Management Perspectives Podcasts

Together in the ROKStudios, Susana Gonzalez, president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Rockwell Automation, and Götz Erhardt, senior managing director at Accenture, discuss how digital manufacturing can help to ensure success, even during the most volatile and unstable of times.

As businesses continue to struggle to find the workforce they need, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to empower the people we already have to allow them to work at their best. In this episode, Mike Loughran introduces Billy Goodman, managing director at CAMA North America, and Chris Rabago, director of manufacturing at Hawaiian Host, who explain how modularity helped them optimize their workforce, despite particular challenges around labor shortages.

When it comes to developing more sustainable solutions, collaboration is the key first step. In this episode, host Mike Loughran introduces Hans-Peter Mertens, CEO of The Packaging Group, and Tom O'Reilly, vice president of sustainability at Rockwell Automation, who illustrate how this approach helped their companies and their customers to be more sustainable.

In this episode, Mike Loughran introduces Rogelio Demay, Senior Manager IT Manufacturing at BIC, to explain how it has benefited the company and laid the groundwork for the future.

Data is critical to the decision-making process, but the results are only as good as the data you collect. In this episode, Mike Loughran introduces Etienne Fellay, IT Director at Constellium, to look at the immense power a standardized data collection system can offer for manufacturing. From cost savings to easier integration, the benefits are huge.

Accurate data and precision controls open the door to better, faster decision-making – this is essential if you want to hit your business targets and your sustainability commitments. In this episode, host Mike Loughran introduces Vicente Centelles Forner, of Greene Enterprise, to talk about how their use of the PlantPAx® distributed control system (DCS) helped develop an innovative and highly effective waste-recovery technology solution that supports sustainability goals.

From knowledge sharing to improved training, from efficiency gains to better quality control, allowing your machines and your workforce to work better together is one of the key benefits that digitalization has to offer. In this episode, Mike Loughran discovers way to create this synergy with the help of Riccardo Cavanna, chairman of Cavanna Packaging Group.

Partnerships are built on trust. And when we work together and trust one another, we can achieve so much more than we could alone. This is true in business as much as in any other aspect of life.

Balancing sustainability targets and business needs around productivity may appear challenging, but with an energy-savings-as-a-service approach, you can achieve both – with additional benefits as well. In this episode, Mike Loughran is joined by James Hynd, CEO at Energy Drive, and Tom O’Reilly, VP Sustainability at Rockwell Automation, who explain how this concept works and what it could do for your business.

Balancing sustainability targets and business needs around productivity may appear challenging, but with an energy-savings-as-a-service approach, you can achieve both – with additional benefits as well. In this episode, Mike Loughran is joined by James Hynd, CEO at Energy Drive, and Tom O’Reilly, VP Sustainability at Rockwell Automation, who explain how this concept works and what it could do for your business.