Brent Kedzierski with Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence

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...