The second season of the new global podcast "Innovation Experts" is online: Industry 4.0 and the future of manufacturing

The second season of the new global podcast "Innovation Experts" is online: Industry 4.0 and the future of manufacturing

The second season of the Innovation Experts podcast will share insights from globally renowned industry experts to uncover the drivers of innovation in the Industrial Internet of Things.

Key trends, challenges, products and software

Shanghai, China, September 15, 2022 – Farnell, a global distributor of electronic components and solutions under Avnet, launched the first episode of the second season of the global podcast series "Innovation Experts". The second season "Industry 4.0 and the Future of Manufacturing" will analyze the key role of several leading electronic components and solutions manufacturers in promoting industrial Internet of Things technology innovation around the latest innovations in the electronics field.

This season’s podcast will feature exclusive interviews with industry experts from Omega Engineering, Advantech, Eaton, ABB, Red Lion Controls and Schneider Electric, who will share their insights to help companies of all sizes leverage Industry 4.0 concepts to implement and plan a variety of Industrial IoT applications. 

Simon Meadmore, Vice President Product and Supplier Management at Farnell and element14, said: “The complexity of Industry 4.0 makes it difficult to implement in ‘former industrial sites’, but there are many concepts and approaches that can be used to significantly improve the efficiency of factory operations. To this end, this season of the podcast will feature some of element14’s global supplier partners sharing their professional insights and customer success stories to help companies of all sizes successfully introduce new technologies into their manufacturing facilities to improve equipment performance and increase return on investment. The rich technical guides in the podcast confirm element14’s position as a leading distributor of connectors, passive components and electromechanical products, and further strengthen our service philosophy, which is to facilitate customers to directly access the industry’s most influential innovations and products.”

The key themes of the second season of "Innovation Experts" will include: the new wave of Industry 4.0 and the development trend of smart factories, the synergy between the industrial revolution and electrification, the role of automation in the Industrial Internet of Things, etc. These podcasts will provide professional insights for buyers, professional design engineers, development engineers and system integrators, as well as amateur electronics enthusiasts, to help them keep abreast of the latest trends, challenges, products, software and applications. 

The first episode of this season, a conversation with Omega Engineering, focused on how process and manufacturing companies use digitalization to achieve Industry 4.0. In the show, Kevin Goohs, director of IoT implementation strategy at Omega Engineering, mainly introduced a variety of innovative ways to upgrade existing facility systems using key solutions such as sensors and new digital smart probes to capture real-time information on the factory floor.

In addition, to meet stringent application requirements, all device data is currently retained in internal networks and/or cloud accounts. To this end, this episode also introduces expertise in edge monitoring and control, and explores how to select the best new mechanism for big data delivery and analysis, and how to conduct pilot project evaluations before fully installing the system to help end users more smoothly transform to Industry 4.0 production facilities. 

Dave Beck, Global Director of Electromechanical and Passive Components at Farnell and element14, said: “With this new podcast we wanted to get the perspectives of the experts who are innovating at the forefront of the Industrial Internet of Things. This season I have been speaking to some of the world’s largest industrial equipment manufacturers about how they are implementing Industry 4.0 best practices and how they are helping process and manufacturing customers to revolutionise their operations. It has been a real pleasure to interview these people and I sincerely hope that their insights will inspire the engineering community and even the next great innovation.”

To meet the growing demand for high-quality industrial solutions in the global market, element14 has invested heavily in the past 18-24 months to introduce a large number of the latest solutions from the world's leading suppliers, further enriching its complete range of interconnect, passive and electromechanical product stocks. In addition, element14 will provide customers with expert technical support services 5 days a week and 8 hours a day, including pneumatic, industrial automation and control technology. Customers can also get a series of online resources, data sheets, application notes, videos and webinars for free on the element14 website.

Customers can watch the Innovation Experts podcast for free on major global podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, etc. The first episode of the second season, a conversation with Omega Engineering, on the theme of "Transforming to Industry 4.0 with New and Existing Measurement Technologies", is now available on the element14 Technical Resource Center.