Kaizen, Lean and AI for Manufacturing Operational Excellence: Production Pulse

Stop pretending to know it all if you want to be a great manufacturing leader, and AI tools could help you do that.

Those were a few of the insights from an experts panel discussion on the proper uses of kaizen, lean and other continuous improvement strategies in the modern factory. Responding to an audience question, AI took center stage and some of the brightest minds in operational excellence detailed how these tools could improve managers' abilities to empower workforces and drive improvements.

The panel for the livestream was:

• Katie Anderson, leadership consultant, speaker, and learning enthusiast, author of "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn" as well as a regular IndustryWeek contributor
• John Dyer, author of "The Façade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership," as well as a frequent speaker on topics of leadership, continuous improvement, teamwork and culture change
• Michael Bremer, author of "How to Do a Gemba Walk" and "Learn to See the Invisible"
• Jill Jusko, executive editor and continuous improvement guru at IndustryWeek