At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Willem Sundblad to talk about how manufacturers are using AI to give shopfloor employees capabilities and knowledge once only available to experiences and senior staff. Right now, one of the biggest challenges manufacturing organizations face is having the skilled labor they need to not only do the work, but improve performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize productivity. Older workers are retiring. We are also living in a time of high turnover. New employees coming into a company do not have the same opportunities for on-the-job training and job shadowing that their predecessors enjoyed, and few companies are able to invest that kind of time and attention into developing future top performers as they did in days gone by, especially in a changing business landscape where that emerging top talent may decide to move on sooner than was true in the past. 

For all the wonderful things AI promises to do for businesses, perhaps the most important contribution will be improving training and putting institutional knowledge, instruction, advice, and instructions in the hands of everyone in an interactive and highly useful and actionable way. It is the right solution arriving at the right time to make a serious impact on a growing challenge. Give this episode a listen to learn more! 

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Willem Sundblad
CEO and Co-Founder
Oden Technologies 

Willem Sundblad is the co-founder and CEO of Oden Technologies, a company empowering operators by providing real-time, AI-driven prescriptive process setting recommendations and predictive quality directly to the front line. In his spare time, he is a contributing writer to Forbes.com and takes every chance he gets to enjoy the Green Mountains of Vermont.

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Oden Technologies

The information inexperienced operators need to become high performers, available in one click. Oden Technologies’ Process AI provides real-time, AI-driven prescriptive process setting recommendations and predictive quality directly to the front-line. Our turnkey models and hands-on service ensures realized value in weeks, not years.

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