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Panel: Generating High Productivity Through Training and Total Workforce Engagement
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Panel: Generating High Productivity Through Training and Total Workforce Engagement

What does investing in your people look like on a day-to-day ongoing basis? How does the workforce contribute to steady cumulative improvements as the engine of long-term culture change and improved productivity? Discussing motivational tools that solicit grassroots contributions: Competition, recognition, entertainment, and a sense of accomplishment Offering examples where training, mentorship, job shadowing, and cycling through different job functions improves retention, job satisfaction, and contributes to improved performance How far can a culture of continuous improvement and total workforce engagement permeate an organization?

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Digital Enterprise – Implement Now
MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

Digital Enterprise – Implement Now

The technical prerequisites for Industry 4.0 are available. Digitalization is actively gaining competitive advantages. Now is the time to implement. Experience the Digital Transformation now taking place across various industries. Siemens case study of time, cost, quality results achieved from their own digitalization journey Learn the advantages of industries working together utilizing intelligent, predictive models (Digital Twins) Illustrative examples presented to explain how virtual and real are being connected across the entire value chain — Michael Schroeder Portfolio Development Executive CPG and SHF Siemens PLM Software Michael Schroeder is Portfolio Development Executive for Siemens Consumer Products and Retail Product Lifecycle…

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Building the Manufacturing Capabilities for the Future to Enable Healthcare Transformation
MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

Building the Manufacturing Capabilities for the Future to Enable Healthcare Transformation

Recognizing and acknowledging the major healthcare trends and disruptors How does embracing these trends impact manufacturing capabilities and the end-to-end Supply chain organization? How are we developing a bold and holistic manufacturing transformation strategy, framework and deployment approach to address these implications and meet future customer and market expectations? Offering insights into how to connect and seamlessly integrate the Technology Innovation Process (Mode 2) with the “Operational World” (Mode 1) for broad adoption and deployment across business segments Sharing of critical success factors for implementation of this manufacturing and technology transformation to drive sustainable business and customer impact: Emphasizing the…

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Augmented Reality on the Shop Floor
MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

Augmented Reality on the Shop Floor

How are new tools like augmented reality changing and improving the way we operate? What challenges have limited the scope of this sort of technology until recently, and what has changed? Working with industry partners and collaborators to develop in-house expertise to get the most out of these new capabilities Walking through real-world examples where augmented reality is the difference-maker driving improved performance in our operations Demonstrating the scalability of augmented reality on the shop floor: What can other organizations learn from our experience? — Derrick Register VP, Supply Chain Coca-Cola Refreshments Derrick is a highly motivated leader who believes…

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Impacts of Cultural Change in Under-Performing Facilities
MANUFACTURING, LIFE SCIENCES, VIDEO

Impacts of Cultural Change in Under-Performing Facilities

Michael Brice, VP Offset Operations at INX International Ink Co., led a roundtable lunch-and-learn discussion entitled, “Impacts of Cultural Change in Under-Performing Facilities” at the 2017 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit. In this video he shares why he chose this topic and how the lunch conversation went. — Michael Brice is a 31-year printing ink industry veteran.  He has served in every capacity:  lab technician, colormatching, manufacturing, inplant technician and management, sales and senior level management.  Mike became Chief Operating Officer of Superior Printing Inks in 2000 and named is President and COO in 2003.  He also…

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Why are Manufacturers Moving to the Cloud?
MANUFACTURING, SUPPLY CHAIN — NA, VIDEO

Why are Manufacturers Moving to the Cloud?

Jon Chorley is Group Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle’s Supply Chain Management Applications and leads the team responsible for driving the business requirements and product roadmaps for these applications. These solutions include product lifecycle management, asset lifecycle management, value chain planning and order fulfillment. Mr. Chorley is also the Chief Sustainability Officer for Oracle Corporation. In this role, Jon drives and coordinates all initiatives, both internal and external, related to environmental sustainability. This responsibility covers all areas from IT infrastructure, business operation, and corporate reporting and risk management. Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help…

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