--- title: "VIDEO PODCAST: How Datanomix Decides What to Build Next (Hint: You Tell Us)" date: 2026-06-15 14:33:03 description: "Gabe Maentz, VP of Solutions at Datanomix, walks through products that didn't exist a few years ago, and what put them on the roadmap." keywords: "Gabe Maentz" categories: [Media Buzz, Podcast Interviews, Tony Gunn Podcast Interviews] tags: [Customer Impact, Gabe Maentz, Manufacturing Technology, Podcast, Production Intelligence, Production Monitoring, Tony Gunn] --- ## Gabe Maentz, VP of Solutions at Datanomix, sits down with Tony Gunn to walk through four products that didn’t exist a few years ago — and the customer conversations that put them on the roadmap. _“I’m in the business of making parts, not charts.”_ That’s what a customer told Gabe Maentz one day on the shop floor. It’s the line that sums up how Datanomix decides what to build next. Charts for the sake of charts don’t make anyone money. Charts that tell you what to do with the next hour, the next shift, the next maintenance window to make more?  [That’s a different conversation](https://datanomix.io/machine-monitoring-makes-money/). [Gabe Maentz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-maentz/), our VP of Solutions, sat down with [**Tony Gunn on The Machinists Club Podcast**](https://open.spotify.com/show/5HKabv0dFglWyGi5W7WThs) to walk through four requests that started with a customer saying, “Hey Datanomix, could you…,” and ended up shipped inside the Datanomix platform. ### Four Product Enhancements. Four Customer Asks. Gabe and Tony cover Datanomix [**Playbooks**](https://datanomix.io/2026/03/26/datanomix-playbooks/)**, **[**Planned Maintenance**](https://datanomix.io/2026/01/05/planned-maintenance-shouldnt-break-your-data/)**, **[**G-Code Cloud + DNC**](https://datanomix.io/g-code-cloud/)**, and **[**Spotlight Dashboard**](https://datanomix.io/2025/12/05/spotlight-dashboard-spotlight-view/). The through-line isn’t about features. It’s where they came from. **Playbooks** came from customers saying their teams shouldn’t have to hunt and peck through a product to find the data that matters at the morning huddle, the mid-afternoon break, or the end-of-shift wrap-up. We built a way to put the right plays in front of the right roles at the right time. The two-minute drill, for machining. **Planned Maintenance** came from a customer who said, “Your delivery projections are great, but you don’t know I’m taking that machine down for six hours on Friday.” We did the only honest thing. We built maintenance scheduling into our [Production Monitoring Platform](https://datanomix.io/production-monitoring/) so the projections actually reflect reality. Now shops have one less spreadsheet to live in. **G-Code Cloud + DNC** came from the simple truth that the brains of how you make a part shouldn’t live on a thumb drive in someone’s pocket. Full traceability. Version control. Audit-ready for [CMMC 2.0 compliance](https://datanomix.io/tag/cmmc/). The right programs, in front of the right people, every time. **Spotlight Dashboard** came from customers wanting to see patterns across machines, not just one at a time. When three milling machines all go down right after break, that’s the kind of thing you only spot when you’re looking at the forest, not the tree. ### What’s Coming Next Tony tried to pry the roadmap out of him. Gabe gave up two things he was willing to put on the record: deeper integration with the systems shops already run. ERP, scheduling, maintenance, and digitizing the analog stuff that still floats around every facility (whiteboards, travelers, sticky notes). If you’ve ever lost a piece of paper that cost you a job, you know exactly what he’s talking about. Have you ever lost a piece of paper that cost you a job? If you’ve got an idea for what we should build next, Gabe meant it. [Contact us](https://datanomix.io/contact/) today or get a hold of your [Customer Success Coach](mailto:success@datanomix.io). We’re listening. ### More From the Manufacturers Who Built This With Us Gabe’s whole point is that [Datanomix Products](https://datanomix.io/data-powered-production/) get better because customers tell us what’s broken in their day. Want to see what our customers say themselves? [Browse Customer Stories](https://datanomix.io/kick-ass-coaching/) ## FIRST DOWN WEBINAR SERIES: Moving the Chains in Production & Performance Steady progress doesn’t come from one big play. It’s built one first down at a time. [Learn About It](https://datanomix.io/first-down-webinars/)