The Zeroed-In Podcast, by Thing-Zero

Is your AI strategy actually transforming your business, or just fixing small problems? In this episode of the Zeroed-In Podcast, host Olivier Bloch sits down with Jeff Winter, Vice President of Commercial Strategy at Belden, to deconstruct the hype surrounding AI in industrial automation. Manufacturing produces more data than almost any other industry, yet most companies are stuck in the "RO...

Can AI finally bridge the 30-year gap between IT and OT? In this episode of the Zero-in podcast, host Olivier Bloch sits down with Adam Bogobowicz (Microsoft) and Marvin Tansley (Thing-Zero) to discuss the reality of AI in manufacturing. While everyone "wants" AI, very few companies understand how to merge the precision of the factory floor (OT) with the scale of the cloud (IT). During t...

Before you can secure your OT network, you have to understand it. In this episode of the Zeroed-In Podcast, our host Olivier Bloch sits down with Dan Frechette, OT security expert and former member of the CyberX Labs team (now Microsoft Defender for IoT). Together, they unpack the fundamentals of OT visibility, asset discovery, and passive network monitoring. They also cover how modern tools like...

In this episode of The Zeroed-In Podcast by Thing-Zero, we sit down with Kudzai Manditereza from HiveMQ and founder of Industry40tv, to get practical about data in manufacturing. We dig into MQTT’s real job in the stack, how to bridge OT and IT without breaking culture, and why a Unified Namespace is the backbone for reliable analytics and AI at scale. We talk with Kudzai about: • MQTT vs OPC UA v...

AI in the real world isn’t a keynote... it’s a factory floor, a power bill, and a risk register. In this episode, Marvin Tansley (Thing-Zero) sits down with Alec Coughlin (AI with Alec) to map the jump from hype to hard results: securing brownfield OT, preparing a data/knowledge-centric estate, and using agents to augment operators—not replace them. We cover the shift from app-centric silos to pla...

Robots don’t kill jobs, and they might even be able to save them when you use them right. In this episode, Jake Hall: the Manufacturing Millennial, joins Olivier Bloch and Ryan Kershaw of Thing-Zero to dig into the real levers behind U.S. manufacturing: reshoring, automation, brownfield vs. greenfield, AI (yes, generative too), security/trust, and the single biggest constraint of all… people and s...

What happens when you combine shift-level insights, OT data, and predictive analytics? You stop burning buns, and start scaling profits. In this episode of the Zeroed In Podcast, Marvin Tansley (Thing-Zero) sits down with Aaron Pfeifer (Atlas OT) to unpack how manufacturers can: • Pull signal from noisy operations data • Spot patterns in downtime, waste, and inefficiency • Use successful shifts as...

Today we’re joined by David Schultz (G5 Consulting) and Ryan Kershaw from Thing-Zero to unpack what smart manufacturing really looks like beyond buzzwords. Chapters: 00:00 Intro: OT vs IT and the "Boring Topics, Interesting People" Premise 00:55 Meet David Schultz: Background in Automation & G5 Consulting 03:40 What Digital Transformation Actually Looks Like 06:10 Why Most Dashboards...

This is Episode 1 of the Zeroed In Podcast. Marvin Tansley from Thing-Zero interviews Eric Siegel from Gooder AI to tackle real-world smart manufacturing challenges using predictive AI. Together, they break down common issues seen on the factory floors into quick-wins, with step-by-step guidance you can use to break into the exciting world of OT and increase ROI with predictive AI. If you're i...