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If you’re a leader tasked with generating business and org. value through ML/AI and analytics, you’ve probably struggled with low user adoption. Making the tech gets easier, but getting users to use, and buyers to buy, remains difficult—but you’ve heard a ”data product” approach can help. Can it? My name is Brian T. O’Neill, and on Experiencing Data—one of the top 2% of podcasts in the world—I offer you a consulting designer’s perspective on why creating ML and analytics outputs isn’t enough to create business and UX outcomes. How can UX design and product management help you create innovative ML/AI and analytical data products? What exactly are data products—and how can data product management help you increase user adoption of ML/analytics—so that stakeholders can finally see the business value of your data? Every 2 weeks, I answer these questions via solo episodes and interviews with innovative chief data officers, data product management leaders, and top UX professionals. Hashtag: #ExperiencingData. PODCAST HOMEPAGE: Get 1-page summaries, text transcripts, and join my Insights mailing list: https://designingforanalytics.com/ed ABOUT THE HOST, BRIAN T. O’NEILL: https://designingforanalytics.com/bio/
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Bill Bither, CEO and Co-Founder of MachineMetrics, is a serial software entrepreneur and a manufacturing technology leader. He founded and bootstrapped Atalasoft to image-enable web applications which led to a successful exit in 2011 to Kofax. In 2014, he co-founded MachineMetrics to bring visibility and predictability to the manufacturing floor with an Industrial IoT analytics platform that collects data from machines. This data is used to benchmark performance, drive efficiency, improve equipment uptime, and enable automation.
Today, join us as we discuss the various opportunities and challenges in the complex world of industrial IoT and manufacturing. Bill and I discuss the importance of visualizations and its relationship to improving efficiency in manufacturing, how talking to machine operators help add context to analytics data and even inform UI/UX decisions, as well as how MachineMetrics goes about making the telemetry from these machines useful to the operators.
We also covered:
- How improving a customer’s visibility into CNC machines helped reveal accurate utilization rates and improved efficiency
- How simple visualizations make a tangible difference in operational performance
- Bill’s model for the 4 different phases of analytics
- Descriptive
- Diagnostic
- Predictive
- Prescriptive
- Mistakes Bill learned early on about product dev in the IIoT analytics space
- What Bill learned from talking to customers that ended up identifying a major design flaw his team wasn’t aware of
- The value you can glean from talking to customers
- MachineWorks’ challenges with finding their market fit and aligning their product around customer’s needs
- How MachineMetrics has learned to simplify the customer’s analytics experience
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Quotes from Today’s Episode
“We have so much data, but the piece that really adds enormous value is human feedback.” — Bill
“Simplicity is really hard. It takes time because it requires empathy and it requires going in and really getting into the head or the life of the person that’s gonna use your tool. You have to understand what’s it like being on a shop floor running eight different CNC machines. If you’ve never talked to someone, it’s really hard to empathize with them.” — Brian
“In all the work that we do, in adding more intelligence to the product, it’s just making the experience simpler and simpler.” — Bill
“You don’t have to go in and do great research; you can go in and just start doing research and learn on the way. It’s like going to the gym. They always tell you, ‘It doesn’t matter what exercise you do, just go and start.’ …then you can always get better at making your workout optimal.” — Brian
“It’s really valuable to have routine visits with customers, because you just don’t know what else might be going on.” — Brian
“The real value of the research is asking ‘why’ and ‘how,’ and getting to the root problem. That’s the insight you want. Customers may have some good design ideas, but most customers aren’t designers. … Our job is to give people what they need.” — Brian
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