Thomas McMann

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627 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Making it in Manufacturing · If You're Not Using AI in Validation Yet, You're Already Behind - Bruce Klopfenstein · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

And could you share the most expensive small oversight you've seen on a project?

When you think of it, a valve, like on the size of a huge production facility, a small little valve is the reason, and you have to go back.

It's just, there's so many components.

Yeah, it's the classic heads of QA.

Yeah.

Okay.

So having worked on both sides, where do you feel you had more control and where did you feel you had more stress?

I wouldn't want to be that way.

Yeah, no, it's really interesting because I feel like there's not many open discussions out there accessible, I guess, around both sides of it and what it's really like.

So it's good to share some real life stories and some examples and things from your experience.

We've mentioned a little bit about delays on projects and things, obviously.

It seems like every project these days is delayed for whatever reason.

Could you tell me about maybe the worst delay that you've personally experienced and been involved with that you've had to...

the problem in pharma i find is that everybody's like no we're different we want to tweak this and you know the process people just go on and on and somehow the oil and gas industry is an interesting one because i know that there's a lot of mechanical engineers that cross over from from oil and gas that will come over to the epc side that will do a lot of the piping um flushing a lot or like turnover type type side of things and and they're they're

They typically have worked at a higher standard with higher regs from that perspective on the oil and gas.

There's loads of that type of skill set that have moved over just because there isn't enough people to help with the amount of facilities that are popping up.

But yeah, it's interesting.

It's too complex, I guess.

So this might be a hard question.

So why are the projects delayed?

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