Overview
Based in Ghent, Batist founded Azumuta to address the digitalization gap on the manufacturing shop floor. The platform helps production teams replace paper-based work instructions, checklists, and quality audits with structured digital workflows, improving compliance and reducing errors.
LinkedIn Voice
Posting style: Bold and agenda-setting. Heavy focus on events and manufacturing advocacy. Posts read as rally calls for European industry rather than product pitches. Consistent voice promoting Azumuta's Re:Manufacture and Re:Connect events. Key themes: European manufacturing competitiveness, Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 transition, geopolitical pressure on European industry, Azumuta events (Re:Manufacture, Re:Connect), Digital Transformation on the shop floor Avg engagement: 42 likes, 2 comments Notable post: Re:Manufacture event at Wintercircus Ghent, featuring Bart De Wever and ex-ASML CEO Peter Wennink, with live energy updates during the day (69 likes, 2 comments)
Career history
In the news
- Peter De Groote already recommended this book, but I'll do it again. There is so much one-dimensional p(doom) talk, it's crazy. The discourse around AI is so flat... (except at the Azumuta lunch table, but that's for another time 😁) The book is great, here are some takes from it. (At least, in my reading of it - it might be mixed with some other input) * It's survival of the most fitted all the way down. 🐢 * We tend to anthropomorphize everything, we even say "the bacteria are searching for food" while it's really 'just'
- Factories are full of advanced machines and robots, but a surprising number of the processes around them are still analog. Mediaplanet Belgium just released a full campaign on innovation, and who better to talk about innovation on the shop floor than our own Batist Leman? In the article he explains how AI captures what your most experienced people know, turning a video of someone doing the job into a work instruction anyone can follow. Read the full article (in Dutch) here: https://lnkd.in/ec4M8DDn
- Conflict, Dialectics, Tension - Yes, that's where unions live. 😅 That's what this conversation is about. (ep3) * Automation & robotics promise a future of abundance. But will it cause layofs? * Does protecting people in the short term, cause competitive disadvantages? * Does respecting privacy cause a data deficiency? (important for AI) These are some of the things I tried to cover with Stijn Gryp, national secretary of Belgium's largest trade union. (Not a Luddite!) "Don't complain, suggest what's better" is a slogan I picked
- Belgium's national radio & television channel VRT stopped by for a quick interview with Batist Leman about what makes Ghent, and this specific (secret 🤫) location such a thriving place for manufacturing innovation. We'll share the results once it's live!
- Who wants to test this? 🙂 Easy to set up, 100% local - data never leaves your PC, saves hours of analysis work!
- Welcome Valentijn Kint, great to have you on our team!
- Plato is nice, but count me in the Aristotle camp! 🫣 This research deserves more attention than it does. AI is already Rationalist, this is a glimpse of it becoming an Empiricist. The moment AI experiments with the speed it's currently writing code... damn, we're in for a treat! 😱 🔥 😀 https://lnkd.in/e2Vw6XJR
- A Panini sticker book with the most impactful people in manufacturing ⚙️, now that would be great! 😀 📘 We made something very close, but even more interesting though, an manifesto of our Re:manufacture event! 😁 ... Peter Wennink talking about the day ASML got hit with US export controls and what it actually cost them. Tom Van de Weghe making the room uncomfortable about how little most European companies actually understand China. Stéphane Garelli explaining why the new world order is dead. And much more! 🔥 And even more
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