Day 1 | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Jeff Winter, Director, Smart Manufacturing Division, International Society of Automation (ISA)
Lessons Learned from Airbus North America's Digital Transformation Journey...So Far
Virginie Collin-Banerji, Head of NA IM Regionalization & Digital Initiatives, Airbus (NC)
Join Airbus' digital transformation leader to get practical lessons in rolling out your digital transformation projects, and what leading implementation and cultural change actually looks like in a real-life setting.
Hear experiences and lessons learned, to pinpoint:
• How to build and implement automation, and quickly, to avoid lost time and money for your business.
• How to identify the tools and systems needed to automate your businesses’ needs, and how to integrate new software into your legacy systems.
• How to ensure your talent is aligned with your tools and technology to avoid pilot purgatory.
Virginie Collin-Banerji, Head of NA IM Regionalization & Digital Initiatives, Airbus (NC)
Business Process Management: Applying Supply Chain Thinking Beyond the Shop Floor
Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist & VP - North America, WEBCON
If you asked me to describe supply chain thinking, I’d say it involves a strategic and holistic approach to managing the flow of goods, information, and finances from suppliers to end customers. It emphasizes collaboration, efficiency, and agility to respond to changing customer demands and market conditions.
I’d describe business process management the same way, except that it applies to nearly every facet of running a business. By engineering business functions (sales, HR, finance, marketing, etc.) with a common goal of meeting customer needs, manufacturers can reduce costs, improve quality, eliminate errors, increase speed to market, build employee excellence, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Processes are also necessary for a sound digital automation strategy; you can’t achieve digital transformation without both. Join us to hear several real-world examples of companies that made this work with exceptional results.
Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist & VP - North America, WEBCON
Cross-Departmental, Data-Led, Collaboration: How to Lead a Digital Enterprise & Achieve Business Resilience & Visibility
throughout your Manufacturing & Supply Chain Operations
Moderator: Joseph Etris, Vice President IoT Solutions, Gemba Systems
- Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist & VP - North America, WEBCON
- Michael Stroebel, Vice President for Information Technology, BMW Group (SC)
- Tim Vibbert, Executive Director & Plant Manager, GE Appliances, a Haier company (KY)
Industry 4.0, or even Industry 5.0, may not be your reality yet but human-technology collaboration is ever-increasing, with the pandemic having sped up technological innovation and adoption.
Digital transformation, at whatever stage, requires collaboration and communication across departments, to avoid pilot purgatory. Many manufacturing businesses are now taking a more holistic approach to tech implementation, striving to be smart enterprises, not just smart factory floors.
Join this panel to hear leaders from different parts of the product journey to learn from their experiences in working together to ensure technology investments pay off across manufacturing and supply chain operations.
• Gain best practices in data sharing and cross-departmental security policies.
• Hear how to ensure the processes are in place to maximize human and tech efficiency.
• Take away template approaches to people and processes to support successful digital transformation rollout.
• Gain insights into how to recalibrate according to market trends, and the impact of macroeconomic and political shifts.
Moderator: Joseph Etris, Vice President IoT Solutions, Gemba Systems
- Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist & VP - North America, WEBCON
- Michael Stroebel, Vice President for Information Technology, BMW Group (SC)
- Tim Vibbert, Executive Director & Plant Manager, GE Appliances, a Haier company (KY)
Supply Chain Resiliency & The Operational Role for Sustainability
Simon Ellis, Group VP, IDC
What are manufacturers and retailers doing to improve supply chain resiliency, how mature are these efforts, and to what degree does sustainability play a role in both the current and future of the supply chain. Simon Ellis, Program Vice President at IDC will review recent survey insights and offer his views on both the near and longer term directions for supply chains.
Simon Ellis, Group VP, IDC
Data-driven, Resilient & Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Leverage Data to Reduce Future Risks & Avoid
New Costs
N.Tyrone Ellis, Aftermarket Engineering Leader, Trane Technologies (NC)
Paige Goff, MBA, Vice President, Sustainability, Domtar (SC)
Josh Riggs, Senior Manager, Sustainability, Milliken & Company (SC)
Industry 5.0 might seem like a very distant goal, but sustainable manufacturing, a key pillar of its concept, is already here.
Future regulations, taxes, and a negative impact on manufacturers’ bottom line are lurking, and sustainability practices driven by data are needed to meet future business challenges. This session discusses:
- The business value of ESG and the opportunities for financial gain.
- Upcoming regulatory changes and how to mitigate new costs to small to large manufacturing businesses.
- How to advance and automate data analytics to operationalize sustainability practices in the most efficient way.
