Preston Miller, a veteran of the mining industry, explains why mining companies need to invest in a comprehensive digital twin. We also explore the operational challenges faced by miners and how technology is poised to transform the industry. About our guest Preston Miller, a professional mining engineer with decades of experience, is a leader in mining technology innovation. In his previous roles he pioneered digital twins, AR/VR, and AI, building scalable data systems and automated reporting t...
Jun 02, 2025•32 min
Attempts to meld virtual spaces and physical reality so far have struggled to take hold. For all the ingenuity behind projects like Google Glass, the metaverse, and the Apple Vision Pro, they’ve often felt like technologies in search of a purpose. Professor Nick Kelling, an engineer turned researcher, may have found one. Rebecca and Joe spoke to him about the limitations and possibilities of extended reality in the industrial sector. About our guest Nick Kelling is a Professor of Human Factors P...
May 01, 2025•35 min
Critical minerals are key to green technologies, but their supply is dominated by a small number of countries. Recycling could, in theory, open up a new source of supply of these minerals—but that too is dominated by a small number of countries. Rebecca and Joe talk to Megan O’Connor, CEO and co-founder of Nth Cycle. The start-up's Oyster system has the potential to transform the recycling business. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Mar 27, 2025•31 min
Rebecca and Joe talk to Dr Tim Minshall, the Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, about his new book, Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better . They discuss why “supply chain” is a misnomer, how SMEs can begin their digitalization journey, a useful prism through which to think about reshoring—and a whole lot more. Buy Your Life Is Manufactured : Waterstones / Blackwel...
Feb 24, 2025•32 min
The telegraph system went from speculative theory to a global telecommunications network connecting continents via undersea cables in just 35 years. Episode page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/podcasts/the-victorian-internet/ Article page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/ [1] “ The Electric & International Telegraph Company's map of the telegraph lines of Europe ” Published under the Authority of the Electric Telegraph Company by...
Nov 01, 2024•11 min
SNOLAB is the deepest clean lab in the world. It searches for the most elusive building blocks of our universe: neutrinos and dark matter. The Nobel Prize website describes its experiments as like searching for a particular grain of sand in the Sahara—and it relies on industrial data to do it. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Aug 30, 2024•36 min
AI has been helping industries decarbonize for years by making their equipment more energy efficient and helping power grid operators incorporate more renewable energy sources. But, manufacturing, training and running the computers that power AI also produces a lot of carbon emissions. So, which is it? Is AI increasing or decreasing our industrial carbon footprint? Episode page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/podcasts/ai-a-sustainability-friend-or-an-environmental-foe/ Subscribe to our bi...
Jul 02, 2024•33 min
Half the world relies on synthetic ammonia fertilizer to grow its food. But traditional ways of making ammonia produce about 2% of global CO2 emissions. On this episode, we speak to Dr. Zhenyu Zhang about how he’s decarbonizing the processes and making green ammonia. Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/schwoaze-4023294/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3361927">Sabine</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_sour...
Apr 30, 2024•41 min
A whole generation of industrial workers is about to retire, taking extensive knowledge and skills with them. How can companies attract new high-quality workers and quickly give them the skills previous generations took years to develop? New information technologies, called connected-worker solutions, are helping new workers get up to speed faster than ever before—and making their jobs more safe and attractive as well. Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/wal_172619-12138562/?utm_sourc...
Feb 28, 2024•20 min
Industrial companies will need to change how they think about and interact with data if we’re going to meet the ambitious COP28 targets. We discuss cloud, AI, and the importance of data-sharing in facilitating collaboration. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Dec 30, 2023•32 min
Learn what solutions HENN connector group is using to connect its workers to real-time industrial data, digital systems, and each other, helping them work faster, safer, and more proactively. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn .
Nov 30, 2023•25 min
In the final episode of our series, “The Future of the Power Grid,” we talk to three industry experts about how grid operators are incorporating distributed energy resources (DERs)—like rooftop solar—in ways that maintain the integrity of the grid and don’t undermine their potential for sustainable power generation. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Sep 19, 2023•34 min
How do you put more power on an already strained and aging power grid? Our guests today say industrial software—and the data analysis it makes possible—is helping the grid increase capacity and accommodate sustainable power sources as we decarbonize. The second episode of our three-part series, “The Future of the Power Grid.” Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Jul 18, 2023•26 min
In this episode, three experts discuss how technologies like smart grids, DERs and advanced industrial software can help us get renewable power where and when it’s most needed. Listen to the first episode in our series, “The Future of the Power Grid.” Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Feb 22, 2023•34 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Ahrens talks with Lisa Wee, the Vice President of Sustainability at AVEVA about how AVEVA is helping its customers meet their sustainability goals while reducing its own carbon footprint in the process. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Sep 08, 2022•22 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Ahrens talks with Lisa Wee, the Vice President of Sustainability at AVEVA and Ruchi Shah, a Sustainability Manager at AVEVA, about the significance of COP26, the importance of combining diplomacy with commitments from the business community, and strategies businesses can adopt to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Feb 25, 2022•23 min
How would it feel if you could know exactly what was going on with your water and power in the middle of a storm? What about during a catastrophe? Can real-time industrial data really help make both companies and communities stronger? In this episode, host Rebecca Ahrens speaks with AVEVA Pre-Sales Engineer Dan Lopez about his family’s harrowing experiences during the Polar Vortex that hit Texas in February of 2021. Dan shares how his at-home PI System gave his family insight into the storm’s im...
