The Robot Industry Podcast

Automate 2026 Pre-show Edition with Leuze's Chris Round and Kojo Kyei-Baffour

The Robot Industry Podcast

Show Notes

Hello Everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, #Automate2026 edition.

My friend Chris Round and new friend Kojo are joining me for podcast #162. We are talking about sensors and Leuze is one of the premier safety sensor manufacturers in Europe.

Who is Leuze, what do you make?

What is a sensor? If I open one up what will I see?

What are people interested in sensing? Is there a trend?

How are you different?

What is happening in sensing from a high-level perspective?

Data question.

How do people buy sensors? Distribution or direct?

Who do you sell to? Are they machine builders or end customers, end users?

What are customers looking for, and what is keeping them up at night?

Any other trends? Are people spending more money? Do you also provide any other devices for sensing like cables or sensor brackets?

What is the future of sensing?

Automate question, what are you showing at the booth? Goals for the show?

What is your booth #?

Let me know what is missing?

Leuze Electronic, Inc.

2150 Northmont Parkway, Suite N Duluth, GA 30096

Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production, and my business partner Janet.

And I would like to thank my Senior Audio Software Engineer, Geoff Bremner and you can find more information on his Linketree, linktr.ee/gbaudio

Be safe out there!

Jim

Jim Beretta

Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

London, ON

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