Industrial Talk is onsite at MD&M West and talking to Matthew Garcia, Regional Sales Manager with Kawasaki Robotics about “AI and Vision guided robots”.

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On Industrial Talk we're onsite at FABTECH in Atlanta, GA and speaking with Joe Campbell, Senior Manager at Universal Robots about “Leveraging robots to automate and improve your manufacturing process.”. Get the answers to your “Robot” questions along with Joe's incredible insight on the “How” on this Industrial Talk interview!

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On this week's Industrial Talk we're onsite at the Digital Manufacturing Summit and talking to Meaghan Ziemba, Founder and Host of The Mavens of Manufacturing about “Advocating and Educating for More Women in Manufacturing”. Get the answers to your “WIM” questions along with Meaghan's unique insight on the “How” on this Industrial Talk interview!

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

manufacturing, Meaghan, women, mavens, kids, industrial, important, innovation, younger ages, opportunities, talk, trade, manufacturers, exposed, symposium, chicago, blinders, iot, conversations, police officer firefighter

00:03

Welcome to the industrial talk podcast with Scott Mackenzie. Scott is a passionate industry professional dedicated to transferring cutting edge Industry Focus innovations and trends while highlighting the men and women who keep the world moving. So put on your hard hat, grab your work boots, and let's go

00:21

all right industrial talk the celebration of industrial professionals all around the world. You are bold, you are brave. You dare greatly. And our guest is right there. She's working on her iPhone. Just don't go look if you're out on video, talk to him. Don't go look at that, because she's not engaged. Now. We We are broadcasting live from the digital manufacturing Summit in Chicago had a problem with the last one I said Cleveland, which was completely wrong, because we are in Chicago. Anyway, we are talking to some of the best from around the world. And we are talking about digital transformation. We're talking about manufacturing, we're talking about solving problems from you know, that you need to be aware of so anyway, you know, Hot Seat. She's been very patient. Her name is Meaghan Ziemba. I got that right, didn't I? You did. All right, man. mavens of manufacturing. And we're going to be talking about women in manufacturing. inspiring women. Let's get cracking. Hey, Meaghan.

01:19

Hey, how are you, Steve?

01:21

Ah, see you. My name is Scott. I'm Scott Mackenzie with. Yeah, that's okay.

01:27

We need to start over now. No,

01:28

absolutely not. Now see, that's, that's what makes podcast real. Right. It's just as you know, what's the funny part about this? Meaghan, is the fact that for my life, everybody thought that my name was Steve anyway?

01:41

Well, that's terrible for me, because I should just remember your name. And I totally thought I had it. I did it.

01:53

Okay, no, because what's important, what's important is what we are going to talk about, before we get into that. Let's just sort of level set on who Meaghan is so that people understand. Oh, Meaghan is oh, if that's who Meaghan is.

02:11

Yeah, so I am in technical writer by trade, I actually have been writing for manufacturing since 2008. And I started in a trade publication industry, which was really fun because I was able to talk to a variety of different companies and learn about their products and their processes and share their stories. And then throughout the years, I've entered in the marketing aspect of things and helped industrial manufacturers, talk about their brands, and really bring their story to life and take the boring out of the technical information and humanize it a little bit. But about two years ago, I decided that I wanted to start my own freelance company. So now I'm a freelancer. And that's been pretty fun. And I also started mavens a manufacturing, in hopes to inspire the next generation workforce by sharing the stories of the amazing women who are in the sector, to inspire other girls to come join. So

03:09

noble purpose, I like that great focus must needed type of service and solutions. So I like the fact that when you're in your, your background, I think that simplifying, or the ability to simplify or communicate in such a way that is consumable for people to the manufacturing and manufacturing process, and is very important, because sometimes it's it's, I'll just be real. All flatline. Yeah, I will flatline and a jet second, if it's too hard for me to if I have to consume too many gray matter calories to figure it out. I will, I will, I will just

03:56

Yeah, and we're definitely a sector of acronyms. So if you are not familiar with engineering, or manufacturing, and you hear all these three to four letter, sometimes five letter acronyms you can start to really get confused and think.

04:15

And, you know, the best part about it is it never stops. So here, we're here, and we're talking digital transformation. So number of years ago, it used to be IoT, great, fantastic IoT, and then all of a sudden IoT was the miscellaneous file, which then included AI cloud edge, you know, data analytics, everything that you could possibly imagine is all of a sudden IoT. Yeah, no, that's not it and and, and it never stops the the lexicon continues to expand and if you can simplify, it's great.

