Intelligent manufacturing requires more than just intelligent machinery.
Charles Champion, division manager, Eastman Kodak Paper Support Manufacturing, is one of more than 30 executives whose companies have invested time, money and expertise as CMME's guiding partners. He and his colleagues agree that a manufacturing management curriculum that focuses solely on technology and production models in the classroom is a mistake. Future leaders in manufacturing operations need to have a balance of business and people skills. The graduates who are most valuable to employers are those who show up for work ready to motivate others rather than waiting to be trained. The center, in Purdue's Krannert School of Management, brings the partners together twice a year to discuss trends in the manufacturing industry and their implications for manufacturing management education.