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Highways Voices
Awards winners, driverless futures and company growth on today's Highways Voices from Intertraffic with SWARCO and AGD Systems

Highways Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 32:08


On the second of our Highways Voices podcasts from Intertraffic Amsterdam, we'll hear from the winners of the Intertraffic Awards, with Valerann, Intelligent Instruments and Sealed Air telling us about their winning solutions.AGD Systems explain the relative values of video analytics and radar to monitor transport, while we chat to the CEO of their fellow sponsors SWARCO about how people are key to everything the company does and achieves.Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode!We hear from one of the world's leading experts in driverless technology explaining data-driven solutions for driverless vehicles, while Highways News's new reporter, the vastly experienced Kevin Borras, looks at some of the key issues being discussed in the summit programme. Whether you're at Intertraffic or not, we give you a valuable flavour of the event – have a listen while on the tram or Metro to the RAI, or while walking the dog at home!

CEO Podcasts: CEO Chat Podcast + I AM CEO Podcast Powered by Blue 16 Media & CBNation.co
IAM1593 - Public Relations Veteran Helps Client's Vision to Life through Creative Thinking and Strategies

CEO Podcasts: CEO Chat Podcast + I AM CEO Podcast Powered by Blue 16 Media & CBNation.co

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2022 16:56


April White is a public relations veteran, official TEDx speaker and founder of Trust Relations. April has nearly 20 years of industry experience counseling and implementing campaigns on behalf of clients across numerous industries, from Fortune 100 companies to startups. She has worked at the world's best agencies in New York City, including Weber Shandwick, Edelman, Rubenstein Public Relations and Spong, before starting her own firm, and has represented an impressive roster of clients and their executives over the course of her career. Among the clients she has counseled are MasterCard Worldwide, MetLife International, Sotheby's International Realty, Hyatt, Rosetta Stone, Petco, American Standard, The Dannon Company, YellowTail Wines, Sealed Air and Music. April is an official contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur and NewsWeek and co-hosts three original podcasts, including: The PR Wine Down, Hype Busters and Trust Relations: The Podcast. Website: www.linkedin.com/in/aprilnicollewhite Twitter: twitter.com/iamaprilwhite Facebook: aprilnicollewhite Instagram: iamaprilwhite Company Website: trustrelations.agency

Talk Green to Me
Ep 20B: Interview with Myra Foster of Sealed Air

Talk Green to Me

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 29:55


Over the past several years and decades, plastic has become more complicated with many layered and blended materials becoming more popular, especially in the packaging world. And with these developments, plastic recycling has also needed to evolve beyond mechanical shredding. In this episode, we interview Myra Foster, the executive director of Sustainability Strategy and Advocacy at Sealed Air Corporation. Sealed Air invented bubble wrap in 1960s and has led the way in plastic packaging for food and protection. Myra tells us how Sealed Air is working on advanced chemical techniques to recycle blended and complicated plastics. She also discusses various sustainability pledges and challenges that come up for companies working with plastic. We learn that eliminating plastic is not the solution in every situation and how companies like Sealed Air are working on advanced recycling to improve sustainability and circularity as a whole.

