Manufacturing Leadership Journal

The Manufacturing Leadership Journal April 2023

Bold Ideas for a Better Future

Data Mastery: Slow to Mature but Essential

Manufacturers show some progress with data mastery efforts, but much opportunity for growth exists.

Achieving Data Mastery through Literacy and Standardization

Setting clear objectives and ensuring cohesiveness can enable manufacturers to be deliberate and intentional in executing a data strategy.

AI in Manufacturing: 11 Focus Areas to Consider

Accelerating the use of AI can result in substantial benefits, but manufacturers need a practical understanding of the best applications.

Operationalizing Analytical Insights

The key to agility is a strategic approach to harnessing data flows in real time using today’s digital tools.

Unlocking Data-Driven Manufacturing’s Power

The challenge of decoding and using data to drive strategic outcomes and unlock value.

The Journey to Analytics Maturity

How can manufacturing organizations progress from descriptive to prescriptive analytics on their journey to data analytics maturity?

How Best Practices in Data Analytics Drive Maintenance Maturity

Insights that convert into actions can improve equipment reliability, span the enterprise, and boost the bottom line.

The Data Monetization Wave Picks Up Speed

The generative AI tool ChatGPT has raised the competitive stakes, requiring manufacturers to embrace the discipline with greater urgency.

The Hammer Versus Nails Strategy for Data Analytics

Taking a pragmatic approach to data analytics by focusing on business goals rather than technology alone.

“The challenge is how do we tear the traditional processes down to introduce a new data solution that drives improvement? That’s the greatest part in all this. It’s re-imagining the way things are done.”

Jacey Heuer,
Pella Corporation

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Also in this issue

Dialogue: Developing Pella’s Data Driven Culture

Creating a culture where all employees understand the importance of data to driving operational improvements and value is crucial to…

Case Study: The Future Starts with Citizen Data Scientists

How IBM is developing the next generation of transformation-drivers by turning supply chain SMEs into Citizen Data Scientists

New Members of the MLC

Introducing the latest new members to the Manufacturing Leadership Council.

M2030: More Robots, Better Jobs. But How?

Advanced robotics could create better manufacturing jobs, increase productivity, and help solve workforce shortages by 2030. But there’s no guarantee.

Leaning Into the Future

Lean approaches, improved agility, and a culture of servant leadership are key to future industry success, believes EnerSys SVP Patrice…

Creating a Listening Culture

Listening to employees and their ideas helps drive new ways of doing business, says Worthington VP, Joe Resko.

Building Boeing’s Future

Developing talent, ensuring workforce safety, and scaling breakthrough digital transformations in production are key priorities for Boeing VP, Scott Stocker.

Enabling the Circular Economy

USM’s goal is to foster a closed loop program that recycles both metallic and non-metallic materials to be put back…

Thinking Beyond Normal

Leaders need to be ready to think and act outside the normal lanes of operation and stay ahead of future…

Coping With Volatility

Manufacturing needs to adopt a more flexible, resilient approach to global supply chains, believes Madison Industries’ Filtration Group CPO Tim…

Cyber Paradigm Shift

OT cybersecurity has new importance for the future, believes Dragos VP, Peter Vescuso.

Learning from Disruption

The disruptive impact of the pandemic has highlighted the importance of more flexible, demand-driven approaches that can adapt to sudden…

The Culture is the Company

Fostering a culture of collaboration, partnership, and agility is key to leadership success, believes ALOM Technologies’ CEO Hannah Kain.

Disruption Will Be Business as Usual

Supply chain resiliency and agility are manufacturing’s highest priorities in a world where disruption will become the new business normal,…

Predictive Opportunities Ahead

Targeted automation projects harnessing predictive analytics will help manufacturers become more efficient, agile, and flexible while maintaining great quality, believes…

Survey: Smarter Factories Are on the Way

Manufacturers will be pressing ahead with their M4.0 investments as they expand their digital deployments in operations, a new MLC…

Survey: Sustainability Momentum Surges Dramatically

Sustainability is rapidly becoming one of the key drivers of industrial transformation for the rest of the decade, reveals the…

Survey: More Expect M4.0 Tech Adoption to Increase

A new MLC survey reveals that rapid technology adoption continues as manufacturers deploy transformative technologies to reshape how work gets…

SURVEY: Manufacturers Get Tough on Cybersecurity

More companies are taking a disciplined approach to dealing with the growing threat of cyber attacks, a new MLC survey…

SURVEY: Digital Leadership Playbook Still Work in Progress

In manufacturing’s new digital era, the requirements for leadership are evolving just as rapidly as the technology that is underpinning…

SURVEY: Manufacturing Supply Disruptions to Last Well Into 2023

A new MLC survey warns that disruption could continue for as long as two years as manufacturers strive to adopt…

SURVEY: Future Outlook: Hazy

While pandemic disruptions created a rush to move to M4.0, MLC’s latest Factories of the Future survey finds those plans…

Manufacturing’s Sustainability Challenge: The Race is On

The desire to adopt more sustainable and environmentally responsible practices is now an overwhelming sentiment among manufacturing executives, reveals the…

Pedal to the Metal

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…

Growing Pains

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…