04:50

Well, and then it turned into industrial internet of things. So I OT. Just complicated even a little At my,

05:00

yeah, I was okay with IoT I got it I stick a device out on an on a motor and it just starts reading data. And I got that. But what what's what's the industrial component to it? Why why is that so? Doggone important? So with with? What is the problem that you perceive within women in manufacturing? Why is it important for this amplification to occur in women?

05:29

Yeah. So if you read a bunch of the studies that have already been put out one in specifically is by Deloitte, we're only representing a small percentage of the entire sector. So we're around I've heard different percentages, it's usually between 23 and 30%. When you break it down, in discipline, it's even less. So it's one to 2%, sometimes 3%. And the whole thing about innovation and all of these advancements in technology, you really want to have the entire talent pool included when it comes to innovation, and innovation of thought. And in order to do that, you have to kind of include everyone from different groups and different cultures in different areas. And in the United States, manufacturing sector has been predominantly male. It's also been predominantly white men. So how can we change that? And what can we do and there's a lot of different theories of why women have avoided this sector. But you know, now it's a great time to be because we are seeing a lot more women coming in, especially in leadership positions, but we're still not quite there, of having that balance. And that's one of the things that I want to work on. Because I believe that balance, hopefully, we can actually have higher numbers than the guys just because I'm competitive. And I always want to win. So we can get that balance, I feel like we have a better opportunity for more advanced innovations and technology. And that's going to actually help us to on a competitive level on a global level of competitiveness, where if we have a better manufacturing foundation versus other countries, then we can be stronger as a nation and have a lot of advantages for that as well.

07:19

You pretty much thought through this. Yeah.

07:21

Another thing that we need to consider too, is the skills gap. So we have all of these open, opportunities coming up. I think one of the studies said 2.3 million by 2030. Again, that's from the Deloitte study that I read. And if we don't start filling up those positions, we're going to lose some of that strengthen our manufacturing Foundation. And that's a national security threat. So we don't really want to do that. So

07:49

I believe we're already there. I think from a manufacturing from a security from a vital economic, you know, vital economic to our our country. I think that I think we're already there. And we've got we've got to play catch up.

08:04

Yeah.

08:05

How do you when we start talking about women in manufacturing, what do we need to do to begin, you know, inspiring these, these women have to do this to go down that road.

08:21

So I think we need to start earlier at younger ages, and we need to bring, we need to start prioritizing trades. Again. A long time ago, trades were really important, and they had a budget in our curriculum. At some point, though, that was lost. And they were sort of put on the backburner. And we're feeling that now. So we need to reprioritize the trains. And we need to incorporate that in the curriculum in our educational systems. And we need to start younger, so elementary school, middle school, we need to start exposing these kids to some of these trade skills that are very needed. And in order to do that, we need to bridge the gap between manufacturers and the communities that they're headquartered in. And they need to be more involved with what is being taught to our students, and more present, so that when, you know things are coming up, they can show the students Hey, this is what we're making in this factory. And here's some of the stuff that you can learn to help make this product that we're making. I know that you know, in kindergarten through fifth grade kids are not going to care what an engineer

09:34

I'm gonna know I'm gonna argue or push back on that

09:39

here but not know, like, really fully understand what an engineer is. That was the wrong way of saying no, no,

09:45

no, no, no, no, there's no right or wrong, but I have a I have a situation where when I was boy, and in elementary school, and I think this I remember it was second grade, and somebody brought it into film. You about how do you get baked goods to the store shelf? You know, those old ratty one is like, hey, hey, Joe, what are you doing? And this is a guy, and we go, and then I'm making that kind of sound. But it but I still remember it today. And I think that there was there's some value in just sharing, sharing what what is taking place, and I think you're absolutely spot on.

