AWS Industrial Insights Podcast

In this episode, we speak with Amazon, one of the original AWS customers. Our guest, Shreya Hegde, Sr. Product Manager in Reliability Maintenance Engineering at Amazon, guides us through her experience working with AWS and its partners with a focus on utilizing AWS IoT TwinMaker to proactively address safety in design.

In this episode, we chatted with Logan Cooper from Belden–director of quality and lean manufacturing at their Richmond, Indiana facility–on his role in improving visibility into factory performance metrics. Initiating a cross-functional project to implement one of Belden’s own digital solutions, Cooper streamlined data collection across disparate equipment, taking a pen-and-paper system to an AWS-connected process. The result? Facility status information is accessible in real-time via equipment interfaces, heads-up displays, and remote cloud-based dashboards, all in addition to a productivity improvement of around 10%.

Join us as we speak with Zach Nimboorkar, SVP of Global Technology Services & Operations at Schneider Electric, and explore Schneider's strategy to navigate cloud migration, system consolidation and simplification, infrastructure transformation, and change management to help simplify 78 distinct ERP systems.

This episode’s special guest, Dr. Oxana Pickeral, is the VP GM of Connected Life Sciences & Logistics & Software Business Model at Honeywell. For International Women’s Day, she joined us to discuss her career in STEM and how her experience empowers her to bring legacy technology, software, and consulting knowledge together to innovate in numerous ways and deliver new value to customers. Covering topics that range from the importance of mentors to suggestions on how to get more underrepresented people into STEM, Pickeral comes with a crisp perspective and plenty of advice.

In this episode, our guest, Steve Hooper, vice president for design and manufacturing software tools at Autodesk, walks through the nuanced conversation around generative design and generative AI in the manufacturing space. Throughout this episode, we’ll talk about the potential generative design and generative AI has for augmenting both product design and manufacturing with its ability to iterate through hundreds, if not thousands, of simulations to solve for defined constraints. We’ll also touch on how embracing cloud compute and storage services provides scale and agility to easily reengage simulations to continue iterating with new considerations. Tune in as we discuss understanding the superpower of generative design and the future potential of generative AI to explore solutions in the manufacturing industry and beyond.

Hear from Steve Applegate from Dragos on better ways for IT and OT to collaborate to improve security posture in an industrial facility. Manufacturers in particular will be interested in Steve's take on how he goes about working with OT personnel to improve security.