Industry4cast by KFactory hosts Bogdan Ungureanu on the role of factory managers in digitalisation. The conversation produces one of the podcast's most-quoted lines: "Digitalisation is a one-way street. There's no turning back."
"Digitalisation is a one-way street. There's no turning back."
Original: "Digitalizarea e o strada cu sens unic. Nu mai e loc de intoarcere." - Bogdan Ungureanu, Factory manager / production-operations leader
What Bogdan articulates - and what the episode title lands on - is that digitalisation is not a project the factory manager sponsors and then steps away from. The manager's role changes. The decision-making changes. The relationship between the office and the line changes. Once the platform is in, the ways of working that preceded it are no longer recoverable.
For Romanian manufacturers reading this in 2021, the framing matters: the choice is not whether to digitalise; the choice is when, and what to optimise for during the transition. Platforms like KFactory succeed when they slot into a manager-driven programme, not when they replace one.
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Episode was recorded in Romanian. The summary above is an English translation of the original conversation.