10:26

So like when you ask, so I have two toddlers at home. They're three and four. And they always talk about wanting to be a police officer. And the reason why they are talking about that is because my husband is an officer. And we actually would go and visit him and we would show the firetruck. So anytime you ask them, hey, what do you want to do? What do you want to imagine? They always say police officer firefighter, because that's what they're being exposed to. So if we can take that same thought process, and take things like what you just mentioned, where we're bringing in these videos that show how something is manufactured all the way up to the shelf life, I think kids would get more excited about these opportunities that are here in engineering and manufacturing, because it's not the dirty, dark, dark place that it used to be. Yes, there's still areas that that exists. But there's so much more with additive manufacturing, robotics, automation, it's more advanced technology is more problem solving. And I think the younger generations are attracted to that kind of stuff. Because, you know, they're the generation of technology, they've probably had a cell phone in their hands since the moment they were born. And they know how to use some of the stuff that we had to relearn ourselves because we weren't exposed to it at younger ages. So if we can figure out creative and fun ways to expose the younger kids to these opportunities, I think that's a great way to start. in the right direction. Nicholas, I

11:56

can't I can't agree with you more, because I agree. I think that we have to do a better job. And I think we have to really begin recognizing the necessity for doing more trade stuff. And when I was in high school, yep. I learned how to weld. Yeah, to this day, I know how to weld. Because I learned in high school. And and I think that that's, we just have to do a better job. Because to your point, manufacture is not, you know, a dirty job is sophisticated. It's it's important. And and it's not going away. Right? I just think that your purpose behind it and getting women involved?

12:41

Yeah. So I mean, for awhile, there was a way that schools were guiding boys and girls to a certain career pathway. It just happened to be that way. And it still is sort of happening today, we're getting a little bit better. And it's coming more of a priority in some of our conversations. But one example that I have is the high school that I graduated from, I did an event back in October. And it was a virtual event. And it was to show these kids in the VO tech program, the opportunities available to them from the basics that they were learning in the courses at the high school that they were taking. It was to show them Hey, yeah, these are just the basics. But these basics could lead you to here. And out of the 30 students that attended there was only four girls. And the four girls were only participating in those classes because either their family member encouraged them because their family member was in engineering or manufacturing, or the teacher in the VO tech program actually pulled them out of the hallway and said, Hey, I think you would like this class because of a, b, and c. And kudos to the teachers that did that because that meant that they were paying attention to the interest of the students that they were showing in the school setting. I think we have a lot of work to do in terms of retraining some of the school counselors because there's so much change happening on a continuous basis that school counselors aren't going to know how to talk about some of these opportunities or how to look for other skills that could be transferable over into some of these opportunities within engineering manufacturing.

14:19

I think to your point I think that that was one real challenge because I think that conventional traditional education the way it is today, there is a real disconnect between the speed at which innovation is happening. The importance of of manufacturing in other professions. I don't know if our our school systems all the way from elementary old up are a nimble enough to be able to address the realities that exist in the market today and the needs because I just don't see it and in I think that if I can, or if we can start to educate early on, and not make it as like a bunch of guys, you know, pushing a wheelbarrow, but something really sophisticated, I think you I think you plant the seed of interest and excitement at an early age and it's just a natural progression. Do you agree with that?

15:22

I do agree with that. Because I feel like when you get to a certain point in your schooling career, so when kids are at a younger age, they just have an innate curiosity about things like they want to know how things work, they, they're more, they don't have any boundaries or blinders set up. And then as they progress through school, you know, they're pointed in all different kinds of directions based off of their testing and everything. So for example, I was always good at English. I loved woodworking,

15:54

say, dog got a good, good thing. Yeah, you do, right?

15:58

Why I loved woodworking class. But I was always encouraged not to do that. I was encouraged to do home Mecca, sewing, and I hated sewing, my sewing teacher did not like me at all. And I think that was a missed opportunity for me, but because I always tested well, in English, I was always told, Well, you're going to be an English teacher. And I'm like, that's really boring. I don't want to do that. So I think we need to stop, like putting those blinders on kids, and see what their interests are, and pick up on how that can be transferable across disciplines. Because just because someone's going to English doesn't really necessarily mean they want to be an English teacher or a college professor, because that's what was attractive.

16:41

I taught college and I gotta tell you, I hit it's, it's challenging.

16:45

Yeah, I, I, my sister is a teacher, and I give her all the credit in the world, because that requires a lot of patience, and I just wouldn't be able to do that. So working with kids that aren't my own would be a huge learning experience for my patients level, I think.

17:05

Well, I just think that the reality of the future, from a workforce perspective is clear. We're not getting it done. We're not getting it done the way it is. So what do we need to do? We need to do a lot of I just begun to education. Yeah, Kashinath beginning.

17:26

But I think to what manufacturers need to do, as well as the women that are working within their companies put them in a position where they can go to these schools and have conversations to because when those younger girls see these women, and they're gonna be like, I want to be like her.

