Revolutionizing Business Culture: Strategies for Building a Customer-Centric Organization with Brandon Bartneck

<p><strong>Connect with Brandon Bartneck:</strong></p><p><strong>LinkedIn: </strong>https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/</p><p><strong>Lisa Ryan:&nbsp;</strong>Hey, it's Lisa Ryan. Welcome to the Manufacturer's Network podcast. I'm excited to introduce you to our guest today, Brandon Bartneck. Brandon is Vice President and General Manager at Edison Manufacturing, and Engineering, a low-volume contract manufacturing partner focused on capital-light assembly of complex mobility and energy products.</p><p>Brandon also hosts the Future of Mobility and Capital Light Assembly Podcast. So Brandon, welcome to the show.</p><p><strong>Brandon Bartneck:&nbsp;</strong>Thanks, Lisa. Great to be here.</p><p><strong>Lisa Ryan:&nbsp;</strong>So, share a little about your background and what led you to do what you're doing at Edison Manufacturing.</p><p><strong>Brandon Bartneck:&nbsp;</strong>Sure. I'm a mechanical engineer by background. I started my career at Boeing in process engineering and production engineering. Then, I entered the engineering services space and transitioned into business development and marketing for a large German engineering services company called FEV. FEV works to help companies create next-generation products that are helping to transform the mobility industry with improved internal combustion engines, drive trains, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, autonomous vehicles, and all those types of things.</p><p>I then transitioned to Edison, where I was leading this organization last year. We'll talk about what we do and why we do it in this capital-light manufacturing manner—through my work at FEV, working with the companies trying to transform this dynamic mobility ecosystem. I saw that low-volume production was a challenge for a wide range of companies, from startups to some of the biggest companies in the world.</p><p>And that transition from developing new technology and creating prototypes and proof of concepts to scaling that into production in a commercially viable manner is a filte