Isaac Brown is an Associate Partner at Landmark Ventures and has worked with countless industrial companies to help evaluate and deploy new technology.
In the fourth episode of The Voices of Manufacturing, Brian talks with Isaac about how these digital technology trends are affecting buying processes and the benefits of seeking out tools that empower your workforce.
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Show notes:
14:48 -- We're under the work mindset that we can teach them how to use those things. If they have the mindset that we want to come to work. We want to do the right things. We're already ahead of the game at, at that point, we feel that we can teach people how to do almost anything."
18:22 -- "Our training center is relatively new. It's been around for about five years. It was something that myself and the team put together. I was in a different role. I was in quality and we were trying to resolve problems. After the issue had happened, we'd be out there trying to fix issues and then kind of tried to go into more, a little bit more of a proactive approach."
18:44 -- "Myself and a few other people started being a more proactive and kind of evolved to a training center. We've got myself and two other managers, and then we've got a staff of seven union trainers, and again, they all came from the shop floor. Most of them came from the team leader ranks, so we pulled a lot of the high performing team leaders, and they have become some of our best trainers now."
23:33 -- "They're more accepting because it's not a solution that means more work for them. And that's one of the things, a lot of our solutions that we try and come up with, Needs to be easier for the operator. We can't add technology and make it harder because they already have a lot of work as it is. Building these trucks we have to make it easy for them to use."
23:55 -- "When we implemented the Dozuki system, we pilot it for a long period of time. When we pilot things, the easy thing is to go to the most technologically savvy person in the area or in the team and say: Hey, we have this idea. We want you to try it out."
30:18 -- "When we're implementing a new process or a new model truck, some of the stuff we're getting into now with VR, we've been pulling them into some of our conference rooms and we have some VR technology where they can virtually walk around in their new workstation. There's a lot of companies put a lot of effort into tooling, and then it hits the shop floor and the techs don't like it."
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