17:41

Yes. It's all gone it. How do they get holy Meaghan,

17:47

you can get a hold of me on LinkedIn. Or you can go to mavens and manufacturing.com. And I have a link at the bottom of the homepage where you can schedule some time with me and I'd love to chat with you and learn more about your story.

18:01

doggone good. Her last name Z.I.E M. B. A. So if you go out to I'm sure there's not very many Ziemba’s buzz out there.

18:10

In Chicago. There is, is you're really

18:13

Yeah. So if I go on LinkedIn, and I say Meaghan Ziemba now I'm gonna pull up a bunch of Meaghan Ziemba.

18:20

Meaghan Ziemba.

18:23

Yeah, got that. All right, listeners. That was Meaghan, thank you very much for joining industrial talk. Once again. We are broadcasting from the digital manufacturing symposium in Chicago, Illinois, great venue, great people solving problems. Important important. You need to be a part of it. So put that on your bucket list. So that's important. All right. Do not go away. We will be right back with another great conversation shortly.

18:49

You're listening to the industrial talk Podcast Network.

18:53

All right. Again, thank you very much for joining industrial talk and a hearty thank you to mega Ziemba. You got to check out her podcast mavens of manufacturing. She brings a tremendous amount of passion and desire to help help manufacturing succeed and definitely an advocate for bringing in more women in manufacturing. Absolutely love the purpose. Meaghan brings to the table also. You got to at least for 2023 Go out to transformative media transformative media. They're the ones that put on the digital manufacturing Summit, no symposium, excuse me, get it all confused. And I was very impressed with the caliber of professionals that are that were at the event the desire to collaborate, the desire to educate and really solve or attempt at work to solving the challenges that exist today in manufacturing that is the digital manufacturing symposium. You Go out to transformative media and find out more. They've got a ton of other events. And if it's anything like the digital manufacturing symposium, you will not be disappointed. All right. We're gonna have other great conversations. You have to be bold. Yes. Brave. Yes. dare greatly. Please, please do that. Don't Don't settle for comfort. Settle for sacrifice. Keep pushing. We need you, manufacturers. We need you. Alright, hang out with Meaghan. You're gonna change the world. Thank you once again for joining the industrial talk. We're gonna have another great conversation from this symposium shortly so stay tuned.

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On this week's Industrial Talk we're talking to Jerry Good, Regional Manager at Amazon about “Leading the way through innovation and technology”.  Get the answers to your “Supply Chain Innovation” questions along with Jerry's unique insight on the “How” on this Industrial Talk interview!

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00:00

On this episode of industrial talk, we were on site at the 29th annual s MRP conference. And if you weren't there, you missed a lot. So put it on your calendar for the 30th annual SMRP conference. Well already be this year. And you know, we were talking about in this interview, we're talking about innovation, we're talking about the deployment of technology, when it impacts supply chain from one of the leading companies in the world. Let's get cracking.

00:33

Welcome to the industrial talk podcast with Scott Mackenzie. Scott is a passionate industry professional dedicated to transferring cutting edge industry focused innovations and trends while highlighting the men and women who keep the world moving. So put on your hardhat, grab your work boots, and let's go

00:51

right welcome to industrial talk. Thank you very much for joining the number one industrial related podcasts in the universe. And I don't think I'm overselling that one bit. We are once again broadcasting from the 29th annual SMRP conference. We're trying to get our, I guess world back in order. And this is sort of a collection of the best maintenance and reliability professionals around the world. It is that important. And it's a great venue here in St. Louis. And we get to talk to some of the best that I mean, I'm just it's, it's, I'm all giddy because of it. That's what it's all about. And, and we couldn't make this happen. If it wasn't for Accruent. And Fluke Reliability. You got to go out to Accruent. I'm looking at their website right now. And it says solutions, real estate facilities and asset management. It's right there. I'm looking at it right now, gaining insights to transform how your organization manages its physical resources. You can't argue with that. And then of course, I go out to fluke, and you know, the color Fluke has got the big app there. And it's got that classic, gold yellow fluke, and this is what's interesting. You go out there, they break down the barriers between data systems, data systems, and teams by aggregating everything into one place. Yeah, that's dead sexy. I'm all into it. Absolutely. Wonderful. Okay, we're gonna be talking to Amazon. We're gonna be talking with a gentleman by the name of Jeremy. Good, and he is good. But you never heard that before. No,

02:19

never great. Only good.

