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Discover the latest market intelligence around Smart Manufacturing transformations within the Manufacturing industry. Where is the investment being focused? Where are we seeing the challenges? What are the lessons to be learned, and what enablers will manufacturers need in terms of strategy, leadership, employee skills and IT infrastructure?

Combining the virtual world of information technology and the real world of manufacturing automation is a key driver for boosting a company’s performance and enhancing their productivity. Patrick Vollmer and Gaurav Gupta discuss the power of IT-OT fusion and the seamless interplay across the value chain and how this interplay can be the key enabler for digital transformation.

As of 2021, LEGO has been deemed the largest toy company in the world, manufacturing their own lines of games, videos, products, and more. What digital transformation strategies have been implemented to ensure their supply chain success? How have they ensured that sustainability is much more than a buzz word and that their agility and technology tactics are connected? ISG’s Christian Decker and Jesper Touboel, VP Operations of LEGO Group will delve into each brick that has supported the company’s business success despite the past years macroeconomic challenges.  

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

Smart manufacturing is comprised multiple sets data generating devices leveraging IOT for engineering simulations and digitized customer experiences, which generate tremendous amounts of data driven decision insights. Connecting the “digital threads” of data is essential to driving operational efficiency and quality while improving brand loyalty and customer experience but do enterprises achieve scale and value realisation following a sequential data approach.

ISG’s Digital Engineering solution leader Gaurav Gupta will discuss how to enterprises are seeking to achieve scale and value leveraging data and tie your digital threads.

Digital initiatives across industries demand a change. Companies which demonstrate high agility in adapting the changing Technology Debt, Data Operating structure, Skills, and Process, are staying ahead. Our experts will discuss how global organisations are dealing with legacy architecture, siloed business units, and stakeholder alignment by breaking barriers, setting up a data positive operating model and extracting deeper value from their data assets leveraging Digital Threads.

How do you build the engineering to manufacturing bridge to drive business growth, improve operations excellence and ensure business continuity? This innovative session will provide an example of how an Aero Tier 1 Supplier is driving to achieve digital continuity and early visibility by introducing a collaboration tool to achieve faster time to market from product Ideation to Delivery and improve operational excellence via improving the quality and reduction in product costs.

Working in IT today means accepting change and having the grit to drive it forward actively. MAN Energy Services is continually changing to meet new needs and overcome arising challenges. Ireneus will speak about three dimensions of change – Technology, People & Organization.

Successfully managing and delivering transformation programs is mission-critical to many enterprises especially in the manufacturing industry given the current magnitude of change that we're all witnessing. Handling the existing technology stack efficiently while investing in future capabilities to help drive ACES, Smart Factory or ESG initiatives are essential to (re-)position IT as a true business enabler. Mastering the "ingredients" of transformation needs skill and experience. In this presentation ISG's Philipp Glatz will talk about real-world examples and share learnings from transformation projects in execution.

To meet the increasingly complex expectations of customers, organizations in manufacturing must push key decisions closer to the production floor based on the latest data analytics from various points across its value chain and ecosystem. Industry 4.0 technologies offer significant opportunities for improving both operational and decision-making processes with cloud computing, IoT, and AI/ML being the backbone. As decarbonization becomes a more and more significant and strategic goal of manufacturers, industry 4.0 technologies can make manufacturing more sustainable while enabling companies to improve their operations and optimize the cost.

Our panel of industry experts will discuss their experiences in operating and implementing a decentralized decision-making business model.

• How can the adoption of industry 4.0 support your strategic decarbonization goals?
• What is the role of digital thread in the automated, AI/ML-enabled plants?
• Where are companies finding solutions, and solution providers to improve connected products and technology targeted to reduce carbon footprint?
• What are the top 3 challenges of bringing decision making closer to production? And how do you overcome them?

BlueVoyant completed its second annual global survey analysing the current state of third-party risk management among 1650 C-Level respondents, most of whom experienced negative impact due to cybersecurity issues of their suppliers. In his presentation, Dan Vasile, Vice President Cyber Strategy at BlueVoyant will share the many valuable European and DACH insights to the current state of third-party cyber risk. Get the full report and learn more about the striking Benelux findings during this round table discussion, such as: * 99% of DACH respondents have suffered a cybersecurity breach because of weaknesses in their supply chain/third-party vendors * 99% of companies have been negatively impacted by a cybersecurity breach that occurred in their supply chain * DACH respondents have experienced 3.57 breaches in the last 12 months on average.

The Manufacturing Industry strives towards autonomous factories, whilst knowing that already “smart“ is a vision. When defining steps for improving the level of Manufacturing automation, many companies get lost when prioritizing, structuring and managing complexity of production use cases and the variety of different aspects. Based on an actual, recent customer project the utilized Smart Factory Navigator methodology will be explained which bases on real-life best practices and provides a good structure to drive the way from a Smart to an Autonomous Factory.

Every enterprise out there is facing strong economic headwinds, which on one hand forces them to reduce their technical debts and on the other hand expects them to deliver a sustainable strategy for the future.

There is a strong dilemma on whether to continue focussing on tactical topics or start investing into foundational topics for innovation, scalability and sustainability. Investing in the future has to be a pan-enterprise discussion and not just restricted to a particular team, technology or domain. Discover the architecture design principles and patterns that would help enterprises build a sustainable future, using technology as an enabler.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

Technology is revolutionizing and transforming the automobile industry at never before pace. Afterall this technology transformation is being invented, adopted and controlled by people. People aspect is at the core of automobile industry trends and is the key factor that keeps the enterprise ahead of the race.

Join our ISG’s Account Director, Mathias Schenk who talks about the “People and Digitization for Manufacturing” as why is people factor is important in the industry revolution, emerging people trends to consider to successfully start the digitization journey and ISG recommendations and live examples of successful implementations.

The future of manufacturing has people, processes, and systems focusing on delivering innovation to meet fast-changing customer demands and manufacturers will continue to rely upon employees to conduct operations with or without automated solutions in place. Our panel of industry experts will discuss change management techniques, how to prevent institutional knowledge and processes from being lost, and how to upskill and empower your current team.

• What are the tools and technologies needed to be successful on the shop floor?
• How do you reskill, upskill, and enable the workforce with productive, intuitive, and purpose-built technologies that make it easier and more enriching for them to perform their roles?
• How do you minimize risk and improve productivity without compromising security?
• How do you make employees and factories “smarter” through technology?

After a day of great content, what do you do with it? ISG’s Christian Decker will provide guidance on what your next steps should be for your digital transformation!

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.