Faster, Please! — The Podcast

We've all heard the stories and statistics about the supposed death of American manufacturing. But America's industrial sector never truly went away. Many, many companies are thriving, and today's guest argues we're experiencing an outright renaissance. In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I'm joined by Gaurav Batra, who previously co-led McKinsey & Company's Advanced Electronics Practice in the Americas. Along with Asutosh Padhi and Nick Santhanam, he's the author of the new book, The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America. This from the book:The Titanium Economy is the secret weapon of American industrial revival—the key to ensuring the country's economic vitality as the Fourth Industrial Revolution progresses and we face steep competition from global rivals. The next few years will be critical, as the future growth of the Titanium Economy sector in the United States is far from assured. Investors, policy makers, and the public at large must appreciate the importance of providing more robust investment in these companies, as well as how their growth brings so many positive ripple effects for individuals and communities, providing more high-quality jobs and boosting the economic prosperity of communities and whole regions.So what is the Titanium Economy? Listen in to find out!In This Episode:* The US industrial renaissance (1:14)* The businesses of the Titanium Economy (7:48)* American industry and technology (12:29)* Workers in the US manufacturing sector (16:20)* Finding America's next-generation industrial workers (21:26)Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.The US industrial renaissanceJames Pethokoukis: I think there's a caricature or perhaps a misperception about the US economy—I think you see it in the media—that the US economy is basically Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and big box stores. And that's basically your American economy, and it's certainly an economy that doesn't really make stuff in the physical world—with atoms—anymore. And the book, I think, is a corrective to that view. Why is that view wrong and, as you state, that the US is in the middle of an industrial renaissance?Gaurav Batra: Jim, you very accurately represented the perception of what's happened in the US economy over the last couple of decades. I think the story, whenever anybody tells it, is mostly about technology companies. It's mostly about financial services, mostly about Wall Street. As we started digging in, not just with the book but our work in the industrial sector, we realized that the reality is actually very disconnected with this perception. The reason we say that is, if you look at just pure numbers, still 20 percent of the US economy is completely dependent on US manufacturing. That number has not gone down. It may not have increased, but that number has sustained pretty well. If you look at employment, this sector still employs the bulk of the US economy's workers today. In terms of pure numbers, in terms of relevance, the sector never went away. It definitely slowed down because other sectors started growing, but manufacturing as a sector in the US still remained pretty staunch. That is at the sector level.As you unveil that a little bit and go under the hood, you realize that whenever we talk about Wall Street, we talk about the Facebooks, the Alphabets, the Apples of the world delivering incredible stock market growth. Everybody talks about how much of that you own in your portfolio. But the moment you start unraveling the industrial landscape, you actually see several—and the number is actually north of 20, 30—companies who have done actually fairly well over a much longer time period in terms of even delivering value to their shareholders. And these companies have done it not necessarily leveraging outsourcing, but they've done it by just strong, sensible business practices: how they run their companies internally, how they work with their customers, how they potentially create a niche for themselves in particular markets. For us, at least as we started (and I spent about a decade in this particular industry), as I looked at that perception, which was exactly what my idea was coming into the sector, versus what I took away from it after being a practitioner in the segment for about 10, 12 years: the perception and the reality don't match. I think the perception, as you rightly said, is all about Wall Street, all about technology, all about financial services. But the reality tells us that manufacturing has never gone away. Given what's happened over the last two years with the pandemic and the geopolitics of the globe around us, it is only telling us a flashing red [light] that this is actually going to get even more critical for all of us here in the US in the next couple of years.These are industrial companies. While they may not be classified as technology companies, they use technology. Consultants like talking about 5G and AI and cloud computing. But they're more than buzzwords. Those technologies are diffusing into the economy, and not just at places like Google or Amazon or Apple. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think what we're seeing in this industrial sector is these technologies are part of how they do what they do.Absolutely right. We think it's an essential ingredient to success going forward. To give you one example, there's a company called Bulk Handling Systems. It's based in Eugene, Oregon. They basically are recycling cardboard, cans, and plastic. Essentially stuff which has food in them. I think if you looked at them a decade earlier, they would tell you about all the manual processes, which is fairly unhygienic, about how somebody would have to pull that piece of food out of a cardboard can or a plastic can, and then put it in the recycling. Today, if you look at that company, it's using artificial intelligence, it's using latest-version technologies, it's using robots to find where these sediments are, getting them off the cardboard can and the plastics, and then essentially putting them through recycling. That's a very tangible example of how technology and the progress we've made there is really impacting the industrial landscape—and for the good. I think while this one might be on a production line—there are several others about how people are using similar techniques to ensure quality and efficiency on the production line—technology actually is also making these companies go to the next level of performance on pure, I would say, business processes.To give you another example, a place where I've seen technology help a lot of such companies is pricing. A lot of these companies create a lot of complicated engineering equipment. Equipment could be a boiler or a heat exchanger or a mixer for a food processing plant. It's not a standard thing you can buy off of Amazon. There's a lot of specifications going into it: temperature controls, material composition, process tolerances. People used to do all that work manually, in terms of negotiating with the customers, letting them design those kind of products. Today, they can go to a website. There's an electronic configurator, you can click and choose what kind of parameters it wants and it gives you a right outcome. And then similarly, it quickly tells you how much it's going to cost. A process which would have taken multiple weeks, in some cases months as well, is now getting compressed to a matter of days. I think technology will get pervasive. And the good part is, I think there's a very good fusion between what our industrial landscape does and what technology can provide to them to really make them go to the next level of performance, both in terms of meeting customer needs and satisfaction, and then, candidly, being much more robust [financially].The businesses of the Titanium EconomyIn those two examples, you've given two very different kinds of businesses. And in the book, you really give a sense of the span of the kinds of companies we're talking about. I wonder if you could give me a sense of the span of sectors that we're talking about.I think that's very relevant to discuss because I think a lot of times industrial is discussed as a monolith. It's very much discussed as a singular segment. But it's probably the worst articulation or the most inaccurate articulation of the segment we probably can come up with. Everybody has their own way of looking at it, the way we looked at it there are close to 90-plus what we call “micro-verticals.” And they essentially, as you rightly said, cover the whole spectrum.We wake up in the morning, we have a cup of tea or cup of coffee. The beans, which are being sent to us, have come from a food processing plant, which is either utilizing equipment or products which are being manufactured by companies, many of them here in the US. We pick up the phone in the morning to check our text messages, check our emails. The chips behind those phones—this has been obviously in the news of late quite a bit—come from semiconductor manufacturers. And the whole semiconductor industry, which is $400, 500 billion in size today, relies on innovations in precision manufacturing, which have been gaining over the last multiple decades. We get in our cars to go to work, automotive industries are now playing a big hand in it. We come to the office and we start writing on a piece of paper. The paper industry is there. Lunch is delivered to the office. It's packaged in specific packaging that's coming from companies like Sealed Air, where they're working on top-of-the-line packaging to keep the quality and the hygiene of the food high. And similarly, they're looking at packaging pallets of machinery and equipment, which is getting transported from one part of the country to the other part of the country.Anything I literally can touch is influenced by manufacturing in a meaningful way. So the spectrum is wide, and I think it's very important for us as members of society, as investors, as executives, to understand how complicated and how heterogeneous this segment is. Because once we start realizing that, not only do we see the importance of it in our daily lives, but then we also as executives, as colleagues, as workers, as investors in the segment, we are able to then understand the true value of these companies. A great example which always comes to my mind is a company called Graco. It's based out of Minneapolis. What they specialize in is high propulsion of fluids. So they get spray painting fluids in a can. They figured out how to get peanut butter in a jar. If you look at their segment, I can call them industrials, but it's nowhere related to tapping the automotive space or tapping the aerospace space, but they're looking at a particular niche in the market, and then having that change in mindset, having that change in how they view or how we view them then helps us appreciate that they're a market leader and they're a market leader in a need, which is not going to go away. We will be spray painting cars or spray painting something else. We will be eating peanut butter for a while.I think that's a great example because I don't think people think about flow control and fluid management very often. It's not a strict consumer name that people understand, nor is it manufacturing where you think of some sort of big factory, necessarily. But that is modern manufacturing that is essential to the modern American economy.Absolutely. I think there are countless examples like this, where companies are serving a very critical need. They're just not consumer brands, so we don't know their names. We can look them up if we wanted to. I think that's where they start suffering a little bit, in terms of both our mindset and our perception of these, and to the first question you asked: I think that's what then perpetuates at least our feeling that the whole economy is about the Facebook and Alphabet and Apples of the world, when actually there's a lot more innovation and value coming from the manufacturing sector as well.American industry and technologyTalking about technology and how these companies are using it. Again, I think there's a stereotype that this technology is employed by companies just to replace workers with some machine. I don't think that's probably the whole story.I think that's definitely not the full story, at least as well as my experience is concerned. Because I think there's definitely displacement. I think if anybody says that there is no displacement, then I think they're wrong. There is displacement in terms of what people are doing today. When technology comes in and makes it more efficient, then obviously as a responsible financial operator of a company, you would think about, “Hey, there is capacity opening up, so what should I do with it?” I think in the long term, there are definitely much more benefits, in my opinion. One is that the companies become much more healthier-going concerns, that they're able to invest in their own growth. And they can grow through investing in their own company's expanding markets, they can go acquire somebody else. So there is, in the end, a greater good coming out of the fact that the company has not become healthier concerns.Then number two is, I think it does create a new job category. How many people would've been thinking about hiring data analysts or digital product managers in industrial companies 10 years earlier? Probably not many. But today, if you go on any job board, there are so many of these employment opportunities existing out there, which will create a new set of workers, a new set of employment opportunities for the economy. So my sense is, at least given what I've seen from my vantage point, there will be short-term displacement, which I think, again, with the companies getting to be more healthier concerns, we'll probably minimize the short-term displacement aspect of it. But in the longer term, there is a lot of value to be driven out of this. It will improve our productivity. It will make everything better. And then as that happens, what we have seen also, and we catalog in the book through what we call the Great Amplification Cycle, as companies become healthier concerns, the communities and the workers which work there become more prosperous. And with the workers becoming more prosperous, the local economies benefit. And we genuinely believe, just given how manufacturing is—it's not localized, it has to be dispersed, it has to be all over the country—that's one very effective level we have to bring down the inequality we are seeing today in our country. So going to the Midwest, going to some of the “rust belt” and re-invigorating manufacturing here, will really have great-second order effects to the communities there.That's a good point. So where are these companies? Where are they located?They are everywhere. Funny enough, when we started compiling the research for the book, our impression was they were in the “middle coast.” Not the east coast, not the west coast, mostly in the middle coast. But interestingly enough, they're actually on the east coast and the west coast as well. Tesla is a very good example of a manufacturing company running in Fremont, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. But these companies are everywhere. I think HEICO, if you look at it, based out of Florida, their businesses are in 80 cities across the country. Simpsonville we've cataloged in the book as a great example on the east coast where it's benefited from the tire industry and Sealed Air being in that particular region. Obviously the Midwest has a bunch of these around Milwaukee, and a lot of clusters are coming up around the Texas area. So they literally are everywhere, and that's why I think they are actually a great vehicle for ensuring the economic prosperity of the country, because just the reach is so vast.Workers in the US manufacturing sectorDo we have a sense of sort of the employment numbers? How many companies are we talking about, and do we have a sense of the employment?If you look at the industrial structure itself, I think it employs, at least from my last count, close to 18 to 20 percent of our overall labor base. I think if you look at it purely from a perspective of the number of companies, there are nearly 4,000 companies in the US which are industrial or manufacturing something or the other. Now, the cool part about all this is, in my opinion, most of them—I think three out of four of those 4,000 companies—are actually private companies. So you'll not find them on the NASDAQ or the Dow Jones. They're not traded publicly. They're held by private and mostly are family-owned companies which gives them a sense of resoluteness, which is very unique.And then number two is, close to 80 percent of these folks are actually fairly small in size. So south of $5 billion of revenue. These are, in the end, in numbers, tremendous. We hear about all of the big ones, but more than 75 to 90 percent, depending on what metric you look at, are companies which are not being publicly traded, are much smaller companies, and they are all over the country. That gives them the reach and the numbers. As I mentioned, they are close to about 18, 20 percent of the employment base. I think the coolest part about these guys, as we think about their impact on employment, is the two factors about this industry, which are pretty different and unique. Number one: You don't necessarily need a college degree to be a participant in this industry. People with vocational training, welding, fabrication training, can go join this industry that has really healthy careers. That's one. The labor market they cater to is much broader than other sectors, like if you take service or technology for that matter. And then number two: Compared to several other sectors, the pay in this sector, given that it's a fairly stable sector, is, depending on what analysis, anywhere between 40 to 100 percent higher than the average. More people get the chance to get employed. Over time, they all learn more than what their potential alternatives might be, and their reach is pretty high. All these factors have contributed to a huge engine for employment. And then, in turn, economic growth.How big a challenge is finding all those workers for these companies? That seems to be a big one.That's a huge one. And I think as we looked at least for the book and looking down [at] the things we need to change, the things which executives need to change about how they talk about their companies, how they run their companies. But I think the biggest change we need is in the labor supply area. And I think this is where the government and the public agencies have to come in and play a more active role. We're seeing some of that happen now with the CHIPS Act recently where obviously the government is putting a lot more emphasis on the local manufacturing industry. But I think this is the biggest challenge. Even if you compare the US with some of the other countries like Germany or China for that matter, that's where I think there is a big scope of improvement for us to essentially enable some of these public agencies, through funding, through programs with community colleges, through programs with vocational institutes, to essentially get more and more of that supply up. I think if you look at COVID times certainly when demand for a lot of these products like PPE or some of the home equipment went up because everybody started staying at home, the biggest challenge actually was to get workers to get to the factory, to be able to run these factories on more than one shift, to be able to cater to the increased demand. So far what we've seen, the government is headed in the right direction. I'm assuming more will come, which I think will be really fantastic.In the meantime, what we've seen is just companies doing things by themselves. I think one [thing] I really enjoy and I feel is encouraging is if you look at a company called IDEAL Industries, they have what they call an IDEAL Olympics. That's the place where they basically bring in talent, which is like welding talent, which is like machinist talent, and really attract people to that job category and job family and try to increase supply locally for them, for labor. So you're absolutely right, it's a huge problem. I think a lot more needs to be done urgently, because this is not something which gets solved overnight. So any move we make today will give benefits in a few years' time. But just given the importance of the sector and the fact that this is among the biggest bottlenecks today, I think requires immediate attention on fixing this problem.Finding America's next-generation industrial workersHow much of that talent problem is just a cultural problem where kids think, “Boy, I'd love to work for Google,” or, “I'd like to be a social media manager. I don't want to be a welder,” even though that might be a more satisfying job over the long term than being a social media manager. And that's where the jobs are; those aren't just 1950s jobs. Those aren't just middle-20th-century jobs. Those are 21st-century jobs still.You're right. I think that mindset from our side, what we teach our kids and how we inform them about what their options and career trajectories might be, I think is critical. And I think that comes back to our homes and comes back to our societies. I remember, we were interviewing a CEO for the book, and the quote that stuck with me was, “I have a harder time getting people in my factories because they much rather would be baristas at a Starbucks than actually come work in my factory when they would literally earn at least two times that amount within a few months already.” I think that really points to the fact that there is an element of training people, but I think the first step starts at home and first step starts in our minds: how we can get to our kids and our families the value and the purpose a manufacturing job can provide them. I think this is where we should get ahead of it as industry executives to talk about how prosperous lives can be in this particular segment, and then also change the image of the segment. Even before I started working in the segment intensely, my picture of a factory was, you are greased up, you are dirty, it's high temperatures, it's not exciting.Loud. Very loud and hot.Very loud. In some specific areas that might be true, but if you go through, I would venture 90 percent of the factories, they are spick and span. There is automation everywhere. There is safety. Working conditions are much different than what our perceptions are. So I think there has to be an element of that teaching, which the executive needs to do, about what kind of careers would manufacturing be able to afford folks. And then there's teaching at home also, I think, which we need to at least give to our kids, that there are multiple options: social media and retail and whatever, but we should also then be making sure we are talking about manufacturing as a real alternative given what it can afford.We talked a little bit about training. Is there anything else you'd like to see the federal government do?I think one thing which has always been an interesting topic for me is, I think if you bring focus and we bring transparency and accountability to what we do, we typically make good progress. So I would love to see—I don't know how best you put it… We have the surgeon general for the US. Why is there no chief manufacturing officer for the US? Somebody whose job is to ensure that the sector is being done in as healthy a state as possible, somebody whose job is to make sure we're not surprised, for example, with what we saw at COVID. Suddenly we had shortages of critical things at home. Obviously dollars will help, funding will help, policy will help. But I think to make sure that we don't play catch up all the time, one thing I would love to see, and this is my personal opinion, is something like a CMO for the United States. It's his or her job to make sure that they are thinking about the sector, what the sector needs not just today and five years down the line, 10 years down the line, and to make sure we don't kind of fall back. We always are proactively ahead of the curve on that. So that's one idea at least as we were doing our research that kind of stuck with me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

