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David Caputo discusses the importance of factory orchestration and how Harmoni addresses efficiency issues in manufacturing.

What if the biggest efficiency problem in your factory isn't your machines, it's the dead time you waste before you even get to one. Workers queuing at ADP and ERP terminals every morning. A wing rib scrapped at the cost of $18,000 because the wrong work instruction was on screen. A program gone forever when the machinist who maintained it quietly for a decade retired to Poland. David witnessed all of these problems within his manufacturing acquisitions despite them having advanced tech for the time period. Chris sits down with David Caputo, Co-Founder of Harmoni, to get into how his intelligent factory orchestration system connects machines, people, and data for true control across the shop floor. Harmoni fills the gap in the renowned ISA-95 stack that most manufacturers never knew they were missing, supplementing human-intensive operations that make up 99% of the market. Harmoni operates within three buckets with the aim of wasting less time and making less mistakes. The system is designed to cover all bases without interfering with the essential human input needed to fulfil complex tasks. David talks to Chris about the labor automation, process control, and observability that…

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Host: Chris Luecke

Guest: David Caputo

Topics covered

• factory orchestration
• manufacturing operations
• efficiency
• automation
• process control
• data integration

Keywords

• efficiency
• manufacturing
• Harmoni
• automation
• process control
• shop floor
• labor
• data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harmoni, ISA-95

Places: Poland

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