Leveraging digital transformation to support the new manufacturing workforce
The Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey identifies the sector’s primary challenges as attracting and retaining a quality workforce and mitigating ongoing disruption to the global supply chain. Amid a generational shift in the workforce, ensuring new workers have the product knowledge that enables them to work efficiently and with minimal errors will be pivotal to success.
Change always brings opportunity and manufacturers are looking to extend the value of the digital thread to the new manufacturing workforce to drive operational gains — while always ensuring the integrity of the digital thread is maintained.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the new manufacturing workforce
- Changing the workplace culture to be digital and think digital
- Addressing the impact digital transformation can have on the workforce
Speakers
- Daniel Braley, Associate Technical Fellow — Additive Manufacturing & BGS Additive Manufacturing Technical Focal at Boeing
- Kurt Tschaepe, Operations Director at NORDAM
- Patricia Hume, Chief Executive Officer at Canvas GFX