Ep. 261 - Change Management in Manufacturing: Operators, Tribal Knowledge, and the Industrial Elder

About this episode

This episode discusses the critical aspects of change management in manufacturing, focusing on the human element rather than technology.

Change management in manufacturing breaks down at the people layer, not the technology layer. This episode explains how engineering leaders actually drive adoption. Ronald Sherrod is a Staff Automation Engineer at Regeneron deploying a global event based architecture and Unified Namespace rollout across pharmaceutical operations. Ron, Vlad Romanov, and Dave Griffith dig into the parts of change management that rarely make it onto vendor decks. Subscribe to Manufacturing Hub for weekly conversations with industrial automation practitioners. Want to go deeper? Vlad and the team at Joltek have covered related topics here: Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: https://www.joltek.com/blog/digital-transformation-in-manufacturing Mastering the Unified Namespace for Manufacturing: https://www.joltek.com/blog/mastering-unified-namespace-uns-a-guide-to-data-driven-manufacturing-transformation Ron makes a point that is rarely stated this directly. The organization implementing the change is the one responsible for it. OEMs and system integrators deliver the box. Consultants help interpret it. Auditors do not call the machine builder when something goes wrong on the floor of a regulated…

People in this episode

Hosts: Vlad Romanov, Dave Griffith

Guest: Ronald Sherrod

Topics covered

• change management
• manufacturing
• engineering leadership
• adoption strategies
• tribal knowledge
• industrial automation

Keywords

• change management
• manufacturing
• engineering leaders
• adoption
• tribal knowledge
• industrial elder
• pharmaceutical
• Unified Namespace

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Regeneron, Joltek, pharmaceutical operations

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