Two sides of the same factory,
finally in one room.
We are Matt Barber and Kunal Wagh — one from the software vendor side, one from the factory floor. Smart Factory Gurus exists because nobody was teaching what actually happens in the gap between the two.
The room where nobody agrees on what "smart" means.
Between us, we have sat on both sides of more smart factory conversations than we can count — in the room where a vendor pitches a platform, and in the room six months later where the factory floor tries to make it work. Those two rooms rarely talk to each other, and the gap between what gets sold and what gets used is where most transformation programmes quietly go wrong.
We had each been writing and talking about it separately for years — Matt from the vendor world, Kunal from the manufacturing side. The response made one thing obvious: people did not want another platform pitch. They wanted both perspectives, straight, from people who had lived on each side of the divide. That became Smart Factory Gurus, and Smart Factory Core, the course that puts both perspectives in one place.
One from each side of the gap
Three rules we hold ourselves to
One course, built from both sides
Six modules across process, technology, people and data — the complete grounding, in build now with early access open.
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