Who: Natan Linder is co-founder and CEO of manufacturing technology company Tulip, a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, and co-founder and chairman of Formlabs, a pioneer and industry leader in professional desktop 3D printing. Tulip, a spinoff out of MIT, headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary, helps companies of all sizes, across industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, industrial equipment, contract manufacturing, medical devices and others, equip their frontline workforce with tech to improve productivity. He is the co-author, with Trond Arne Undheim, of a book entitled “Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework For Managing Frontline Operations.”
Topic: Software defined manufacturing
Quote: “Move away from the perception of automation as the means to replace the human worker and instead see software as a tool that can be used to augment the frontline workforce. People who do the work care about what they do, and if you give them the tools and empower them, they can improve your operations.”
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