FUTURUM: Lo que ha de ser
Ep 118: Entrevista a Miquel Llado experto en alta dirección, profesor y escritor.

FUTURUM: Lo que ha de ser

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2022 33:20


Miguel Llado es uno de los mayores expertos en estrategia empresarial, su experiencia ejecutiva ha sido en diferentes organizaciones como: Group President & CEO Sara Lee Bakery Europe (2005-2007: 550MM € de negocio, 4200 Personas, 15 fábricas), CEO Sara Lee Bakery Spain & Portugal (pan Bimbo) (2001-2007), VP Marketing & Sales Spain Bimbo /The Earthgrains Company (1996-2000), VP New Biz PepsiCo Foods España, Director de Ventas Frito Lay Intl. (Proyecto de China), Designe Frito Lay US. Ponente 96 veces a 8.411 personas. Audiencia general como profesor y ponente: 27.018 personas de 95 países. Locutor de estrategia: 115 programas de TV de radio-3 Sesiones impartidas en Eslovenia, Brasil, Rusia, Croacia, Grecia, Rumania, España, Portugal, Armenia, Ucrania, Reino Unido, Georgia, Eslovaquia, China, Alemania, Suiza, Austria, Serbia, Italia y Perú Miguel fue profesor en IESE Business School. Desde 2009 impartíos 567 sesiones de IESE en 193 programas a 13.330 ejecutivos de 75 países como Director académico. También fue profesor en Dirección Estratégica y Liderazgo dando 1.016 sesiones en 277 programas a 18.607 a ejecutivos de 95 países. Ha sido profesor en IEDC Bled School of Management-Eslovenia y sus universidades hermanas; La Facultad Internacional de la Universidad de Sheffield; Escuela de Negocios AESE en Portugal y Universidad WU de Viena: 440 sesiones en 81 programas a 5.045 ejecutivos de 55 países. Ha impartido sesiones en Eslovenia, Brasil, Rusia, Croacia, Grecia, Rumania, España, Portugal, Armenia, Ucrania, Reino Unido, Georgia, Eslovaquia, China, Alemania, Suiza, Austria, Serbia, Italia y Perú. Sesiones a 46 organizaciones como Henkel, Danone, PepsiCo, Astra Zeneca, ComTrade, Konzum Mercator, Vienna Insurance Group, Atlantic Grupa, Anglo American, JTI, UK Active, Koncar, Podravka, Rabobank, Otsuka, Zurich, Erste, Enterprise Ireland, Boehringer Ingelheim, Michael Page, Modra Zavarovalnica, Dow Chemical, Croatia Osiguranje, Perutnina Ptuj, Arterium, Adecco, Deppon, SCL Education Group, Abbott, Ecorys, Roche, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, McDonalds, Web Summit, Insud Pharma, Generali, Ricoh, Ambrosetti , Sealed Air, Abbvie, UHY, Vall Companys, Ferrer Pharma, Grupo Juliá, BRD Société Générale, Vistage Cuenta con 20 sectores de experiencia, inspirando a las empresas a diseñar su estrategia como Asesor Ejecutivo de 18 CEOs, desde octubre de 2009. Su más reciente proyecto fue el escribir "Enamorarse del futuro: Va de escribirlo. No de leerlo" donde nos brinda la oportunidad de conocer su experiencia profesional en puestos ejecutivos de relevancia de grandes multinacionales.

Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg
291. Myra Foster on Sustainable Solutions for Food Packaging

Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 32:02


Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Myra Foster, Global Director of Sustainability Strategy and Advocacy at Sealed Air, a packaging company. They discuss the company's efforts to develop sustainable options to food packaging, integrating automation in the packaging process, and tackling food loss and waste around the holiday season. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Josh on Narro
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Your Auditor Is Not Your Friend

Josh on Narro

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 24:53


The way that high-level professional services - investment banking, law, consulting, etc. - work is that a professional firm provides services to a cl... like this one about MicroStrategy Inc.10-Q saysNew York Times photo feature somewhat inscrutable memo the Bloomberg headline yesterday’s Money Stuff More Crypto Oversight Most Profitable Year EverDwindling Financing Push for RegulationPatientslooking to shrink Spiritual Opiuminfrastructure billcrypto meccaRegulated More Like Banks CFA Level II Vaccination Prooffocus on a cockroachsubscribe at this linkhereabout Stiehlabout EY and its partners2015 proxy statementSEC orderthis Sealed Air 8-KSEC orderJune 2019 announcement

MeatsPad Esp
Actualización en la tecnología de empaques en la industria cárnica - Diana Huerta, MS

MeatsPad Esp

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 39:07


En este episodio conversamos con la Mc. Diana Huerta quien es gerente de ingeniería en aplicaciones de empaques en la empresa Sealed Air en línea de productos de bolsas termo encogibles. Ella ha trabajado con investigaciones en gran variedad de temas importantes en la actualidad como lo son la necesidad del cliente, nuevas soluciones de empaques para mantener una buena calidad del producto y la implementación de futuros empaques sustentables para la contribución en el planeta. El día de hoy aprenderás sobre: 1. La nueva era en el envasado de carne 2. Pensamientos sobre la escasez de mano de obra en la industria. 3. Tendencia a una menor manipulación del producto 4. Suministro mundial de alimentos 5. Sustentabilidad en la producción de carne 6. Envasado y vida útil del producto

MeatsPad
The future of meat packaging – Diana Huerta, MS

MeatsPad

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2021 28:35


This week we feature Diana Huerta who is an Applications Engineering Manager from Sealed Air's Shrink Bags Product Line. Besides all her knowledge and experience in food packaging and polymers, she is a meat scientist and works with meat processors to optimize the shelf-life of fresh meat on a daily basis. We are entering a new era in meat packaging and Diana points out how the meat industry is constantly adapting to satisfy the demand of meat in the world. Meat our guest: Diana has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Venezuela and holds a Master's degree in Meat Science from Texas A&M University. She has been awarded 3 U.S. patents for packaging solutions, has 6 published academic papers, and is fluent in English and Spanish. Diana has made considerable contributions to the automation initiatives at Sealed Air in response to the food industry's pressing needs to get food to consumers while facing workforce shortages. In addition, she leads a team of engineers and scientists responsible for researching customer needs, developing new solutions, and implementing commercially viable packaging solutions. Today you will learn: 1. New era of meat packaging 2. Automation 3. Thoughts on labor shortages 4. Tendency for less product handling 5. Global food supply 6. Sustainability in meat production 7. Packaging and shelf-life MeatsPad ranked among the top 3 Meat Podcast of 2021. We are so proud to be ranked #3 by https://blog.feedspot.com/meat_podcasts/

Odcienie biznesu
#1 - Anna Jędrzejuk - o wyzwaniach w pracy zdalnej w branży produkcyjnej

Odcienie biznesu

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2021 29:02


Jak się okazuje bezprecedensowy exodus do pracy zdalnej nie był jedynie pandemiczną koniecznością i wszystko wskazuje na to, że zostanie z nami na dłużej. To oznacza, że w tej nowej wirtualnej rzeczywistości musimy się na nowo urządzić. Do rozmowy wokół wyzwań pracy zdalnej zaprosiłam 3 osoby, reprezentujące 3 różne organizacje i branże. Dziś zapraszam Państwa na pierwszą rozmowę. Moją gościną jest Anna Jędrzejuk, HR Managerka z firmy produkcyjnej Sealed Air.Co oznacza praca zdalna w firmie produkcyjnej? Z jakimi wyzwaniami mierzą się menedżerowie i pracownicy firmy, w której kluczowa część biznesu realizowana jest na linii produkcyjnej? Wreszcie jak praca zdalna zmieniła rzeczywistość firmy Sealed Air? Serdecznie zapraszam.#pracazdalna #vuca #zmiana #wyzwania #menedżerowie #zarządzanie #produkcja #sealedair

DairyReporter Podcast
Dairy Dialog podcast 131: DSM, Milk Moovement, Sealed Air

DairyReporter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 50:45


This week, we have conversations with Jon King, COO of Milk Moovement; Evandro Oliveira de Souza, business lead cheese at DSM Food Specialties; and Matt Baldock, business development manager for food packaging at Sealed Air. We also have our weekly look at the dairy markets with Liam Fenton at StoneX.

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PKN Packaging News: The Podcast
Alan Adams and Nerida Kelton talk with PKN about the Save Food Packaging Project's latest research insights

PKN Packaging News: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 29:29


In this episode, Lindy Hughson, Managing Editor & Publisher of PKN Packaging News, talks with Alan Adams, Sustainability Director at APAC Sealed Air and Nerida Kelton, Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP). Both Sealed Air and the AIP are consortium members for the Save Food Packaging Project for the Fight Food Waste CRC.The key topic of this episode is the launch of the first Industry Insights report from the CRC that reveals the extent of the problem when it comes to food manufacturers taking responsibility for preventing food waste.We start the discussion by asking Alan to provide a brief outline of the extent of the food waste and loss problem the people of Australia, and the world, are facing along with an explanation of what the Save Food Packaging Project is. Nerida then talks about the reasons for the report, its scope and the stakeholders involved.The discussion then moves on to the key findings of the report and some of the perceived barriers to the adoption of packaging that will save food waste. We wrap up the episode by covering some of the important recommendations going forward and the next steps for the Save Food Packaging Project following this research work.The Save Food Packaging Consortium is made up of the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) as project lead, and RMIT as the research partner; project contributors are ZipForm Packaging, Sealed Air, Multivac and APCO; project partners are Plantic Technologies, Result Group and Ulma Packaging; and the extension network consists of Australian Food Cold Chain Council (AFCCC), Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) and the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST).------------------------------The PKN Podcast is produced by Southern Skies Media on behalf of PKN Packaging News, owned and published by Yaffa Media.The views of the people featured on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of PKN Packaging News, Yaffa Media, or the guest's employer. The contents are copyright by Yaffa Media.If you wish to use any of this podcast's audio, please contact PKN Packaging News via their website www.packagingnews.com.au or send an email to editor@packagingnews.com.au.MC: Grant McHerronHost: Lindy HughsonEditor: Chris VisscherProducer: Steve VisscherPKN Packaging News - © 2021

Marketing: Behind the Curtain
15. Being a Little Bit Dangerous at Everything w/ Jenn Grabenstetter

Marketing: Behind the Curtain

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 44:34


On this episode of Marketing Behind The Curtain, we hear from Jenn Grabenstetter, VP of Global Brand & Content Marketing at Sealed Air just down the road in Charlotte, NC. In recent, the packaging industry has garnered more interest as the public needs more reassurance than ever that the food in their kitchens has been properly protected from germs. Jenn shares how her team operates in two-week sprints, adapting an agile marketing model, and why they like to be “a little bit dangerous at everything." We’ll also touch on: Starting with a deep dive into the persona of their customer: their experience, their problems, and their needs Building multi-functional campaigns that cater to both B2B and B2C audiences Reallocating funds to content production practices that are safe and more productive during a pandemic How every Friday afternoon is your personal ritual time at Sealed Air

State of E-commerce | بودكاست التجارة والبيزنس
شركة الشحن خسرتك كام أوردر؟ - حوار مع محمد حسني

State of E-commerce | بودكاست التجارة والبيزنس

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2020 72:52


في الحلقة رقم ٦ من بودكاست State of E-commerce هنناقش مع محمد حسني - شريك مؤسس في شركة فوراً وPartnerships Manager في شركة Mylerz خريطة التعامل مع شركات الشحن داخل مصر والشرق الأوسط.ازاي تختار شركة الشحن المناسبة للبيزنس بتاعك؟ايه العوامل اللي تقدر تقيس بيها أداء شركة الشحن؟إزاي تغلف منتجاتك بشكل يقلل من التلفيات؟إزاي تشحن منجاتك لخارج مصر؟إمتي تقرر وقف التعامل مع شركة شحن؟ وليه؟هل الافضل انك تتعامل مع أكتر من شركة شحن؟ امتي تعمل كده؟الشحن في نفس اليوم، أسطورة أم واقع قريب؟ المرتجعات: الحلول المقترحة وإزاي تحلها مع شركات الشحن؟البرامج المتاحة لإدارة الأوردرات والمخزونبروفايل محمد حسني على LinkedIn:http://bit.ly/2Cr1a4Bموقع شركة Sealed Air في مصرhttps://industria-eg.com/تابعنا على صفحة الفيس بوكFacebook Page: https://fb.com/StateOfEcom#بودكاست_التجارة_والبيزنس #StateOfEcommerce

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Charlotte Regional Business Alliance
CLT Alliance Talks: Managing Global Talent During COVID-19 with Sealed Air’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Susan Edwards

Charlotte Regional Business Alliance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 26:36


Global pandemic. It still seems surreal to say those two words and yet, the reality of the worldwide COVID-19 crisis is a constant part of our lives. For global businesses, such as Sealed Air with its headquarters in Charlotte, adapting to the “new normal” requires a strategic response created to manage talent across countries while also planning for future workforce needs. In this week’s CLT Alliance Talks, Rod Garvin, SVP of Talent Insights, speaks with Susan Edwards, Global VP and Chief Human Resources Officer at Sealed Air.

