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Augmented OpsOperational Excellence at Enterprise Scale with Stanley Black & Decker’s Audrey Van de CastleThis week’s guest is Audrey Van de Castle, Senior Director of Operational Excellence Technology at Stanley Black & Decker.
Audrey breaks down the challenges of scaling digital initiatives across 100+ manufacturing sites, how to balance governance with citizen development, and the need to move past the buzzwords and invest in technology that can make a difference on the shop floor today.
She also shares insights into her unconventional career path from running a makerspace to becoming a digital transformation leader, best practices for working with IT, and her passion for building fighting robots.
Augmented Op...2025-03-1942 min
Augmented OpsAugmenting Craftmanship with Digital Technology at a Luxury Jeweler with Nicolette NayaThis week’s guest is Nicolette Naya, Senior MES Engineer at a leading luxury jewelry manufacturer.
Nicolette shares insights into how she helped digitize centuries-old manufacturing processes, the challenges of introducing technology to the shop floor, and the importance of a structured governance model to successful digital transformation.
She also explores the role of citizen developers, sheds light on her own career path from intern to digital transformation leader, and shares advice for others looking to follow in her footsteps.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, citizen developers, shop floor operators, an...2025-02-1933 min
Augmented OpsInteroperability for Industry 4.0 with HighByte’s John HarringtonThis week’s guest is John Harrington, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of HighByte.
John shares how his experiences working on Kepware at PTC led him to co-found HighByte, why Industry 4.0 requires a fundamentally different approach to interoperability, and the importance of contextualizing data in manufacturing.
He also breaks down the real value that a Unified Namespace (UNS) approach can bring, whether frameworks like ISA-95 are still relevant, and the age-old OPC vs MQTT debate.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, citizen developers, shop floor operators, and anyone else that cares ab...2025-01-0831 min
Augmented OpsFrontline Operations in NASCAR with RFK Racing's Kevin KiddThis week’s guest is Kevin Kidd, Director of Software and Analytics at RFK Racing.
While advanced manufacturing might not be the first thought that comes to mind when you hear the word NASCAR, Kevin sheds light on the complex processes and digital tools that go into building high performance race cars. He also explains how citizen development helped the team go from running on Excel to building the custom software they need, as well as the key role that data governance and advanced analytics play in putting a car that’s ready to win out on the...2024-11-2029 min
Augmented OpsEpisode 140: A Frontline Perspective on Industry 4.0 – Reflections on Season 1 of Augmented OpsThis week marks the final episode of Season 1 of Augmented Ops! Natan Linder and Erik Mirandette sit down to discuss their takeaways from the first season—while trying not to get derailed analogizing frontline operations to the Celtics Championship win.
Natan and Erik highlight the advancements (and stumbles) in industrial AI, and the way that open, interoperable ecosystems have fundamentally changed the way manufacturing tech stacks are built. They also reflect the need to focus on the frontline worker, the power of democratizing advanced technology, and more.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, sh...2024-06-2634 min
Augmented OpsEpisode 138: Democratizing Computer Vision with LandingAI’s Kai YangThis week’s guest is Kai Yang, VP of Product at LandingAI.
Kai discusses the need for a data-centric approach to AI, why vendors should build tools rather than solutions, and more, sharing lessons learned from his career in machine learning and software development. He also explains how new tools like visual prompting are democratizing computer vision and enabling anyone, regardless of skill level, to develop their own machine learning models.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, shop floor operators, citizen developers, and anyone else that cares about what the future of frontline op...2024-05-2930 min
Augmented OpsEpisode 134: Building Industrial Architectures with MQTT with HiveMQ’s Dominik ObermaierThis week’s guest is Dominik Obermaier, Co-Founder and CTO of HiveMQ.
With over 10 years of experience serving on the MQTT technical committee and helping organizations build their data foundations using HiveMQ’s MQTT platform, Dominik shares his deep expertise on the technology. He explains what makes MQTT such an important communications protocol, why the emergence of the Unified Namespace matters for manufacturers, and debates the merits of on-prem vs. cloud solutions.
Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, shop floor operators, citizen developers, and anyone else that cares about what the future of fron...2024-03-2736 min
Augmented OpsEpisode 75: Designing a Worker Friendly Industrial SystemThis week on the podcast (@AugmentedPod), futurist Trond Undheim interviews Erik Mirandette, Head of Product and Ecosystem at Tulip Interfaces (@tulipinterfaces). This is episode 75 of Season 2: "Designing a Worker Friendly Industrial System."
In this conversation, we talk about what designing and redesigning a worker-friendly industrial system might entail, how to build capabilities and not point solutions that simply fix existing use cases to empower operators and workers along the way.
Trond's takeaway: It is unusual to hear the case for manufacturing efficiency, coupled with worker empowerment, and then expressed so clearly as a...2022-04-1341 min
Augmented OpsDesigning a Worker Friendly Industrial SystemThis week on the podcast (augmentedpod), futurist Trond Undheim interviews Erik Mirandette, Head of Product and Ecosystem at Tulip. This is episode 75 of Season 2: "Designing a Worker Friendly Industrial System."In this conversation, we talk about what designing and redesigning a worker-friendly industrial system might entail, how to build capabilities and not point solutions that simply fix existing use cases to empower operators and workers along the way. My takeaway: It is unusual to hear the case for manufacturing efficiency, coupled with worker empowerment, and then expressed so clearly as a systems dynamics pr...2022-04-1341 min
The Art of ManufacturingTulip Interfaces: Rony Kubat & Erik MirandetteDigitizing the factory isn’t always easy. A former counter-intelligence officer and former reality TV star talk about how they hope to bring modern data tools, IoT, and Lean Manufacturing to every factory floor. Manufacturing technologies have been changing fast. And it’s amazing what you can make custom and on-demand, and how you can iterate in the physical world. But transforming a factory to digital manufacturing is not so easy. And that’s where this week’s guests come in. Rony Kubat and Erik Mirandette are from Tulip Interfaces, a company spun out of the MIT Me...2018-08-0243 min