IDC Europe Manufacturing Summit Thriving in the manufacturing industry with PRIME

If ever there was a time for the manufacturing industry to futureproof themselves and their supply chains, that time is now. Recent global events have created unprecedented change to the industry, forcing companies to look for ways to embed security, resilience, and agility into their operations – and more often than not, the answer lies in IT.

In a world where decarbonization, a battle for talent and the need to increase the resilience of supply chains and optimize production to maintain competitiveness is top priority, lets discuss how data is the driving force for sustainable manufacturing. In this session, Graeme will share with you how the building blocks to sustainable manufacturing - Enterprise Visualization, People Enablement, Value Chain Optimization, Resilient Supply Chain and Carbon Neutrality – rely on data, to be effective and give you a competitive advantage. He will also suggest steps that manufacturers can take to accelerate their sustainable transformation journey.

As rising costs, supply chain issues, and other challenges continue to mount, manufacturers need more intelligent cloud solutions and technology to do more with less. To future-proof your manufacturing organization, it’s imperative to find new ways to help your people make data-driven decisions through industrial IoT, cloud, AI, mixed reality, infused in more intelligent and collaborative business applications.

In this session, Sebastian Seutter, Global Manufacturing Lead at UiPath, will highlight how manufacturing companies started and scaled their intelligent automation journey to capture full value.

In this session, Mehdi Bentanfous, Chief Revenue Officer and Global Lead of KINEXON's Industry Division, will demonstrate the power of location data in order to automate processes on the shopfloor and will share best practices from renowned companies such as Continental and BMW.

Join the session and learn how location-based process automation can make your IT's job easier and empower the OT level to tackle automation projects themselves.

Thomas Herbstreuth,  Head of Digital Services at KSB, a German headquartered, multinational manufacturer of pumps and valves, will share the investment drivers related to the idea of introducing a self-service platform for engineering data as well as a central store for engineering algorithms and ML models at KSB. He will also share his view on related challenges and also some lessons learned. 

Manufacturers are facing lots of challenges today. Broken supply chains, unstable world politics and economics are increasing pressure on many companies. See how Elastic can use data to best prepare your businesses for the world of today and tomorrow.

A session on Zero Trust and how manufacturing companies can build a Zero Trust Enterprise to improve operational efficiency, enhance customer experience and unlock digital revenue.

• Achieve “Phygital” operational convergence to avoid Business performance divergence 

• Man with machine or man vs. machine? Augmentation is the key to the answer

• From B2B to System to System: connect with, contribute to, and create within new business ecosystems