Manufacturers rarely fail because they lack strategy or digital tools; they stall in the Execution Gap. With three decades leading global continuous improvement at General Electric, Philips, and Shell, Sanchay Roy brings a rare frontline perspective shaped by both traditional Lean and industrial AI startups. Discover how connecting leadership intent with frontline wisdom makes operational excellence stick—and why operational leadership matters more than ever.
By the end of this keynote, you will take away:
- A diagnostic for why continuous improvement deployments really fail, and why the manager layer, not the shop floor, is where they are lost.
- What AI changes in Operational Excellence and what it does not, and what the non-vendor evidence actually shows
- The three questions frontline teams ask of any initiative, including AI tools, and the design constraints that follow for anyone deploying technology to the shop floor.
- The practical sequence for AI adoption in an excellence programme — discipline, capture, correlate, augment — and the reasons most failed initiatives run it backwards.
- The first step you need to take on the first morning back in the plant, regardless of company size or digital maturity.
