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Turning Constant Change into Business Opportunity: The Role of IT in the Modern Day Supply Chain
Neil Hampshire, SVP & CIO, ModusLink
In today’s manufacturing industry dominated by connected IoT devices, manufacturers are looking for effective ways to manage plant floor data and derive insights from it to optimize plant operations. The need of the hour is to enable plant operators and onsite professionals with access to quality data at the right time to foster accurate decision making. With sophisticated analytics at hand, the workforce can be well equipped to ensure swift operational change management, maximum uptime, and better safety. In this scenario, Artificial intelligence, built on rich volumes of data, is playing a pivotal role in change management and process optimization.
Steve Ilmrud, VP, Operations, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Advancements in telecommunications, transportation and business systems have made the world smaller, more connected, and readily accessible to companies seeking to expand their businesses beyond their local areas.
Steve Smith, U.S. Chief Operating Officer, Esker
As we move toward the close of another year, organizations are beginning to analyze opportunities for improvement in 2017.
Caglayan Arkan, GM, WW Manufacturing & Resources, Microsoft
When a multinational oil company needed to predict equipment failure in its wells, it applied machine learning from Microsoft to existing data, and within four hours was able to identify six wells in need of attention.
Peter Zornio, CSO, Emerson Automation Solutions
The Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing, often referred to as the Industrial IoT or IIoT, will represent a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2025 according to McKinsey & Company.
Stacey Sayer, Global Head, Social & Digital Media, Advanced Energy
As I write this, I’ve already taken a call with one vendor this morning and will take another later this afternoon.
Billy Ingram, Director, Lean Product Development, Interface
Sustainability has three distinct parts which are social, economic and environmental, but the social aspect is the one which is the least used and most overlooked because it is the least understood.
David Tamayo, CIO, DCS Corporation
In the early 1990’s Juarez, Mexico, I was interviewing local management of a large multinational corporation.
Peter Schroer, Founder and CEO, Aras Corporation
In an ideal world, the design of the manufacturing process would run concurrently with the development of the product.
Hans Thalbauer, SVP, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, SAP
The logistics and manufacturing industries are undergoing a revolution driven by digital transformation. Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and blockchain all promise to completely alter how companies conduct business.
Michele C. D’Alessandro, VP & CIO, Manufacturing IT, Merck [NYSE:MRK]
While the marriage of the physical world of pharmaceutical manufacturing and the cyber world is complex and challenging, it is also exciting for anybody fortunate enough to focus on it.
Sohrab Modi, CTO & Senior Vice President of Engineering, Echelon Corp. [NASDAQ:ELON]
The term Internet of Things (IoT) has become a buzz word in the technology industry meaning different things to different people making it difficult to find one, single definition.
