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How can we improve? Quick survey: https://forms.gle/sgf7YQ5e41tp3XN3A Pashi presents the Means of Production, a podcast about what it really takes to build, maintain, and scale the processes that produce the physical products that power our world. Every

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    • Sep 3, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 47m AVG DURATION
    • 18 EPISODES


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    #i40 Changemakers: A recent history of manufacturing, the tenets of Industry 4.0, building an education pipeline for manufacturing, and imagining the sleek, silent, and thriving futuristic factory.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 37:28


    Mike Nager, Subject Matter Expert of Workforce Training and Development at Festo Didactic talks about his journey from being a writer drafting operator manuals in a factory in the late 80s to pioneering workforce transformations for Industry 4.0, how iPads are going to transform the factory floor, and why manufacturing needs an education pipeline to meet its enormous potential to rejuvenate industry in middle America.

    #i40 Changemakers: Solving the producer-consumer schism in apparel manufacturing, imagining a factoryless future, and putting people first in business transformation.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2021 64:00


    In this special post-season Industry 4.0 (#i40) episode, Joachim Hensch, Managing Director at Hugo Boss talks about his journey from being a tailor to becoming MD of a textile giant, the right way to digitally transform a massive operation, and why we need to imagine a future with no factories.

    Episode 15: Eliminating coolant in machining, tech institutionalization, and why we should get rid of legacy data systems.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 55:07


    Rich Furness, Data Scientist with the Global Data Insights and Analytics Group at Ford Motor Company, talks about how he and his team pioneered dry machining, the challenges involved in getting teams to adapt to new tools and systems, and why a data revolution in manufacturing would need legacy data systems to be jettisoned.

    Episode 14: Driving operational performance excellence across diverse fields, analyzing changeover downtime the right way, and dissolving departmental silos.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2021 34:48


    Prashant Dhillon, Performance Excellence Manager at Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research, talks about applying performance excellence strategies across diverse fields such as manufacturing, construction and healthcare, how we should be looking at changeover management, and how companies can encourage cross-department communication.

    Episode 13: Designing Ford's Intelligent Range, powering manufacturing innovation with analytics, and how rotating employees across disciplines can build cooperation in companies.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 48:21


    Adam Kowalski, Data Scientist for the Advanced Connected Vehicles Group at Ford Motor Company, talks about how he got into a role that deals with the intersection of data analytics and manufacturing, the volume/quality trade-off in data, and how test stands are the unsung heroes of product quality. Hello listeners, we're trying to create content useful to you - the manufacturing community! Let us know what you think of our episodes in this quick survey here: https://forms.gle/xo2ggZcDJ7FgyYA49

    Episode 12: A very difficult production line to balance, how to correctly measure operator productivity and difficulties in communicating in a plant environment.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2021 31:14


    Christine Cardenas, Battery Manufacturing Engineer at Ford Motor Company, talks about building a knowledge base by working hands-on on the plant floor, the intricacies in kitting lines, and navigating relationships with various stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

    Episode 11: Troubleshooting a hot-started jet engine over the phone, adapting US Navy training techniques to maximise efficiency in manufacturing, and what diversity brings to the workplace.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 36:20


    Ted Bohl, Program Analyst at Ford Motor Company and US Navy Veteran talks about how his time as a Navy pilot helped him solve engineering problems, what Naval training can bring to the factory floor, and how diversity can empower workplaces.

    Episode 10: Launching a machining line straight out of college, the incredible fragility of tool setup tolerances, and managing bottlenecks effectively.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 33:00


    Joey Screnci, Lead Engineer for Case Machining at Ford Motor Company talks about his love for engines and ATVs, how he led a launch at Ford as a fresh college graduate, and what one pothole can do to machining tool equipment in a truck.

    Episode 9: Building spider cobots with machine vision, signal vs noise,and going from tinkering with bacteria to engineering powertrains.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2021 79:27


    Matt Byrn, Lead Engineer for e-Motor Stator for Powertain Engineering at Ford Motor Company talks about how he went from studying bacteria models in a lab to hypoid gear manufacturing at Ford, his dogged belief in a complex machining solution and how it eventually saved the company a million dollars.

    Episode 8: Kaizen improvements in warehouse operations, exponential gains through operator enablement, and an elegant solution involving AR glasses

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 61:11


    Abhishek Patel, Program Manager for Ryder, talks about how he leaped from manufacturing to supply chain, how employee morale became a key metric in a warehouse efficiency problem, and how AR technology helped create a win-win situation.

    Episode 7: Material Flow Design, learning from manufacturing senseis, and the elimination of muda with Ed Hollingsworth from Ford Motor Company.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2021 52:39


    Ed Hollingsworth, Manufacturing Engineer for Powertrain Engineering at Ford Motor Company talks about how an affinity for drawing and repairing things at home led him to a manufacturing career, what he learned from Japanese senseis, and material flow design and ergonomics for manual workstations.

    Episode 6: F-150 Hybrid powertrain complexity, problem-solving as an essential life skill, and the “magic formula” for tire design.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2021 96:00


    Zach Westhoff, Lead Manufacturing Engineer for Powertrain Engineering at Ford Motor Company talks about problem-solving as a life skill, the mysterious formula that is used to design race car tires, his time mentoring New Mexico college racing teams, and his contribution to the F-150 Hybrid truck.

    Episode 5: Changeover downtime, recontextualizing problems, and simplifying leadership through the 5-Whys method with Kamal Kalsaria from GKN Driveline.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 43:33


    We speak to Kamal Kalsaria, Value Stream Manager at GKN Driveline about his unique approach to “problems”, changeover downtime challenges, and inculcating a culture of asking questions in teams using the 5Y method.

    Episode 4: Virtual assembly, centralizing data, and death by a thousand non-cyclic seconds with Clara Goldberg from Ford Motor Company.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 54:41


    We speak to Clara Goldberg, Lead Process Engineer for e-motors (Rotor), about how her love for puzzles led her to manufacturing, virtually assembling units, and how she tackled the crucial problem of non-cyclic tasks on the factory floor.

    Episode 3: Dimensional Data Drill-Downs, Body Construction, and The Human Element in Manufacturing Communication

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 39:18


    Dan O'Lear, Vehicle Operations Manufacturing engineer at Ford Motor Company talks about leveraging dimensional data, resource management in launches, adaptable communication in manufacturing teams, and how software helps him in his job.

    Episode 2: Re-manufacturing, global quality standards and reincarnating diesel engines with Rumeet Mehta from Cummins.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021 33:27


    We speak to Rumeet Mehta, Global Quality Transformation Leader at Cummins about turbo engines, the incredible multiple life of engines in the re-manufacturing world and maintaining high quality standards across a global network of facilities.

    Pashi presents the Means of Production

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 0:51


    An intro to Pashi's podcast

    Episode 1: Chip fabrication, plasma, and nanometer-wide wrenches with Parth Shah from Intel.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 62:09


    In our inaugural episode, we speak to Parth Shah, PhD, a software engineer and former process engineer at Intel about the incredible processes behind microprocessor manufacturing, his love of all things aerospace, research in plasma technology and how his seemingly disconnected experiences weaved into a crucial breakthrough during the design of a new fab line for the next-gen microprocessors for Intel.

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