Manufacturing Leadership Journal

The Manufacturing Leadership Journal October/November 2023

Bold Ideas for a Better Future

SURVEY: Manufacturers Go All-In on AI

A growing number of manufacturing organizations have brought AI to the shop floor, and as usage grows, so do aspirations for its future impact, a new MLC survey reveals.

Strategic Scalability: The Key to Realizing Your Factory of the Future

Merging new tech with established operations requires a thoughtful approach and a roadmap for sustainable expansion.

Getting the Most Value from AI Investments

To capitalize on AI, manufacturers must learn how to prepare and analyze their data.

How Immersive Technologies Make Manufacturing More Efficient

Immersive technologies strengthen asset management and bolster smart factories.

Crafting a Permacrisis-Proof Transformation

Rising above digital, technical, and transformational debt to overcome permanent, on-going crises

The Industrial Metaverse May Be Closer Than You Think

Nearly 80% of manufacturing executives seem confident that the metaverse will transform aspects of manufacturing in the next five years,…

Getting Tech Investments to Stick and Deliver ROI

Four fundamentals for realizing maximum potential and business value from technology investments

Scaling in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

How U.S. manufacturers can become technological front-runners.

How a Private Equity Approach Can Drive Auto Suppliers’ EV Transition

By adopting a PE lens, companies can transition more smoothly from legacy internal combustion engine business to the EV market.

AI’s Outcomes Rely On Its Rollout

If done right, AI will revolutionize everything from safety and quality to efficiency and maintenance

M2030: FOMO Can Spark Next Digital Revolution

What the past tells us about an AI and ML enriched future

“It is important to approach collaboration broadly and holistically to get the most out of it – and it is dynamic, you are never done.”

– Bart Talloen
Dialogue: M4.0 Leadership from a Digital Champion

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Dialogue: M4.0 Leadership from a Digital Champion

Johnson & Johnson’s Bart Talloen shares his thoughts on meeting and exceeding customer expectations, supply chain as a competitive differentiator,…

Exploring the Industrial Metaverse

Welcome New Members of the MLC October 2023

Introducing the latest new members to the Manufacturing Leadership Council.

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: Choppy Supply Chain Seas Making Skilled Sailors

MLC’s latest survey reveals continued disruptions and challenges but big shifts in digital technology deployments and supply network geography

Survey: On Board with Technology, At Sea with Strategy

Manufacturing executives want to know what digital transformation can do for their businesses, but an overall plan to find out…

Survey: Data Mastery is Slow to Mature but Essential

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

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…