The Zeroed-In Podcast, by Thing-Zero
Welcome to the Zeroed-In podcast, by Thing-Zero: the podcast that skips the buzzwords and gets straight to what's working in smart manufacturing and predictive AI. Created by the team at Thing-Zero, each episode pulls you onto the plant floor with operators, data scientists, and manufacturing leaders who have turned raw signals into real profit. If you believe the smallest levers in IT/OT can move the biggest KPIs, the Zeroed In podcast might just your new weekly pit stop. Plug in on your commute, lunch break, or plant walk-through, and get ready to zero in on what matters next.
Episodes
AI in the real world isn’t a keynote... it’s a factory floor, a power bill, and a risk register. In this episode, Marvin Tansley (Thing-Zero) sits down with Alec Coughlin (AI with Alec) to map the jump from hype to hard results: securing brownfield OT, preparing a data/knowledge-centric estate, and using agents to augment operators—not replace them.We cover the shift from app-centric silos to platforms, prescriptive analytics that ...
Robots don’t kill jobs, and they might even be able to save them when you use them right.
In this episode, Jake Hall: the Manufacturing Millennial, joins Olivier Bloch and Ryan Kershaw of Thing-Zero to dig into the real levers behind U.S. manufacturing: reshoring, automation, brownfield vs. greenfield, AI (yes, generative too), security/trust, and the single biggest constraint of all… people and skills.
We cover:
• Why many SMEs s...
What happens when you combine shift-level insights, OT data, and predictive analytics? You stop burning buns, and start scaling profits.
In this episode of the Zeroed In Podcast, Marvin Tansley (Thing-Zero) sits down with Aaron Pfeifer (Atlas OT) to unpack how manufacturers can:
• Pull signal from noisy operations data
• Spot patterns in downtime, waste, and inefficiency
• Use successful shifts as live playbooks for struggling ones
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Today we’re joined by David Schultz (G5 Consulting) and Ryan Kershaw from Thing-Zero to unpack what smart manufacturing really looks like beyond buzzwords.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro: OT vs IT and the "Boring Topics, Interesting People" Premise
00:55 - Meet David Schultz: Background in Automation & G5 Consulting
03:40 - What Digital Transformation Actually Looks Like
06:10 - Why Most Dashboards Don’t Drive Action
08:20 - Human-Cent...
This is Episode 1 of the Zeroed In Podcast. Marvin Tansley from Thing-Zero interviews Eric Siegel from Gooder AI to tackle real-world smart manufacturing challenges using predictive AI. Together, they break down common issues seen on the factory floors into quick-wins, with step-by-step guidance you can use to break into the exciting world of OT and increase ROI with predictive AI.
If you're in an IT or OT role in Manufacturing, th...
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