Continuous Improvement has not gained traction in complex, engineered-products manufacturing to the degree one would expect, trailing far behind automotive and other high-volume durable products manufacturers. This session is a live, conversational exchange between a talent strategist who works daily with manufacturing leadership across the Southeast and an operations executive who has spent two decades diagnosing and recovering complex, low-volume, high-mix production programs. Together they unpack why root-cause discipline, floor-level ownership, and parallel-path problem-solving hold up across production models where classic TPS may have failed in the past.