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by Mark Halper, ME Editorial Staff Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:46:03 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | At the Progressive Manufacturing Summit in Las Vegas, manufacturers large and small emphasize the need to collaborate in order to succeed. |
| Keywords: | Manufacturing collaboration, manufacturing best practices |
LAS VEGAS — To thrive in an ever-more competitive world, manufacturers will need to engage employees from across the enterprise and orchestrate systems and processes across multiple locations, industry experts said today.
That was the message from the panelists and speakers at Managing Automation’s fourth-annual Progressive Manufacturing Summit, a gathering of manufacturing leaders that kicked off here today. As companies move into a world where soaring energy prices and global competition are the norm, they’ll have to rely on intelligence from research, the factory floor, the supply chain, marketing efforts, and elsewhere to get better at making things, said the Summit’s presenters.
Craig Giffi, vice chairman at consulting firm Deloitte & Touche, likened the challenge to the way a cruise missile works — changing its course as it encounters obstructive objects like mountains. “The cruise missile is an adaptive process,” Giffi said on a panel entitled, “The Leadership Mandate: What Manufacturing Executives Need to Focus On.” Manufacturing companies likewise have to be nimble enough to change course in their strategies in an unpredictable world, he said.
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