Visiting the Red Wing plant today. They get to tote the upcoming automation. Based on that leaked layoff plan I'd imagine more automation coming to all plants to reduce staff. Anyone know the deets for visit?
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moving fall protection to slp is probably in line with what they had with safe waze so would be in the direction that potentially makes sense
Red Wing was another dull brained acquisition by Inge. Not much Peter can do when he has to deal with people whining that they can't WFH.
They should be happy he even visited. He's a busy man always looking for ways for 3M to be the renowned leader in industry safety Performance.
Go Pete Go!
Gibbons can’t comprehend what it will take to automate 3M sites; just like Red Wing can’t comprehend NOT having massive quality issues on a regular basis.
Perhaps Gibbons and Red Wing are a match made in heaven
Anyone who knows anything about Red Wing portfolio knows that automation is not reasonable without redesigning 50 years of product. This is not realistic in most of our lives. As a result of the onslaught of automation pressure they pivoted to “automate” warehouse operations. Anyone at a mid level role and up knows that added depreciation cost and rigidness was a flop compared to further leveraging delivery speed. Red Wings not going anywhere as long as site leadership plays along with appearing to be automation leaders.
Amazon like. 1:10 ratio cut. Machines breakdown. They're sitting on large amount of land. Would have been cheaper to invest in warehouse space for pack stations and speed production up with no racking and floor pallet all products for 1:1 orders. There's no simplicitic, street smarts here. It was nothing more than management trying to pat themselves on the back for task completion for layoffs. Place wastes money up the a-s. 3m smarts.
They may invest in automation in RW, RW will never go away, but more and more of the business is going to be moving to Mexico and to a lesser extent GZ
They never want to trim the fat where it's sadly needed, or they would have to look on the mirror.
Automation to reduce headcount. Will be interesting to see them try to force the engineers to replace manual labour with automation when it is impossible to do so for some manual tasks.
More details on the Red Wing Plant Automation Please. Are they actually planning on investing millions in the plant? New equipment or upgrading existing?
Come on guys Give Pete a chance is clearly a troll and hates him as much as everyone here.
Give Pete a Chance is a total to-ser. If he’s at all serious, he doesn’t understand the damage PG has brought to processes, culture, and values that drive real results. 3M may be doing OK in spite of current leadership, but would be doing exponentially better with leaders focused on delivery of results having real impact to the long term success of the company, as well as trust from employees.
Who’s paying the ‘Go Pete Go’ poster? Cesena, is that you? Vale?
Meh RW is moving to SLP Mex slowly anyway so who cares
What was the issue and where?
The only reason that gibgab is concerned about safety is because of a recent incident in which our illustrious plant management were incompetent from top to bottom. Virtually everyone involved in the cleanup was at a loss to know what to do. Missing ppe, defective ppe, you name it. While the problem was in full blow plant management on holiday. Eventually the issue reached osha. That’s when it was all exposed. This is the safety he is touting.
If you are a plant employee, don't get excited about any new automation. It's purpose is to eliminate jobs.
He is a charlatan with zero manufacturing experience or expertise. He will yammer on about safety simply because he has nothing else to offer- no plans, no advancement of technologies. I can’t understand how he is still employed other than to be the hatchet man behind the layoffs.
Gibbons has been an amazing and passionate leader on safety. He knows that automation is important but you have to spend limited funds during these inflationary times so carefully.
Peter is right that safety is about the right focus and attitude and not throwing money at the problem when humans can make smarter decisions.
Go Pete Go!