Production teams should involve operators early when developing new tools, not after. Co-creating solutions builds buy-in and ensures changes actually help both the company and the people doing the work.
Those individual production teams at each location have to very diligently come up with, okay, this is what we want to do. This is the piece of technology we're going to want to implement. How do we either introduce this to our operators? But more importantly, and the way we've been operating recently, because we have kind of hit Not roadblocks, but we've kind of learned from mistakes. How do we bring in our operators and develop this change or this tool or, you know, whatever the case may be? How do we develop it together? How do we create the ownership from the end user? And let's develop this together as a team, the production team along with the operators or whoever the end user is. To make sure that we've got that buy-in, that we've got that kind of dual ownership, that we create the understanding of, okay, this is how it's going to make our company better. This is how it's going to make your job easier and better.
