Displaying 7 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "automation".
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420: Seth Potter: Insight Into exocad Without Borders
April 13th, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3d printing, analog workflow, automation, burnout, cad cam, cad designer, canada, clients, crown and bridge, dental, dental education, dental lab, dental mission trips, dental software, dental technician, dental technology, dentist father, digital dentistry, digital workflow, dominican republic, dropbox, efficiency optimization, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship journey, exocad, exocad insights, faith, family influence, freelancing, full arch, hustle, implants, indeed strategy, innovation, lab equipment, lab growth, laboratory, location freedom, milling, missionary dentistry, outsourcing, outsourcing design, paraguay, productivity, remote design, remote work, sailboat life, sailing, scaling, scanning, self taught, startup, systems, technician, travel, voices from the bench, wetransfer, work life balance, workflow efficiency
This week, we talk with Seth Potter, a dental technician living a truly unconventional life—splitting his time between Canada and Paraguay while running a remote design business. From growing up on a sailboat and assisting on missionary dental trips to teaching himself digital workflows, Seth shares how he built a career with exocad rooted in freedom and efficiency. He also dives into the realities of scaling, burnout, and why creating systems—not just working harder—is the key to long-term success.
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417: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 3 with Frederic Rapp, Casey Baldwin, & Darin Lockaby
March 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3shape, 510k, abs, abutments, aesthetics, ai, ai assistant, ai in dentistry, alerts, analytics, api, australia, automation, automation tools, ballroom, barb, blanks, bob cohen, business development, calibration, cam software, canada, case tracking, casey baldwin, ceramart, chairside, characterization, collaboration, communication, consolidation, cost of acquisition, craftsmanship, cross-selling, crown ceram, custom abutments, customer behavior, customer retention, customer service, darren lockerby, dashboards, data, database, dental, dental community, dental lab, dental technician, dental wings, des, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital workflow, dry milling, education, efficiency, elvis, emax, engineering, entrepreneurship, europe labs, exocad, fda compliance, field work, fixed, follow-up, frédéric rapp, future tech, global industry, greatlab, hyperdent, icortica, implant workflow, implants, in-house production, industry trends, innovation, insights, integration, intraoral scanner, ios, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day energy, lab efficiency, lab growth, lab life, lab management system, labday, laboratory, leadership, live podcast, lms, magic touch, manufacturing, margins, materials, mechanical engineering, milling, networking, notes, notifications, oem, onboarding, open implants, opportunity tracking, outsourcing, partnership, plug and play, pm7, pnp, price pressure, private equity, productivity, profitability, programill 7, quality control, rapid prototyping, real-time data, relationships, removable, reporting, reps, revenue growth, rob nazel, sales strategy, scalability, scaling, scheduling, software, stock abutments, tasks, team building, technician, technology, tie bases, training, turnaround time, upselling, us labs, validation, voice input, voices from the bench, wet milling, workflow, workflow control, zirconia
Live from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day 2026, Elvis and Barb talk with Frederic Rapp about his journey from a small family lab to scaling a 150-person operation and now helping labs unlock their data with icortica. Then Casey Baldwin (Ivoclar) and Darin Lockaby (DESS) join to break down their new plug-and-play workflow for milling FDA-compliant abutments in-house—giving labs more control and better margins.
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416: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 2 with Rob Fletcher, Don Bell & Andreas Klie
March 16th, 2026 | 1 hr 26 mins
aces, ai, automation, bottlenecks, case entry, ceramart, chicago, collaboration, data entry, dental, dental labs, dental technicians, digital workflow, education, efficiency, full arch, fusion bar, implant bars, industry partnerships, innovation, ivoclar, lab day, lab management systems, lab technology, laboratory, lean manufacturing, materials, milling centers, ocr, panthera, photogrammetry, process improvement, productivity, prosthetics, rx scanning, technician, voices from the bench, workflow, zirconia, zirconia veneers
Live from the stage at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2026, the podcast talks with Rob Fletcher about ACES, an AI-powered system that reads handwritten prescriptions and automatically enters cases into a lab management system—helping labs eliminate one of their biggest workflow bottlenecks. Then Don Bell and Andreas Klie join the conversation to discuss the collaboration between Ivoclar and Panthera Dental, exploring how Fusion Bar technology and new materials are streamlining full-arch restorations while expanding education for technicians and clinicians.
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401: Seth Smith and Ryan Alexander: From Chaos to Clicks: The GreatLab.io Upgrade
December 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai mapping, automation, bad scans, booking, capacity planning, case management, cloud-based, communication, crm, data migration, dental, dental lab, digital dentistry, digital workflow, doctor communication, ds core, efficiency, greatlab.io, integrations, itero, lab operations, lab software, laboratory, lms, medit, onboarding, paperless, production tracking, scan quality, scanhub, shipping integration, task management, technician, technician workflow, vitality dental arts, voices from the bench
Seth Smith from Greatlab.io joins the podcast to share how his team built a modern, automation-driven lab management system that streamlines booking, communication, scanning, and workflow for labs of all sizes. Ryan Alexander from Vitality Dental Arts explains how switching to GreatLab dramatically reduced calls, sped up case processing, improved technician efficiency, and transformed their day-to-day operations almost overnight.
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334: Optimizing Your Workflow Through Automation with Kris Wouters & OQCAM
August 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 secs
3d printing, ai, artificial intelligence, automation, belgium, cloud based, computer power, dental, implants, labels, laboratory, optimize, organize, orientation strategy, podcast, prioritize, scaling, simplant, technician, value, voices from the bench
Nobody enjoys the boring work in a lab. This week we meet Kris Wouters, the CEO of OQCAM. OQCAM is looking at using AI to help automate many of the tasks associated in a dental lab's digital workflow and allow labs more time to do better work. All size labs can benefit from this service.
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331: Fun in the Sun at the FDLA with Enja Dorchuluun, Bart Cothran, & Fernando DeLeon
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
aacd, aidite, automation, board, bubbles, captek, ceramist, change growth, copier, dental, digital dentures, duplexes, evident, facd, farm, giving back, heat, heygears, hr, hybrids, jensen dental, kol, laboratory, learning curve, miyo, owner, pm7, podcast, president, pucks, reflection, shade, structure, teaching, technician, voices from the bench, wine, wine toss, zircon zahn
Thanks to the amazing people at Jensen Dental, we got to set up at the Florida Dental Laboratory Symposium in Orlando, Florida back in June. This week brings three wonderful conversations with Enja Dorchuluun, Bart Cothran, & Fernando DeLeon
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209: Back at LMT Lab Day Chicago Part 1: Christina & Brian Heaslip, Katie Boteler, and Jonathan Thompson
March 28th, 2022 | 58 mins 37 secs
automation, blind date, burs, cam, dental, dentures, digital, dipping, family, instagram, laboratory, milling, podcast, pre-sinter staining, processing, removables, technician, voices from the bench
We are so happy that lab conventions are back and this week we bring you three conversations that happened during the 2022 LMT Lab Day Chicago show from the Preat booth. Joining us is Christina & Brian Heaslip, Katie Boteler, and Jonathan Thompson.