What does flexibility actually look like on a manufacturing floor? That was the question at the centre of this ManufactHER workshop, and it sparked some of the most honest conversations the cohort has had so far.
Brought together with partners from the University of Newcastle’s Central Coast Health & Wellbeing Living Lab, our Cohort 1 businesses spent the day stepping back from the day-to-day and asking some harder questions. What assumptions are we carrying about flexibility? What’s possible that we haven’t tried yet? And what’s standing in the way?
What came out of it was a shift in thinking, and some real commitments. Every one of our cohort businesses left with one or two pilot ideas they’re now putting into practice.
A huge thank you to Courtney Molloy and Jenn McGhie from the Central Coast Health & Wellbeing Living Lab for guiding the day, and to our cohort businesses (Baltimore Aircoil Company, Grifco ANZ, Profence and Mars) for showing up with openness and a genuine willingness to rethink what’s possible.
Thank you also to the many external stakeholders who joined us, and to our project team: Alison Cook (Project Lead), Melanie Lymbery and Peta Ross (Project Coordinators), and our partners at Central Coast Industry Connect, Alex Blow and Gail Cottrill.