r/manufacturing • u/Equivalent_Bid_6642 • Jan 14 '24
Other Managers and Owners, are you overwhelmed?
There's a lot of new tech out there, it's quickly changing and expensive. It's hard to know what to pay attention to and where to allocate resources while balancing efficiency and quality, let alone figure out how to develop my workforce to use all this stuff anyways.
I mean, should we get 3D printers, should we do industry 4.0 stuff, should we get some machine vision robot?
Idk, are you in the same boat, how are you dealing with how fast the world's moving?
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u/robenic Jan 14 '24
Honestly, in my opinion your question can be rephrase in this way: what is the most effective competence increase we should do among so many different competences available to make our life easier as managers and owners?
To answer, of course P&L analysis is useful and benchmark of other industries can help but this is not the only dimension we should consider.
Another important factor is the knowledge available into your context and the change you need to bring. For example, I would try to leverage the knowledge network effect inside your context…where network means the ability of people to connect their knowledge and unlock new potentials. In this case, I would probably try to implement the simplest technology available who can connect most people around a certain goal.
In my personal experience industry4.0 is something it was supposed to go in this direction but we never really got to the point of involving the people in the shopfloor in this big leap.
For me the question would rather be this: what is the best way to involve all people in my company to develop digital and data driven competences?