Hidden industrial AI secrets from beer, bees and more
As industrial AI becomes a necessity, process industry experts will face many challenges implementing the digital transformations necessary to deploy the technology. Fortunately, experts in adjacent industries are already a few steps ahead on this journey. To succeed, manufacturing experts must rely on the experience of these trailblazers.
That is why this episode of the Industry Forward podcast features John Nixon, Global Vice President of Process Industries at Siemens Digital Industry Software, talking to Fred Husman, Senior Program Manager at SkyIO. In it, Husman discuss his over three decades worth of digitalization lessons from the beer industry and his bee-keeping hobby.
In this podcast you will learn:
- 01:08 – What traceability and sustainability lessons brewing can teach the industry
- 09:22 – How new data extractions can be implemented without plant downtime
- 11:47 – What cybersecurity risks exist when leveraging industrial AI
- 13:09 – What digitalization lessons industry can learn from bees
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John Nixon – Global Vice President of Process Industries at Siemens Digital Industries Software
As Global Vice President for Process Industries at Siemens, John leads a global team that helps process industries leverage digital solutions that enhance efficiency, accelerate innovation and achieve sustainability goals.
John has over three decades of experience in strategy, operations and technology deployment for energy, chemicals, life sciences and CPG. He is well versed in the operational and business pressures of industry, including regulatory demands, decarbonization, talent gaps and the push for innovation
Fred Husman – Senior Program Manager at SkyIO
As Senior Program Manager at SkyIO, Fred manages process control projects using Siemens automation platforms. He has designed complete automation and network architectures for customers in the brewing, semiconductor, and chemical manufacturing industries.
Fred has over 35 years of experience automating projects in the Process Industries. He spent the first 15 years of that time as a Project Engineer working on commissioning and startups. For the last 20 years, he has focused more on Project Management.
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