Creating a More Competitive and Skilled Manufacturing Workforce
Release Date: 08/07/2024
Precision in Progress: Digital Calibration for Modern Manufacturing Processes
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In today’s industrial landscape, calibration and measurement are essential for efficiency, safety, and compliance. They drive advancements in automation, robotics, IoT, and digital transformation, ensuring precision and reliability. In this episode, Dave speaks with Sami Kosiken, Director of Digital Transformation, who discusses how process managers can implement accurate calibration to prevent disruptions, enhance safety, and ensure regulatory compliance with Beamex digitalised calibration solution, forming the foundation of modern industrial success.
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AI-Driven Transformation: How Innovation is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing
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In this episode, Dave speaks with Aaron Lober, Vice President of Marketing at CADDi, a trailblazing company in the field of manufacturing intelligence software. With over 15 years of experience in driving growth across various industries, Aaron shares his insights on how CADDi is revolutionising the manufacturing sector through strategic marketing and cutting-edge technology. We’ll dive into CADDi’s flagship product, CADDi Drawer, which utilises patented AI to transform supply chain data and enhance product development. Join us as we explore how CADDi’s innovations earned...
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Creating a More Competitive and Skilled Manufacturing Workforce
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In this episode, Shawn Dagley, Kahuna’s Director of Manufacturing, discusses how Kahuna’s data-driven approach to skills management enables leaders to understand their skills supply and demand to make informed staffing decisions in dynamic environments. Kahuna digitises, manages, and validates workforce skill, competencies, experiences, certifications in one to increase efficiencies, standardise training and development programs, close skills gaps, mitigate operational risks, increase safety, and guide strategic operating decisions with validated skills insights. From a manufacturing...
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NSI Mobile Water Solutions
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Pioneering the future of Process Analysis
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"Sensors are great, but they have their limitations" - that’s where analysers come in! In this episode, Paul Hamilton from Metrohm discusses simple and innovative ways for Process Engineers to perform complex chemical analysis. Metrohm is best known for producing analytical laboratory hardware and software, but Paul explains how the process analysis side of the business brings all of the typical laboratory analysis techniques and integrates them into the process plant, producing lab-quality data in the plant, fully automated. Compared to some other countries, the UK is behind when it comes...
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Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology
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For machines in the food industry, you need special solutions. Extreme temperatures, high mechanical loads, short cycle times, round-the-clock operation, and regular cleaning cycles require very robust components. Strict food safety regulations pose as much of a challenge here as efficiency and sustainability. Whether it’s for process automation in food production, for beverage production or the packaging industry, in all cases you need food-compatible rolling bearings, plain bearings, and linear guidance systems as well as adapted lubrication and seal concepts. Even during the planning...
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How interface measurement could transform your business
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In this episode of the PII Podcast, we delve into the world of interface level measurement, concentrating on those difficult multiphase applications with dynamic emulsion layers. The key to optimising performance in these situations is solving the emulsion factor – a hurdle that has long stood in the way of accurate and economical level detection. Traditionally, no single technology has been able to economically measure the total hydrocarbon level, the top of the emulsion (where water mixes into oil), and the bottom of the emulsion layer, (where oil mixes into water). This...
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3D level measuring technology
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Cote-Shield Technology
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AMETEK Drexelbrook's "Cote-Shield" technology revolutionises point level detection in tanks and vessels by effectively ignoring conductive coatings on the sensing element, ensuring a reliable, repeatable measurement and maintenance-free operation. This technology overcomes the common issue of false alarms caused by process coating buildup that can cause false alarms potentially interrupting the critical process and costing loss in profits. Cote-Shield addresses this issue by introducing a three-terminal style probe design that incorporates a Cote-Shield element, that ignores process coating...
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The importance of having an accurate and reliable calibration solution
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In this podcast from Beamex, we talk about the importance of providing accurate measurements, reliable data and traceability when performing instrument calibrations. We’ll explore how the digitalisation of data helps to improve operational efficiency for optimal asset performance, with examples of industries where calibration occurs, particularly looking at how National Grid has been able to reduce costs and improve efficiency of their calibration processes.
info_outlineIn this episode, Shawn Dagley, Kahuna’s Director of Manufacturing, discusses how Kahuna’s data-driven approach to skills management enables leaders to understand their skills supply and demand to make informed staffing decisions in dynamic environments.
Kahuna digitises, manages, and validates workforce skill, competencies, experiences, certifications in one platform to increase efficiencies, standardise training and development programs, close skills gaps, mitigate operational risks, increase safety, and guide strategic operating decisions with validated skills insights.
From a manufacturing perspective, Shawn and the Kahuna team see four main drivers for establishing a skills-based approach and practice:
Worker attainment – There is a severe shortage of manufacturing expertise available in the market today. A well-organised skills management program can help search for the right type of candidate and develop the candidate’s proficiency in the required skills. This method broadens the scope of the job search and improves retention chances within the organisation by supporting development efforts.
Worker retainment – Employee satisfaction leads to lower attrition rates. Data shows the average tenure of a manufacturing employee has fallen from 20 years in 2019 to only three years in 2023. With an easily accessible and standardised skills management program, employees have visibility into skills and training requirements, empowering them to own their learning journey within the organisation and shows them the business is invested in their development.
Capitalising on the investment in Industry 4.0/Smart Factory – Many companies are investing significantly in I4.0 technologies. Things like Connected Equipment, Additive Manufacturing, Virtual and Augmented reality, Predictive Maintenance. But companies are forgetting to invest in their workforce to maximise the investment in this equipment.
Increased product complexity – As products get more complex with the introduction of electronics, software, and AI built in, companies need to expand the capabilities needed in the design and manufacturing of these products. This will drive new skills requirements for teams and individuals.
Don’t miss this episode and the opportunity to improve skills management and operational excellence initiatives within your manufacturing environment.
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Topics include:
The key benefits of shifting to skills-based practices in manufacturing
How skills management contributes to the efficiency and flexibility of the workforce
Why companies struggle with using Excel for skills management
How the Kahuna Skills Management Platform works and its core features
Real-time visibility into workforce capabilities, and why is this important
How skills management supports initiatives like Smart Factories and improves overall equipment efficiency
Compliance with quality, safety, and environmental standards
How tying compensation to upskilling can increase workforce flexibility
Success story of a client who significantly benefited from implementing Kahuna’s skills management system
Integrating with other systems like Core HRIS, Learning Management Systems, and Planning & Analytics tools
What the first steps are transitioning to a skills-based management system