Industry4cast by KFactory hosts Mihai Lazaroae, an executive with deep experience in the management of production companies. The conversation is about the operational changes that digitalisation brings to a plant - what genuinely shifts on the line, what doesn't, and what the second-order effects look like.
What Mihai brings to the conversation is the production manager's perspective: the digitalisation programme is not the project that ends when the platform goes live - that is when the harder work starts. The new measurements expose problems that were always there. The new feedback loops force decisions that used to be deferrable. The new visibility changes who has authority to act.
For a manufacturer evaluating an Industry 4.0 platform, the episode is a useful pre-mortem: digitalisation produces measurable outcomes only if the management practices around it change at the same time.
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Episode was recorded in Romanian. The summary above is an English translation of the original conversation.