02:23

Jeremy spectacular. All right, Jeremy. Welcome. How you doing, man?

02:29

Good, good.

02:31

Well, I like that. I like that. Good. Good. All right, double. So anyway, you're here, in at the conference, give us a little background on who you are, and why you're such an incredible professional. And then we're going to venture into what you talked about here at this conference. All right.

02:45

Well, I've got a lot of years of experience. I started off with Chrysler. Actually Chrysler back then,

02:55

I was gonna say in the new saw the acquisition of Fiat, right.

02:59

I saw lots of acquisitions, the merger of equals with Daimler. Oh, yeah. And then then we went to Chrysler Group and then a private equity had us for a little bit we almost went bankrupt. I remember that merger with fiyat. And now the merger with KSA with Atlantis. A lot of and I know after a while we were doing the merger was still Lanta so

03:21

it was funny, because there's just a lot of drama there. Remember that? It was just like, oh, another thing? Oh, another challenge? Oh, yes. Yeah,

03:28

Yeah. Look it. And we had good products. I mean, Jeep Dodge.

03:33

Oh, yeah. No, nobody's gonna debate that. I mean, it was just a lot of drama going on over there was, but look at you. You got a smile on your face. You. You survived. That's right now you're with Amazon.

03:42

Now I am. What do you do? So I am a maintenance Summit, regional manager for maintenance and reliability. So I have a the southwest region right now. And this week, it's gonna be announced that I get a little bit broader responsibility. When I'll have a third of North America for the large fulfillment, the ARS the Yeah, Amazon robotics centers near the large fulfillment.

04:11

Yeah, he's doing robotics. And of course, that's, that's cool, right?

04:16

Well imagine a site with eight to 10,000 robots. And really, yeah, that moves anywhere from 600,000 up to a little over a million packages per day.

04:28

And all the facilities are one facet. What and each one of those is that the type of commerce that is taking place? It's amazing. It's a hell of a stat.

04:37

Yes, it is. And so you think of cell towers is very similar to that. So you as a customer, so their goal is to give you a package in two hours or less. That's where we want to be okay. And in order to do that, you have multiple fulfillment centers strategically located To where if one site is down, another one can then do the fulfillment for that package, roughly.

05:06

And again, you're throwing out a lot of stuff here. But you're saying two hours, two hours or less that I'm on, I'm on your side, I order a home, you know, whatever widget, right? Whatever it might be. When that that process starts, you're trying to fulfill it in, in and in two hours.

05:27

Correct. So if you when you push that button, within the first 12 hours, say within the first five minutes, Amazon already knows what fulfillment center is the least expensive for them to bring that package to you. within that time frame that you have, if you have Amazon Prime, if you're on the coast right now, there, I think there are six sites that can guarantee within six hours of when you order, the little trivia see is the fastest is 12 minutes. From the time somebody pushed the button and was delivered,

06:05

you know, you understand the problem here. You guys are establishing a an expectation. And you're constantly pushing that from, from a consumer perspective, I have an expectation that I'm going to get that product. And I'm going to get that product relatively quick. And I'm not going to wait. And and that is a heck of an expectation. And I think you're disrupting logistics as a whole.

06:35

It's not a bad thing that's meeting the customers.

06:39

And I'm telling you, I love it. Don't get me wrong, man. I'm I'm all big into. Yeah, I need that. I need that. And you make it easy. That's right, you make it easy to get that widget, I don't have to sit there and struggle to find a widget that's there I go there Heck of a business model.

06:57

And that's because we're focused on the customer.

07:02

Yeah, no, no, note that because that is a very important component associated with any business, right? It is, you got it, you gotta focus on the customer, don't focus on yourself, provide what the customer needs solution, right? Solve that problem. Right? Now, all of a sudden, you're just screwing up everything just because my expectations are off through the roof. Now, let's talk a little bit about why you're here the SMRP. Tell us a little bit about the topic that you were discussing, so that you can share with the individuals.

07:29

Yeah, so we talked about challenging the norms. So we have so much technology now that we're losing sight of some of the basics. And without the basics to build upon. The technology starts to unravel.