Carolina Business Review
Ted Doheny, President and CEO, Sealed Air

Carolina Business Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 26:46


An Executive Profile with the head of this global company on the global crises impacting our world today. Ted Doheny shares his unique perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic and the push for racial equality.

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The Advent CoWorking Podcast
Jenn Grabenstetter

The Advent CoWorking Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 60:13


Host Erin Breeden is joined in studio by Jenn Grabenstetter. Jenn is the vice president of Global Brand & Content Marketing at Sealed Air, a packaging company whose products protect your food and other day-to-day items (bubble wrap, anyone?). But, there's a lot more to Jenn then her title would suggest. In addition to her role at Sealed Air, Jenn is a performer and improv actor. Listen and learn how Jenn has taken improv from the stage to the boardroom.

MONEY FM 89.3 - Prime Time with Howie Lim, Bernard Lim & Finance Presenter JP Ong
The Creators of Bubble Wrap Move Into Sustainability

MONEY FM 89.3 - Prime Time with Howie Lim, Bernard Lim & Finance Presenter JP Ong

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 8:00


Known creators of Bubble Wrap nearly 50 years ago, Sealed Air is regarded as the pioneers in protective packaging technology, the brand recently launched a first in APAC temperature assurance lab in Singapore. We find out why they decided on Singapore for the lab and how they’re recognising their responsibility as an industry leader to actively champion solutions to mitigate environmental impacts. Gerben Zwinkels is Director of Bio and Thermal Assurance for Sealed Air Asia Pacific.

AgFuture podcast
#101: Preserving hope: The search for a sustainable balance between plastic waste and food safety

AgFuture podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2019 25:05


Floating islands of plastic waste. Sea turtles with straws lodged in their nostrils. Images abound and emotions are high as the critical problem of single use plastics floats to the surface. At the same time, food waste is as high as 40% in some countries. How do we balance the preservation of our most perishable products with protecting our environment? We explore the complex issues with Karl Deily of Sealed Air and find opportunities for hope.

GreenBiz 350
Episode 172: How new packaging ideas bubble up at Sealed Air, talking green buildings

GreenBiz 350

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 48:42


Plus, why Republican Bob Inglis, a former representative for South Carolina, has made it his mission to educate conservatives about the economics of climate change.

FoodBev.com Podcast
FoodBev Daily 02/05/2019: McCain invests $300m to expand Washington potato processing site, Sealed Air acquires Automated Packaging Systems for $510m, ZX Ventures to explore potential of low-alcohol craft beer in China

FoodBev.com Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2019 2:02


Harriet Jachec rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: McCain invests $300m to expand Washington potato processing site, Sealed Air acquires Automated Packaging Systems for $510m, ZX Ventures to explore potential of low-alcohol craft beer in China.

FoodBev.com Podcast
FoodBev Daily 25/03/2019: Anheuser-Busch UK renamed as part of ongoing transformation, Sealed Air partners with Kuraray for plant-based food packaging, and the judges are announced for the Asia Food Innovation Awards 2019

FoodBev.com Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 2:18


Harriet Jachec rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Anheuser-Busch UK renamed as part of ongoing transformation, Sealed Air partners with Kuraray for plant-based food packaging, and the judges are announced for the Asia Food Innovation Awards 2019.

Nowoczesny Przemysł  - Clean Industry
10. Sztuczna Inteligencja w przemyśle – nadzieje i obawy

Nowoczesny Przemysł - Clean Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2018 9:19


