Transforming into a Smart Factory | Shashi Thete
The new book by Shashi Thete

Transforming into a Smart Factory

A practitioner’s guide from seven years on the shop floor.

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By Shashi Thete, MD, Sigma Toolings

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7Years of Smart Factory practice at Sigma
17Questions every leader will face
11Illustrated stories from the floor
<5Pages per chapter. Start anywhere.

What you’ll learn

1

Why bother

Find your real reason for a Smart Factory.

2

Starting right

Where to begin, and how not to.

3

Living through it

Failure, tight budgets and difficult teams.

4

Reading the signals

How to know it is working.

5

What comes next

A human-centric future for the factory.

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Who should read this book

MSME ownersStarting without big budgets
Plant headsLeading the change on the floor
Manufacturing leaders
Operations teamsMaking it work every day
Engineers & studentsLearning from a real factory

Launch moments

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Key benefits you’ll gain

  • Start your Smart Factory for the right reasons
  • Avoid the costly early mistakes
  • Plan with the resources you have
  • Bring your people along with the change
  • Know when the transformation is working
  • Learn from real stories, not theory
Photo: Shashi ThetePortrait on the shop floor

About the author

  • Managing Director, Sigma Toolings India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Smart Factory Expert and Coach
  • Change Maker of Indian Manufacturing, 2022
  • Grew up on a farm, where he learned systems thinking
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A smart factory is built by changing the mindset, not just the toolset.

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