Industrial AI SPARC: From Code to Conveyor with Physical and Embodied AI

About this episode

The episode discusses the role of Agentic AI in transforming manufacturing processes and workflows.

In our first ARC Advisory Group SPARC podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Blackwell, Head of the Manufacturing Center of Excellence at Amazon Web Services (AWS), about the transformative shift towards Software Defined Manufacturing (SDM) in the Era of Agentic AI.1 We explored how Agentic AI is becoming the "brain and central nervous system" of the future factory, orchestrating complex digital workflows across the enterprise.2 In this second episode, we bring that vision down to...

People in this episode

Guest: Steve Blackwell

Topics covered

• Industrial AI
• Software Defined Manufacturing
• Agentic AI
• Digital Transformation

Keywords

• AWS
• manufacturing
• digital workflows

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Amazon Web Services

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