1. Going Beyond Digital
Transformation:
The Real Innovations in
Manufacturing
Tara Dwyer
Webinar Coordinator,
Manufacturing Technology
Today
Gary Mintchell
Founder, The
Manufacturing Connection
April 5th, 2023
11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm
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4. Gary Mintchell
Founder, The Manufacturing Connection
Going Beyond Digital Transformation:
The Real Innovations in Manufacturing

5. Tech Or Human
Disruption
Innovation
People
Transformation

6. Are we still solving the
same problems?

7. Disruption

8. Disruption Disrupted

9. What I learned from IBM
•Study your manual processes.
•Rationalize your manual
processes for improvement
•Digitize your data
•Make your data serve your
processes

13. Workforce
Lean Manufacturing
Respect for people

14. Workforce
• Connected
• Collaborating
• Involved

15. Transformation
is hard

16. Transformation

17. •Transformation? It’s up to you.
•Innovation? You can do it.
•Disruption? Go be a disrupter
in a good way.
•Involving people? It starts with
you.

18. •From Seth Godin—Simple techniques for complex projects
•Warm up the machines that take a long time first.
•Stress test the go/no go parts of the project as early as possible.
•If the cost is low, replace dependent processes with parallel
ones.
•Do the difficult parts when energy is high and the budget hasn’t
been depleted.
•Ship before you run out of time or money.
•Invest in slack buffers for any critical dependent components.
•Budgets are a tool, not a weapon.
•Thrash early, then lock down decisions and don’t change them.
•Assign each task to the least expensive/least busy people able to
get the job done. (This is probably not the project manager).
•Prioritize feedback from people with taste, skill and influence,
not proximity or volume.
•Identify go/no go points based on irreversible actions or
unrecoverable costs.
•Anticipate the difficult and high-risk moments in advance and
reserve resources for the ones you can’t anticipate.
•Heroism is more fun but less reliable than good planning.

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