What do NASCAR pit crews and manufacturers have in common? More than you'd think. Augury's Beyond the Line 2025 wasn't your typical industry event. It was an hour of conversations with manufacturing leaders and a special NASCAR guest. They shared real success stories and AI strategies that cracked the code on competitive advantage—and what you need to do to see the same results.
Chris Dobbrow is Augury's VP of Business Development. In this article, he explains why, despite his diverse background, he wouldn’t want to work in any other sector than manufacturing. "Yes, there's a lot of uncertainty. But I am optimistic about the industry’s future and AI’s potential to address the skills gap while enhancing productivity and sustainability. It’s about continually improving on what you excel at – as a person, an organization, and an industry." But yes, there’s still work to be done…
From Fighting Fires to Preventing Them It’s a familiar scenario: Your maintenance team arrives Monday morning, coffee in hand, ready to tackle their preventive maintenance schedule. Then it happens—the all-too-familiar alarm, the frantic call from production, and the collective sigh of “Here we go again.” For facilities familiar with this scenario, the benefits of switching…
Ready for a paradox? The only thing that’s certain in business is uncertainty. So in that sense, tariff turmoil is just another day at work. And in the spirit of bringing calm to the choas, Augury’s VP of Strategy, Artem Kroupenev, hosted an insight-packed session with a few of our favorite experts who have been…
Maintenance teams hard at work on the factory floor have always struggled to find the technical information they need – even in the internet age, acquiring reliable machine documentation is time consuming and imprecise. Enter Generative AI.
