>> Hello World and Welcome to Microsoft Unboxed.
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Every week, we're bringing you stories of
Microsoft technology and the people behind that technology.
I'm Colleen O'Brien, and I'm joined by my co-host Sonia Dara.
>> Hello.
>> I have a story, Sonia has a story,
but we have no idea what each other's story is.
The theme for today's show is Tech In Manufacturing.
To be honest, I don't really know anything about manufacturing.
>> How could you not?
>> But I do love a factory tour.
I have been on so many factory tours.
I have been to the Theo Chocolate Factory right here in Seattle.
>> I have done that one also. Awesome.
>> I have been to the Tillamook Creamery.
>> That's cheese, right?
>> Yes, delicious cheese,
and I've been to the Tabasco Factory on Avery Island in Louisiana.
>> You said it so spicy.
>> It was very spicy.
I loved to see all the machinery.
I loved to see the history of the factory.
>> Is it like a spoonful of hot sauce
or did you get to play with something?
>> No, you know those little miniature Tabasco sauces?
>> Yeah, I grew up in Atlanta.
So I've been to the Coca-Cola factory slash museum.
They have this fountain area where you'd normally have
irregular sodas you'll try but then
they have it from all around the world.
They would warn you but also let you to try this one called
Beverly which is a Coca-Cola beverage in Italy.
It is so bitter,
and I remember I was like kindergarten.
I tricked my friends with it,
"I got you a sprite."
>> Well, clearly that is the extent
of our factory and manufacturing knowledge.
>> Now, breweries are technically factories.
>> Okay. You are right.
>> We have a lot of breweries in Seattle.
I've been to many of them with you. Yeah.
>> That is true. One of the reasons why we're
talking about tech in manufacturing today is
because Microsoft has a presence over in Germany at
Hannover Messe which is
the biggest manufacturing conference in the world.
Hannover Messe will take place on
April 1st through the 5th in Germany,
and Microsoft is going to have a big booth there on location.
One example of tech optimized operations
in the factory of the future.
>> Factory of the future. I'm picturing the Jetsons.
>> Yes, is Tetra Pak.
Tetra Pak offers processing, packaging,
and service solutions, maintaining
the highest standards of food safety.
They help factory owners better manage how their supply chain,
how their manufacturing process is working.
In a supply chain, if one part breaks down,
it can stop the entire assembly line,
the entire packaging process for days on end,
and sometimes the part in the machine
that you need is not even in your country.
So to solve this problem,
Tetra Pak has connected packaging lines to
the Microsoft Azure Cloud to help
predict informed maintenance timing.
So like predicting when
this issue is going to occur so people can get ahead of it.
They're looking at everything
from the pressure that's getting applied to these sensors,
the temperature of them.
That's what allows them to do these types of predictions.
Because Tetra Pak services a ton of different factories,
they can look at trends across those factories.
>> I wish they can predict things like
that going wrong in my life.
"Hey, so remember that time you messed up
doing this? Don't do it again."
>> Aren't you reading your horoscope?
>> Do you believe in that?
>> Kind of.
>> Colleen O'Brien! I'm disappointed.
>> I just think it's fun.
In addition to all of these analytics,
they're equipping service engineers with HoloLenses.
Right on the factory floor,
a great and tenured and knowledgeable
expert help you get through the maintenance.
It's cost and time-saving initiative here.
>> I'm going to talk about a company called Bühler.
I hope it's called Bühler because I
always think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
which is by far one of my favorite movies ever.
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's
brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows
this kid who's going with a girl who saw
Ferris pass out 31 flavors last night."
Anyways, Bühler.
So we talked about this proverbial needle in a haystack.
How about thinking now about how do you find
a poisonous kernel within a truckload of corn.
>> That is a much more dangerous game.
>> There is this highly carcinogenic mold called aflatoxin.
If one grain is infected,
it can poison the entire harvest,
it can sicken and even potentially kill people or animals.
>> How often is this happening like do we need to be worried?
>> All the time.
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>> We are worried.
>> We are worried. Are we
appropriately worried or we worried enough?
