Robotic Grinding and Finishing with 3M's Scott Barnett
For this episode of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast, #104, I welcome Scott Barnett, from 3M. Scott currently leads the 3M global abrasives application engineering team that is focused on engineering of robotic abrasive processes in collaboration with system integrators and end using customers.
Welcome to the podcast, I am glad you are here.
The last time that we connected was in February 7 of 2023 on an A3 webinar entitled
Robotic Grinding & Finishing: Considerations and Benefits of Implementation. We had
Michael Muldoon from AV&R and Tim Burns from ATI Industrial on the webinar.
Here are my questions that I posed to Scott, just ahead of the big A3 | 3M Robotic Grinding and Finishing conference happening July 25-26, 2023 at the Renaissance Hotel in Minneapolis, MN
What is happening in robotic grinding these days?
Tell me about the conference?
What are some of the highlights?
Who is the conference aimed at? / are you surprised at some of the people that show up?
What are the takeaways?
How many people usually attend?
Tell me about some of the speakers?
What are common questions that get asked?
Who are some of the partners?
Are there themes that follow the conference?
Did we forget to talk about anything?
When you are NOT recommending grinding media and automation to robot world what do you like to do, hobbies?
Scott, how can people get a hold of you?
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast
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Keywords and terms for this podcast: A3 3M Robot Grinding and Finishing Conference, The Robot Industry Podcast, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Kinova Robotics, #automate2023
To find out more about the conference click here.
