42/Let’s Advocate for
Responsible Outsourcing

By Larry Lapide

Multinational corporations that have successfully built a business in a country should favor domestic labor, invest domestically, and curtail tax avoidance schemes.

48/A Connected Future of
Making Things

By Stephen Hooper and Lynelle Cameron

Systems thinking and a digitally connected design and manufacturing process are the keys to building more products better, and in a sustainable way.

DIALOGUE

8/Touching Hearts and
Changing Culture

By Jeff Moad

General Mills’ Donzel A. Leggett believes successful transformation starts with leaders inspiring the organization to embrace change.

PLAN T TOUR REPORT

54/At Merck, Digital Takes
Center Stage

ML Council members tour pharmaceutical giant Merck’s Maurice R. Hilleman Center for Vaccine Manufacturing in Durham, NC.

COUNCIL FORUM

59/Survival of the Fittest

By Jeff Moad

Praxair Digital Director Larry Megan
says tomorrow’s manufacturing leaders
must embrace low-cost sensing and other
IoT-related technologies to drive plant
reliability and efficiency.

EDITOR’S LETTER

4/A Different Factory World is
Coming

By David R. Brousell

5/Calendar

Important dates for Council Critical Issue Debates, Decision Compass group meetings, Journal issues, research, and live events.

6/Resources

Information on ML research reports, the ML Awards program, the ML Council, ML social media, and ML websites.

56/The Council

Meet fellow members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council.

60/Member Organizations

The Manufacturing Leadership Council reflects the broad ecosystem of the global industry.

61/Board of Governors

Meet the members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Board of Governors.

62/About ML/
Frost & Sullivan
› Join the conversations at

www.ML-Council.com

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