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?