The Peter Williamson Podcast

In today's episode, we are joined by Mike Wilson, chief automation officer at the Manufacturing Technology Centre.

Wilson has over 40 years of experience in the application of automation to manufacturing across a broad range of industry sectors and is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities on the application of industrial robot systems in the UK.

Wilson is leading the drive to increase the adoption of robotics and automation in the UK. He was awarded ‘The Manufacturer Top 100’ status as one of the top 100 people in UK manufacturing in 2018. He is also a Director of the Manufacturing Technologies Association, a Council member and past Chairman of the British Automation and Robot Association and has previously been Chairman of the International Federation of Robotics. His book “Implementation of Robot Systems” was published in 2014.

Mike Wilson - Implementing manufacturing & technology

In today's episode, we were joined by Mark Gray, UK manager of Universal Roberts.

Gray started his career as an electrical engineer and moved into automation working for a manufacturer of packaging and bottling machines for Coca-Cola. After a move into sales Gray ran a distributor for Cognex vision systems for 14 years. Finally joining Universal Robots as UK manager 7 years ago to take responsibility for day-to-day business.

Now onto today's show...

Mark Gray - the future of robots

Today we welcome Nasim Gauhar applications support engineer at Teledyne Confidential.  

Nasim explains the importance of infrared cameras to the industrial automation industry and we get a behind-the-scenes look into the growth of this market.

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Nasim Gauhar - the importance of infrared cameras

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Written and edited for those in the manufacturing sector by those that have worked in the automation industry, our team has experience of and understands the automation industry.

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