Argon & Co partners with QAD | Redzone

Argon & Co has announced a global partnership with QAD | Redzone, bringing together consulting and connected workforce technology to help manufacturers improve frontline execution and productivity across factory operations.

Redzone is deployed across more than 2000 factories, and the collaboration with Argon & Co marks the company’s first strategic global partnership focused on transformation-led operational consulting.

The partnership comes at a time when productivity improvement is becoming critical to manufacturing competitiveness due to labour shortages, rising costs and growing operational complexity. And while many businesses have invested heavily in automation and continuous improvement initiatives, translating those investments into sustained frontline performance remains a persistent industry challenge.

“Manufacturers have more operational data and technology than ever before, but many still struggle to turn that into consistent performance on the shopfloor,” said Paul Eastwood, Managing Partner APAC at Argon & Co. “Too often, improvements fail to stick, and digital investments struggle to deliver measurable results at scale. As AI and connected operations continue to evolve, the real opportunity lies in combining operational insight with the execution disciplines and behaviours needed to sustain performance over time.”

The combination of Argon & Co’s proprietary Manufacturing Optimisation and Daily Execution system, (MODE) with Redzone’s AI-powered connected workforce platform is designed to help manufacturers move beyond fragmented improvement initiatives and establish a more scalable, system-wide approach to operational performance.

Redzone provides real-time visibility, AI-guided insights and a connected platform that enables frontline teams to take immediate action on performance. When combined with MODE, this creates a system where performance is visible at every level, approaches are standardised and capability is embedded within the workforce.

“Redzone’s mission is to transform manufacturing by empowering the frontline to win every day and that mission demands more than great technology. It requires world-class coaching by people who have actually worked inside a factory. Argon & Co’s consultants are proven manufacturing experts who understand the realities of the shop floor. That depth of expertise, combined with their truly global reach, is exactly what it takes to help manufacturers achieve what once seemed impossible: five days of production in four,” said Ken Fisher, President at Redzone.

Through the partnership, manufacturers will be able to combine connected worker technology with embedded operational disciplines including daily management systems, standard work, structured problem solving, leadership routines and capability transfer programs.

The partnership will initially focus on supporting manufacturers across food and beverage, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing and process industries, with rollout capability spanning Europe, North America, Asia–Pacific and the Middle East.

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