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EMS@C-LEVELAI's Role in Manufacturing Efficiency and NPI Success with Instrumental CEO Anna-Katrina ShedletskyDiscover the power of AI in revolutionizing engineering efficiency and accelerating NPI as I, Philip Stoten, sit down with the dynamic and talented Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, CEO and founder of Instrumental. Together, we explore how their groundbreaking technology is not just spotting manufacturing defects earlier but has also saved a massive 900 engineering weeks per year at Meta. Our discussion traverses the impactful of AI in the New Product Introduction (NPI) process, and the undeniable benefits for brands to get to market quicker and more effectively. Anna also explains how the adoption is accepted and eventually embraced as a value add...2024-05-2325 min
Augmented OpsEpisode 137: AI for the Frontline Engineer with Instrumental’s Anna ShedletskyThis week’s guest is Anna Shedletsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Instrumental.
Having started her career as an engineer at Apple, Anna shares lessons around quality management, which manufacturing KPIs actually matter, and how to take an idea from prototype to production. Plus, she lays out why organizations should think about manufacturing as a profit generator rather than a cost center, and why being able to demonstrate ROI is vital for engineers to advocate for the tech they need.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, shop floor operators, citizen developers, and anyone else th...2024-05-1532 min
The BOM: Engineering a Path ForwardEpisode 42: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky Teaches How To Adapt To A Changing ProblemMajenta Strongheart sits down with Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, the co-founder and CEO of Instrumental. Instrumental is focused on one of the most important aspects of the manufacturing world today. Creating a more efficient quality tracking system in the production process that so many hardware companies rely on. From the beginning Anna and the whole team at Instrumental asked the question, how do we increase yield, decrease wasted product, downtime in production, and critical mistakes in the products and electronics that you’re probably listening to this podcast on. The views and opinions expressed within this content are solely the...2024-03-1232 min
World Economic Forum10 women leaders share how they work and thriveThe global gender gap isn't budging, new research shows, and in this week's episode, women leaders share some of the unique policies and programs that can help build a pipeline for women in leadership and get closer to bridging that divide. Women also share the strategies that they have personally used to get their ideas heard and lead in only the way they can.
This episode features: Ashley Dartnell, Global Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Boston Consulting Group; Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com; Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap; Anna Katrina Shedletsky, founder, Instrumental, Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP...2023-06-2821 min
Meet The Leader10 women leaders share how they work and thriveThe global gender gap isn't budging, new research shows, and in this week's episode, women leaders share some of the unique policies and programs that can help build a pipeline for women in leadership and get closer to bridging that divide. Women also share the strategies that they have personally used to get their ideas heard and lead in only the way they can. This episode features: Ashley Dartnell, Global Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Boston Consulting Group; Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com; Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap; Anna Katrina Shedletsky, founder, Instrumental, Nela...2023-06-2821 min
Agenda Dialogues10 women leaders share how they work and thriveThe global gender gap isn't budging, new research shows, and in this week's episode, women leaders share some of the unique policies and programs that can help build a pipeline for women in leadership and get closer to bridging that divide. Women also share the strategies that they have personally used to get their ideas heard and lead in only the way they can. This episode features: Ashley Dartnell, Global Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Boston Consulting Group; Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com; Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap; Anna Katrina Shedletsky, founder, Instrumental, Nela...2023-06-2821 min
Meet The LeaderBridging the gender gap at work: What's neededResearch shows that despite some progress, gender gaps in pay, leadership and more aren’t shrinking fast enough in a range of categories. Top female leaders share what’s needed to break down assumptions, build networks and improve living standards widely, stressing the training every exec will need and even the right place to sit in a meeting to get ideas heard. Episode features: Vicki Hollub, CEO, Occidental Petroleum; Pam Chan, Chief Investment Officer, BlackRock; Ebru Ozdemir, Chairperson, Limak; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Co-founder, Instrumental. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-07-1314 min
Agenda DialoguesBridging the gender gap at work: What's neededResearch shows that despite some progress, gender gaps in pay, leadership and more aren’t shrinking fast enough in a range of categories. Top female leaders share what’s needed to break down assumptions, build networks and improve living standards widely, stressing the training every exec will need and even the right place to sit in a meeting to get ideas heard. Episode features: Vicki Hollub, CEO, Occidental Petroleum; Pam Chan, Chief Investment Officer, BlackRock; Ebru Ozdemir, Chairperson, Limak; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Co-founder, Instrumental. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-07-1314 min
