May 13, 2026
A significant share of manufacturing knowledge still lives in
the heads of retiring workers, and the window to capture it is
closing as operations push toward AI-enabled ways of working. In
this episode, Anand Gnanamoorthy, Director of Corporate Strategy
and AI at Ingersoll Rand, examines how manufacturers can digitize
tribal knowledge, structured operational data, and decades of
unstructured archives before that context disappears. The
discussion covers separating data, insights, and decision-making
across AI deployments; tapping messy, unstructured data without
over-cleaning it; anchoring use cases to the frontline worker
rather than the process; and treating every AI project as
permanently in pilot mode. This episode is sponsored by Poka. Learn how brands work with Emerj
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