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BONUS: Factory Orchestration: The Next Frontier of Manufacturing Operations with Harmoni Co-Founder David Caputo
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- Manufacturing Happy Hour
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- Jun 12, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3603
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Summary
What if the biggest efficiency problem in your factory isn't your machines, it's the dead time you waste before you even get to one. Workers queuing at ADP and ERP terminals every morning. A wing rib scrapped at the cost of $18,000 because the wrong work instruction was on screen. A program gone forever when the machinist who maintained it quietly for a decade retired to Poland. David witnessed all of these problems within his manufacturing acquisitions despite them having advanced tech for the time period. Chris sits down with David Caputo, Co-Founder of Harmoni, to get into how his intelligent factory orchestration system connects machines, people, and data for true control across the shop floor. Harmoni fills the gap in the renowned ISA-95 stack that most manufacturers never knew they were missing, supplementing human-intensive operations that make up 99% of the market. Harmoni operates within three buckets with the aim of wasting less time and making less mistakes. The system is designed to cover all bases without interfering with the essential human input needed to fulfil complex tasks. David talks to Chris about the labor automation, process control, and observability that Harmoni brings to the factory floor. In this episode, find out: What factory orchestration is and why David sees it as a distinct category from existing tools How David's experience acquiring and running four aerospace and defense manufacturers drove the creation of Harmoni Why Harmoni's three pillars (labor automation, process control, and observability) address the ISA-95 gap that leaves most human-intensive factories underserved How the no-titles, pods-based structure at Harmoni works and why David recommends it for companies under around 200 employees What the Harmoni AI Lieutenant (HAL) do…