Autor: Adam Bała Sztuczna Inteligencja w przemyśle – nadzieje i obawy Uczyni nasze życie łatwiejszym, czy sprawi, że staniemy się zbędni? Pomoże nam w codziennych obowiązkach, a może odbierze nam pracę? Sztuczna inteligencja pozostaje źródłem nadziei, ale również obaw obywateli społeczeństwa XXI wieku. Postępu w dziedzinie AI nie da się zatrzymać, a w jej polu rażenia znajduje się coraz więcej segmentów rynku. Również branża czystościowa. Zacznijmy od odrobiny historii. Termin sztuczna inteligencja zadebiutował w 1956 roku, kiedy to Amerykański informatyk, profesor John McCarthy opublikował pracę na temat tworzenia maszyn zdolnych do wykazywania się inteligencją podobną do ludzkiej. Wyraził on rewolucyjną naonczas opinię, że cały proces zdobywania wiedzy oraz inne cechy inteligencji, jaką dysponuje człowiek, można opisać na tyle precyzyjnie, że już wkrótce maszyny nauczą się je symulować. Zaglądając do fachowej literatury, dowiemy się natomiast, że do powstania AI potrzeba nam połączenia robotyki, obliczeń ewolucyjnych, logiki rozmytej, sieci neuronowych i wiedzy o sztucznym życiu. Świt AIW tej chwili rzesze naukowców na całym świecie pracują nad programami komputerowymi, których tok „rozumowania” ma być możliwie najbardziej zbliżony do ludzkiego. Takie eksperymenty wywołują wiele kontrowersji. Sceptycy wskazują na szereg ryzykownych zastosowań AI. Zdaniem wielu z nich, powierzenie maszynom kontroli nad systemami obronnymi, czy energetycznymi państw to krok za daleko. Najczarniejsze prognozy mówią o wadliwym oprogramowaniu, które decydować będzie – na bazie obcej nam logiki – o odcięciu całych krajów od prądu, a nawet wywoływaniu wojen. Komputery przewyższają ludzi w zakresie możliwości obliczeniowych, które – jak głosi prawo Moore’a – zwiększają się dwukrotnie co dwa lata. Szwajcarski projekt Blue Brain i superkomputer SpiNNaker już dziś są w stanie symulować działanie neuronów w mózgu ssaków. Celem naukowców zaangażowanych w oba projekty jest opracowanie prawdziwej, autonomicznej Sztucznej Inteligencji. Jej stworzenie pomóc ma człowiekowi w osiąganiu kolejnych przełomów w ekonomii, medycynie i podboju kosmosu. Jeżeli Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates i Elon Musk zgadzali się chociaż w jednej kwestii, na pewno była nią Sztuczna inteligencja. Ich zdaniem stworzenie w pełni autonomicznej AI równoznaczne będzie z daniem jej możliwości bezustannego doskonalenia się. Doprowadzi to do powstania umysłu przewyższającego ludzki do tego stopnia, że jego motywacje przekroczą zakres naszego pojmowania. Naukowcy uspokajają jednak, że zanim się to stanie, przez cyfrowy ocean przeleje się jeszcze wiele terabajtów informacji. Można ponadto liczyć na ludzką roztropność, która skłoni ekspertów od AI do podjęcia odpowiednich działań zapobiegawczych, by mroczne wizje badaczy i fantastów się nie spełniły. Czy zastąpią nas roboty?Przez dziesiątki lat literatura oraz filmy science fiction pokazywały nam świat opanowany przez zimne, bezwzględne maszyny. Tematyka sztucznej inteligencji miała ostrzegać nas, byśmy nie zapędzali się za daleko w swoich skłonnościach do zabawy w Boga. Widzieliśmy superkomputery eliminujące rodzaj ludzki jako naturalne zagrożenie dla dalszego istnienia Ziemi, maszyny wykorzystujące nas jako biologiczne baterie zasilające ich systemy, a w końcu mechanizmy asymilujące się z nami do tego stopnia, że nie sposób odróżnić oryginału od duplikatu. Dzisiaj nasze obawy stają się bardziej przyziemne. Najnowsze publikacje w naukowych czasopismach zadają pytanie, kiedy nastąpi ten moment, w którym nasza praca przestanie być potrzebna. Pracownicy związani z rozmaitymi branżami pytają z kolei, czy w końcu nie stanie się tak, że pracodawca zastąpi ich inteligeniejszą i bardziej wydajną maszyną. Przecież zakup urządzenia, które będzie w stanie pracować bez ustanku, przez całą dobę, wykonując dokładnie te same zadania, na które pan Jan Kowalski poświęcał „jedynie” osiem godzin dziennie, to niezwykle opłacalna inwestycja! Robot nie potrzebuje urlopu, nie zachodzi w ciążę i nie choruje. Specjaliści przygotowany mają gotowy zestaw zagrożonych zawodów. Są to: urzędnicy niższego szczebla na pocztach, księgowi, bibliotekarze, telemarketerzy, a nawet kierowcy ciężarówek. Pamiętajmy, że ta lista uzupełniana jest co kilka miesięcy. I znów naukowcy wzywają do powściągnięcia emocji. Nawet jeśli technologia już dziś ściska rynek pracy niczym ogromne imadło, czynnik ludzki nadal niezbędny jest do jej prawidłowego funkcjonowania. Mówienie zatem o jakimkolwiek kryzysie na rynku pracy, którego przyczyną byłby rozwój AI, jest tyleż przedwczesne, co po prostu mocno przesadzone. Co więcej, rozwój nowoczesnych technologii przyspiesza proces powstawania zupełnie nowych zawodów. Nawet jeśli dojdziemy do momentu, kiedy bezzałogowe ciężarówki, które jeżdżą już po europejskich autostradach, wyrzucą z pracy wszystkich kierowców, wciąż potrzebny będzie ktoś, kto będzie dbał o nie i całą związaną z nimi infrastrukturę. A więc przybędzie zawodów i zmienią się kompetencje wielu grup. Proces ten nie nastąpi, ma się rozumieć, jak nożem uciął – dostaniemy sporo czasu na przystosowanie się do nowych warunków. AI w branży czystościowejWyobraź sobie biuro, magazyn lub hotel, w którym wszystkie procesy związane z czystością nadzorowane są zdalnie. Wszelkie zdarzenia przewidywane są z odpowiednim wyprzedzeniem, czas pracy jest optymalizowany na bieżąco, a rozwiązania problemów pojawiają się w ciągu sekund. Tym, co na zawsze zmieni całą branżę, może być Internet Czystości (Internet of Clean). Przedsiębiorstwa zajmujące się sprzątaniem bezustannie poszukują sposobów na podniesienie standardów swojej pracy oraz jej produktywności. Od pracowników wymaga się zdobywania nowych umiejętności, w których zakres wchodzi m.in. obsługa wyspecjalizowanych maszyn czyszczących. Technologie smart cleaning związane z wykorzystaniem różnego rodzaju wyposażenia, platform oraz aplikacji, mogą uczynić ten biznes bardziej wydajnym i zrównoważonym dzięki redukcji zużycia wody, środków chemicznych oraz podniesieniu poziomu efektywności pracy ekip sprzątających. W artykule opublikowanym w portalu Eco-business.com, T. Balakrishnan z firmy Sealed Air wyjaśnia, że wykorzystywanie zrobotyzowanych maszyn czyszczących nie tylko zmniejszy zużycie różnego rodzaju środków czystości, ale także zwiększy efektywność pracy dzięki planowaniu tras czyszczenia z odpowiednim wyprzedzeniem. Podczas gdy tradycyjne urządzenia są w stanie wyczyścić 300 metrów kwadratowych na godzinę, robot w tym samym czasie poradzi sobie z trzykrotnie większą powierzchnią (bez potrzeby robienia sobie przerw). Inteligentną maszynę zaprogramować można w taki sposób, by przemieszczała się wzdłuż zaplanowanych linii, wyczuwając wszelkie przeszkody na swojej drodze i odpowiednio reagując na nie. Co w takim razie z personelem? Balakrishnan tłumaczy, że zlecenie części zadań robotom, pozwoli na oddelegowanie załogi do innych obowiązków lub nadanie im nowych, przydatnych kompetencji, by mogli działać tam, gdzie maszyna nie da rady. W ten sposób będą oni wykonywać prace wymagające większych kwalifikacji, a roboty zajmą się rutynowymi operacjami, którym człowiek poświęca zwykle wiele godzin pracy. Obecnie automaty czyszczące Intellibots wdrażane są w takich miejscach jak np. lotniska Changi i Marina Bay Sands w Singapurze. Czym jest Internet Czystości?Pod nazwą Internet Czystości (IoC), kryje się platforma łącząca maszyny, dystrybutory, czujniki i inne inteligentne urządzenia. Specjalista z Sealed Air zaznacza jednak, że nie wszystkie zadania związane z utrzymywaniem czystości da się przekazać maszynom. Wierzy on, że dzięki łączeniu nowatorskich rozwiązań, technologia może dalej się rozwijać, dostosowując do coraz większych wymagań branży czystościowej. ”Przyszłość takich przedsiębiorstw to ewolucja z jednostek reaktywnych na proaktywne i predykcyjne” - mówi Balakrishnan. Lada dzień (bo nie rozmawiamy na temat odległej przyszłości), ludzie i roboty pracować będą ręka w rękę, by móc sprostać rosnącemu zapotrzebowaniu na usługi. Wizja Internetu Czystości zakłada współpracę ludzkiego personelu z inteligentnymi technologiami. Przyszłość to nieustanne wprowadzanie innowacji, takich jak Intellicare (system monitorujący higienę rąk w celu zapobiegania infekcjom), Intellidish (oparty na chmurze system monitorowania i dostępu do przemysłowych zmywarek), Intellibot (roboty do czyszczenia podłóg) oraz IntelliTrail (narzędzie do zdalnego zarządzania flotą pojazdów). Ale przecież jest jeszcze Smartview, czyli kolejna technologia związana ściśle z IoC. W tej chwili funkcjonuje ona w tysiącach witryn na terenie całej Europy i Azji. Jej zadaniem jest monitorowanie w czasie rzeczywistym i raportowanie zadań związanych z czyszczeniem w pokojach hotelowych. Zdaniem specjalistów, kooptowanie technologii związanej z rozwojem sztucznej inteligencji do branży czystościowej, przyczyni się do poprawy wizerunku tego segmentu rynku. Sprzątanie będzie bardziej profesjonalne i efektywne. Nowoczesne technologie mogą również działać jak wabik na młodszych, wykwalifikowanych technicznie pracowników. Przysłużą się również ekologii, optymalizując wykorzystywanie środków chemicznych.

