The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek

Patrick Harrigan is a leader with Tulip Interfaces. Patrick is a technical sales leader focused on identifying and delivering digital transformation solutions for Fortune 500 Manufacturing customers. With over 12 years of leadership experience, he is a forward-thinking consultant with exceptional understanding of manufacturing business processes and how technology can be leveraged to deliver disru...

Rick Roszkowski began his career with the vision group at Allen-Bradley as a software developer and as a vision application engineer before joining Cognex in 1998. Rick now has over 35 years of experience within the machine vision industry holding a variety of technical and marketing leadership roles.  Since joining Cognex, Rick has served as Director of Engineering driving technology development...

Logan Terry is Grantek’s Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management – Life Sciences. Logan works in Grantek’s Vancouver office, and joined the company in early 2016 as a Systems Designer. Logan has been involved in a long list of successful activities and projects within Grantek within the engineering, project management and business development groups at Grantek. Logan has showed incredible pro...

Saurabh Bahl is a Digital Transformation Industrie 40 Manufacturing and Industrial Business Development Leader with AWS. Saurabh has 22+ Years of IT and Engineering Services Experience across multiple Industries which includes Retail, CPG, Industrial and Process Manufacturing. Experience across Delivery, Sales Leadership, Solutions, Customer Relation Management and managing 100+ Mil Dollar portfol...

James Burnand is a 20+ year veteran of the industrial automation ecosphere who has now turned his focus towards providing the infrastructure for manufacturers to reap the benefits of the cloud for their plant floor applications. Weaving cyber security, operational requirements, and management into 4IR Solutions’ offerings and providing education and consulting for companies looking to begin their...

Vlad Romanov has over 10 years of experience working for leading Food & Beverage and CPG companies in the United States and Canada. Currently Vlad is the Co-Founder of SolisPLC, a growing company that provides technical content to leading OEMs and End-Users in Manufacturing. SolisPLC delivers easy-to-follow technical tutorials in written and video form in order to upskill employees, get them acqua...

Welcome to Season 2 of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions. Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Industrial Control System hardware and software, Grantek expert...

Welcome back. Before we kick off Season 2, we’re excited to share a bonus episode of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. On this episode our host Sam Russem has a great “conversation” about manufacturing and Industry 4.0 with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3.5. It has a remarkable ability to interact in conversational dialogue form and provid...

Ian Tooke is the VP of Strategic Business Development at Grantek. Ian leads Grantek's Strategy, Marketing, Partner Management and Business Development groups. In this role Ian is responsible for the creation of growth strategies, new product categories, services or business models that change the game and generate significant new value for our customers and Grantek. Ian is responsible for all busi...

Kevin McClusky is the Co-Director of Sales Engineering at Inductive Automation, and has previously served as Director of Design Services. Kevin joined the team in 2011 and brought with him years of expert experience in the field of industrial automation software integration. Kevin’s work includes architectural design, consulting, and creation on countless SCADA, IIoT, MES and HMI projects for Igni...

Jacob Chapman has a background in automation engineering, project management, account management, industrial networking, and ICS cybersecurity within the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and energy generation sectors, among others. Jacob is currently a Solutions Architect within the BD and Alliances team at Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT & IoT security and visibility. Jacob maintains involvem...

Christian Wölbeling is an experienced Senior Director with Korber Pharma. He was nominated as a “Pharma Industry Leader” by The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Pharmaceutical Engineering Magazine in 2020, and has been a keynote speaker at many international pharmaceutical engineering conferences. He has a demonstrated history of working for the pharmaceutical industry w...

David McKenna is Grantek’s Director of Smart Manufacturing Solutions. He works out of Grantek’s Toronto office and has over 18 years of manufacturing experience. Dave spearheads Grantek’s Label Verification Solution, and Grantek’s Label Printer Control Solution. These offerings help manufacturers protect their operations, brand and reputation that can be harmed by expensive and dangerous recalls,...

Michael Risse is a Founding Partner, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Seeq. Seeq’s applications enable users to rapidly investigate and share insights from the time series data generated by manufacturing and IIoT solutions. The result is faster decisions, the ability to drive continuous improvement in production KPIs, and increased profitability. Michael’s work at Seeq is builds on hi...

Bryon Hayes is the Director of Smart Manufacturing Solutions at Grantek. He has 20 years of experience working within in the life sciences industry. At Grantek, he is responsible for translating current trends in the life sciences landscape into actionable technical partnership opportunities, training plans, and growth strategies. Bryon is a member of ISPE and ISA. He is on the ISPE Pharma 4.0 Spe...

Welcome to the first episode of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions. Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Industrial Control System hardware and software, Grant...