Manufacturing Digitalisation Summit has an interactive format that enables in-depth peer-to-peer discussions around your key business challenges, providing real insight and value. This includes a combination of plenary (keynotes, 5-minute idea, and a panel discussion) and our ‘deep-dive’ roundtable discussion breakout sessions, which are limited to 5 to 8 delegates in each session.
Share your ideas, opinions, and experiences in a collaborative and inclusive environment. Learn from others’ experiences and expertise and gain insights and knowledge from your peers who have faced similar challenges and overcome them.
Plenary
Our Plenary sessions bring together all delegates in a single room – concentrating the event’s focus on to a series of high-profile content sessions. These content sessions include case studies delivered by our keynote speakers as well as expertly moderated panel debates.
Discussion Tables
Select the topics that matter most to you! Over the course of the two days, four rounds of Discussion Sessions will take place. You will have the opportunity to choose between 10 Discussion Tables for a 60-minute interactive Q&A, hosted by a world-class manufacturer and a technology expert.
With a myriad of applications for assets old and new, the digital twin concept can deliver savings and offers far more clarity to the supply chain and end customer. From smart buildings and jet engines to warships and even entire factories the ability to create a real-time digital representation of an asset – a so called digital twin – is already revolutionising many areas of technology. Is this smart technology here to stay? What are the challenges today’s business leaders need to be aware of when getting under the skin of a digital twin.
- The rise of the digital twin revolution
- Impact on business growth and market opportunities
- Gearing up for the data challenge and unlocking the power of data
- What next for the digital agenda?
Digital Transformation’ is often so highly focussed on the technology, that it can be easy to forget the core reasons for doing it. In this short keynote, Richard Jeffers reminds us of the significant financial impact of using better information in managing our factories, and the importance of communicating these high values to:
- Gain the support of key stakeholders
- Create a sense of urgency to drive faster decision-making
- Sharpen the focus on the rapid removal of barriers to implementation.
Digital transformation in manufacturing is a top priority, offering a multitude of benefits across production, supply, fulfilment, and customer experience. But according to the World Economic Forum, more than 70% of manufacturing companies are stalled at the first steps of digital transformation, unable to move past the pilot stage.
In this roundtable discussion with Rimini Street, a leader in end-to-end solutions for enterprise software, we’ll discuss strategies and how to overcome common challenges to get your digitalisation strategy underway:
- How to shift your digitalisation efforts from a cost-based approach to an ROI-based approach
- How to ensure that your digitalisation strategy aligns with your business objectives and delivers measurable benefits such as increased efficiency, profitability, and growth
- How to make the most of your existing IT investment while continuing modernizing
Integrating multiple different data sets and then apply the right tools to the data to create insight is easy to talk about, but much harder to do in the real world. In this session we will share delegates learnings on:
- What data should be collected?
- How and where do you integrated?
- What are the right analytical tools and skills you need to turn the data into value?
Competitiveness is everything to manufacturers and much-needed gains in efficiency and profitability will have to be achieved through new process innovations. Reliable, secure, wireless industrial-grade connectivity leveraging Wi-Fi6, Private 4G/5G, and IoT is not only key to enhancing and enabling these advances, but is the glue between the OT environment and the digital environment.
We all want to increase efficiency: we put sensors into everything, we want to track things, and we want devises and systems to talk to each other. But what does that mean, and how do we do that?
And what do you do when you’ve got so many devices and so much data? Machines are creating terabytes of data, and in order to use them in a way that builds insights, you need to connect them.
- Resource Optimisation: How does the use of digital and advanced analytics enable manufacturers to optimise the use of resources (e.g. raw materials, energy, water), reduce waste and environmental impact and save costs?
- Supply Chain Transparency: 95% of carbon emissions in the manufacturing value chain are created outside the four walls of the factory. How does digitalisation help to identify environmental risks and understand the impact of decisions to reduce emission across the whole supply chain?
- Product Lifecycle Management: 80% of a product’s emissions are locked in at the design stage. How can digital tools like Model Based Systems Engineering and Digital Twins support optimisation of designs for durability, recyclability, and energy efficiency to reduce the environment impact of products as they are manufactured, used and disposed of.
Over the past couple of years, manufacturers have become increasingly aware that they need to overcome disruptions, mitigate risks and build resilience in their operations. Unsurprisingly, there is a great deal of work being done. Supply chain disruption and resilience is now firmly on manufacturers agendas, with 82% saying that it is crucial to the success of their businesses.
In this session we will focus on manufacturing supply chain agility and resilience. We will discuss your investment plans in products, people and processes and any other actions you are taking to mitigate risk.
