The Future-Ready Podcast: Industry & Beyond

Following the industrial revolution and the rise of globalization, mass produced and consumer packaged goods (CPG) have been manufactured on the concept of centralization; a factory in a central location produces a product before shipping it to warehouses the world over. While this approach has many benefits, in recent years it has become increasingly clear it might not always be the best way. In...

Delays bringing medical treatment to market can cost pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars a day in lost revenue. And as treatments take 10 to 12 years to be greenlit, companies need to start production immediately after approval. Thus, engineers must design plants before product, recipe and workflow finalization. This introduces significant uncertainty within a project that demands success...

Artificial Intelligence has come to dominate conversation in consumer and industrial spaces. The recent explosion in AI capabilities and applications is a confluence of factors, producing an exciting landscape of innovation, new challenges and immense opportunity. In this special episode, listen to the complete discussion between host Conor Peick and guests Matthias Loskyll and Samir Desai as they...

Agentic AI is emerging as a transformational paradigm across industries, with the potential to reshape how companies design, manufacture and manage operations. Yet, transformations take time and, especially in the case of AI agents imbued with a level of autonomy, require careful planning and robust infrastructure to ensure human experts maintain final review and approval authority. In this episod...

New technology is, without a doubt, cool. However, for that technology to have value it must be practical as well, offering real benefits to end users lest it be relegated to niche novelty status. Currently, copilots are working to move out of the realm of cool technology and into the realm of real value, offering strong user benefits and real, practical improvements to the way people do their wor...

As artificial intelligence transforms industrial operations, companies face a critical challenge: how to build trust in AI systems while scaling them effectively across global operations. The path forward requires transparency, careful data stewardship, thoughtful implementation strategies, and a commitment to augmenting rather than replacing human expertise. In this episode, host Conor Peick is j...

The promise of future technologies is always exciting yet the reality can sometimes fail to live up to the dream. While technologies like mixed reality and Industrial Metaverse may have had a rocky start, today, they are now capable of offering tangible benefits to frontline workers with the promise of very real advancements in the future. In this episode, host Conor Peick is joined by guest Theo...

Tradeshows often coalesce around high-level topics for a few years at a time from the initial development of underlying technologies and through to the challenge of scaling those solutions in across a business. To add a little more weight to what was on display at Hannover Messe 2026, our moderator Conor Peick sat down with Rainer Brehm – the COO of the Siemens Automation Business and CTO of Digit...

Though well established in industry discourse, Digital Twin technology still has room to grow and add value as a powerful tool for industrial companies. As it matures and synergizes with other key technologies, such as Industrial AI, the Digital Twin will expand into a connected, intelligent, and real-time representation of entire industrial enterprises. In this episode of the Future Ready Podcast...

AI has the potential to address many challenges in the industrial world, however, making that dream a reality involves more than just developing a new AI tool or addon. With an Industrial AI model in hand, finding the best way to bring that model to both tools and physical assets represents a challenge of its own. In this episode, host Conor Peick is joined by guests Matthias Loskyll and Samir Des...

Mounting complexity, disruption and shifting customer demands are driving companies in many industries to seek faster and more efficient development methods across product and production lifecycles. Digitalization, and the Digital Twin specifically, have arisen as a means of helping companies accelerate processes, lower costs and reduce risk in an increasingly dynamic industrial environment. In th...

How are AI, Digital Twins, and software-defined systems reshaping the factory of the future? In this episode of the Future Ready Podcast, Mark Hindsbo and Nick Finberg continue their conversation to explore why the shift toward Software-Defined Systems actually requires more intelligent hardware. Together, they discuss how Digital Twins and AI enable manufacturers to simulate operations, detect ri...

AI isn’t a new technology yet, today, AI is taking off like never before, finding countless new opportunities not just for consumers but in the much more demanding worlds of business and industry as well. Reaching that point is not simply coincidence but a confluence of factors culminating in the Industrial AI landscape of today and tomorrowIn this episode, host Conor Peick is joined by guests Mat...

Manufacturing is – and will remain – fundamentally physical. Every gain from software-defined automation ultimately depends on hardware that can sense, communicate and act reliably on the shopfloor. The real opportunity is not replacing hardware but enhancing it through software-defined automation.  Concepts like virtual sensors or AI-driven optimization can unlock new value. But at some poin...

Building adaptable, flexible automation system is both a goal and a challenge in the manufacturing world which must train powerful AI solutions to meet these needs. As the industry continues to embrace digitalization, not only will it training and testing of advanced AI systems be easier, it will be a key step in realizing the benefits of software defined automation and the Digital Twin. In this e...

Pharmaceutical and life sciences companies are exploring advanced digital technologies to help speed up development and manufacturing. The Digital Twin, Industrial AI and the Industrial Metaverse can offer solutions, but operate best when built on a strong data foundation. In this episode of the Future Ready Podcast from Siemens, hear experts on the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry explor...

Opportunity and growth are two of the most sought after components for building a successful business. That’s why the changes happening on the shop floor and in operations are so interesting. They’re not just for the passionate engineers who want to use a new tool or solve a new problem. No, the market on the whole is expected to double in the next five years. At the center of this shift is Softwa...

Consumer products companies have some of the largest portfolios of any businesses around the world. But even with the large overlap between products, many still operate within a more permanent framework for manufacturing. Make a large lot all at once, then adjust to the next product run. This is anathema to the consumer trends many of these companies are trying to follow. Software is helping chang...

Robotics have been a staple in manufacturing for decades, allowing certain repetitive tasks to be automated yet, for as powerful as automation is, replicating full human-like abilities is difficult to achieve. By incorporating AI with advanced robotics, a new level of flexible, adaptable, robotic systems can not only take on tasks previously limited to humans, but also support rapid product iterat...

As pharmaceutical and life sciences companies work to accelerate development processes, digital technologies offer a path to greater efficiency, adaptability and speed. The Digital Twin and Industrial AI are expected to become particularly impactful. In this episode of the Future Ready Podcast from Siemens, listen to experts on the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry dive into how digital tr...

Mounting complexity, disruption and shifting customer demands are driving companies in many industries to seek faster and more efficient development methods across product and production lifecycles. Digitalization, and the Digital Twin specifically, have arisen as a means of helping companies accelerate processes, lower costs and reduce risk in an increasingly dynamic industrial environment. In th...

Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies are in a race against time in the development of new therapies. Pharmaceutical manufacturers must accelerate timelines while ensuring patient safety, maintaining data integrity and managing complexity across global supply networks. In this episode of the Future Ready Podcast from Siemens, hear experts discuss the realities and shortcomings of current deve...

Automation is adapting and learning to use new tools, much like we and a handful of other creatures have, to get better faster than evolution would normally allow. Machines don’t have to chug along doing the same thing until decommissioning. Soon they’ll be changing with the demands of the industry they serve. For the shop floor, this advantage is built on digitalization – making variability the n...

AI is moving from theory to practice on the shop floor. And it is only possible because of an accelerated workflow built on software. Whether it is generative AI powered assistants, smarter data integration or efficient deployment across both greenfield and brownfield deployments, the future of industry starts with digitalization and software. And we have Rainer Brehm to explore the topic. The fle...

Connecting enterprise data is a necessary, yet challenging, step in the process of developing Industrial AI solutions to their fullest potential. Data fabrics are a key way to address this challenge, offering connection and context to enterprise data and credibility to AI-generated results. These three elements will, together, be necessary building blocks for developing highly autonomous AI agents...