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What the Last Four Industrial Revolutions Teach Us About Today w/ Paul Lachance

The Manufacturing Executive · 9 Jun 2026 · 35m · Episode 313

What this episode covers

Paul Lachance, Chief Industry Strategist at Software Equity Group, draws parallels between the current AI revolution and the steam, electricity, and automation eras to advise manufacturing leaders on navigating disruption. He argues that maintenance teams are strategic levers for increasing organizational capacity through uptime, rather than just fixing broken equipment. Lachance illustrates how agentic AI can automate cross-system data analysis to solve operational issues like OEE slips, while emphasizing that technology must serve defined business outcomes rather than driving adoption through hype.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Software Equity Group, Siemens Brightly Software, Nvidia, High Bight, Litmus, Fuse
Also
EAM, MES, ERP

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