- What steps are you taking to reduce unnecessary spend when managing your supply chain?
- How much visibility have you got into your upstream/downstream supply chain?
- How are you increasing your efficiencies by leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence?
Join this lively, stimulating, and important conversation to discover ways to save time, cost, effort and build tight relationships to overcome disruptions, mitigate risks and build agility and resilience into your manufacturing operation.
- Optimising Processes: how can AI help manufacturers optimise processes, reduce waste, and increase efficiency? AI-powered predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and supply chain management are just a few examples.
- Enhancing Product Quality: How can AI improve product quality and consistency through real-time quality control and defect detection? These advancements can lead to reduced product recalls and increased customer satisfaction.
- Driving Innovation: How can AI drive innovation in manufacturing by enabling faster and more accurate data analysis, leading to new product development and improved business models?
- How are Manufacturers monitoring energy reduction in the plants and factories and are they able to get enough granular data?
- How and where energy measurement can be linked into the production process to enable energy reduction whist maintaining the same levels of quality and output
- Who is driving energy reduction and management within the business and how does this align with individual plant priorities, budgets and technology refresh cycles
The manufacturing industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by technological advancements and the need for improved efficiency, agility, and scalability. Many manufacturers have embarked on their digital journeys, creating POCs and piloting digital initiatives leveraging a variety of technologies. However, scaling these initiatives and realising true business value through efficient repeatability has often been a big challenge.
To help manufacturers mitigate this issue, Hitachi Vantara and Amazon Web Services have created a suite of smart factory solutions – a portfolio of manufacturing-specific capabilities – that can drive standardisation and efficiencies, at scale. Come and join this roundtable to share, discuss, and learn about the common challenges modern manufacturers face and how to drive enterprise-wide transformation.
- Change management, skills gap, workforce readiness, and data management & privacy are often major hurdles facing modern manufacturers. How do you prioritise and alleviate the key personnel challenges you face when implementing your digital transformation initiatives?
- What are the key factors that hinder your digital transformation initiatives from achieving their desired business outcomes?
- What role should technology partners play to support you in delivering business value at speed and scale?
Influenced by their experiences shopping online in their personal lives, buyers are expecting both an increase in the number of digital sales channels through which they can place orders, and a superior customer experience. Manufacturers need to ensure they have the systems, operations and people to meet changing digital buying behaviours across all channels.
- How can manufacturers adapt their systems, operations, and workforce to effectively meet the increasing demand for digital sales channels while delivering a superior customer experience?
- What strategies and technologies can manufacturers employ to expand their digital sales channel offerings and enhance the overall buying experience for customers?
- In light of evolving digital buying behaviours, what are the key considerations and best practices for manufacturers to successfully manage and optimise multiple digital sales channels for sustained growth?
As manufacturers accelerate their adoption of automation and IoT the threat landscape is changing. The convergence of IT and OT requires a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that reduces risk across entire enterprise by protecting critical data while enabling greater visibility and flexibility throughout the supply chain.
Join our session for a discussion on how manufacturers are evolving their cybersecurity strategy to address the latest business challenges.
- How can manufacturers address the evolving threat landscape in a holistic way that mitigates both IT and OT security challenges?
- What combination of skills, processes and tools can support a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that protects and leverages critical data while supporting seamless integration between IT and OT systems?
- How can organisations effectively leverage automation and IoT while maintaining robust security?
- What are the key barriers for introducing digitalisation into your organisation?
- Is your digitalisation strategy driven from the bottom up or the top down?
- How do you define your requirements for a digital system when you don’t know what the system capabilities are?
- What did you use to define your start point for digitisation, and a follow-on deployment plan?
- Did you have a minimum set of current system standards/process knowledge and tools in place before digitisation?
- How do you drive culture change in your employees, to accept the change to digital manufacturing?
According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (2022), the manufacturing industry is one of the most attacked.
Data powers transformation, drives productivity, and promotes innovation, but it’s exposed manufacturing companies to significant cyber risk.
In the past year ransomware attacks targeting operational technology infrastructure saw an average payout of over $1.5m (The Guardian). Margins and reputations are negatively impacted. This session will:
- Share insights into the threats against manufacturers.
- Deliver recommendations to help reduce risk and protect operations.
- Cover Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, which has analysed more than 10,000+ confirmed breaches spanning more than 13 years.
