{"id":4604,"date":"2025-06-25T12:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.webpublishing.oit.ncsu.edu\/ies\/?page_id=4604"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:55:33","slug":"adrianne-kroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.webpublishing.oit.ncsu.edu\/ies\/adrianne-kroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrianne Kroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"padding-left: 20px\"><hr style=\"background-color: transparent;opacity:1;border-top: 5px solid #cc0000;border-color:#cc0000;margin: 10px 0 10px 0;height:5px;width: 50%\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight: lighter\">Assistant Director of Quality<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:7572774303\">757.277.4303<\/a> <span style=\"color:#cccccc;padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px\">|<\/span> <a href=\"mailto:adrianne_kroll@ncsu.edu\">adrianne_kroll@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 95%;font-weight: lighter;padding-left: 20px\"><p><div style=\"float: left;padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\/ies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/04\/Adrianne-Kroll-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Adrianne Kroll\" \/><\/div>Adrianne Kroll is the Assistant Director of Quality at NC State Industry Expansion Solutions (IES), where she brings a deep-rooted passion for operational excellence, strategic systems thinking, and transformative innovation in the manufacturing sector. With a diverse career that began in the defense industry, Adrianne supported the design and construction of Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines as a systems engineer, and later served as an analyst for the United States Joint Forces Command.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, she has led cross-functional teams\u2014from shop floor personnel to executive leadership\u2014in streamlining processes, eliminating waste, and enhancing performance across processes including engineering, IT, supply chain, and customer support. Her expertise spans systems and industrial engineering, quality management systems, risk and requirements management, configuration and change control, and business process improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Adrianne is now expanding her focus to guide clients in exploring and adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools in manufacturing. She is helping organizations understand where AI can unlock value while aligning these technologies with existing management systems and continuous improvement frameworks. Her goal is to make AI adoption approachable, practical, and results-driven for manufacturers at every stage of digital maturity.<\/p>\n<p>She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology and an M.S. in Systems Engineering. 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