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Latest episodes

  • What the energy transition looks like from inside the grid

    August 5, 2025 · 41 min

    From 2007 to 2016, Steve Holliday was the CEO of the UK’s National Grid. In that time, the share of electricity generated by renewables in the UK grew from 3% to 16%. Today, that number is close to 40%. Rebecca and Joe talk to Steve about…

  • How a mine actually works

    June 2, 2025 · 32 min

    Preston Miller, a veteran of the mining industry, explains why mining companies need to invest in a comprehensive digital twin. We also explore the operational challenges faced by miners and how technology is poised to transform the…

  • XR training and the future of industrial work

    May 1, 2025 · 35 min

    Attempts to meld virtual spaces and physical reality so far have struggled to take hold. For all the ingenuity behind projects like Google Glass, the metaverse, and the Apple Vision Pro, they’ve often felt like technologies in search of a…

  • How to handle the coming e-waste avalanche

    March 27, 2025 · 31 min

    Critical minerals are key to green technologies, but their supply is dominated by a small number of countries. Recycling could, in theory, open up a new source of supply of these minerals—but that too is dominated by a small number of…

  • Your life is manufactured

    February 24, 2025 · 32 min

    Rebecca and Joe talk to Dr Tim Minshall, the Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, about his new book, Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It…

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  • “The Victorian Internet”—The world’s first global communication network

    November 1, 2024 · 11 min

    The telegraph system went from speculative theory to a global telecommunications network connecting continents via undersea cables in just 35 years. Episode page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/podcasts/the-vict…

  • Dark matter and ghost particles—industrial data helps uncover the secrets of the universe

    August 30, 2024 · 36 min

    SNOLAB is the deepest clean lab in the world. It searches for the most elusive building blocks of our universe: neutrinos and dark matter. The Nobel Prize website describes its experiments as like searching for a particular grain of sand…

  • AI: A sustainability friend or environmental foe?

    July 2, 2024 · 33 min

    AI has been helping industries decarbonize for years by making their equipment more energy efficient and helping power grid operators incorporate more renewable energy sources. But, manufacturing, training and running the computers that…

  • Green ammonia is decarbonizing food production

    April 30, 2024 · 41 min

    Half the world relies on synthetic ammonia fertilizer to grow its food. But traditional ways of making ammonia produce about 2% of global CO2 emissions. On this episode, we speak to Dr. Zhenyu Zhang about how he’s decarbonizing the…

  • Bridging the skills gap with connected workers

    February 28, 2024 · 20 min

    A whole generation of industrial workers is about to retire, taking extensive knowledge and skills with them. How can companies attract new high-quality workers and quickly give them the skills previous generations took years to develop?…

  • Industrial data will matter more than ever in the wake of COP28

    December 30, 2023 · 32 min

    Industrial companies will need to change how they think about and interact with data if we’re going to meet the ambitious COP28 targets. We discuss cloud, AI, and the importance of data-sharing in facilitating collaboration.  Subscribe to…

  • How to turn connected workers into proactive workers

    November 30, 2023 · 25 min

    Learn what solutions HENN connector group is using to connect its workers to real-time industrial data, digital systems, and each other, helping them work faster, safer, and more proactively.  Subscribe to our biweekly newsletter. Visit…

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About the show

We investigate how data and technology are shaping the present and future of the industrial economy. Join hosts Rebecca Ahrens and Joe Renshaw as we talk with experts from critical industries—from water and power to manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, and beyond—about the cutting-edge industrial technologies that are changing how engineers keep the everyday parts of life running.