People Before Technology: Digital, Connected Workers Require a Human-Centric Focus

At the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit in June in Indianapolis, IT and OT experts discussed how to connect people with technology to make digital transformation work. In this frank panel discussion, manufacturing experts talked about why so many projects fail, how to justify spending more money on new tech after the old project failed and how to get the needed buy in to continually improve tech adoptions. Speaking are: Scott Achelpohl, managing editor of Smart Industry Jerry Grunewald, Vice Presidnt R&D/Technology - Invista Raj Polanki, U.S. Region Head of IT - Wacker Chemical Corp. Ryan Kuhlenbeck, CEO - Pico MES Greg Whitt, Process Improvement Engineer - MORryde