REMOTE CONTROL: ENABLING MANUFACTURERS TO MONITOR PRODUCTION WITHOUT BEING ROOTED TO THE PRODUCTION FLOOR

THE PIECE CONSIDERS THE INCREASED ADOPTION OF ‘NEW’ REMOTE/HYBRID WORKING MODELS AND HOW INNOVATIVE NEW TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ARE ENABLING MANUFACTURING MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS TO REMAIN ABREAST OF PRODUCTION OPERATIONS WITHOUT HAVING TO BE ROOTED TO THE FACTORY FLOOR.

- GRÉGORY CHAUVET, GENERAL MANAGER, JPB SYSTÈME

DESPITE THE TURMOIL THAT THE INDUSTRY has had to endure over the last two years, we do now generally appear to be turning a corner on COVID-19. As swift and effective as vaccination programs have been in confronting the virus itself, the COVID-19 experience has brought with it some fundamental changes to the way businesses operate.

For one, it inflicted a revised model of working on us. Indeed, from the very outset, companies, including my own, were forced to have teams operate remotely as lockdowns were thrust upon the world. For some businesses this perhaps presented the perfect opportunity to ‘trial’ new ways of working that they may have been considering. In any case, it has brought forth an office/home hybrid model that is now commonplace across many organisations, regardless of the industry in which they operate.