- How to set up each step in your sustainability rollout to have the infrastructure in place to scale.
- How to meet your supply chain where they are at and decide on a shared and practical ESG approach.
N.Tyrone Ellis, Aftermarket Engineering Leader, Trane Technologies (NC)
Paige Goff, MBA, Vice President, Sustainability, Domtar (SC)
Josh Riggs, Senior Manager, Sustainability, Milliken & Company (SC)
WestRock Company, INVISTA, Industry 4.0 Club, BMW Group, SCRA
Meet with peers in a closed group discussion led by a senior manufacturer to get to grips with your key challenges.
This is your chance to ask questions to a manufacturer who has already carried out your future plans and probe your peers to find practical solutions collaboratively, benchmarking your approaches. Discussion Group Topics:
•Mixed Reality for Training & Workforce Development
Scott Burkey, Technology Fellow, XR, WestRock Company (GA)
Dane Laughlin, Operations Transformation Leader, INVISTA (KS)
•Reskilling the Workforce for Industry 4.0 - Where to Begin & What To Do
Mike Ungar, Co-Founder, Industry 4.0 Club
Tim Vibbert, Executive Director & Plant Manager, GE Appliances, a Haier company (KY)
•The Effects of Onshoring & How Tech is Helping to Fill the Skills Gap
Michael Stroebel, Vice President for Information Technology, BMW Group (SC)
Jonathan Weiss, Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0 - Advisor and Software Executive
• Defining Industry 4.0 & Digital Transformation for Your Company
Jeff Winter, Director, Smart Manufacturing Division, International Society of Automation (ISA)
STARTING YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
scaling INDUSTRY 4.0
Joseph Etris, Vice President IoT Solutions, Gemba Systems
Breaking Down Barriers to Entry: How to Set Your Digital & Data-Driven Vision for the Factory Floor to Determine Your Starting Point & Overcome Hesitancy to Tech-led Efficiency
Moderator: Joseph Etris, Vice President IoT Solutions, Gemba Systems
- Catherine Briley, Director of Industry 4.0 Integration, Cooley Group (NC)
- Meg Lanza, Head of Technology, BSH Home Appliances Group (SC)
- Jason Richardson, Digital Transformation Leader, AstenJohnson (SC)
- Marcos Servilla, Manufacturing Lead, Borg Warner (SC)
Case Studies Showing How Global Manufacturing Leaders Are Using Industry 4.0 to Deliver Breakthrough Results
Gustavo Chohfi, VP, Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement, Cornerstone Building Brands (MI)
Meet with a panel of manufacturing leaders who have implemented a variety of automation technologies on the factory floor to bring operational gain.
Understand how to avoid doing tech for tech’s sake by identifying the technology that matches the business problem that you are trying to solve.
• Discover how to set your vision and measure progress along the way to track the effectiveness of your digital investment.
• Assess low-code/no-code approaches to automation projects and learn how to select the software suitable for your business and team’s needs.
• Brainstorm and benchmark your approach to data: when to start collecting, when is there enough data, and in a manual manufacturing process, what big data can be used, and which decisions can be made using it?
• Hear key tried and tested steps to take, and avoid, when stepping away from manual manufacturing processes.
Moderator: Catherine Hayes, Industry Manager, South Carolina Research Authority (SC)
- Catherine Briley, Director of Industry 4.0 Integration, Cooley Group (NC)
- Meg Lanza, Head of Technology, BSH Home Appliances Group (SC)
- Jason Richardson, Digital Transformation Leader, AstenJohnson (SC)
- Marcos Servilla, Manufacturing Lead, Borg Warner (SC)
Benefit from Gustavo's many years of digital manufacturing leadership as he dives into case studies unpicking:
- How to use data to drive breakthrough quality results.
- How to overcome the challenges of transferring products and production lines to another country (with poor documentation and language barriers).
- How to capture and transfer the knowledge of key employees.
Gustavo Chohfi, VP, Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement, Cornerstone Building Brands (MI)
Technologies, Tools & Talent: How to Digitally Transform Existing Tools & Actions to Bring Immediate Advancements to Your Production
Karthikk Munirathinam, Director - Digitalization, Schaeffler (NC)
Spatial Computing in Manufacturing: How to Prepare & What to Invest in the Future Platform
Nick Hughes, Digital Experience Designer, Amsted Rail (SC)
Hear how to implement new technologies, and learn the steps to achieving tangible benefits.Exploring case studies in automated tuggers/automation, AI and mobile apps, everyday tools, and more.
