The Means of Production from Pashi

18 Episodes

1. #i40 Changemakers: A recent history of manufacturing, the tenets of Industry 4.0, building an education pipeline for manufacturing, and imagining the sleek, silent, and thriving futuristic factory.

   Published: 9/3/2021
2. #i40 Changemakers: Solving the producer-consumer schism in apparel manufacturing, imagining a factoryless future, and putting people first in business transformation.

   Published: 8/19/2021
3. Episode 15: Eliminating coolant in machining, tech institutionalization, and why we should get rid of legacy data systems.

   Published: 8/3/2021
4. Episode 14: Driving operational performance excellence across diverse fields, analyzing changeover downtime the right way, and dissolving departmental silos.

   Published: 7/27/2021
5. Episode 13: Designing Ford's Intelligent Range, powering manufacturing innovation with analytics, and how rotating employees across disciplines can build cooperation in companies.

   Published: 7/20/2021
6. Episode 12: A very difficult production line to balance, how to correctly measure operator productivity and difficulties in communicating in a plant environment.

   Published: 7/13/2021
7. Episode 11: Troubleshooting a hot-started jet engine over the phone, adapting US Navy training techniques to maximise efficiency in manufacturing, and what diversity brings to the workplace.

   Published: 7/6/2021
8. Episode 10: Launching a machining line straight out of college, the incredible fragility of tool setup tolerances, and managing bottlenecks effectively.

   Published: 6/29/2021
9. Episode 9: Building spider cobots with machine vision, signal vs noise,and going from tinkering with bacteria to engineering powertrains.

   Published: 6/22/2021
10. Episode 8: Kaizen improvements in warehouse operations, exponential gains through operator enablement, and an elegant solution involving AR glasses

    Published: 6/16/2021
11. Episode 7: Material Flow Design, learning from manufacturing senseis, and the elimination of muda with Ed Hollingsworth from Ford Motor Company.

    Published: 6/8/2021
12. Episode 6: F-150 Hybrid powertrain complexity, problem-solving as an essential life skill, and the “magic formula” for tire design.

    Published: 6/1/2021
13. Episode 5: Changeover downtime, recontextualizing problems, and simplifying leadership through the 5-Whys method with Kamal Kalsaria from GKN Driveline.

    Published: 5/25/2021
14. Episode 4: Virtual assembly, centralizing data, and death by a thousand non-cyclic seconds with Clara Goldberg from Ford Motor Company.

    Published: 5/19/2021
15. Episode 3: Dimensional Data Drill-Downs, Body Construction, and The Human Element in Manufacturing Communication

    Published: 5/13/2021
16. Episode 2: Re-manufacturing, global quality standards and reincarnating diesel engines with Rumeet Mehta from Cummins.

    Published: 5/11/2021
17. Pashi presents the Means of Production

    Published: 5/5/2021
18. Episode 1: Chip fabrication, plasma, and nanometer-wide wrenches with Parth Shah from Intel.

    Published: 3/30/2021