- Driving energy efficiency performance improvement
- How to reduce energy usage through further investment into energy efficiency technologies
- The challenges of a dispersed site location & infrastructure
- Utilisation of renewable energy sources and options
- How digitalisation can play a part and Industry 4.0
Delegates choose from the same 10 topics for their second discussion session:
- Implementing a Digitalisation Strategy
- Advanced Analytics – turning your data into insights for competitive advantage
- Connectivity – unlocking the Potential of Industrial Digitalisation with IoT and 5G
- How digitalisation can meet sustainability objectives
- Supply Chain Agility and Resilience Through Digitalisation
- Revolutionising Manufacturing with AI
- Energy Reduction & Management
- Creating true business value at speed & scale through smart manufacturing investments
- Multichannel Management – The Growth of Digital Sales Channels
- Managing IT & OT security challenges in the smart factory
A drinks reception awards ceremony to celebrate the launch of The Manufacturer Top 100 2023. One of the biggest nights in the manufacturing industry’s calendar, attended by the newly crowned Top 100 brightest manufacturing stars, judges, Top 100 alumni and the wider manufacturing community.
A discussion on how these three elements are essential to leveraging performance for a modern Formula 1 team.
- Speed and innovation is vital to performance within Formula 1, and how can diversity and culture impact this
- How the Cost Cap has influenced the importance of Diversity, Culture & innovation
- What a culture of continuous improvement looks like to us
- Importance of technology in green manufacturing
- Networked systems in the overall manufacturing business
- How technology can help in green manufacturing: examples and outcomes
Digital transformation in manufacturing is a top priority, offering a multitude of benefits across production, supply, fulfilment, and customer experience. But according to the World Economic Forum, more than 70% of manufacturing companies are stalled at the first steps of digital transformation, unable to move past the pilot stage.
In this roundtable discussion with Rimini Street, a leader in end-to-end solutions for enterprise software, we’ll discuss strategies and how to overcome common challenges to get your digitalisation strategy underway:
- How to shift your digitalisation efforts from a cost-based approach to an ROI-based approach
- How to ensure that your digitalisation strategy aligns with your business objectives and delivers measurable benefits such as increased efficiency, profitability, and growth
- How to make the most of your existing IT investment while continuing modernizing
Integrating multiple different data sets and then apply the right tools to the data to create insight is easy to talk about, but much harder to do in the real world. In this session we will share delegates learnings on:
- What data should be collected?
- How and where do you integrated?
- What are the right analytical tools and skills you need to turn the data into value?
Competitiveness is everything to manufacturers and much-needed gains in efficiency and profitability will have to be achieved through new process innovations. Reliable, secure, wireless industrial-grade connectivity leveraging Wi-Fi6, Private 4G/5G, and IoT is not only key to enhancing and enabling these advances, but is the glue between the OT environment and the digital environment.
We all want to increase efficiency: we put sensors into everything, we want to track things, and we want devises and systems to talk to each other. But what does that mean, and how do we do that?
And what do you do when you’ve got so many devices and so much data? Machines are creating terabytes of data, and in order to use them in a way that builds insights, you need to connect them.
- Resource Optimisation: The use of digital and advanced analytics enables manufactures to gain insights and optimise the use of resources (e.g. raw materials, energy, water), reducing waste and environmental impact while saving costs.
- Supply Chain Transparency: 95% of carbon emissions in the manufacturing value chain are created outside the 4 walls of the factory – digitalisation helps to identify environmental risks and understand the impact of decisions to reduce emission across the whole supply chain, using technologies like simulation models and IoT sensors.
- Product Lifecycle Management: 80% of a product’s emissions are locked in at the design stage. Digital tools like Model Based Systems Engineering and Digital Twins support optimisation of designs for durability, recyclability, and energy efficiency to reduce the environment impact of products as they are manufactured, used and disposed of. Feedback from customers drives continuous improvement and the development of more sustainable products.
Over the past couple of years, manufacturers have become increasingly aware that they need to overcome disruptions, mitigate risks and build resilience in their operations. Unsurprisingly, there is a great deal of work being done. Supply chain disruption and resilience is now firmly on manufacturers agendas, with 82% saying that it is crucial to the success of their businesses.
In this session we will focus on manufacturing supply chain agility and resilience. We will discuss your investment plans in products, people and processes and any other actions you are taking to mitigate risk.
- What steps are you taking to reduce unnecessary spend when managing your supply chain?
- How much visibility have you got into your upstream/downstream supply chain?
- How are you increasing your efficiencies by leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence?
Join this lively, stimulating, and important conversation to discover ways to save time, cost, effort and build tight relationships to overcome disruptions, mitigate risks and build agility and resilience into your manufacturing operation.
- Optimising Processes: how can AI help manufacturers optimise processes, reduce waste, and increase efficiency? AI-powered predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and supply chain management are just a few examples.
- Enhancing Product Quality: How can AI improve product quality and consistency through real-time quality control and defect detection? These advancements can lead to reduced product recalls and increased customer satisfaction.
