Industrial Talk is chatting with Brent Kedzierski, Principal Industrial Strategist at Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence about “The ever evolving human condition and adapting to workplace expectations”. The following is a summary of our conversation:
- Retaining skilled workers in the evolving workplace. 0:03
- Brent discusses retaining skilled workers in the evolving workplace.
- Industrial talk podcast focuses on innovation and business resilience.
- Brent shares their background, growing up around steel mills and factories in Pittsburgh, and how it influenced their perspective on work.
- Brent and Scott MacKenzie discuss their experiences with steel mill tours and the heat generated during the manufacturing process.
- Connected worker technology and its evolution in industry. 5:53
- Brent highlights hexagon's innovation and density in the market, with over half of oil, gas, and chemical organizations using their products.
- Brent and Scott MacKenzie discuss the challenges of creating an end-to-end connected worker solution, including telling the story and narrative of what it looks like.
- Brent discusses maturity model for manufacturing, connecting workers and machines.
- Industry aspires to reach "smart factory" level, with machines anticipating issues and self-optimizing.
- Connected worker ecosystems and their complexity. 12:14
- Brent: Companies need experts to navigate automation, Cobots, and human aid.
- Brent: Understanding algorithm to optimize work for automation and human aid.
- Brent: Lack of expertise and strategy in connected ecosystems industry.
- Vendors sell single point solutions, creating clutter and confusion.
- The need for specialized skills in technology and industry. 17:22
- Companies lack integration specialists and data scientists to coordinate technology platforms.
- Speaker suggests companies need to specialize in emerging technologies to stay competitive.
- Career paths in tech, including the importance of skilling up for AI and automation. 21:54
- Gen Z prioritizes debt-free education and alternative career paths.
- Brent: Pipelines of talented people needed for AI, data scrubbing, and human-machine interface design.
- Brent: Social impact specialists needed to address environmental aspects of drilling and mining operations.
- Industry 5.0, automation, and collaboration. 26:35
- Environmental engineer's grandson is now a social impact specialist.
- Brent: Industry 5.0 will require greater resilience through collaboration (14 words)
- Scott MacKenzie: Trustworthy individuals needed for data-driven decision making (14 words)
- Improving work experience through technology and collaboration. 31:28
- Brent emphasizes the importance of predictive and prescriptive analytics in business, citing their potential to add more value than descriptive and diagnostic analytics.
- Brent stresses the importance of...