International Manufacturing Technology Show

Okay.

And then I just yesterday, I rewatched a lot of the footage that I took at IMTS of all the interferometers there.

And I like watched it again with, with fresh eyes.

Yeah.

And it's like, dude, no, let it.

create his own reviewer.

Yeah, Phil Butterworth was telling me explaining this to me at IMTS, because I asked him, and I was like, what does it mean to have like separate agents running and reviewing the code and stuff? And he was saying, you give each reviewer its own set of instructions and prompts, you know, nothing else other than you know, how to read code or other than how to research on the internet or other than what looks good for this, whatever.

And I still haven't really played with that to kind of separate the roles and responsibilities.

Greetings from IMTS.

I'm Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor of Quality, and I'm here today with Mehul Shah.

He's the CEO of a company called Ground Control.

That sounds very important.

That's great.

And so I know at IMTS this year, you're speaking about an AI case study.

Could you walk us through the story?

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

So another big event that just happened was IMTS.

I know you guys had a big presence there.

What was your take on the attitude, the feeling for the industry and the outlook for 2027? Things

We just took delivery of three new pieces of equipment, and the next round of equipment sits at least six months away before we can even take delivery of another machine.

Every machine means more employees, and it's going to be tough, yeah.

So at IMTS, you also had partnered with Mastercam and somebody else on the Freedom Tower that you built there.

That's right.

IMTS.

I'm Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor of Quality.

And I'm here today with Timothy Steward.

Tell us a little bit about what you do.

We are here at IMTS in Chicago.

And tell us about what you do at Infor.

So my job is

I mean, Fulcrum is really in the thick of digital transformation technology.

And one of the things that was really apparent to me at this last IMTS in 2024 was... was the amount of software in this space.

It seems to have just exploded from the previous one where it seems like a lot more companies are focusing on the manufacturing industry when it comes to software and digital transformation, etc.

What do you think is something or a couple of things or what people get wrong about building a software for this industry?

Yeah, that's a really interesting question.

Also, before I dovetail into that, I was also at that IMTS, and it was a really interesting IMTS, so I'm excited for the upcoming one, because I've been to previous, and there was so much discussion of software and tech, which in previous, and you've likely been to even more than I have, that was not the case.

The keynote speakers, it was all very machine-oriented, and so yeah i felt like we started to see this shift like around that we saw it started to see it happen around that time frame where people started to say okay wow the machines have advanced so far that they're essentially ahead of what our tech can do in the rest of our business we can't even keep up with you know the the the we can't even keep the machine busy enough because not because we don't have the work because it's the decision making sort of becoming the bottleneck which was a premise we had had sort of for a while but was so wild to start to see that proliferate.

And so, yeah, but I think, you know, to your question of why do I think people kind of get building for this industry and this space wrong a lot? And, you know, there has been obviously a history of a lot of a lot of companies who have built for this space in the past as well.