Michelle Ross

A 20oz. plastic bottle of cherry coke takes Blaine Price right back to the summer of 1994. Learn more about our DevOps engineer right here as he answers some intriguing questions.

Employee engagement is fundamental to keeping your workers loyal. What is up for debate is what actually keeps your employees engaged. In part four of our blog series “Retain Your Manufacturing Workers With These 7 Modern Benefits,” we’ve listed various employee engagement ideas for you to test out.

Our co-founder and CEO, Joe Weaver, talks about Ario’s knowledge-sharing platform on the podcast Automating the Chain. Listen to the show for yourself to see how we can help you streamline operations and boost productivity.

Revamp your vacation policies and travel practices rulebook to improve employee retention rates. Read how travel and time-off can strengthen your team in part 3 of our blog series “Retain Your Manufacturing Workers With These 7 Modern Benefits.”

Did you know that our marketing coordinator, Michelle Ross, also writes fiction and knows how to make paper from scratch? To find out what she thinks wastes the most time in her life and other interesting tidbits, take a look at the next post in our meet the team series.

If you think empowering employees will make them leave for greater opportunities, think twice. Promoting professional development is a proven strategy to earn workforce loyalty. Find out why in part 2 of our blog series “Retain Your Manufacturing Workers With These 7 Modern Benefits.”

We’re kicking off a new blog series: “Retain Your Manufacturing Workers With These 7 Modern Benefits.” Up first, we’re looking at family benefits and perks you can offer to make your company more competitive in the labor market. Happy parents statistically means higher productivity.

Did you know our junior QA engineer, Adam Becerra, has a podcast and YouTube channel? Here are a few fun facts about Adam...for example, he tries to never order the same food off the menu twice and is "practically obsessed" with Tesla.

Millennials are now the majority workforce. The energy and utilities industry must develop strategies to recruit and retain Gen-Y. That said, E & U companies already have advantages built into your business when it comes to appealing to the millennial mindset...but what are they?

Sometimes manufacturers have no choice but to hire unskilled labor, but how do you go about looking for the right candidates who’ve got potential? And once you’ve got new recruits, how do you train them? We’ve got four realistic strategies for you.

What if we told you there are thousands of workers looking for the kind of jobs you offer? They want work that’s not only reliable but offers a career path, exactly what manufacturing provides. Where can you find all these great workers? Take a look at our list of 7 unexpected types of workers you can hire to kick the labor shortage.

Monitoring equipment doesn’t have to be a headache. If your team is ready to tackle condition-based maintenance, you will need sensors, cameras and other analytical devices to predict equipment failures. Have you heard of these 8 innovative tools that you can use to collect data on your machines and cut back on downtime costs?

Eric Hedden loves mindfulness meditation and woodworking. He designed his first computer animation when he was five on an Amiga 1000, happens to live one mile from the first house he’s ever lived in, and has performed songs at cathedrals in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Italy.

Get to know the Ario team. Next up, Raj Sathianarayanan who we recruited from Boston and convinced to move on down to Norfolk, Virginia, for some warmer weather and beach vibes. Raj has visited over 20 countries (goal is 50!) and is mixed handed.

Developers are everywhere. Your life wouldn’t be what it is today without their fingerprints on a software system you take for granted. You wake up to an alarm on your phone. Dev. You find your podcast app and play the morning news while you dress. Dev. How do they do it? If you’re a nondev and are never planning to be a dev, we’ve broken down the steps to their creative process in a quick, digestible way.

We meant to issue this in a press release, but we were busy curating our playlists. Ario would like to announce ten new accidental hires. They were originally hired for ops or design or bizdev, but are transitioning to the roles of disc jockeys. With this new responsibility, they will be wearing ironic trucker hats, swapping out their keyboards for turntables, and reporting to the CMO (Chief Music Officer). They will not actually be doing any of these things, because we’re joking. In all seriousness, we did put together our working playlists, so if you’re looking for something new to listen to, we’ve got you covered.

Are you a developer pro? How about a connoisseur of crosswords? Try and complete our dev jargon puzzle without scrolling down for the answers.

