Building Real-World AI for Manufacturing with Jonathan Wise

Описание: Jonathan Wise, Chief Technology Architect at CESMII and veteran systems architect with leadership experience at Rockwell Automation, Microsoft, GE, and Amazon, joins The Manufacturing Intelligence Podcast to discuss what it really takes to implement and scale AI in manufacturing.

In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked foundations of successful AI deployment—semantic consistency, ontological structure, and cultural unification across generations and departments. Jonathan shares hard-won insights from CESMII’s 50+ digital transformation projects and offers a pragmatic approach to AI-readiness that manufacturers of any size can act on.

He also breaks down the limitations of unified namespaces (UNS), the risks of hallucination in LLMs, and the critical need for bridging IT/OT and generational divides. Whether you’re at the start of your AI journey or scaling across multiple factories, this episode offers practical takeaways on building repeatable, value-generating solutions in complex industrial environments.

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Chapters
00:00 – Intro
01:32 – Guest introduction: Who is Jonathan Wise?
03:00 – From early web automation to today’s data challenges
05:00 – Are data and system integration challenges still real?
10:00 – What’s missing in AI deployments: semantics, scale, and structure
13:00 – Why LLMs struggle in manufacturing without semantic grounding
16:00 – The standards dilemma: monolithic vs modular adoption
19:00 – The importance of modular data standards (Lego blocks)
21:00 – Bridging the generational and digital-native divide
23:00 – The truth layer: capturing human knowledge for AI
26:00 – The problem of hallucination in LLMs
30:00 – Beyond dashboards: Building AI systems that make decisions
35:00 – AI readiness for mid-sized manufacturers
36:30 – Designing pilots for repeatability and scale
40:00 – What factories could look like in 5 years
42:22 – Rapid Fire Questions


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