Oct 01, 2021•25 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Ahrens talks with Gary Wong, the Global Water Industry Lead and Expert for AVEVA , about some of the most pressing challenges facing the water industry. They discuss how data and technology can help utilities survive and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Jun 26, 2021•33 min
The City of Riverside Public Utilities Department has embraced digital transformation by making better use of sensor-based data. Because they work closely with their board of public utilities on expenditures they track the value they are getting from their efforts. In this episode, we talk to the people who have grown the return on investment (ROI) they get from their work on the PI System from $672,000 per year in 2019 to $1,300,000 per year today. We discuss how they track ROI, how they improv...
Jun 22, 2021•37 min
Guests: Allen Turner, Advanced Analytics Team Lead, International Paper Co-host: Mariana Sandin, Industry Principal, AVEVA. We speak with Allen Turner of International Paper (IP) about the unique challenges of digital transformation in a legacy industry like pulp and paper. Mr. Turner, as part of International Paper’s global technology team, is working on an initiative called “mill of the future,” which focuses on cost savings and optimization across International Paper’s mills. Mr. Turner lays ...
Jun 02, 2021•37 min
Guests: Pat Harrell, District Engineer, Josh Gregory, Water Loss Analyst, and Kim Klotter, Wastewater Coordinator. Co-host: Gary Wong, Industry Principal, AVEVA. The White House Utility District (WHUD) is the largest water utility in Tennessee by geography, serving consumers and businesses just north of Nashville. Since it started making better use of its sensor-based data using state-of-the-art IIoT (industrial internet of things) technologies in 2016, its infrastructure leakage index (ILI) dec...
May 18, 2021•31 min
Guests: David Mitchell, Automation Engineer, Weber Metals. Sean Upson, Systems Engineer, AVEVA. David Mitchell is an automation engineer at Weber Metals, a major supplier of aluminum and titanium forgings to the aerospace industry. Among the thousands of things Weber manages with sensor-based data is a 60,000 ton forging press that is the world’s largest private investment in aerospace metal forging. When Weber installed the PI System it was to consolidate various silos of sensor-based data into...
Apr 29, 2021•23 min
Guests: Emelio Anglés, Information Technology Engineer, Kellogg Company Ted Combs, Industry Principal for Food, Beverage, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), AVEVA Information technology engineer Emelio Anglés of Kellogg Company is part of the Smart Factory project to digitalize all of Kellogg's manufacturing plants. He describes the different stages of this multi-year project to move from siloed PLCs using 5 different protocols to a single source of all data using a single protocol. Among the be...
Apr 14, 2021•26 min
Guests: Berkan Fidan, Performance and Process Director, Oyak Cement Martin Provencher, Mining Metals and Materials Industry Principal, AVEVA Berkan Fidan describes a team approach to improving cement operations with sensor-based data. He started a 2016 digitalization project at Oyak Cement in Turkey, which leads Europe in cement production. As the performance and process director of his nation's largest cement producer he was trying to address the realities of cement production: enormous energy ...
Mar 24, 2021•45 min
Guests : Michael Orcutt, Vice President of Sales and Engineering, CosaTron Richard Klein, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OSIsoft Daniel Noonen, Partner Solution Architect A manufacturer of advanced air purification systems can now monitor and provide analysis of indoor air quality remotely. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Mar 10, 2021•16 min
Guest: Brian Hobby, Technical Lead (IT and Engineering) Organization: Griffith University Industry: facilities. Business Impact: energy management. "If it's an edge case, and things need to talk to each other, that's where I sit" said Brian Hobby in our latest Radio PI podcast. With OSIsoft's facilities industry principal Scott Smith he talked about their data architecture, using sensor-based data to save energy, approaches to measuring occupancy, network security, and many other topics. He desc...
Feb 23, 2021•50 min
Guest : Glen Milne, Production Systems Manager Organization : Spirit Energy Glen Milne, Production Systems Manager at Spirit Energy, talked with us about the value of defining specific goals in your use of sensor-based data. He describes several examples of using an 80/20 approach to deliver minimum viable products to operations and gain buy in. Since the project start in 2017, the changes to how they are using their sensor-based data have increased production, standardized data visualizations a...
Feb 12, 2021•39 min
Guest: Kyle Kotaich, Senior Data Analyst Organization: Deschutes Brewery Kyle Kotaich is a senior data analyst at Deschutes Brewery, a family-owned independent craft brewery in Oregon. In this episode he describes how he is using sensor-based data and machine learning to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and improve the fermentation process of craft beers. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn ....
Jan 21, 2021•30 min
Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, founder and CEO of OSIsoft, on lessons learned from 40 years in the sensor-based data business. Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn .
Jan 06, 2021•30 min
APC (Advanced Process Control) test lead Barry Higgins at Johnson & Johnson Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter . Visit our website . Follow us on LinkedIn .
Dec 22, 2020•33 min