Many baby boomers do not want to retire when they turn 65. Pushing out baby boomers means pushing out years of expertise and acquired knowledge. While younger workers are typically cheaper and less susceptible to illness, they have underdeveloped skills. There’s a way to avoid this conundrum by bringing boomers back into the workforce with different roles.

3D Modeling has been adopted by many industries from architecture to product design, but one industry embraced it early on to tell stories: film. We’ve recounted the history of how 3D modeling found its way into movies, from Pixar to the Disney empire.

A revolution is a rotation. A replacement. A radical change. So what does that mean in context of the industrial revolutions? We’ve quizzed family and friends on the industrial revolutions and discovered most people can’t remember what the different revolutions signified. There’s no need to go back school, we’ve summarized an abridged history of the four industrial revolutions. Strap in. Time and tech move fast.

We know that you are just dying to hear what we’re reading. Probably not, but we will over share anyway. This past month, we’ve discovered some compelling stories on the Internet and compiled our favorite April reads (and products). Although the coronavirus seems to permeate every subject, we saw fascinating new tech products completely unrelated to COVID-19 and interesting tech developments charging through the pandemic.

The transition from working in an office or facility to working from home is always jarring. For the industrial workplace—warehouses, factories, and power plants—the concept of continuing production while working remotely is so absurd it seems like a farce. Fortunately, the digital revolution has provided humanity with several tools to supplement remote work and make this modus operandi highly functional. Here’s a compilation of our thoughts on time management, security, communication, and augmented reality (AR) softwares to help your company maintain operations when working remotely.

Our very own Nate Fender was invited to speak in the webinar “A New Reality: AR/VR Transforming Collaboration.” The event was hosted by Alley, an accelerator program working with entrepreneurs, Fortune 500s, media partners, and corporate partners to “Create Good Change” where substance is valued over style. The webinar featured five panelists, and we’ve pulled our favorite answers to the various questions and topics posed.

Get to know the Ario team. Next up, we have Robert Chrzanowski, our Senior Android Developer. He's a big Texas Pete fan and our resident Bayesian statistics guru. Find out more about this robotics connoisseur as he answers his 10 non-work related questions.

A sanitary facility has become even more imperative since the spread of COVID-19, and enforcing proper cleaning and disinfecting procedures is crucial to maintaining production and saving lives. To help, we’ve delineated the appropriate cleaning methods for hard surfaces, soft surfaces, laundry, air, mobile devices, and yourself. Moreover, we’ve consolidated tips and checklists to keep your company in line to flatten the corona curve.

Get to know the Ario team - starting with our 3D modeling, graphic design slaying, movie-loving Creative Director. He's answered 10 non-work-related questions, telling you more about himself than just his favorite hex code.

Senior iOS developer, Brett Keck, shares his favorite podcasts and dives into why he’s hooked on them. With over 4,000 episodes across the 16 podcasts with themes ranging from Star Wars to trivia to improv comedy and tech - there's certainly plenty to choose from.

Augmented reality is older than your grandparents. It has a “net worth” far surpassing the richest billionaire in the world. And, it’s undergone more makeovers and wardrobe transformations than any performer you can name. Augmented reality is an enigma with a future that has yet to be written. We’ve compiled a short quiz on the history and current events of augmented reality to put your knowledge to the test. How well do you know augmented reality?‍

The Oxford English Dictionary is the queen bee of dictionaries, the A-list gatekeeper who decides which words make it and which words bury and die under incoming novelty. So dear Oxford, we’d like to throw our hat into the ring for the Oxford’s New Words List 2020.

We don’t know if you’ve heard, but we won first place in the Verizon “Built on 5G Challenge” to prepare our product on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband. Thank you, yes, we are thrilled. Yet when we told our family and friends, we promptly discovered most people do not really know what 5G means. We played our own version of MythBusters, and asked friends in the coworking space a few questions about the mysterious 5G.

The theme of Distributech this year was clean energy and decreasing the utility industry’s carbon footprint. A few Ario team members attended the conference in San Antonio, Texas, to show off our platform and observe innovations in electricity transmission and distribution, particularly those advancements addressing climate change. The trip allowed us to reflect on our energy consumption at Ario and how we reduce our carbon footprint.

Our experience at CES 2020: exhibiting, our favorite tech finds and team retreating.