#74 Toward Intelligent Manufacturing's Tipping Point - A Conversation with Jon Sobel

Summary: Jon Sobel is Co-founder and CEO of Sight Machine, a provider of software solutions that help manufacturing firms gain visibility and insights into their operations to drive efficiencies, cost savings and better outcomes.  Our conversation covered a range of topics including his experience working with open source at SourceForge, working around the energy industry in the early days of Tesla, and the experiences of visiting dozens of manufacturing plants at the genesis of Sight Machine.  He discusses the unique challenges that manufacturing data presents, along with some of the best practices and considerations for success.  He relates some of the organizational obstacles that impede adoption of analytic technologies in manufacturing and discusses the role that AI plays in next generation vision.