#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.

Mike Nager, Subject Matter Expert of Workforce Training and Development at Festo Didactic talks about his journey from being a writer drafting operator manuals in a factory in the late 80s to pioneering workforce transformations for Industry 4.0, how iPads are going to transform the factory floor, and why manufacturing needs an education pipeline to meet its enormous potential to rejuvenate industry in middle America.

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How can we improve? Quick survey: https://forms.gle/sgf7YQ5e41tp3XN3A Pashi presents the Means of Production, a podcast about what it really takes to build, maintain, and scale the processes that produce the physical products that power our world. Every episode, we ask a manufacturing expert to walk us through the nuts and bolts of how they do their job. We explore how and why they got into manufacturing, dive deep into the hardest problems they've solved on production lines, and discuss their thoughts on what's broken in manufacturing today and how those things can be fixed.