Leadership in Manufacturing

The value of digital data collection is on everybody's mind and there are a lot of benefits of how data collection and innovation can increase project productivity and efficiency. It has never been more important than now to begin your company’s digital data collection. If executed correctly, it drives efficiency and transparency. In this episode, we have guest Louise Them Kjølholm, Chief Advisor Environmental & Social Risk at EKF. Listen to the podcast with Louise Them Kjølholm and learn more about a newly developed assessment tool enabling project efficiency, project transparency (for users and stakeholders), which has initiated the digital data collection journey. "I have a passion for innovation because I love to improve processes in order to achieve better results" Louise Them Kjølholm.

This podcast episode features Norbert Majerus, Business Owner & Retired from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co When working with lean product development in R&D, the process is easy, it's the people part that is the difficult one. You get benefits from a lean transformation, but if you don't get the whole organization engaged you won't succeed. Those benefits go up exponentially if you get everybody engaged.

With lean we talk about that we want things to be simple. You are making things easier for people, either making it easier for your customer or the work easier for your employees or you're making it easier for people to grow and learn. So it's always about: can you make things better for people? In this episode, we have guest Bella Englebach, Lead Consultant at Lean for Humans. In the end: it's all about the people - become better problem solvers

Bob Melvin, VP of Engineering at Teledyne Marine Systems, shares his passion for lean product development and his early experiences practicing it. He discusses his career progression and the challenges of remote team communication. The importance of innovation, collaborative dialogue, and building a cohesive team are also highlighted.