Empowering Frontline Workers with Advanced Manufacturing Analytics — A Conversation with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies
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At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies to talk about what the fruits of Digital Transformation can really offer the shopfloor. In the changing business landscape of high turnover in a tight labor market, manufacturers are refocusing and redoubling their efforts to empower frontline workers to improve productivity without increasing headcount, document and retain institutional knowledge, and free workers from boring, uncomfortable, and repetitive tasks to do more interesting and valuable work. Give this episode a listen!
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Willem Sundblad is the co-founder and CEO of Oden Technologies, a company empowering manufacturers to make more, waste less, and innovate faster through machine learning and applied analytics. He is a Forbes.com contributing writer and a recognized leading voice in manufacturing analytics. He is pioneering the use of real-time and predictive analytic tools that uncover untapped value. Sundblad aims to transform the manufacturing industry by digitizing, analyzing, and perfecting peak factory performance. In his spare time, he takes every chance he gets to enjoy the mountains, either skiing, hiking, or climbing.
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Oden Technologies is a manufacturing analytics platform that helps manufacturers find the best actions to take and enables them to take those actions faster to improve operations. Oden leverages existing automation, quality, and business data to highlight areas for process improvement and recommends changes to process settings to improve performance and quality. Utilizing predictive analytics, Oden helps operations maintain ideal performance and avoid producing scrap. With a pre-built platform and machine learning models, Oden provides ROI to customers in under 60 days and can be scaled across a global enterprise in 12 months.
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