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Jason Schmid, Burns & McDonnell
Moderator: Liz Hagerman, The Hershey Company
Faced with higher input and labor costs, confectionery manufacturing facilities are pushing their teams to increase manufacturing productivity levels at the required margins year over year. As facility managers respond to the industry-wide labor shortage and changing technology while staring down a pending recession, a few core ideas have emerged to help enable the transformation into the next generation of manufacturing facilities. Manufacturing plants will strengthen every phase of their operation through the adoption of new process technologies to reduce headcount. Through the implementation and adoption of vertical startup methodologies, plants can maximize the returns from investments in technology with more efficient processes.