Nowoczesny Przemysł  - Clean Industry
10. Sztuczna Inteligencja w przemyśle – nadzieje i obawy

Nowoczesny Przemysł - Clean Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2018 9:19


Autor: Adam Bała Sztuczna Inteligencja w przemyśle – nadzieje i obawy Uczyni nasze życie łatwiejszym, czy sprawi, że staniemy się zbędni? Pomoże nam w codziennych obowiązkach, a może odbierze nam pracę? Sztuczna inteligencja pozostaje źródłem nadziei, ale również obaw obywateli społeczeństwa XXI wieku. Postępu w dziedzinie AI nie da się zatrzymać, a w jej polu rażenia znajduje się coraz więcej segmentów rynku. Również branża czystościowa. Zacznijmy od odrobiny historii. Termin sztuczna inteligencja zadebiutował w 1956 roku, kiedy to Amerykański informatyk, profesor John McCarthy opublikował pracę na temat tworzenia maszyn zdolnych do wykazywania się inteligencją podobną do ludzkiej. Wyraził on rewolucyjną naonczas opinię, że cały proces zdobywania wiedzy oraz inne cechy inteligencji, jaką dysponuje człowiek, można opisać na tyle precyzyjnie, że już wkrótce maszyny nauczą się je symulować. Zaglądając do fachowej literatury, dowiemy się natomiast, że do powstania AI potrzeba nam połączenia robotyki, obliczeń ewolucyjnych, logiki rozmytej, sieci neuronowych i wiedzy o sztucznym życiu. Świt AIW tej chwili rzesze naukowców na całym świecie pracują nad programami komputerowymi, których tok „rozumowania” ma być możliwie najbardziej zbliżony do ludzkiego. Takie eksperymenty wywołują wiele kontrowersji. Sceptycy wskazują na szereg ryzykownych zastosowań AI. Zdaniem wielu z nich, powierzenie maszynom kontroli nad systemami obronnymi, czy energetycznymi państw to krok za daleko. Najczarniejsze prognozy mówią o wadliwym oprogramowaniu, które decydować będzie – na bazie obcej nam logiki – o odcięciu całych krajów od prądu, a nawet wywoływaniu wojen. Komputery przewyższają ludzi w zakresie możliwości obliczeniowych, które – jak głosi prawo Moore’a – zwiększają się dwukrotnie co dwa lata. Szwajcarski projekt Blue Brain i superkomputer SpiNNaker już dziś są w stanie symulować działanie neuronów w mózgu ssaków. Celem naukowców zaangażowanych w oba projekty jest opracowanie prawdziwej, autonomicznej Sztucznej Inteligencji. Jej stworzenie pomóc ma człowiekowi w osiąganiu kolejnych przełomów w ekonomii, medycynie i podboju kosmosu. Jeżeli Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates i Elon Musk zgadzali się chociaż w jednej kwestii, na pewno była nią Sztuczna inteligencja. Ich zdaniem stworzenie w pełni autonomicznej AI równoznaczne będzie z daniem jej możliwości bezustannego doskonalenia się. Doprowadzi to do powstania umysłu przewyższającego ludzki do tego stopnia, że jego motywacje przekroczą zakres naszego pojmowania. Naukowcy uspokajają jednak, że zanim się to stanie, przez cyfrowy ocean przeleje się jeszcze wiele terabajtów informacji. Można ponadto liczyć na ludzką roztropność, która skłoni ekspertów od AI do podjęcia odpowiednich działań zapobiegawczych, by mroczne wizje badaczy i fantastów się nie spełniły. Czy zastąpią nas roboty?Przez dziesiątki lat literatura oraz filmy science fiction pokazywały nam świat opanowany przez zimne, bezwzględne maszyny. Tematyka sztucznej inteligencji miała ostrzegać nas, byśmy nie zapędzali się za daleko w swoich skłonnościach do zabawy w Boga. Widzieliśmy superkomputery eliminujące rodzaj ludzki jako naturalne zagrożenie dla dalszego istnienia Ziemi, maszyny wykorzystujące nas jako biologiczne baterie zasilające ich systemy, a w końcu mechanizmy asymilujące się z nami do tego stopnia, że nie sposób odróżnić oryginału od duplikatu. Dzisiaj nasze obawy stają się bardziej przyziemne. Najnowsze publikacje w naukowych czasopismach zadają pytanie, kiedy nastąpi ten moment, w którym nasza praca przestanie być potrzebna. Pracownicy związani z rozmaitymi branżami pytają z kolei, czy w końcu nie stanie się tak, że pracodawca zastąpi ich inteligeniejszą i bardziej wydajną maszyną. Przecież zakup urządzenia, które będzie w stanie pracować bez ustanku, przez całą dobę, wykonując dokładnie te same zadania, na które pan Jan Kowalski poświęcał „jedynie” osiem godzin dziennie, to niezwykle opłacalna inwestycja! Robot nie potrzebuje urlopu, nie zachodzi w ciążę i nie choruje. Specjaliści przygotowany mają gotowy zestaw zagrożonych zawodów. Są to: urzędnicy niższego szczebla na pocztach, księgowi, bibliotekarze, telemarketerzy, a nawet kierowcy ciężarówek. Pamiętajmy, że ta lista uzupełniana jest co kilka miesięcy. I znów naukowcy wzywają do powściągnięcia emocji. Nawet jeśli technologia już dziś ściska rynek pracy niczym ogromne imadło, czynnik ludzki nadal niezbędny jest do jej prawidłowego funkcjonowania. Mówienie zatem o jakimkolwiek kryzysie na rynku pracy, którego przyczyną byłby rozwój AI, jest tyleż przedwczesne, co po prostu mocno przesadzone. Co więcej, rozwój nowoczesnych technologii przyspiesza proces powstawania zupełnie nowych zawodów. Nawet jeśli dojdziemy do momentu, kiedy bezzałogowe ciężarówki, które jeżdżą już po europejskich autostradach, wyrzucą z pracy wszystkich kierowców, wciąż potrzebny będzie ktoś, kto będzie dbał o nie i całą związaną z nimi infrastrukturę. A więc przybędzie zawodów i zmienią się kompetencje wielu grup. Proces ten nie nastąpi, ma się rozumieć, jak nożem uciął – dostaniemy sporo czasu na przystosowanie się do nowych warunków. AI w branży czystościowejWyobraź sobie biuro, magazyn lub hotel, w którym wszystkie procesy związane z czystością nadzorowane są zdalnie. Wszelkie zdarzenia przewidywane są z odpowiednim wyprzedzeniem, czas pracy jest optymalizowany na bieżąco, a rozwiązania problemów pojawiają się w ciągu sekund. Tym, co na zawsze zmieni całą branżę, może być Internet Czystości (Internet of Clean). Przedsiębiorstwa zajmujące się sprzątaniem bezustannie poszukują sposobów na podniesienie standardów swojej pracy oraz jej produktywności. Od pracowników wymaga się zdobywania nowych umiejętności, w których zakres wchodzi m.in. obsługa wyspecjalizowanych maszyn czyszczących. Technologie smart cleaning związane z wykorzystaniem różnego rodzaju wyposażenia, platform oraz aplikacji, mogą uczynić ten biznes bardziej wydajnym i zrównoważonym dzięki redukcji zużycia wody, środków chemicznych oraz podniesieniu poziomu efektywności pracy ekip sprzątających. W artykule opublikowanym w portalu Eco-business.com, T. Balakrishnan z firmy Sealed Air wyjaśnia, że wykorzystywanie zrobotyzowanych maszyn czyszczących nie tylko zmniejszy zużycie różnego rodzaju środków czystości, ale także zwiększy efektywność pracy dzięki planowaniu tras czyszczenia z odpowiednim wyprzedzeniem. Podczas gdy tradycyjne urządzenia są w stanie wyczyścić 300 metrów kwadratowych na godzinę, robot w tym samym czasie poradzi sobie z trzykrotnie większą powierzchnią (bez potrzeby robienia sobie przerw). Inteligentną maszynę zaprogramować można w taki sposób, by przemieszczała się wzdłuż zaplanowanych linii, wyczuwając wszelkie przeszkody na swojej drodze i odpowiednio reagując na nie. Co w takim razie z personelem? Balakrishnan tłumaczy, że zlecenie części zadań robotom, pozwoli na oddelegowanie załogi do innych obowiązków lub nadanie im nowych, przydatnych kompetencji, by mogli działać tam, gdzie maszyna nie da rady. W ten sposób będą oni wykonywać prace wymagające większych kwalifikacji, a roboty zajmą się rutynowymi operacjami, którym człowiek poświęca zwykle wiele godzin pracy. Obecnie automaty czyszczące Intellibots wdrażane są w takich miejscach jak np. lotniska Changi i Marina Bay Sands w Singapurze. Czym jest Internet Czystości?Pod nazwą Internet Czystości (IoC), kryje się platforma łącząca maszyny, dystrybutory, czujniki i inne inteligentne urządzenia. Specjalista z Sealed Air zaznacza jednak, że nie wszystkie zadania związane z utrzymywaniem czystości da się przekazać maszynom. Wierzy on, że dzięki łączeniu nowatorskich rozwiązań, technologia może dalej się rozwijać, dostosowując do coraz większych wymagań branży czystościowej. ”Przyszłość takich przedsiębiorstw to ewolucja z jednostek reaktywnych na proaktywne i predykcyjne” - mówi Balakrishnan. Lada dzień (bo nie rozmawiamy na temat odległej przyszłości), ludzie i roboty pracować będą ręka w rękę, by móc sprostać rosnącemu zapotrzebowaniu na usługi. Wizja Internetu Czystości zakłada współpracę ludzkiego personelu z inteligentnymi technologiami. Przyszłość to nieustanne wprowadzanie innowacji, takich jak Intellicare (system monitorujący higienę rąk w celu zapobiegania infekcjom), Intellidish (oparty na chmurze system monitorowania i dostępu do przemysłowych zmywarek), Intellibot (roboty do czyszczenia podłóg) oraz IntelliTrail (narzędzie do zdalnego zarządzania flotą pojazdów). Ale przecież jest jeszcze Smartview, czyli kolejna technologia związana ściśle z IoC. W tej chwili funkcjonuje ona w tysiącach witryn na terenie całej Europy i Azji. Jej zadaniem jest monitorowanie w czasie rzeczywistym i raportowanie zadań związanych z czyszczeniem w pokojach hotelowych. Zdaniem specjalistów, kooptowanie technologii związanej z rozwojem sztucznej inteligencji do branży czystościowej, przyczyni się do poprawy wizerunku tego segmentu rynku. Sprzątanie będzie bardziej profesjonalne i efektywne. Nowoczesne technologie mogą również działać jak wabik na młodszych, wykwalifikowanych technicznie pracowników. Przysłużą się również ekologii, optymalizując wykorzystywanie środków chemicznych.

