Innovating the Industrial World Episode 16: Preserving Factory Knowledge with Next-Gen Automation

Overview

As engineers and manufacturing workers begin to retire, plant managers are left to fill the gap of knowledge that has become harder and harder to find. Less experienced workers are now expected to maintain and fix increasingly complex machines, which has led to increases in downtime. However, there are ways to future-proof your operations and set them up to thrive in a more lean future manufacturing environment. In this latest episode of our podcast, Innovating the Industrial World, our host and CEO John King sits down with Ed Penny from our Automation Group and returning guest, Todd Barnette from our Process Solutions Group, to discuss the brain drain happening in industrial facilities and the future for closing the gap.

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