Manufacturing Talks
There are millions of cool stories in manufacturing. Your host, Jim Vinoski, helps share them by talking to the people who are making them happen. Manufacturing is where the rubber meets the road. There's no hiding. You're either making good products people will buy for enough to keep you in business, or you're not. Meet the amazing folks who thrive in that survival-of-the-fittest world.
Manufacturing Talks
Are software vulnerabilities costing your factory big dollars? He's here to help!
Adam Gluck was a founding engineer on Uber's engineering strategy team, where got an early education in development and operations (DevOps). He quickly learned how industrial coding errors and cybersecurity breaches are increasingly a very costly Achilles heel for manufacturers.
He founded Copia Automation to help tackle the problem, so it was extremely educational to have him join us for Episode 117. Here are some highlights:
2:15 - DevOps
4:00 - Copia and industrial DevOps
5:30 - source control: testing, deployment, and monitoring
7:00 - device links and backup
9:00 - problems in industrial coding
10:00 - the compounding of the problem with much more automation coming
16:00 - the disconnect between popular apps and industrial programs
18:30 - "shadow IT" - who's touching your software??? (ad hoc changes)
19:00 - "the PLC stopped working"
23:00 - cybersecurity
25:45 - the governance control problem - source control
These are critical topics if you're in manufacturing, so do tune in and learn all about them!