- Driving Innovation: How can AI drive innovation in manufacturing by enabling faster and more accurate data analysis, leading to new product development and improved business models?
- How are Manufacturers monitoring energy reduction in the plants and factories and are they able to get enough granular data?
- How and where energy measurement can be linked into the production process to enable energy reduction whist maintaining the same levels of quality and output
- Who is driving energy reduction and management within the business and how does this align with individual plant priorities, budgets and technology refresh cycles
Influenced by their experiences shopping online in their personal lives, buyers are expecting both an increase in the number of digital sales channels through which they can place orders, and a superior customer experience. Manufacturers need to ensure they have the systems, operations and people to meet changing digital buying behaviours across all channels.
- How can manufacturers adapt their systems, operations, and workforce to effectively meet the increasing demand for digital sales channels while delivering a superior customer experience?
- What strategies and technologies can manufacturers employ to expand their digital sales channel offerings and enhance the overall buying experience for customers?
- In light of evolving digital buying behaviours, what are the key considerations and best practices for manufacturers to successfully manage and optimise multiple digital sales channels for sustained growth?
The manufacturing industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by technological advancements and the need for improved efficiency, agility, and scalability. Many manufacturers have embarked on their digital journeys, creating POCs and piloting digital initiatives leveraging a variety of technologies. However, scaling these initiatives and realising true business value through efficient repeatability has often been a big challenge.
To help manufacturers mitigate this issue, Hitachi Vantara and Amazon Web Services have created a suite of smart factory solutions – a portfolio of manufacturing-specific capabilities – that can drive standardisation and efficiencies, at scale. Come and join this roundtable to share, discuss, and learn about the common challenges modern manufacturers face and how to drive enterprise-wide transformation.
- Change management, skills gap, workforce readiness, and data management & privacy are often major hurdles facing modern manufacturers. How do you prioritise and alleviate the key personnel challenges you face when implementing your digital transformation initiatives?
- What are the key factors that hinder your digital transformation initiatives from achieving their desired business outcomes?
- What role should technology partners play to support you in delivering business value at speed and scale?
As manufacturers accelerate their adoption of automation and IoT the threat landscape is changing. The convergence of IT and OT requires a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that reduces risk across entire enterprise by protecting critical data while enabling greater visibility and flexibility throughout the supply chain.
Join our session for a discussion on how manufacturers are evolving their cybersecurity strategy to address the latest business challenges.
- How can manufacturers address the evolving threat landscape in a holistic way that mitigates both IT and OT security challenges?
- What combination of skills, processes and tools can support a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that protects and leverages critical data while supporting seamless integration between IT and OT systems?
- How can organisations effectively leverage automation and IoT while maintaining robust security?
Digitalisation requires new skills and expertise, such as data analysis, programming, and cybersecurity. Manufacturers need to invest in training and upskilling their workforce to ensure they have the skills to operate in a digital environment.
- What are the specific workforce skills that manufacturers need to succeed in digitalisation?
- How can manufacturers attract and retain talent with the necessary digital skills?
- What training programs can be put in place to upskill the existing workforce?
- How can manufacturers encourage collaboration between employees with different skill sets to ensure that everyone benefits from digitalisation?
- How can manufacturers balance the need for automation with the need to retain human workers?
- How can manufacturers ensure that workers are able to adapt to new technologies and processes as they are introduced?
- Steve will draw on his extensive experience from industrial projects, case studies, and reports (including the latest government reports) to demonstrate how companies can effectively reduce carbon emissions while improving total productivity through industrial digitalisation.
- Drawing from the experiences of top companies, he will explore what the ‘summit’ of digitally enabled sustainable manufacturing might look like, as well as the initial actions being taken by smart manufacturers.
- Steve will provide insights on how the merging of digitalisation and sustainability, two major movements in the global manufacturing industry, could shape our future
- The importance of knowing what value means for your organization and competitive landscape
- Understand incremental value and the significance at various stages of the deployment strategy
- Clarity on how to navigate through without leaving anyone behind
Delegates choose from the same 10 topics for their second discussion session:
- Implementing a Digitalisation Strategy
- Advanced Analytics – turning your data into insights for competitive advantage
- Connectivity – unlocking the Potential of Industrial Digitalisation with IoT and 5G
- How digitalisation can meet sustainability objectives
- Supply Chain Agility and Resilience Through Digitalisation
- Revolutionising Manufacturing with AI
- Energy Reduction & Management
- Creating true business value at speed & scale through smart manufacturing investments
- Multichannel Management – The Growth of Digital Sales Channels
- Managing IT & OT security challenges in the smart factory
