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Francisco Almada Lobo
Episode 73

The Thinking Factory: How AI Is Giving MES a Brain

Francisco Almada Lobo

Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO of Critical Manufacturing, explains why Audi's 100+ AI initiatives never scaled to production — and how enriching IoT data with MES context changes everything.

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Howard Sachs
Episode 51

First Principles: De-Risking Industrial Technology and Championing Sovereign Manufacturing

Howard Sachs

Hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Howard Sachs, a veteran of the industrial automation industry with deep experience across Australia and New Zea...

Sovereign ManufacturingDe-Risking TechnologyAustralian Industry
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Alexander Krüger
Episode 50

Why Factory AI Fails Without a Data Foundation

Alexander Krüger

In this episode of Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Alexander Kruger, co-founder and CEO of United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), to talk about why most industrial AI projects stall before they start...

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Bob van de Kuilen
Episode 49

The Human Context Hidden Behind Industrial Data You Can't Ignore

Bob van de Kuilen

In this episode of Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, host Phil Seboa sits down with Bob van de Kuilen, CEO and co-founder of Thred, to explore how knowledge graphs ...

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Neil Cresswell
Episode 48

Containers Without the Complexity: Bringing IT Tools to the Factory Floor

Neil Cresswell

In this episode of Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Neil Cresswell, founder and CEO of Portainer, to talk about how con...

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Carl Gould
Episode 47

What Ignition 8.3 Means for Industrial Automation's Next Leap

Carl Gould

In this episode of Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Carl Gould, CTO of Inductive Automation, for an in-person conversat...

IgnitionInductive AutomationSCADA
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Jason Watts
Episode 46

Functional Safety, AI Blindspots, and Designing Systems That Actually Work

Jason Watts

In this episode of the Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Jason Watts, Owner and Founder of Alpha Industrial Technologies...

Functional SafetyAI in AutomationSiemens Drives
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Martin Boers
Episode 45

Why PLCnext Technology Is Changing Industrial Automation Forever

Martin Boers

In this episode of the Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Martin Boers, Technical Specialist at PLCnext Technology with P...

PLCnext TechnologyIT/OT ConvergenceLinux PLC
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Alex Sharikov
Episode 44

From Mining PLCs to AI-Powered Automation: Building the Future SoftPLC

Alex Sharikov

In this episode of Unplugged, hosts Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes sit down with Alex Sharikov, founder of Jasper-X and creator of JasperNode, an AI-powered SoftPLC ...

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