Video: Moving the shop floor toward digital manufacturing

Pico MES CEO Ryan Kuhlenbeck and MORryde Process Improvement Engineer Greg Whitt joined Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl recently for a discussion on how small and midsize factories can transition from manual to digital widget-making, starting right down on the factory floor.

Scott Achelpohl

Sept. 11, 2024

Approximately 98% of American manufacturing consists of small to medium-size businesses. There is a real need to equip these factories for a productive future to support the resurgence of manufacturing.

Greg Whitt, process improvement manager for RV components manufacturer MORryde, and Ryan Kuhlenbeck, CEO of Pico MES, joined Smart Industry Managing Editor Scott Achelpohl in June to discuss how midsized factories can make the transition.

Whitt shared his experience with how MORryde is using a manufacturing execution system to manage its production floor operations, improve quality control, and provide data for continuous improvement while Kuhlenbeck related Pico's own experiences in error-proofing.

Please enjoy this video presentation from Smart Industry and SI's sister brand, IndustryWeek.

About the Author

Scott Achelpohl

I've come to Smart Industry after stints in business-to-business journalism covering U.S. trucking and transportation for FleetOwner, a sister website and magazine of SI’s at Endeavor Business Media, and branches of the U.S. military for Navy League of the United States. I'm a graduate of the University of Kansas and the William Allen White School of Journalism with many years of media experience inside and outside B2B journalism. I'm a wordsmith by nature, and I edit Smart Industry and report and write all kinds of news and interactive media on the digital transformation of manufacturing.