Patrick Murray

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Patrick Murray

Patrick Murray

@patrickdm_

Head of Strategy at @razor_uk who's currently learning about: 🏗️ Product development 🌳 Sustainable economics ⚙️ Data driven manufacturing

Sheffield, England Katılım Temmuz 2017
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Manufacturing keeps investing in automation while leaving knowledge management to PDFs and tribal memory. The Silver Tsunami is about to make that imbalance very expensive.
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Manufacturing's incoming workforce is digitally native. They're inheriting a world of analogue expertise. Handing them a SharePoint login and wishing them luck is not a transition plan.
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"Institutional intelligence decoupled from headcount" is a useful test. Ask it about your plant. If the answer is uncomfortable, you know what to work on.
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A 30-year veteran retiring should be a celebration. In most plants it's a quiet emergency. That's a systems problem, not a people problem.
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When Bob leaves the factory floor, the goal isn't to find more people like Bob. It's to stop making Bob the only place Bob's knowledge lives.
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The real actionable knowledge in most plants isn't in the manuals. It's in shift-handover notes and scribbled notebooks. Unsearchable, unverified, and walking out the door with the person who wrote it.
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When a machine goes down, an operator has about 120 seconds before the shift's OEE takes a hit. Design your knowledge systems for that window. Not for the audit.
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Employees spend 20% of their working week looking for information. In manufacturing, that search tax doesn't just hit productivity. It hits safety, quality, and downtime.
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Moving SOPs from a binder to SharePoint is not digitisation. It's the same friction in a different folder. Three versions of the same procedure with no indication of which is current is not a solved problem.
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"Have the new guy shadow Bob" is not a knowledge transfer strategy. It makes Bob less productive, creates a single point of failure, and passes down his bad habits alongside his good ones.
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Manufacturing doesn't have a skills gap. It has a knowledge architecture problem. The distinction matters because they have completely different solutions.
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The veteran who can diagnose a hydraulic fault by the pitch of a motor isn't just an employee. He's infrastructure. And there's no offboarding process for infrastructure.
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26% of the manufacturing workforce is over 55. That's not a statistic. That's a countdown.
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Start small. Solve real problems. Involve real people. What blockers are you running into in your projects?
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Digital transformation rarely fails because of bad tech, it fails because of data no one can access, ROI no one can prove and tools no one wants to use.
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Blocker 3: No shop floor buy-in Frontline teams aren't just users, they're key partners. 👉 Involve them in the pilot 👉 Test early, get feedback 👉 Prove the goal is making their day easier
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Blocker 2: Decision makers don’t see ROI ROI isn’t something you find later. You define it before you start. 👉 Pilot small 👉 Measure ruthlessly 👉 Speak in language they get: downtime, rework, hours saved
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Patrick Murray@patrickdm_·
There are 3 silent (or sometimes loud) killers of digital projects in manufacturing... I've seen them over and over again. Here's what they are, and what you can do about them 🧵
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Blocker 1: Data is trapped in siloed people and systems Fix it by mapping a key process end-to-end. Then ask: 👉 Who owns the data? 👉 How is it accessed? 👉 What decisions rely on it? Now pick ONE silo and make that data usable as simply as possible.
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@pronounced_kyle Think our little ones are a similar age - mines currently up 4:50am every morning 🥲
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I have made the horrifying realization that I will be happier if I start waking up at 6am instead of 7am
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