07:48

Okay, you're gonna have to expand, what are the basics,

07:51

so the basics being knowing and understanding your equipment, seeing how it's the essentials, what we call within Amazon, essential skills, crafts. So knowing that how a bearing performs, knowing what the wear characteristics of different components of, of the equipment, how a motor runs, how, how the equipment at a, at a basic level, whether it's rollers, whether it's pulley shafts, gear ratios, whether it's a gearbox, how those things all work together, and no, no, that not have data just being fed to you saying, hey, the problems over here, and you need to go fix it. If you don't understand the why behind it, then when things change, you end up getting into more more problems. And we're talking about letting, letting software now software and technology have its place, there are tools, but there are tools that need to be grown upon, off of the basics and off of knowing and understanding those basics

09:03

is a part of the basics. The the human element. I mean,

09:10

I mean it is it is and it's it's so probably one of the best tools that break things down to the basic is a filmmaker failure mode with the criticality on how you how you do the maintenance to maintain that the empowerment, so but it is it there there the skills of of what the individual has, when you walk by a motor and you it's using your senses, smell, hearing, even taste is one of the senses. So how is that piece of equipment performing? And I'll tell you one of the examples when you look at a good site to a great site, so you want to go to something where you're running 99% 99.9999% uptime yeah The sites that are different, and that differentiate them are the ones that have those skill sets and do things like critical walks, where they're walking through the critical piece of equipment and seeing the different components and where they're at. And from a health standpoint, and then doing things proactively before they fail.

10:22

Yeah, because yeah, it does. Because your obligation, your fundamental driver is fulfilling that order in two hours or less. That's it correct. And that does not leave room for any, you know, reactive situation where something was breaking broke down, right?

10:38

Correct. On critical equipment there is there are redundancies built in sites.

10:43

If you notice my note down here, I get a little word that says redundancy and might not spell it right. But it does say redundancy, I was gonna ask that question. So when you start talking about critical critical equipment, do you from a criticality perspective? Do you create a redundancy? inventory that looks like you're here? No.

11:02

So Amazon does not build whip in different areas work in process or inventory, right? To help cushion that that those are ways? So right,

11:14

right? Because they are, don't get me wrong. I

11:16

mean, and when you're moving that much product, you've got to look at the equipment and say, okay, the things that are critical to our operation, need to be well known and understood. And the maintenance plan for that, including a lot of machine learning. And a lot of data points are average, I mean, we're five to 10,000 data points in one site coming in feeding information to us on the health of that piece of equipment and how it's performing. And are there other things that we need to be looking at from it, whether it's heat vibration,

11:52

so that's a that's a Iot, right? That's an IoT solution, data collection going someplace. And then there's this the analytics behind that that says, hey, this is just garbage. This is noisy data and noisy data, whatever data you don't worry about that data. But here in this little swim lane here, these this is the these are the data's that that data's is can I say data's there's a gentleman out there that I know real well, and he's a good guy. And I'm sorry, because we're alive. I see how No, don't even don't point way does take time. Anyway. So yeah, and then if you're saying, hey, something's out of parameter or whatever, in this, whatever, analytics, this algorithm, then it notifies

12:40

and notifies and let you know that there's something wrong. Yeah. The thing is, you have to go back and look at the why behind it. Because if you do act on that, and you don't see a result, or you don't see an effect of that, and you need to understand the why behind it.

12:57

But why have the failure? The why of the problem? Why? What would like what, what's that? Why?

13:01

Yes, it is, it's, it's all inclusive, right? You want to know why it failed. So so because

13:09

you don't use for example, with just pencil whipping and then and then just sort of sit there and, and, okay, it's fixed now, but you never understood the why. And it could happen again,

13:17

well, we understand we know enough of the equipment, and how it performs. That it's not the exception, it's not the normal things for the equipment that that catches us off guard. It's the human intervention beforehand, bringing product in that, for example, a bunch of magnets, and they break loose, because they're not box properly. And I got magnets on a conveyor that's going 400 feet per minute, or feet per second. And with diverters, and all kinds of stuff on it, and it just doesn't perform because it's got magnets stuck everywhere. So it's those things like that, that create the, the event that you need to understand. Okay, so now, we need to package this differently. We need to do this differently to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

14:09

Walk us through that process. So you sit there and you clearly you're you're trying to understand the why. Fantastic, that's really important. Where does that go? I mean, that's, that's a human conversation. So

14:22

that goes back into the systems on the inputs. So and we have, there's a term that they use on a product description that shows this product can be packaged only this way, this way or this way. And it needs to be have this much density around it or whatever to protect, really, and then it goes through. So you may not realize there's a lot of those things from the lessons learned. So, we know we have this failure. So now the product cannot be packaged this way the way it was that it failed. Now it can only be package this way and this way.

