The Connected Workers

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 the execution gap between systems that plan work — ERP, EAM, MES, CMMS — and the hands that actually do it. They walk through AiR Intelligence: context at the asset, gui

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 up. Accountability didn’t. Follow the green checkmark and you’re compliant. Override it and if the model is wrong, you should have known better. Capability

GUEST: James Asbury Links: https://oggn.com/connected-workers/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewchrostowski/ www.x.com/@ConnectedAndrew https://oggn.com/ https://www.yarbo.com https:// 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, Pennsylvan

Guest: Paul Thurber Title: How computer vision is changing industrial safety in real time – A Conversation with Everguard’s Paul Thurber Summary: 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 Everguard, about how computer vision and AI are helping industrial teams detect danger in real time—from missing PPE and unsafe behav

In August 2020, Andrea Hine was a shift supervisor fighting a plant fire with nothing but a handheld radio, describing a live, shifting scene to engineers who could see nothing. That night convinced her frontline workers deserve better. After leading one of the industry’s largest connected-worker programs (10,000+ devices and $200M in efficiencies), she left a senior corporate career to build open-source physical AI that puts real intelligence where the work actually happens. In this episode, A

Guest name: Ronald “Chet” BransonShow Links: Episode Description:What happens when a 30-year EHS leader builds his own digital twin… then treats that AI the exact same way process-safety professionals treat critical controls? In this episode of The Connected Workers Podcast, Ronald “Chet” Brandon (Senior Director of Global Sustainability, Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs at Hexion) […]