Penelope Brown

Nov 21, 2024 | manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com | Penelope Brown

Rethink conferenceThe Manufacturing Leadership Council, a division of the National Association of Manufacturers, welcomed its members and other leaders from the manufacturing community to several events in 2024, including plant tours and Rethink, the Council’s signature event. These images represent a sample of this year’s in-person events.

Nov 17, 2024 | manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com | Penelope Brown

Skip to content Penelope Brown: Hello everyone and welcome to our latest edition of Executive Dialogue and I’m happy to be here today with Angela Accurso who was one of our Next-Generation Leadership winners at this most recent year’s Manufacturing Leadership Awards.

Sep 23, 2024 | manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com | Penelope Brown

KEY TAKEAWAYS:● Digital manufacturing leaders need to build traditional leadership qualities with new skills such as fostering a data-driven culture and guiding the workforce through change. ● Despite progress in creating digital strategies, many manufacturers lack formal training programs for upskilling their workforce, and many feel that leadership is unprepared for the future.

May 6, 2024 | manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com | Penelope Brown

Rockwell Automation’s history points to a pioneering drive to make machines smarter. From its 1903 founding as the Compression Rheostat Company, soon to be renamed the Allen-Bradley Company, the company started with an early prototype machine controller and is now a world leader in digital transformation – both for its own operations and in offering guidance for its customers. Today, Rockwell is a $9 billion company with nearly 29,000 employees serving customers in 100 countries.

Jan 20, 2024 | manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com | Penelope Brown

There were two open-ended questions at the close of the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s 2023 Transformative Technologies survey. The first: Which single technology is currently having the most impact on your manufacturing operations? Of the 171 respondents to this year’s survey, 19 cited AI or machine learning, the most commonly mentioned response, with four of those mentioning generative AI specifically. Not far behind were manufacturing execution systems, with 13 responses.