01:45 — Where expertise comes from in world class companies

03:02 — Lean is an acronym for “living, engaged, attitude, now”

09:51 — Holding a successful rattlesnake hunt to reinforce safety, efficiency & engagement

14:23 — How does company culture change after you’ve killed 6,000 rattlesnakes?

18:57 — Preventing yourself from getting bitten by snakes

26:22 — How leaders and directors can send a vision of quality to the frontlines

SHOW NOTES

01:20 — What role should governments play in manufacturing?
07:48 — How state manufacturers unified their voices to become an economic growth engine
15:02 — Using digital initiatives to transform the entire manufacturing ecosystem
18:33 — Connecting manufacturers with resources & opportunities
21:28 — Marketing the manufacturing industry and promoting the benefits to individuals, the state, and local companies
29:13 — Train workforces first, before introducing new technology
35:11 — State level manufacturing practices other states should be copying
37:17 — Creating an environment that will enable manufacturers to thrive by focusing on developing a local supply chain

02:04 — From garage startup to billion dollar corporation

06:00 — Going from the worst plant to the first one in the organization

10:43 — How to start your plant’s digital transformation journey

14:11 — Fixing a single machine to get buy-in across the organization

18:45 — Adopting the 80/20 rule for pilot lines in digital transformation

28:08 — Using digital tools to uncover issues leading to bad quality

32:33 — How employee motivation stems from the value of the tools they use

41:11 — Leveraging employee expertise when using new tools

02:48 — What is a daily management system?

05:08 — Keeping score and making adjustments for future plays

07:25 — Outcomes of daily management and keeping momentum alive

12:01 — Why holding meetings halfway through the shift is better than before/after

14:02 — Tiering systems for managing manufacturing facilities

17:11 — Bolting on a tier structure to an existing standing meeting

18:28 — Identifying metrics that are most important to your team

25:40 — Diversifying meeting leaders to engage and empower operators

28:33 — Should you make daily management automated or analog?

05:47 — Building a robust training program in Mexico
09:51 — Focusing on quality, not speed
12:25 — Matching employee personality with training opportunities
15:15 — Hanging career path posters at every location to inspire growth
20:13 — Reinforcing training over time
23:54 — Treating the supervisor as the customer of the training
32:04 — Making video work instructions to cross language barriers

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01:36 — You have open roles, but there’s a leaky bucket compounding the retention problem

08:33 — What job can I do that fits my lifestyle and doesn’t displace my sense of balance?

10:10 — Hiring athletes from local colleges to run the line. Movie script or hiring strategy?

13:43 — Brainstorming hiring ideas creates the question, “Really? You’d let us do that?”

17:30 — Investing hiring & training resources in temporary labor pools

25:00 — How to capture and bottle all of the excitement as fresh eyes come onto the floor

35:00 — Do sports teams who work together on the assembly line win on the offensive line?

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1:40 - How Patrick became a world-renowned authority on TWI

3:30 - Why today’s economic climate resembles wartime shifts

6:20 - The mutual admiration society of Japanese and American management practices

10:00 - Does training success come from the trainer, the methodology, or the author?

13:30 - The magic of the TWI methodology from a time reduction perspective

21:00 - Tactical elements of the TWI approach to job instruction

23:20 — Why “starting with why” might not be the best approach for manufacturing workers

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We've got a new co-host! Fan favorite Michael Muilenburg joins us to bring his 35+ years of experience from 3M as an operational leader. 

Join us for a fun conversation talking about how he's the Troy Aikman to Brian's Joe Buck, and why he's thinks this is the most exciting time in manufacturing in his three plus decades in the industry.

• 1:00 - The origins of Brian and Michaels' friendship
• 3:30 - 10 facts about Michael
• 8:00 - Curiosity at 3M
• 10:00 - Favorite role at 3M
• 13:30 - Digital projects at 3M
• 21:00 -  Why manufacturing is still so exciting

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Show Notes:

• 1:30 - 2:41  // The importance of employee confidence
• 2:45 - 8:20 // High levels of workforce turnover in Food & Beverage manufacturing and production impacts
• 8:21 - 9:55 // Practical solutions the root problem of poor training programs and missed production targets
• 9:55 - 11:35 // Real tips to capturing expert knowledge to share with the new, inexperienced workforce
• 11:35 - 15:28 // Engaging your retiring workforce to produce training content and capture process standards with digital tools. Younger and older generations working together — give them the "why"
• 15:28 - 17:30 // Doing job shadowing the right way — developing a standard to train from it the future — consistency is key
• 17:30 - 19:30 // Amplifying decades of expert knowledge before it retires — who is responsible?
• 19:30 - 24:15 // Automation and the need for human expertise and training
• 24:15 - 26:46 // The future of food and beverage manufacturing

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