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Inside Panasonic’s Gigafactory: No Blame, Big Results
Inside Panasonic’s gigafactories in Nevada and Kansas, machines never stop running. Every second, 70 batteries roll off the line, powered by thousands of people working 24/7. At the center of it all is Allan Swan, a Scotsman who left aerospace to lead one of the most ambitious manufacturing operations in America.
Allan begins by explaining what a gigafactory really is and what it takes to manage a workforce of almost 8,000 people while producing billions of batteries a year.
At Panasonic, Allan flipped the hierarchy, putting his name at the bottom of the org chart to remind everyone that…
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