been proven to improve performance, lower turnover, and increase engagement. In this episode, GD&T Basics - Engineer Essentials LLC Founder and Lead Course Developer Tom Geiss joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin and John Lewis to dive further into the benefits that employee training offers manufacturing and automation organizations of all types. They also dis...

Many jobs within the manufacturing industry today fall under the “three D’s”- dull, dirty, and dangerous. Within manufacturing, companies have struggled to attract and retain workers for more than a decade, with COVID-19 and the Great Resignation further complicating the issue. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing’s Winn Hardin is joined by Gary Miller, owner of Miller Reso...

As industrial cameras evolve and gain processing power, more complex applications are possible. Doug Erlemann, business development manager of cameras at Baumer, joined TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and John Lewis to share how advancements in camera technology, when combined with artificial intelligence–enabled software, leads to more efficient and accurate quality control, especially for fac...

A solid safety program requires many factors to align, such as people, practices, and infrastructure. Complicating matters is that manufacturing environments must increasingly call for quick changeovers to accommodate the growing number of SKUs produced. In this episode of Manufacturing Matters, TECH B2B Marketing's Daniel McCarthy and Amanda Del Buono join Matthew Clark, industry manager of...

As consumers demand more sustainability from the products they buy, the domino effect is driving that demand throughout the supply chain, resulting in suppliers expecting sustainable practices out of their suppliers. On this episode of Manufacturing Matters Sustainable Photonics Partner Noel Moore joins TECH B2B Marketing’s Jimmy Carroll and John Lewis to discuss how the photonics industry is mana...

What does reshoring mean to you? Depending on where you’re standing, whether its Asia, North America, or in developing countries in Western Europe, reshoring means different things to different people. On this episode of Manufacturing Matters, Sven Dharmani , global advanced manufacturing and mobility supply chain leader at @Ernst & Young EY joins TECH B2B Marketing ’s Winn Hardin and Jimmy Ca...