True North podcast #7 with Robert Feldmann (Microsoft)

Building for tomorrow, not just solving today’s problem.On True North 🧭, I sat down with Robert Feldmann, Director of Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft — formerly Associate Partner at McKinsey and today also an industrial advisor to Timeseer.AI.  At Microsoft, Robert helps manufacturers bridge the gap between shop-floor reality and cloud-scale AI, shaping how industrial companies move from automation to autonomy.Key takeaways: 🧠 AI is a processing engine. ⛽ Data quality is the fuel. ❌ No trusted data, no reliable outcomes (+ why).We also touched on: 🧩 Fragmented industrial knowledge 🔁 Broken OT–IT workflows ⚡ Energy & compute constraints 🏭 Why factories that don’t adapt may disappear 🚀 AI as a platform shift, not a bubbleNo hype. Just what needs to be true for AI to work in industrial reality.🎙️ True North Podcast