15:02

So let's say let's say on packaging, I'm the packaging person I'm trying to fulfill this order, then it comes, it comes in on a screen, right? And and I look at and it's magnets will just keep on running with that analogy. So it's magnets. And then I get from from, from whatever interface direction on

15:23

only package in this box, but this material packing material with this tape, and I mean, it lights up for them. So that tells you intuitively exactly what you do and what sequence and

15:37

so so what if it's a new product, whether it's like, okay, Amazon, your process a lot, don't get me wrong, I don't know, if you've, it's like trying to find a domain name. Does it even exist out there? Like all domain names? It? What if it's a new product? So then

15:54

it's tested? In different variations on Bob, really everything else? Yeah, there are some standards that it'll come in at just because of package, right. And there's less expensive packaging, to more expensive packaging as well. So you start with the less expensive, try to make it as reliable as you can, and you work your way up to the more expensive if you need it. So there is a there is a method and a science to everything.

16:22

Yeah, a guy that likes process. Me, I love that I always I was always process something out. This is exciting and giddy. For me. I just think it's, it's the coolest thing since sliced bread. Eventually, I would imagine that Amazon's gonna have put a some sort of monitor in my head. And I don't even have to go to the website. I could just sort of say, I need potato chips. And there it is. And it's like, Oh, it's right there.

16:50

Yeah, we look at your buying habits. So we can have it show up exactly when you do it. But he chips every Sunday afternoon.

16:59

But you do. Yeah. Yeah. Because I do. Yes. And it's it's very effective. Very, very effective. I didn't know I needed those things. But at that particular time, I did. And thank goodness that was right there for me to Yeah. Hey, consider these. Yes. All right. The the last final question I have is where do you see all this going? I mean, that's pretty doggone you're, you're constantly. I mean, every day, every day, every day, you're you're making it more efficient. You're always trying to figure out more better, faster, the Steve Austin approach, right? Where do you see it going? I mean, is there a point of diminishing returns? Or is just sort of That's it. That's life. Well, Amazon's

17:47

extremely innovative. So you will see new markets being developed. So right now we're delivering packages. Pretty soon it's going to be delivering food, fresh food. It could be technology in the home. I mean, it's gonna go go go.

18:14

For somebody that's just founded on impatience. That's me. I am impatient. Amazon is absolutely. Yeah, it's for me. Oh, my gosh, I'm so glad that you. I mean, this is a this is a great conversation. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I didn't mean it. I just I had there's so much more I, I want on my bucket list. I want to just tour one of those facilities just to say it. Absolutely. Look at I know somebody. That's right. And as I stare at you, creepy, but stare at you, nonetheless. How do people get a hold of you? They're saying, Hey, I like what he's talking about. Jeremy is a great guy. He's good. But he's really fantastic. How do I get ahold of

18:54

my email is probably the best good jr@amazon.com All right.

18:59

Once again, I just want to say thank you very much for being on the industrial talk podcast because you were absolutely wonderful. All right, listeners. We're broadcasting from the 29th annual SMRP conference here in St. Louis. It's fantastic. It's got a collection of the best maintenance reliability professionals known to man or woman or people, whatever. And we're brought to you by Accruent and Fluke Reliability, you got to go out to their website because their specialty, they've got great people, great solutions, great company, so don't hesitate. And then finally, just finally, you're saying I gotta get a hold Jeremy. Fear not. We're gonna wrap it up on the OSI, all the contact information that you need to be aware of. So stay tuned. And thank you very much for joining industrial talk.

19:44

You're listening to the industrial talk Podcast Network.

19:54

All right. That is Jeremy. Good. He goes by Jerry. I didn't mention it in the interview. Why? We're at the 29th annual SMRP conference. But you could call him Jerry. I have his email address out and industrial talk.com. They're doing fantastic things as you could tell by the interview, that they're doing incredible things at Amazon big time. It's an exciting time. Now. As we wrap up, I'm reminded of a quote that I just recently heard again, confused minds say, No, don't be confused. We've got to in this in this industrial age, this this innovation industry for Dotto, we've got to educate. That means we've got to do everything we can to consume that content. Because we depend on you each and every day. Because you're bold, brave you dare greatly Jerry is and many of the great people who have been on industrial talk are all bold, brave and daring greatly. Let's change the world industries changing the world because you guys are our people. So another great interview right around the corner so stay tuned.

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