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Manufacturing Happy Hour

Manufacturing Happy Hour

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155: Down to Earth Digital Transformation Advice with Vatsal Shah

155: Down to Earth Digital Transformation Advice with Vatsal Shah

2023-09-26
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Spending time on the plant floor gives you direct communication with your customers. But what’s the best way to gather their feedback and bring it to market quickly?

In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, we are joined by Vatsal Shah, Founder and CEO of Litmus, a unified platform for industrial IoT. Vatsal provides down-to-earth digital transformation advice, tips on how to bring customer feedback to life and insights into how companies can contextualize their data.

Plus, he shares some stories on the history of Litmus, why scale is more important than ever and why the Cloud is no longer just an option.

In this episode, find out:

  • About Vatsal’s work before Litmus
  • What led him to start and persevere with Litmus
  • How Litmus’ solution works on the plant floor
  • Whether companies are identifying problems themselves
  • Why the Cloud is no longer just an option
  • Why scale is more important than ever
  • How to bring customer feedback to market quickly

Enjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It’s feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “There are some foundational challenges in manufacturing. The whole journey to overcome them has to be unified. Our platform takes care of the complete journey for manufacturing or industrial customers.”
  • “There was always a fear of the Cloud, but it’s not optional anymore.”
  • “We go on quarterly business reviews with customers to understand where we are hitting limits for our products or ROI restrictions. Understanding is critical.”

Links & mentions:

  • Connect with Vatsal on LinkedIn
  • Litmus, the only Industrial Edge Data Platform that unifies device connectivity, data intelligence and data integration in a complete Industry 4.0 solution

Make sure to visit http://manufacturinghappyhour.com for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

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