Gary On Manufacturing - Gary Mintchell

Discussions of transformed technologies and empowered people that make manufacturing and production safe, efficient, and profitable.

Boeing and Good Manufacturing Leadership 05/02/2024

Boeing and Good Manufacturing Leadership Gary offers observations on the continuing saga of former GE executives running Boeing changing the culture from engineering-driven to Wall Street-driven. Also thoughts on good manufacturing leadership. /episode/index/show/automation/id/31092458

Descent Into Normal--State of Automation Market 04/04/2024

Descent Into Normal--State of Automation Market Gary discusses the current state of the automation and control market. Why it seems to be a stable market and why the media in the market are shrinking. He riffs from Seth Godin blog The Drift to Normal. As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean. Over time, things get more average. I have arranged a special deal with energy drink makers Magic Mind. Listeners can visit https://www.magicmind.com/garym and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with my code GARYM20. After 10 days, you can still get 20% off for one time purchases and subscriptions. My sponsor is Inductive Automation. Check out their flagship product Ignition and the Cloud and Edge editions. If you would like to get a message out to about 200,000 people, you, too, could be a sponsor. Reply to this email to find out more about sponsorship opportunities. /episode/index/show/automation/id/30687768

Slow Productivity 03/24/2024

Slow Productivity Gary discusses productivity, slow productivity movement, busyness or pseudo-productivity. Sponsors Inductive Automation inductiveautomation.com and Magic Mind, magicmind.com/garym and use code GARYM20. /episode/index/show/automation/id/30520543

Standards, Standards Everywhere 03/06/2024

Standards, Standards Everywhere I've seen successes of industry standards. I've also seen industrial standards struggle to break through the logjam of large companies drive to lock customers into their ecosystem. What is the latest of OPAF and what is the meaning of Schneider Electric's announcement of a product built with with Red Hat and IBM and development of a new computer communication standard? I have arranged a special deal with energy drink makers Magic Mind. Listeners can visit https://www.magicmind.com/garym and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with my code GARYM20. After 10 days, you can still get 20% off for one time purchases and subscriptions. That’s magicmind.com/garym with the code GARYM20. This podcast is sponsored by Inductive Automation. https://www.inductiveautomation.com /episode/index/show/automation/id/30256248

Where Do Profits Come From? 02/09/2024

Where Do Profits Come From? Boeing is a company that has lost its way. I have no idea why the board has not sacked the CEO. The 737MAX program was a fiasco and continues to haunt the company. The 787 program ran way behind schedule costing the company billions. This is what happens when you ignore product and serving customers instead focusing solely on financial numbers. We are a business company not an engineering company, said one Boeing CEO. How right he was. They can't build an airplane anymore. But they can still count, I guess. /episode/index/show/automation/id/29875988

Leadership: The Art of Listening and Conversing 12/04/2023

Leadership: The Art of Listening and Conversing Gary gives leadership growth tips based on Dan Lyons "The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World" and David Brooks "How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen." /episode/index/show/automation/id/28926958

Why Are Industrial Technology Vendors Moving to Software? 10/11/2023

Why Are Industrial Technology Vendors Moving to Software? After attending several technology supplier user conferences this summer and fall, a colleague asked why suppliers are emphasizing software. I ponder this question in this podcast essay. And ask what the new breed of engineers will bring with new ideas. Maybe Arduino control platforms? Worth asking. /episode/index/show/automation/id/28293320

Have Digital Productivity Tools Failed Us? 08/28/2023

Have Digital Productivity Tools Failed Us? Do digital tools have the effect of adding more things to our plate rather than helping us get things done? Gary looks at how software helped him get productive and then seemed to bog down and still accomplish a lot, but it seems slower over all. Even more, what is more important—getting more done or doing what is impactful? /episode/index/show/automation/id/27874773

252 Technology Market Innovation to Maturity Cycles 08/16/2023

252 Technology Market Innovation to Maturity Cycles My career spans the innovation to maturity cycle of three technology markets--PC, IT, Automation. I wonder what's next. /episode/index/show/automation/id/27771003

251 HUG 2023 07/17/2023

251 HUG 2023 I went to this year's Honeywell User Group with many questions. They were all answered as you will hear. There were many questions begging for answers as I traveled to Florida. What was Honeywell HIVE, and how does it relate to the ExxonMobil initiated Open Process Automation group? What is Honeywell Digital Prime and what customer problems does it address? What successes have Honeywell achieved with sustainability initiatives? Honeywell was an early mobility developer. What has progressed in that regard? What role does Honeywell see for AR and VR? /episode/index/show/automation/id/27491589

250 Siemens Digital Conference 23 06/14/2023

250 Siemens Digital Conference 23 Gary talks about the successful integrations of software by Siemens since the 2007 acquisition of UGS. He reflects on early conversations with Siemens executives regarding the Digital Factory and then how far the company has traveled along that path becoming perhaps the most successful industrial automation and industrial software supplier. /episode/index/show/automation/id/27149139

249 Industrial Technology What Comes Next 06/05/2023

249 Industrial Technology What Comes Next Surveying the past of automation and control tech and the tech media market over the years, then taking a look at future coverage for Gary on Manufacturing and The Manufacturing Connection. /episode/index/show/automation/id/27052017

248 observations automation and control and media market 2023 05/15/2023

248 observations automation and control and media market 2023 Observations, thoughts, questions about automation and control market, the companion media market, and innovation. Thoughts welcome. /episode/index/show/automation/id/26847630

