Transforming the Factory Floor

Every industry goes through numerous changes, and for the manufacturing and distribution industry, these changes are happening right now. With changing  technology, workers, and processes the manufacturing and distribution  industry is evolving into the manufacturing and distribution industry of the future.

In an article from Industry Week, author Jill Jusko writes, “Successful manufacturing and distribution enterprises don’t stand still. By definition, neither do their production floors”.

In this article, Jusko discusses three examples of how the manufacturing and distribution industry is changing:

• Emergence of the ‘smart factory’
• Lessons learned at Gentex Optics
• The IT/OT convergence

Jusko continues, “Changes in technology, processes and talent are taking place today to create the factory floor of tomorrow”. Have you seen the shift in the manufacturing and distribution industry?

To read more, see the full article from Jill Jusko in Industry Week.