All Manufacturing articles
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ArticleHow W.L. Gore Looks to Partnerships, R&D, and Acquisitions to Accelerate Progress
The privately-held company’s Chief Technology Officer, Greg Hannon, talks about metrics, AI, and healthcare as a growth industry.
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How 3M Reorganized R&D — and How the Company Tracks R&D Impact
In early 2020, 3M decentralized its operating model to give the presidents of its four business groups more autonomy over R&D. We talk to SVP Cordell Hardy about how it started, and how it’s going.
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Member Spotlight: Pascale Wautelet, Avery Dennison
Pascale Wautelet is Vice President of Global R&D for Label and Graphic Materials at Avery Dennison Corporation. We spoke with Pascale as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.
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How Manufacturer Leviton Found Opportunities to Innovate Amidst the Pandemic
During the pandemic, sessions where engineers would sit down on-site with key customers and better understand their use cases for Leviton’s products had to change. Here’s how the lighting and wiring giant addressed that challenge.
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How W.L. Gore Stays Agile by Celebrating Failure
In a recent interview with Innovation Leader, Linda Elkins, Head of W.L. Gore’s Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, shares insights on how she prioritizes innovation opportunities.
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Why Shelf Space is One of the Most Important Metrics at Rust-Oleum
Bedri Erdem, VP of R&D and Corporate Quality at Rust-Oleum, shares insights on why shelf space is such an important metric in his company, why it sometimes causes challenges within the organization, and why it makes a good rule of thumb for killing projects.
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Bosch VP: Create a ‘Diverse Funnel’ of Experiments
Uwe Kirschner of Bosch Innovation Consulting shared his team’s biggest accomplishments from 2020, as well as advice he wished he knew sooner…
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Inside the Innovation Pipeline at Fortune Brands
Moises Noreña, VP of Innovation at Fortune Brands, shares insights on the metrics that his team uses to gauge innovation. He also discusses overcoming challenges in identifying and reporting the right metrics…
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Member Spotlight: Jeremy Tole, Azbil Corporation
Jeremy Tole discusses his team’s biggest accomplishment and best practices for working at an outpost across the ocean from headquarters.
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Three Services Bridgestone is Testing to Drive the Future of Car Maintenance
While car companies are always releasing new models, the way our vehicles get serviced has largely remained the same. But Bridgestone is working on several high-potential projects to modernize car maintenance.
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Podcast
Trek Exec on Tackling a Bike Shortage and Early R&D
Chad Manuell, Director of Engineering at Trek Bicycle, discusses the surge in demand for bikes and how his team approaches early innovation.
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There Is No ‘Workplace of The Future,’ Says Knoll VP
Tracy Wymer, VP of Workplace Strategy at design firm and manufacturer Knoll, shares predictions for how the office will change in 2021 and beyond.
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Why Stanley Black and Decker Isn’t ‘Following the Herd’ During the Pandemic
We sat down with Mark Maybury, Chief Technology Officer at Stanley Black and Decker, to learn more about the company’s recent growth initiatives, its “exteme innovation ecosystem,” technology investments, and more.
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On Demand Webcast
5 Emerging Megatrends & What To Do About Them
In this Master Class, Ashish Basuray of PreScouter discusses five megatrends, including digital twins, third-wave AI, smart materials, and more.
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How One CEO Gets Innovation Initiatives Over the Finish Line
Jason Field, CEO and President of W. L. Gore & Associates, shares how he encourages a culture of innovation and gets all levels of employees involved.
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Podcast
Running High-Performance Innovation Labs
How have innovation labs shifted during this period of remote work? What sets labs up for success? Linda Elkins, Chief Technical Officer of W.L. Gore’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center, shares.
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Counter-Intelligence: Lessons from Whirlpool’s WLabs
Brett Dibkey knows what he shouldn’t be doing at Whirlpool’s WLabs: delivering incremental improvements to the refrigerator. Instead, his 4-year-old incubator, located in Benton Harbor, Mich., is tasked with something a whole lot harder: creating new kinds of appliances in categories that aren’t yet well-established.
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Podcast
Inside the Supply Chain
How can supply chain innovation deliver serious value? Guests from Retail Business Services, J&J, and MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics discuss.
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Article
Racing the Calendar: Inside New Balance’s Test Run Project
The traditional process for creating a shoe takes 18 months. New Balance’s new record, as a result of their Test Run program, is seven months…
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Video
Inside Autodesk’s SF Technology Center
Autodesk’s San Francisco Technology Center is an innovator’s paradise, equipped with a wide array of tools and a skilled staff to help with the prototyping process…