The SupplyChainBrain Podcast
How E-tailers Are Creating a Compelling 'Unboxing Experience'

The SupplyChainBrain Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2017 25:02


E-commerce retailers today aren't just focusing on the products they sell. They're also paying close attention to the boxes they come in. The term ''unboxing experience'' describes how consumers feel when they open the carton that contains an online order. Sellers used to be content with shipping items in plain brown boxes, their priority being to keep costs down. Now, however, they're looking for ways to differentiate themselves from the competition, and burnish their brands. So it only makes sense that they would turn their attention to the box and its accompanying packaging materials. On this episode, we learn of the innovative approaches that e-tailers are taking toward the once-overlooked shipping box. Our guest is Ken Chrisman, president of the product care division of Sealed Air. He explains why unboxing has become so vital to brand identity, and he explains how retailers are measuring consumer reaction (and, most importantly, emotion) to the experience of opening the box. It's all about eliciting ''mood boosts'' on the part of the buyer.

CFO Thought Leader
274: Talent & The Future of Finance | Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air, Ash Noah, VP External Relations, CGMA, AICPA

CFO Thought Leader

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2017 46:07


CFO Thought Leader
254: Energizing a Market Leader | Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corporation

CFO Thought Leader

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2016 46:36


Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corporation

Social Entrepreneur
017, Stefan Phang, Soap for Hope | Leveraging the Strength of a Corporation

Social Entrepreneur

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2015 48:27


When you visit a hotel, do you ever wonder what happens to the small piece of soap you leave behind? The average hotel generates somewhere from three to six tons of solid soap waste per year. What if that soap could be diverted from the landfill and used to lift people out of extreme poverty and prevent sex trafficking? Well, that’s what Stefan Phang of Sealed Air’s Soap for Hope program is doing. Soap for Hope was piloted in Cambodia in October, 2013. By September 2015, they have partnered with 300 hotel properties in 19 countries. They have diverted 630 tons of solid soap waste from landfills. They converted this waste into 5.3 million bars of soap, which were given to 450,000 people. In the process, they have raised the livelihood of 600 people who were previously in extreme poverty. And, as a result, they have reduced the incidence of sex trafficking of children. Soap for Hope takes the soap waste from hotels, converts them into new soap products, and distributes the upcycled soaps to people who currently do not have access, which creating jobs for the economically disadvantaged. This is a win-win-win for Sealed Air, for the partner hotels and for the local communities. Stefan’s activities have allowed Sealed Air and their partner hotels to go beyond a set of written-down values, or words in a CSR report, and to make an impact on some of the most vulnerable people on earth. Stefan has been involved in child protection for more than twenty years, but not as the leader of an NGO, but as an outreach of his work as an employee of for-profit corporations. Stefan has seen firsthand the fallout from sex trafficking of children as young as 8 years old. Stefan began by working with organizations that rescue and reintegrate these abused children. However, the children had a difficult time reintegrating into society. So, Stefan began to focus more on preventing sex trafficking and protecting the children and families. Stefan first came to my attention because of something remarkable he did. He noticed that, in developing countries, one of the most common modes of transportation is the motorcycle. There are often multiple family members riding together, frequently with small children, and almost always without helmets. Stefan found a way to acquire and distribute motorcycle helmets, starting in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and India. In the first five years, he and the other participants in the program gave away 60,000 helmets. These helmets saved around 2,900 children from serious head injuries. Resources: Sealed Air Soap for Hope: http://sealedair.com/soap-hope Stefan Phang on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stefan.phang Stefan Phang on LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/stefan-phang-8a56a320 UNICEF’s Child protection page: http://www.unicef.org/protection

BeverageDaily Podcast
Sealed Air promises ‘no smiles or frowns’ with new Cryovac shrink sleeve

BeverageDaily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2012 4:58


Scott Keefauver from Sealed Air tells BeverageDaily.com how beverage brands can save money by using his firm’s new Cryovac 360 multilayer shrink sleeves on bottles, and eliminate 'smiles and frowns’.

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BeverageDaily Podcast
Sealed Air promises ‘no smiles or frowns’ with new Cryovac shrink sleeve

BeverageDaily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2012 4:28


Scott Keefauver from Sealed Air tells BeverageDaily.com how beverage brands can save money by using his firm’s new Cryovac 360 multilayer shrink sleeves on bottles, and eliminate 'smiles and frowns’.

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DairyReporter Podcast
Sealed Air takeover birthed dairy ‘farm to fork’ hygiene concept - Diversey

DairyReporter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2012 3:38


Sealed Air’s 2011 acquisition of cleaning, sanitation and hygiene solutions provider Diversey has birthed a unique concept in the dairy industry – hygiene solutions from ‘farm to fork’.

Enactus Career Corner
SIFE Career Corner featuring Southern Wine & Sealed Air

Enactus Career Corner

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2012 24:21


Featured guest: Suzi Potts, Director - Recruiting, Southern Wine & Spirits and Becky Nogueira, Global Talent Acquisition Manager from Sealed Air Corporation. Have a question for Suzi or Becky? Email careerconnections@sife.org or tweet using the hashtag #SIFEcc!Next show: TBAWe're taking a break this summer. Enjoy your internship, summer job or a little fun in the sun.  Remember, you can download SIFE Career Corner podcasts for FREE via iTunes. Just login to iTunes, click Podcasts and search "SIFE Career Corner."

Enactus Career Corner
SIFE Career Corner featuring Southern Wine & Sealed Air

Enactus Career Corner

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2012 24:21


Featured guest: Suzi Potts, Director - Recruiting, Southern Wine & Spirits and Becky Nogueira, Global Talent Acquisition Manager from Sealed Air Corporation. Have a question for Suzi or Becky? Email careerconnections@sife.org or tweet using the hashtag #SIFEcc!Next show: TBAWe're taking a break this summer. Enjoy your internship, summer job or a little fun in the sun.  Remember, you can download SIFE Career Corner podcasts for FREE via iTunes. Just login to iTunes, click Podcasts and search "SIFE Career Corner."

DairyReporter Podcast
Packaging shows 'France means cheese', but the UK also a story to tell: Sealed Air Cryovac

DairyReporter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2012 5:56


'France means cheese' to many people, due in part to brands' skilful use of packaging to stress provenance, as Sealed Air Cryovac's packaging designer Sam Clough told DairyReporter.com in this exclusive podcast recorded at Packforum Cheese 360 in Paris last Thursday.

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