The Industry Forward Podcast

Join industry experts to explore the key trends, transformative technologies and real-world innovations that are reshaping fields from aerospace, industrial machinery and semiconductors to pharmaceuticals and beyond. Each episode delivers an in-depth discussion on the dynamic challenges industries are facing and how digitalization driven by AI, software and the comprehensive digital twin is meeting those challenges today and redefining the global industry of tomorrow.

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Designing in the dark: How AI brings clarity to sustainable product development

March 27, 2026

Much of the sustainability impact of a product is determined as soon as the design phase, yet the data that…

By Quinn Foster

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The major shift toward humanoids podcast transcript

March 20, 2026

Humanoid robots are transforming from technology showcases to practical, scalable solutions for real-world factories. And nowhere is this shift more meaningful than in brownfield environments, the legacy factories that make up the vast majority of global manufacturing.

By Bianca Ward

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Ontologies: How to make sense of the data explosions in process industries

March 20, 2026

The new digitalization era of the process industry is burying organizations under a mountain of information. Data, like entropy, is…

By Shawn Wasserman

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The major shift toward humanoids

March 13, 2026

Humanoid robots may be coming to a factory near you.

By Bianca Ward

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Supply chain digitalization supports greater efficiency, collaboration, and transparency.

Ep 31 – The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett – Part 3

January 2, 2026

This is the third of a three part series with Richard Barnett, Chief Marketing Officer and SaaS Sales Leader at Supplyframe! Richard brings over 30 years of experience driving growth across enterprise SaaS, supply chain software, and digital platforms. In the final part of our discussion, Richard, Dale and I examine the progress of digitalization in industry, structural challenges to greater supply chain collaboration, and how digitalization can help address these challenges before wrapping up with final thoughts.

By Conor Peick

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Ep 30 – The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett – Part 2

December 19, 2025

This is the second of a three part series with Richard Barnett, Chief Marketing Officer and SaaS Sales Leader at Supplyframe! Richard brings over 30 years of experience driving growth across enterprise SaaS, supply chain software, and digital platforms. As the conversation continues, Richard, Dale and I talk about how data can enable earlier supply chain planning and decisions, why spreadsheets persist as a tool of choice in supply chain management, and how digitalization may change supply chain management in the future.

By Conor Peick

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Supply chain volatility demands digitalization to increase transparency and collaboration

Ep 29 – The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett – Part 1

December 12, 2025

Today, we have the first of a three part series with Richard Barnett, Chief Marketing Officer and SaaS Sales Leader at Supplyframe! Richard, Dale, and I jump into the discussion by getting in to the head of a supply chain manager navigating the disruptions of the last five years. Then, we talk about how supply strategies are shifting and how companies are approaching the “shift-left” of supply chain decisions.

By Conor Peick

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