The Manufacturing Stream Podcast

Apr 23 2024
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The Manufacturing Stream podcast focuses on manufacturing. With news, stories, and techniques that are affecting processes around the world. Phil and Eric bring their experience, insight, and knowledge to discuss all things manufacturing, manufacturing 4.0, lean, and digital transformation. From their days as hourly employees on the production floor at Autoliv, to their days years later leading and consulting for organizations around the world, they bring an unparalleled amount of knowledge not found on any other manufacturing podcast. "In our podcast, we want to teach manufacturing professionals how to navigate the constant stream of challenges that face transformation of factory processes and technology". 

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James Wells at LNS Research Talks Unified Performance Excellence

Apr 23 2024 37 mins  
In this weeks episode, Eric, Malcolm and James Wells from LNS Research discuss Unified Performance Excellence. Unified Performance Excellence (UPX), is a modern approach to industrial performance management that integrates advanced digital tools and methodologies into traditional operational improvement processes. This framework seeks to enhance operational agility, flexibility, an

Mastering Continuous Improvement with Industry 4.0

Apr 15 2024 35 mins  
In recent years, the manufacturing sector has been swept up in the wave of Industry 4.0, a revolutionary movement that promises to meld physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data. The goal of this movement is to create a more holistic and better-connected process for industrial companies. Industry 4.0 has been hailed as the futu

Special Guest - Kyle Petty Discusses NASCAR History, Employee Motivation and Innovation

Mar 28 2024 52 mins  
Welcome to a unique edition of The Manufacturing Stream Podcast, where your hosts, Eric Whitley and our special guest co-host Malcolm Faulds from L2L, sit down with the legendary Kyle Petty. Today, we're diving into Kyle's extraordinary journey, growing up amidst the royalty of racing. He shares with us tales from the track and highlights from his biography, "Swerve or Die," offeri

Interview With Alex Pacheco - Dart Container - The Evolution of Operational Excelence

Mar 21 2024 37 mins  
You don’t always have to overhaul your processes to improve them. Sometimes, digitizing them is all you need to do.In this episode of The Manufacturing Stream, Eric and Phil talk to Alex Pacheco, Director of Operational Excellence and Reliability at Dart Container, about the dramatic process improvements he’s seen since implementing L2L. Whether it’s swapping whiteboards for

Digital (Obeya) Teamboards for Tier Meetings

Mar 05 2024 25 mins  
One of the most inefficiently run activities in a manufacturing facility is the daily tier meeting, a.k.a. the "standup" or "Obeya" meeting. And the culprit? Manual information-sharing processes and a lack of real-time data.In this episode of The Manufacturing Stream, Phil and Eric introduce L2L's ground-breaking (and time-saving!) new module: TeamBoard. This data visualization sol

What Is a Data Sandwich?

Jan 11 2024 27 mins  
In this episode of The Manufacturing Stream, Eric and Phil kick off 2024 with some exciting event announcements from L2L and a topic that’s never been more relevant to manufacturers: Uniting departments around a shared view of factory data. If job-critical information is locked away in systems like ERP, MES, SCADA, and PLC, shop floor employees — and your plant — are operatin

The Connected Workforce - Discussing the LNS IX Event With L2L VP of Marketing - Malcolm Faulds

Nov 03 2023 34 mins  
In this week’s episode, Malcolm Faulds, VP of Marketing at L2L (and Eric’s boss), sits down with Eric and Phil to share his learnings from LNS Research’s Industrial Transformation (IX) Event. From the emergence of digital manufacturing teams to navigating the manufacturing labor crisis, Malcolm discusses important highlights from the event as well as practical takeaways all m

Bonus Episode: Alaska

Oct 10 2023 42 mins  
In this special bonus episode of The Manufacturing Stream (emphasis on Stream in this episode), Eric, Phil, and a special guest devote an entire episode to their experience fly fishing for Silver Coho salmon in Cordova, Alaska. Enjoy!l2l.comYoutube: @leading2leanl2l.comYoutube: @leading2lean

L2L's Roots Are In Improvement - Where Connected Workforce Software Began

Oct 05 2023 45 mins  
When we say “L2L was made for manufacturers, by manufacturers,” we mean it literally.L2L was born on the shop floors of our now-customer, Autoliv, where Eric, Phil, and this episode’s special guest Mark Jenkins put their heads together to figure out a better way to track operational availability (OA). That’s right — we’re taking you through a brief L2L history lesson! L

Owens Corning Digital TPM Journey

Aug 31 2023 55 mins  
We’ve discussed the importance of digitizing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) on this podcast. Now, we’re excited to share a real-world example of this digital TPM in action!In this special episode recorded for a Plant Services webcast, Mike Brewster of Owens Corning joins Eric Whitley to talk about Owens Corning’s transformation with L2L’s connected worker platform. Lear