Blog
These articles originate from my ongoing discussions and insights shared on LinkedIn, based on real-world forming challenges and technology adoption.
Follow the ongoing conversation on LinkedIn
When Your Main Forming Guy Is Out
If your plant runs fine when your main forming guy is out, fantastic. If you start holding jobs until he’s back, that’s a red flag.
Let It Have the Swab
The job is operator, not swabber. That’s not a robot doing your job. That’s a robot handing you back the time and the tools to get great at it.
Every Plant Carries Critical Spares. But Do They?
We protect the part that can fail. Not the man who keeps it from failing. You can’t overnight 30 years.
AI Is Everywhere. Except the Forming Floor.
The whole white collar side of this industry got handed the future. Then take the stairs down to the forming floor.
Engineers and Operators: Same Machine, Same Problem
Their math wasn’t wrong. It was incomplete. The missing piece was the stuff that lives in an operator’s hands and never makes it onto the page.
The Dashboard Is Covered Up
We measure everything up to the spout. Then the data disappears and we ask operators to run the most temperature sensitive, timing sensitive part of the process by feel.
GlassTrend Innovations in Technologies Webinar
Excited to be key speaker of this GlassTrend session about modern forming technologies to achieve real performance gains.
PUT.IT.BACK!
If you can’t explain WHY you made a change,
you probably shouldn’t be making it.
Listen to the Forming Operator
👂Listen to the Forming Operator – Everything Comes Together Here
Communication: The Hidden Machine
What if improving your production numbers had less to do with machine settings... and more to do with conversations on the floor?