World Economic ForumBridging the gender gap at work: What's neededResearch shows that despite some progress, gender gaps in pay, leadership and more aren’t shrinking fast enough in a range of categories. Top female leaders share what’s needed to break down assumptions, build networks and improve living standards widely, stressing the training every exec will need and even the right place to sit in a meeting to get ideas heard. Episode features: Vicki Hollub, CEO, Occidental Petroleum; Pam Chan, Chief Investment Officer, BlackRock; Ebru Ozdemir, Chairperson, Limak; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Co-founder, Instrumental.2022-07-1314 min
What's Your Problem?Making Electronics BetterAnna Katrina Shedletsky is co-founder and CEO of Instrumental. Her problem: How do you make electronics manufacturing more efficient and less wasteful? Anna started her career as a design engineer at Apple. It was her job to visit the factory when a new device was about to go into production and try to figure out all of the potential manufacturing problems that might arise. She realized this was an almost impossible task that relied on hope and luck -- and that it led to an incredibly inefficient and wasteful manufacturing process. So she s...2022-05-1224 min
Manufacturing Happy HourLeveraging Data to Reimagine the Product Design Process with Instrumental CEO Anna-Katrina ShedletskyCan data transform the product design world?That’s what Instrumental was created to do. Instrumental is a manufacturing optimization platform that uses data and AI to help companies improve their product lines. It cuts down on time spent diagnosing problems and faults and helps businesses ship out products faster.To tell us all about it, Instrumental’s inspiring CEO and Founder, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, joins this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour.In this episode, Anna takes us behind-the-scenes at Instrumental and details exactly how it works so well. She explains the benefits of usin...2021-08-3145 min
EMS@C-LEVELEMS@C-LEVEL Season #2021 Episode #8 with Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, InstrumentalSome 15 months ago Anna-Katrina Shedletsky went on record stating that, thanks to the pandemic, there would be 5 years of innovation crammed into the coming 18 months, I wanted to know if she still believed that to be true. In the fast paced discussion, Anna gives me the inside track on how she has seen the manufacturing industry perform through the pandemic and what it needs to do better to create an industry that can truly service brands and product innovators in the future, regardless of what disruptions are thrown in their way. We also explore the services offered by Instrumental...2021-08-0937 min
MADEMADE IN Season 1 Episode 5 - Digital Disruptors Special with CEOs of Instrumental and Clip AutomationThe need for digital transformation has always been compelling, post covid-19 it is also becoming urgent. Two founders and CEOs of digitally enabled companies are the guests on MADE IN this week. Anna-Katrina Shedletsky is the founder and CEO of Instrumental and Rajeev Bhalla is founder and CEO of Clip Automation. The two join co-hosts Ron Keith of Supply Chain Resource Group and Industry Journalist Philip Stoten to explore why the need for transformation is accelerating and how the industry can be more innovative than ever.2020-09-021h 10
Accidental Tech PodcastThe Pixel Stump
Follow-up:
Explaining Code using ASCII Art
iFixit's New MBP Teardown
Apple Watch Independence
_'s Watch Usage Chart
Apple Watch Designer Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Decrypted: Conversation with Phillip Shoemaker
Previously about Shoemaker: Apple's App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
macOS 10.15's System Partition
System Integrity Protection
New iPod touch
Guilherme Rambo's Screenshot Leaks
iOS 13
Blending Stump
macOS 10.15
Apple Pro Display
Pontificating about the Mac Pro
...oh yeah and some other WWDC stuff.
Post-show: What's owning a 10-year computer really like?
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Data Driven Discussions#107 Building Better Data (Manufacturing)In this episode I interview Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, the CEO of Instrumental which is bringing data, machine learning, and intelligence to the assembly line. Manufacturing is an old industry that has been resistant to change and new technologies, even as the products it builds have gotten more complex. That is changing as factories are considering new technologies a necessity to stay competitive and productive. Data will be the key to this innovation. Products like the Instrumental System will enable factories and the brands that build in them to collect data that was not available before and to use algorithms to find...2017-09-1200 min
Apple Chat: A Cult of Mac podcast with Leander KahneyApple and manufacturing with Instrumental CEO Anna-Katrina ShedletskyManufacturing processes haven’t changed much in recent years, even with dramatic advances in technology. Consumer electronics are still almost 100% handmade, even at companies that supply the best of the best -– like Apple.
On this episode of Apple Chat, I interview Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, former product design engineer for Apple, about the challenges of manufacturing electronic goods at massive scale. Shedletsky's new company, Instrumental, makes machine-learning software and associated hardware that monitors assembly lines and allows design engineers to troubleshoot manufacturing problems with agility.
Shedletsky and I discuss the current state of assembly-line manufacturing around the world, and in particular, how...2017-06-2400 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.aiAnna Shedletsky is the Founder & CEO @ Instrumental, the startup that helps consumer electronics companies ship high-quality hardware, on time. They have funding from some of the best in the business including First Round Capital and a huge thanks to Phin Barnes @ First Round for the intro to Anna today. As for Anna, prior to Instrumental, Anna was a product design lead and manager for the Apple Watch and before that, a product design engineer for the Apple iPod. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Anna made the move from working on the Apple Wa...2017-04-0727 min