247 Disruption and Innovation 04/14/2023

247 Disruption and Innovation I presented a Webinar on April 5. You can find it here https://www.manufacturingtechnologytoday.com/frs/23189866/going-beyond-digital-transformation--the-real-innovations-in-manufacturing/email . I talked about how digital data isn't new, my 1978 project, how we need to watch for disruption coming from anywhere, the importance of people, and how you, yes you, can and should be a change agent. /episode/index/show/automation/id/26546682

246 Open OT Technology 02/28/2023

246 Open OT Technology Why is it that open systems work in IT and not OT. The work of the Open Process Automation Forum. /episode/index/show/automation/id/26081322

245 Metaverse to AI, Twitter to Mastodon, Video 02/08/2023

245 Metaverse to AI, Twitter to Mastodon, Video Update on the industrial metaverse essay and podcast given the Google, Facebook, and Microsoft news to AI, ChatGPT, and search ads. Thoughts on merger and acquisition including new thoughts on Emerson bid for NI. Finally, a new take on video for manufacturing. Sponsored by Ignition from Inductive Automation. /episode/index/show/automation/id/25875090

244 Industrial Metaverse Reality or Dream 01/15/2023

244 Industrial Metaverse Reality or Dream Yes, I'm back after a long hiatus due to some projects that soaked up my time. Metaverse remains the hot topic in industrial technology discussion circles. Are we getting closer to reality than what I spoke of in episode 241? There are some interesting new concepts from both Rockwell Automation and GridRaster plus others. /episode/index/show/automation/id/25615911

243 Sustainability 07/23/2022

243 Sustainability Press releases come to me from a variety of sources. The topics are often in batches. There was 3D printing, then cybersecurity, now sustainability. Check out a new book instigated by Seth Godin (check his podcast out at akimbo.link) called The Carbon Almanac (thecarbonalmanac.org). Electric is big, as in electric cars. Everything needs big engineering ideas. What will you contribute? /episode/index/show/automation/id/23835218

242 Hype Curve 06/30/2022

242 Hype Curve Two developers reflecting on Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in terms of Gartner's Hype Cycle--about getting enthused at the event and then reality settling in when the amount of work is realized. I reflect on the several trips I made in May and June in the same model. I'm not saying all I got was hype, but the trip from enthusiasm to realism is worth taking. /episode/index/show/automation/id/23596775

241 Manufacturing Metaverse 05/20/2022

241 Manufacturing Metaverse Gary discusses 20 years of trying on headsets for manufacturing applications. Is the Metaverse finally upon us? Probably not. /episode/index/show/automation/id/23182022

240 Leaders are Readers 05/06/2022

240 Leaders are Readers Perhaps if President Nixon had read 500 books rather than watching 500 movies during his time in office... What happened to all the free time we were supposed to get from increased productivity? Oliver Burkeman discusses time management in Four Thousand Weeks. And no, it's not a new system. Plus Karels and Miller wrote Steel Toes and Stilettos, a story of Lean Transformation of three manufacturing plants. It's The Goal for a new generation. /episode/index/show/automation/id/23031746

239 Whatever Happened to IIoT? 04/18/2022

239 Whatever Happened to IIoT? There was Internet of Things, IoT, then Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT, and companies formed groups to build product and exploit the area. Then they went away. What happened? What's new? Taking a look at data orchestration and data ops. /episode/index/show/automation/id/22830215

238 Build Security In 04/08/2022

238 Build Security In Gary discusses how to answer why spend the money, how we learned to build safety into machines and processes, and how we'll learn to do the same with cybersecurity. /episode/index/show/automation/id/22733489

237 It's Too Complicated 03/13/2022

237 It's Too Complicated Gary recaps the recent ODVA annual general meeting. Keynoter Paul Maurath of P&G corporate engineering discussed laboratory testing of EtherNet/IP with APL. He asked for more configuration and device description help. ODVA tech group engineers have been very busy with OPC UA mapping, TSN, and CIP for discrete devices. It was great to meet again. /episode/index/show/automation/id/22433606

236 Sustainability 02/19/2022

236 Sustainability Gary discusses ideas around corporate sustainability and looks at what three automation companies are doing--ABB, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric. /episode/index/show/automation/id/22186652

235 Market Musings 01/29/2022

235 Market Musings Gary ponders the state of the automation and control market riffing off the ARC Advisory Group / Control Global Top 50 by sales. Is this a mature market? New entrants seem to be acquired by incumbents as an innovation strategy by the larger companies. What does a mature market mean? /episode/index/show/automation/id/21941354

234 Beyond Resolutions 01/21/2022

234 Beyond Resolutions How are your New Years Resolutions coming? Quit already? Try a few tips from Gary about improving life and career this year. /episode/index/show/automation/id/21854906

233 Irony 10/07/2021

233 Irony I love irony. Like when people click on my consulting link and want to sell me consulting instead of asking me to consult. Also a quick trip around the Fabtech and Additive Manufacturing Trade Show, the size of The Manufacturing Connection--your number one resource. Sponsored by Ignition by Inductive Automation. /episode/index/show/automation/id/20747237

232 The Future of Industrial Software Business 09/13/2021

232 The Future of Industrial Software Business Rick Bullotta posted a provocative comment on LinkedIn predicting a shakeup in the industrial software business with the hyperscaler cloud companies acquiring a chunk of those now owned by OEMs or the few independent ones. I've thought about this for a long time. What do you think? /episode/index/show/automation/id/20462411

231 Are You Being Served? 08/13/2021

231 Are You Being Served? 231 Are You Being Served? While thinking about the proliferation of as-a-service models of business, thoughts of that 70s and 80s British comedy TV show came to mind. Are you being served? Proved feasible by Salesforce and then adopted by many including recently HPE as the strategy for the entire company, we are witnessing automation companies exploring the as-a-service business model. I wonder how far it will go. /episode/index/show/automation/id/20132993

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