Gary On Manufacturing - Gary Mintchell

Gary resumes his "on the road" series with commentary and analysis from the 2015 Emerson Global User Exchange and how it has bundled the past several years of technical advances into a higher level management offering on project management.

Gary does a quick review of the two dominant strategies for manufacturing excellence in the future now trending--Industrie 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing.

In this episode, I interview John Neeley, Product Manager for Fluke Connect at Fluke. The Fluke Connect system allows maintenance technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones for secure storage on the cloud and universal team access from the field. Here are a few URLs for more information. Overview Connecting multiple tools to the phone app

Gary discusses the PAS company concept of Human Reliability and other thoughts from the PAS Technology Conference. He also discusses last week's AFPM conference and trade show with an example of reliability engineering.

Following up on a popular podcast interview I did with Jonathan Joseph of Rockwell Automation on its Safety Automation Builder, here is a conversation with Rockwell's Steve Ludwig, Safety Programs Manager, and Mark Eitzman, Safety Market Development Manager, who provide an update on acceptance of the SAB and discuss the Safety Maturity Index.

One of my most downloaded podcasts was an interview with Glenn Schultz, managing director of the FDT Group, where he discussed FDT technology. As part of a series on the benefits of digital network technologies, I am talking with Todd Gordon, computer/instrument technician lead at We Energies in Milwaukee.

Gary discusses mobile technologies for industrial workers and how the cloud is the enabling technology with Saadi Kermani, product manager at Invensys, during the October Invensys software user group meetings.

Gary caught up with program chair and founding evangelist of the ISA Marketing and Sales Summit Shari Worthington. They discussed the 2013 edition, why ISA decided to do these summits for manufacturing professionals, and a teaser for the 2014 edition.

Whle at the 2013 ISA Marketing and Sales Summit in New Orleans, Gary chatted with Matt Leary, principal of Solutions Insights, about solutions marketing.

LNS Research Principal Analyst Mark Davidson discusses the social research model and work he is doing in the Manufacturing Operations Management area with a glimpse at new technologies to watch. Check out my blog post on its new library form MOM research. He talks about the goal of LNS Research to accelerate people's success. Topics include adding analysis of human capital and real-time information to the ISA95 model for analysis, cloud, mobility, how social research works--and what you can add and receive by participating. Simply visit the Website, click on Research Library, pick one (or more), and fill out the survey.

Gary discusses the reasons behind his new Website / business, "The Manufacturing Connection," which explores all the connections necessary to make manufacturing successful.

Gary interviews Glenn Schulz of the FDT Group www.fdtgroup.org who provides a description of the technology and benefits to manufacturers.

Gary discusses fieldbuses, networking, diagnostics and operations management software as part of the tool box helping you become more successful in manufacturing and production.

In this episode, Gary is at the MESA North America Conference talking with MESA Board Chair John Dyck and MESA President Mike Yost about the programs and progress of the organization that promotes MES/MOM applications.

Gary talks with Mike James who is a leader of MES solution provider ATS Global and who spearheaded the MESA Global Education Program that has provided two certification tracks for educating people about MES/MOM theory and application.

Thinking back over the industrial revolutions, Gary describes jobs that have been replaced by machines that were socially for the good.  He looks at some future ideas about manufacturing describing Industry 4.0 from Germany and Smart Manufacturing from the US.

In this episode Gary recaps the ABB Automation and Power World user conference, discusses the ramifications of a $7 million grant to the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition, and reviews the book "Producing Prosperity," by Pisano and Shih.

Gary discusses Rockwell Automation's new Safety Automation Builder software with OEM Technical Consultant Jonathan Johnson. We learn that the tool is part of trend of providing easy-to-use tools for engineers to help them improve design, get projects done faster and provide end-of-project documentation. Check the Rockwell SAB Website for more information.

Gary discusses his new personal directions, news from the ARC Forum including emphasis on Cloud Computing, the upcoming ISA Automation Week and the HART Communication Foundation 20th Anniversary.

Gary discusses the current spate of articles in mainstream media about automation and jobs. He also announces a new personal direction.