The Connected Workers

SUMMARY:Proof-of-concept hell is where industrial AI dies: a technician has the right tool, the wrong context, and a job that still stalls while permits burn and decisions get delayed. Ritesh Tolia and Michael Kaldenbach of Telepresence explain why the future of frontline AI is not a chatbot on a headset, but an end-to-end system that […]

A work order can close green while the torque spec was skipped, the photo was of the wrong flange, and the only person who would have caught it has already retired. Swaroop Kolli, president and chief product officer at Atheer, and Dan Fraser, an industry specialist who came up through oilfield inspection and maintenance, explain […]

SUMMARY:In Episode 45, Rama Oruganti said effective edge agents were years out and cyber was the big risk. Twenty episodes later we revisit these predictions. The agents arrived in months. It turns out the fracture is accountability.He calls it the “apprentice inversion”: the model talks like a coworker and acts like a boss. Authority moved […]

GUEST:James Asbury Links:https://oggn.com/connected-workers/https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewchrostowski/www.x.com/@ConnectedAndrewhttps://oggn.com/https://www.yarbo.comhttps:// www.asburyequipment.com Summary:The Roomba already mapped your living room. Yarbo is starting to map the driveway, the pad, and the pipeline right-of-way. That’s Episode 64 of The Connected Workers Podcast with James Asbury—stonemason, oil-and-gas news entrepreneur, and Yarbo dealer in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.Oilfield sites don’t have spare people for herbicide, washdown, sidewalks, and […]

Guest: Paul ThurberTitle: How computer vision is changing industrial safety in real time – A Conversation with Everguard’s Paul ThurberSummary: What if the next serious injury at a high-hazard worksite could be prevented before it ever happens? In this episode of the Connected Workers Podcast, Andrew Chrostowski talks with Paul Thurber, Senior Vice President at […]