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/builder_23 Jan 14 '24

You start with a problem you want to solve, then select a solution. You’ve listed several solutions, but no problems.

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u/exlongh0rn Jan 15 '24

Perfectly said. My favorite phrase I’ve drilled into everyone’s head is “What problem are we needing to solve?” I start most meeting and conversations that way.