Digital Talk | Designing change: the agile factory

Marco Brandalesi, Principal Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Operational Excellence, will present a real-world experience of transforming the organizational model and management routines in manufacturing.

The talk will delve into the following How manufacturing companies can deal with increasingly complex scenarios-demand instability, cost pressures, skill shortages, and operational variability-by building a more robust, faster, and more effective factory management system. During the live streaming real experiences will be shared to increase daily execution capacity and improve the quality of operational decisions.

In particular, the following aspects will be shared:

• Management of risk and operational anomalies: develop a structured system of escalation and cascading of significant problems, reducing reaction time and effects on performance
• Communication and daily alignment: making communication flows between departments and organizational levels more effective by introducing simple routines for daily production management
• Factory organization and leadership: Evolve structure, roles, and responsibilities to ensure rapid response in the field by strengthening the operational oversight of Leaders and positioning expertise at critical points in the production system
• Action and continuous performance improvement: triggering improvement through a Problem Solving structured, turning recurring problems into opportunities to stabilize and grow results
• Skills development and new managerial capabilities: train Leaders and Co-workers by developing awareness of their roles and skills needed to lead a more agile and disciplined factory
• Digital routines and data support: integrate digital tools and data-driven logic to make management routines more robust, accelerate visibility of critical issues, and support evidence-based decisions.

During the live streaming, participants will be able to interact with Q&A sessions and request subsequent insights applicable to their own production realities.