Jim Toman is a Senior MES Advisor at Grantek. Jim has 30+ years of experience creating data driven systems for manufacturers. In this bonus episode, the discussion centers around the upcoming Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Rule 204 enforcement. FSMA falls under the authority of the United Stated Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The changes…

Grant Daft is a Software Applications Specialist at Videojet. Based in UK, Grant has been with Videojet since 2004. During the almost 20-year tenure, Grant has served in leadership roles focused on solutions support, software application development and product management. Since the 1960s, Videojet is a global leader in the development and manufact…

Robin Maurice is the District Leader of Grantek’s Montreal Office. In this role Robin oversees the work done by Grantek in New England, Quebec, Eastern Ontario, Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States. Robin lives in Montreal, QC. His primary language is French, with English being his second language. Don’t be surprised to hear some funn…

Doug Yerger is a Principal Engineer at Grantek. Doug’s 30-plus years of experience includes the architecting, design, implementation, commissioning, and support of PLC Control Systems, Robotic Applications, Vision Applications, Database Applications, MES Implementations, Warehouse Management Systems, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems…

Angela Morris is the Head of Global IT Manufacturing Capabilities at The Kraft Heinz Company. Angela is a driver of strategy and vision, passionate promoter of operational excellence, classically trained musician, love of gardening, student of culture, and active in community engagement and service. Today, Angela is accountable for strategic planni…

Andrea Ruotolo, PhD. is the Global Head of Customer Sustainability at Rockwell Automation. As Rockwell Automation's Global Head of Customer Sustainability, Andrea drives sustainability innovation and champions AI/ML for industrial sustainability. With 18 years of global executive experience, she co-founded a smart grid consultancy, led global energ…

Emilee Cook is a Director of Product Strategy at Apprentice.io, leading technology to help Life Sciences companies get life-saving drugs to market faster by connecting global workforces and scaling complex manufacturing. Over her 10 years in life sciences, she’s spent time in R&D producing biomimetic devices at Draper Laboratory, developed Syncade …

Lisa Cronk is currently an Operations Manager at Grantek. Lisa has over 13 years of experience in Engineering and System Integration. Lisa currently focuses on projects for large Food & Beverage manufacturers. Lisa has served in the Canadian Forces and she also has experience working in the Mining, Life Sciences and CPG industries. The Industry 4.0…

Welcome to Season 3 of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. This season we are proud to welcome our new host, David McKenna. David is Grantek’s Smart Packaging Practice Leader. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions. Our guests will sh…

Huck Bales is Grantek’s Director of MES & Digital Solutions Engineering. He has over thirty successful years of providing systems development, project management, and consulting services in the manufacturing sector. Huck has managed large projects with scope, schedule and budget responsibilities. He has a solid understanding of business and technic…

Patrick Harrigan is a leader with Tulip Interfaces. Patrick is a technical sales leader focused on identifying and delivering digital transformation solutions for Fortune 500 Manufacturing customers. With over 12 years of leadership experience, he is a forward-thinking consultant with exceptional understanding of manufacturing business processes an…

Rick Roszkowski began his career with the vision group at Allen-Bradley as a software developer and as a vision application engineer before joining Cognex in 1998. Rick now has over 35 years of experience within the machine vision industry holding a variety of technical and marketing leadership roles.  Since joining Cognex, Rick has served as Direc…

Logan Terry is Grantek’s Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management – Life Sciences. Logan works in Grantek’s Vancouver office, and joined the company in early 2016 as a Systems Designer. Logan has been involved in a long list of successful activities and projects within Grantek within the engineering, project management and business development …

Saurabh Bahl is a Digital Transformation Industrie 40 Manufacturing and Industrial Business Development Leader with AWS. Saurabh has 22+ Years of IT and Engineering Services Experience across multiple Industries which includes Retail, CPG, Industrial and Process Manufacturing. Experience across Delivery, Sales Leadership, Solutions, Customer Relati…

James Burnand is a 20+ year veteran of the industrial automation ecosphere who has now turned his focus towards providing the infrastructure for manufacturers to reap the benefits of the cloud for their plant floor applications. Weaving cyber security, operational requirements, and management into 4IR Solutions’ offerings and providing education an…

Vlad Romanov has over 10 years of experience working for leading Food & Beverage and CPG companies in the United States and Canada. Currently Vlad is the Co-Founder of SolisPLC, a growing company that provides technical content to leading OEMs and End-Users in Manufacturing. SolisPLC delivers easy-to-follow technical tutorials in written and video …

Welcome to Season 2 of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions. Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Industrial Co…

Welcome back. Before we kick off Season 2, we’re excited to share a bonus episode of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. On this episode our host Sam Russem has a great “conversation” about manufacturing and Industry 4.0 with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3.5. It has a remarkable ability to i…

Ian Tooke is the VP of Strategic Business Development at Grantek. Ian leads Grantek's Strategy, Marketing, Partner Management and Business Development groups. In this role Ian is responsible for the creation of growth strategies, new product categories, services or business models that change the game and generate significant new value for our cust…

Kevin McClusky is the Co-Director of Sales Engineering at Inductive Automation, and has previously served as Director of Design Services. Kevin joined the team in 2011 and brought with him years of expert experience in the field of industrial automation software integration. Kevin’s work includes architectural design, consulting, and creation on co…

Jacob Chapman has a background in automation engineering, project management, account management, industrial networking, and ICS cybersecurity within the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and energy generation sectors, among others. Jacob is currently a Solutions Architect within the BD and Alliances team at Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT & IoT…

Christian Wölbeling is an experienced Senior Director with Korber Pharma. He was nominated as a “Pharma Industry Leader” by The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Pharmaceutical Engineering Magazine in 2020, and has been a keynote speaker at many international pharmaceutical engineering conferences. He has a demonstrated hi…

David McKenna is Grantek’s Director of Smart Manufacturing Solutions. He works out of Grantek’s Toronto office and has over 18 years of manufacturing experience. Dave spearheads Grantek’s Label Verification Solution, and Grantek’s Label Printer Control Solution. These offerings help manufacturers protect their operations, brand and reputation that …

Michael Risse is a Founding Partner, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Seeq. Seeq’s applications enable users to rapidly investigate and share insights from the time series data generated by manufacturing and IIoT solutions. The result is faster decisions, the ability to drive continuous improvement in production KPIs, and increased pro…

Bryon Hayes is the Director of Smart Manufacturing Solutions at Grantek. He has 20 years of experience working within in the life sciences industry. At Grantek, he is responsible for translating current trends in the life sciences landscape into actionable technical partnership opportunities, training plans, and growth strategies. Bryon is a member…

Welcome to the first episode of The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions. Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Indu…

Sun Bum makes great products, but not all of them.

Whew

BOOM

Smooches

My inner dialogue when I’m getting ready to stroll out to the pool

Freaky Little Friends

Anime recommendations including My Hero Academia and Gun Gale Online

Recalling HP moments

Caught up on Berserk scrambling for new Mangas

Johnny Depp returns as the insane drunken pirate jack sparrow. Go in with the understanding that modern physics have little to no value in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean. Two great but brief cameos in this movie. Despite it’s silliness, I shamefully smiled during the viewing of this film.

Great Big Book Nerd

My favorite thing is monsters

Music Picks

I waited quite a while to watch Alien Covenant. Everyone seems to have the same concern about the "Twist" ending. SPOILER WARNING