>> It's gets worse. You can't see it,
you can't smell it,
and you can't taste it.
On top of that, it can't be destroyed by heat.
So just like heating anything up that
you would think would normally destroy bacteria,
molds is not susceptible to that.
>> How do you get rid of it?
>> You're so concerned.
>> You just told me there was like corn kernel.
>> Oh, this can grow on more than just corn.
Sorry, it's on everything, dried fruit.
>> We have dried fruit right here.
>> I know, there is dried mango staring at us right now. I know.
Okay, but don't worry. Don't worry.
Don't worry. She's sweating and it's making me sweat.
>> Can we get to the good part?
>> There's still some more bad parts to it.
So with climate change coming in,
the mold is actually expanding to the North because
the stresses on the crops make them more susceptible to mold.
Bühler has actually, since 1965,
been trying to combat this and they've had patents out
there for a sorting machine that can help sort out
the grains but it was just not
commercially viable because it was incredibly
slow and still you had to throw out a big chunk of
healthy harvest they just weren't sure had been contaminated.
In 2016 though, Bühler challenged
their employees to an innovation competition.
Ben Deefholts comes into play.
>> Is he the hero of this story during this?
>> He's the hero.
He along with a bunch of
his other teammates created what is called Lumovision.
They feed grain into a hopper
and it creates this vibratory feeder.
It sends all the grains down the chute at like
a really ridiculous speed 11.5 feet per second.
Then what they have is
this really powerful camera above and they actually have UV light.
There's this fluorescence that comes off the mold.
It illuminates it and then air jets that essentially
shoot the bad kernels out into basically reject bins.
>> I was hoping you're going to say some laser.
>> They're able to do 10-15 tons of maize in one hour.
It's improved from what used to be 25 percent that
would end up getting chocked to only five percent.
So right now, it's just with maize but they're looking to
expand to peanuts, rice, dried fruit,
which I said are still susceptible to it. Crazy, right?
So at Ignite 2018 last year,
Satya announced Bühler Insights.
It's the first secure, reliable,
and intelligent Cloud-based digital
services in food and feed processing.
They're integrating blockchain technology into
their platform so you can actually
trace where the food is coming from the farm,
all the way to the grocery store.
All players along the supply chain,
can tell if they're grains are verified and safe.
>> I'm feeling a little bit better.
>> We'll be better, right?
It was like kind of the end of the world for a moment.
>> We're okay.
>> Bühler is going to help us out, save Ferris.
>> I feel like the right people are focused
on this whole tech and manufacturing thing.
They're ready for the smart factory beyond Industry 4.0.
>> I feel safer to eat my mangoes now.
>> I don't know if I'm there yet.
>> You'll get there.
>> We are about ready to transition
to our final segment outside the box.
I am going to ask a question that has been submitted by you,
our audience, and Sonia here
is going to have 30 seconds to answer.
YouTube viewer, Jeff Mann,
asks, "What is the working environment like at Microsoft?"
>> It's fun. Basically like a college campus out here at Redmond.
I think my day gets to start pretty easy.
It's not this crazy,
has to be nine to five.
I get to interact with a lot of my teammates
and we collaborate a lot of times during the day.
So I'm not just sitting at my desk solo.
I think a really nice collaborative working environment
and we get to do this.
I think I'm related to Goofy.
Our next question comes from YouTube viewer, Andrew.
If you could go anywhere in the world,
where would you go and why?
>> New Zealand because my brother is there right now.
>> Oh! He went from Korea to New Zealand?
Yeah, he's been living internationally for
many years now and I miss him.
I would really like to see him.
>> New Zealand is awesome, pretty cool too.
>> Yeah I'm traveling very vicariously through
all of his social media posts right now.
Thank you to our viewers for submitting those great questions.
If you have something you want to ask us,
just submit your question below or comment below.
>> Remember to subscribe to our channel.
We're going to have a fresh new episodes right off
the factory floor every Thursday at 9:00 AM Pacific.
So make sure you tune in.
I have to do the thumbs up!
>> I know, it is awkward until we do that.
Or it will be more awkward when we do it.
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