Manufacturing Insights Podcast

The new technology requirements for sustainable agriculture extend past tractors into digital solutions for tracking carbon and reducing cost.

Neurodivergence can help engineering teams perceive new patterns in data. Digital tools can do the same thing. Companies should embrace both.

Digital technology can help manufacturers right-size the labor force and to deliver manufacturing a workforce that’s ready for digital transformation.

Implementing digital factory twins helped this manufacturer reduce costs amidst a labor shortage.

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are transforming manufacturing as we know it. In this podcast, Panasonic’s veteran AI expert shares how companies today can harness the AI capacities of tomorrow.

How does architectural sustainability impact your decision to offshore, nearshore, or reshore? According to an architect, if you’re not future-looking when you plan your buildings, you’re not going to build products that meet the future’s needs.

In the face of economic headwinds, manufacturers have to maintain their most precious resource: cash. Quick decisions can protect manufacturers from cash burn and turn an economic crisis into a competitive opportunity.

What does it take to get to an accurate should cost? Is that price tag worth the investment? And what’s the cost of not doing so? In this episode of the podcast, Kearney’s Lead Partner for Europe Dominik Leisinger leans on his industry experience to explain Cost to Cost.

How can manufactures cope with supply chain shortages and deliver the smart products their consumers are asking for? And what sort of smart consumer appliances will CPOs need to support in the future? Rob Lidster, Chief Procurement Officer of GE Appliances, gives us the answers.

A strategy of outsourcing the easiest jobs to the cheapest labor environment may seem like a win, but it misses out on the full potential of innovations emerging from APAC and benefiting the global enterprise. Hank Marcy, Senior Global VP at Hitachi, Bissel, and Whirlpool, shares how modularizing your product line can reap untold benefits for a global manufacturer.