ASSEMBLY Audible
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How to Make Lean Stick on the Shop Floor
How to Make Lean Stick on the Shop Floor
About this podcast
The ASSEMBLY Audible podcast explores the people, processes and technologies for assembling parts into finished products. Whether you make large products in small volumes or small products in large volumes, our goal is to provide insights, ideas and inspiration you can put to work. Have a topic you would like to learn more about? Guest suggestions? Email [email protected].
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Episodes
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- How to Make Lean Stick on the Shop Floor · 20 minWhy do continuous improvement efforts lose momentum? In this episode, Dr. Shannon Flumerfelt explains how manufacturers can sustain lean by applying structured problem-solving…
- Why Lean Fails Without Leadership on the Assembly Line · 21 minWhy do so many lean initiatives fail to deliver lasting results? In this episode, Dr. Shannon Flumerfelt explains how leadership—not tools—determines success on the assembly…
- Building a Safety Culture That Goes Beyond Compliance · 20 minIn this special joint episode of ASSEMBLY Audible and Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, Rodney Rodavich, Vice President of Global Health and Safety at TE Connectivity, discusses…
- Scout Motors Spurs Supplier Growth Across South Carolina · 17 minWhen Scout Motors announced plans to build a new electric vehicle plant in South Carolina, the story quickly became bigger than the factory itself. In this episode of ASSEMBLY…
- The New Rules of Lean Manufacturing · 16 minManufacturers have spent decades optimizing for efficiency, but Steve Ilmrud, vice president of operations at Hexagon, says today's environment demands a greater focus on…
- Why Supplier Trust Takes Decades to Rebuild in Automotive Manufacturing · 18 minSupplier trust in automotive manufacturing can take decades to build — and decades to lose. Dr. Angela Johnson explains why organizational memory, purchasing culture and…
- Manufacturing Automation, Cobots and the Future of Industrial Robotics · 21 minManufacturing automation is evolving beyond simple robot deployment toward more flexible, intelligent and adaptable production systems. In this second episode of our two-part…
- Designing Manufacturing Automation for Long-Term Success · 20 minAutomation projects rarely fail because of the robots themselves. In this special two-part episode of ASSEMBLY Audible, Moises Furlanetto of Flex and Keith Fox of Universal…
- Why Simulation Could Unlock the Next Generation of Industrial Robotics · 22 minTraining robots in the real world is slow, expensive and often impractical for modern manufacturing. In this episode of ASSEMBLY Audible, Bill O'Farrell and Yunzhu Li…
- Pallets and Crates Should be Recycled & Create Revenue · 18 minBrad and Jake Boulware describe how their company has an alternative solution to the landfill for wooden Pallets and Crates. Details the current problem manufactures and…
- Defense Supply Chain Has a Confidence Problem, Not a Capacity Problem · 26 minMany assume the defense industrial base can't increase production because manufacturers lack capacity, but Boston Consulting Group's Justin Rodriguez argues the real challenge is…
- AI Helped Cut Lead Times 77% at a Global Lighthouse Factory · 16 minArtificial intelligence is transforming manufacturing, but successful implementation starts with solving real business problems — not deploying technology for its own sake. In…
- Manufacturers Know When a Machine Fails. They Often Don’t Know What Happened Next · 16 minManufacturers have become exceptionally good at collecting machine data. But what happens to the human knowledge generated when something goes wrong? In this episode, Nikhil…
- What Manufacturers Need to Know About Humanoid Robot Deployment · 15 minHumanoid robots are moving closer to real factory deployment, but manufacturers still face major challenges around safety, testing, repeatability and workforce integration. Bruce…
- How Detroit’s Auto Manufacturing Expertise Is Helping Build America’s Drone Industry · 23 minKeith Miao, CEO and founder of Birdstop, explains why the Detroit-based company is building autonomous drones around the automotive supply base and why domestic production has…
- Can American Manufacturing Compete? The Impacts of “Made in America” Production · 19 minDECKED committed to U.S. manufacturing long before reshoring became a major trend. CEO Bill Banta explains how automation, supply chain control and rapid product iteration are…
- ASSEMBLY Audible: Why Lean Manufacturing Fails—and How to Make It Work · 20 minLean manufacturing doesn’t fail because of the tools—it fails when leaders lose touch with the plant floor. Dr. Terra Vanzant-Stern, author of Leaner Manufacturing: How to Make…
- Manufacturing Leadership Advice That Actually Works on the Plant Floor · 13 minManufacturing leadership advice often sounds great — until the line goes down at 2 a.m. Julian M. Allen, Jr., manufacturing veteran and author of Operational Leadership…
- ASSEMBLY Audible: Inside the Self-Driving Factory Lab · 16 minGeorgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility is using AI, robotics and autonomous experimentation to accelerate manufacturing development. Dr. Tom Kurfess explains how…
- Why AI in Manufacturing Depends on Fixing Factory Data · 16 minManufacturers are investing heavily in AI and automation, but many still can’t access or organize the data needed to make those systems useful. Aron Semle, CTO of HighByte…
