
The Future of Processes
Unique perspectives from people in manufacturing about what it really takes to bring products to life. This is a podcast about building an organizational culture, leadership, product design, supply chain, change management, how to attract the best talent and in particular, how we can create better, more human processes for the factories of tomorrow.
Podcasting since 2023 • 7 episodes
The Future of Processes
Latest Episodes
Sarah Mauragis on women in Continuous Improvement in manufacturing
Sarah Mauragis runs Continuous Improvement at Flow Rite Controls, which manufacturers, and markets fluid control devices for lead acid batteries, recreational fishing boats, laboratories, and medical uses.During high school, Sarah Maura...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:06

How Stephanie Stuckey turned around her family’s candy business without any business or manufacturing experience
In this episode we speak to Stephanie Stuckey, a former state representative in the Georgia assembly and now CEO of Stuckey’s, a pecan log roll and candy manufacturer that was started by her grandfather in 1937 and sold to a conglomerate in the...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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36:26

Why Gerald Heitmann believes Lean Six Sigma is the wrong approach to Continuous Improvement
Gerald Heitmann, formerly General Manager of Quality Operations at Panasonic Energies North America joins Ben Merton to talk about how people like Edward Deming, Kaouru Ishikawa & Dr. Wheeler shaped his understanding of Quality and Continuo...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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26:52

How Gregory Ayers gets executives on board the CI journey by focusing on a single KPI
In this episode, I speak to Gregory Ayers, the Director of Operational Excellence at Innovative Hearth Products, a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor fireplaces headquartered in Nashville. We speak about the importance of senior ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:02

How Chris Sidney uses personality testing to create the right environment for change
Chris Sidney manages quality, continuous improvement and metrology at the Winbro Group, a manufacturer of high-precision machining technologies in the UK, US and Taiwan. Starting his career in engineering as a Whitworth Scholar, Chris ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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