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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Digital twin of a turbine producing FAIR data.

The 5 best FAIR data secrets to empower process engineers

April 24, 2026

Learn the five secrets of FAIR data and how it will herald the next industrial revolution through digital twins, AI and simulation.

By Shawn Wasserman
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A conceptual holographic image of an AI computer chip.

Shifting left: How Makersite and Siemens enable sustainability by design

April 17, 2026

The concept of “shifting left” is especially critical for the development of sustainable products. The sooner companies have insights into…

By Quinn Foster
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Offshore oil rig producing data. Meant to symbolize how data is the new oil.

How data is the new oil

April 10, 2026

Learn why data is the new oil, how to mine insights from data lakes and the future of multidisciplinary AI for engineering applications.

By Shawn Wasserman
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Humanoids: automation that fits

April 3, 2026

Humanoid robots are emerging now because technology maturity, workforce needs and economics have all aligned. Combined with labor shortages, and lowering costs of materials, advancements in AI, compute, batteries, sensing and digital engineering are pushing these robots into real production environments.

By Bianca Ward
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A person reaching toward the camera, pressing a conceptual AI icon.

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

March 20, 2026

Digitalization is burying the process industry under a mountain of data. Industry leaders must learn how ontologies make sense of it and transform it into revenue.

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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