overview
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 of digital transformation on the modern manufacturing workforce
Speakers
Dan Braley is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow, the Boeing Global Services Additive Manufacturing (AM) Technical Focal, and a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. In his current role, he serves sustainment of all Boeing military, commercial, and derivative aircraft platforms through implementation of AM technologies. Dan has 18 years of aerospace program and R&D experience in AM, composites, electromagnetic materials, and manufacturing technology development
Kurt Tschaepe is an Operations Director at The NORDAM Group. Kurt served 12 years in the United States Army as an Infantry (Airborne) and Civil Affairs Officer. Since leaving the Army, he has had experiences in aircraft transparencies and aircraft structures for both commercial and military customers. At NORDAM he has oversight of both commercial manufacturing and military programs. He has served in a variety of aviation leadership roles in both quality and operations.
A dynamic leader whose career in software and high tech spans four decades, including 20 years at C-level, Patricia Hume is responsible for the creation and execution of the Canvas strategic vision.
With a wealth of cross-functional experience and deep operational expertise across large companies and microcaps, Patricia specializes in driving sustained growth and high-impact turnarounds.
Prior to joining Canvas, Patricia was chief operations officer at iPass, Inc., where she led global customer-facing activities, including sales, marketing, product, business development, strategic partnerships, operations, and customer support until the company’s acquisition in February 2019.