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Inventors Revisited: Towards smart factories

27 min • 29 september 2020

Moderator: Anton Versluis, Team Manager Pattern Recognition, EPO

Guest: Steve Lindsey, CEO, Lontra

Guided by the principal of using engineering to change the world, Steve Lindsey invented a new type of compressor that cuts energy usage by some 30%. He applies the kind of thinking that revolutionised the consumer world to industry. The result? The UK’s first smart factory, where a network of connected machines reduce waste, improve sustainability, and increase productivity.