BOO! Did we scare you? Yeah, it’s hard to frighten you with a single written word on a page. That said, how’re things looking now that we’re in Q4? Ready for yet another new year? 2023 is riiiiiight around the corner. And, as we know, creeping behind corners can in fact be frightening. We’re prepared. And we hope you’re getting yourself ready as well!
In this issue we feature our quarterly conversation with Paul Critchley who has been gracing us with his perspective on Lean Manufacturing throughout 2022. This month’s feature is entitled, “Why 0% of Lean Transformations Fail.” That’s a staggering factoid that Paul dives right into in his current dialogue here. Let us know what you think about his column! We’re enjoying it.
The other spotlight is written by BELT Technologies’ CEO, Denis Gagnon who spill his knowledge about the adoption of robotic counterparts on the manufacturing line to help ease the pain of the labor shortages we’ve all been feeling since 2020. And, according the article, with many current workers set to retire in the coming years, the manufacturing sector could have a shortage of 2.1 million skilled jobs by 2030. There’s been some skepticism about the practice of working robots into the mix, but this piece sheds some interesting light and data on the topic.
As always, if you’ve got a story you’d like to share, we’d love to hear it. Send us anything you’ve got, and we’d be happy to consider it for publication in the pages of this magazine. If you have an idea you’d like to check in with us first before dedicating time to it, by all means, reach out to chris@thegatewaymag.com and he’ll set you straight on whether or not it’s something we’d be interested in running. That said, he’s interested in just about anything, so don’t be shy!
