Digital Transformation

  • How We Used Automation to Increase Productivity, Reduce Errors, and Reduce Waste

    • March 6, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Digital Transformation, Innovation
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    A factory automation system in Germany, not the automation system I oversaw at Robroy.

    Several years ago, when I was the president of Robroy, we were faced with a problem of how to deal with an old business that was run down, obsolete, and had an employee retention problem (we would lose 20% of our workforce every time we conducted a random drug test). This was my world without

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  • What Life Was Like Before AI and Digital Transformation

    • February 20, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Digital Transformation, Measurement
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    The fiberglass line at our old Duoline factory.

    For some executives, it’s hard to imagine life before artificial intelligence and digital transformation. There’s always been automation and computers helping facilitate decision making and measurement. But I know that pre-AI world all too well, having spent most of my career in that part of the manufacturing history. The result was often poor quality, stifled

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