Karthikk Munirathinam, Director - Digitalization, Schaeffler (NC)
Industry pros says that spatial computing is the next iteration of computing platforms. Join this session to investigate spatial computing and how it is empowering actual digital transformation in manufacturing.
Learn how Amsted is creating high-fidelity, interactive digital twins and how video game engines are helping reimagine the management of automated production lines. Explore these topics in depth and peek into Amsted’s current XR portfolio.
Gain an understanding of spatial computing to determine how itwill disrupt manufacturing operations in the next five years.
Take away insights into the components to invest in to bring real value to your business, and those over-hyped trends to avoid putting your dollars into.
Nick Hughes, Digital Experience Designer, Amsted Rail (SC)
Practical Analytics: How to Use the Tools You Already Have to Improve Real-time Visibility, Enable Better Decision-Making, Align People Across Roles & Hierarchies, & Drive Top & Bottom-Line Results
Eric Borowicz, General Manager - Accessories, AFL (SC)
Transformation at Scale: How to Take Stock Of & Consolidate Different Systems to Implement Secure, Digital Plans & Processes Across Multiple Sites
Moderator: Coral Warren, Project Engineer, Polaris (AL)
- Erin Chase, Director, Operations Excellence & Digital Manufacturing, Johnson Controls (NC)
- Framarz Mistry, Director, Design Technology, Mohawk Industries (GA)
- Marco Rabe, Director Strategic Projects, Continental Tires (IL)
Are you drowning in data, while starving for reliable and actionable insights? Are you spending hours on end updating, double-checking, and refining ever-expanding Excel sheets and manual reports? Are the numbers not quite as consistent or reliable as you’d like? Could the right information help you make better decisions more quickly?
In this powerful testimony, Eric Borowicz from AFL Accessories will share his company’s journey, over the past 2 years, achieving a company-wide culture change towards data-driven decision-making, management by exception, and continuous improvement.
Among other useful and practical insights, Eric will share:
•How the process got started and has evolved over the past 2 years
•Which departments and use cases have benefitted the most so far - and how
•Which analytics and other tools his company has been using on their “data journey”
•How he’s nurtured the adoption of a data-driven mindset across his entire organization•How to assess the ROI, and justify the initial and continued investment
•What’s been the overall impact of “practical analytics” at AFL Accessories
Eric Borowicz, General Manager - Accessories, AFL (SC)
Moderator: Coral Warren, Project Engineer, Polaris (AL)
- Erin Chase, Director, Operations Excellence & Digital Manufacturing, Johnson Controls (NC)
- Anand Jaiswal, Director, Industry 4.0, Mativ (GA)
- Framarz Mistry, Director, Design Technology, Mohawk Industries (GA)
- Marco Rabe, Director Strategic Projects, Continental Tires (IL)
How do you achieve standardized digital transformation at scale? Join these leaders from global manufacturing players to identify the steps that need to be taken when scaling digital transformation strategies.
Answer questions such as where do you start when you have multiple ERPs, across multiple sites and systems are disconnected, and speak different languages? And then, how do you go about tackling legacy systems, and cybersecurity across national, or even global, manufacturing organizations? And, what about getting your people on board, your most important asset?
Confronting Cybersecurity & Regulatory Changes: Steps a Small Manufacturer Needs to Take to Ensure Compliance with Cybersecurity Standards
- Allison Giddens, President, Director of Operations, Win-Tech, Inc. (GA)
- Andy Sauer, Partner & CISO, Sentinel Blue (VA)
Winning with the Digital Twin: Intelligent Design & Production
Nick Hughes, Digital Experience Designer, Amsted Rail (SC)
You’re a small manufacturer in an industry that requires you to be compliant with cybersecurity standards to play in the sandbox. You see on LinkedIn that your competitor recently shut its doors after a devastating ransomware attack. Your email is inundated with vendors telling you “Our product is exactly what you need to get compliant.” Is your head spinning?
In this presentation, a small manufacturer discusses their experience in building cybersecurity maturity and compliance readiness.
• Learn how to prioritize security to ensure compliance comes more naturally
• Understand shared compliance responsibilities of both the business seeking an MSP partner, and the MSP
• Gain real-life insights and shared experiences from an MSP/SMB partnership.
- Allison Giddens, President, Director of Operations, Win-Tech, Inc. (GA)
- Andy Sauer, Partner & CISO, Sentinel Blue (VA)
Digital twins allow data to be turned into intelligent action, offering to replicate what is happening to an actual specific product in the real world. Join this session to understand how the digital twin helps your organization exactly, the value they have brought to products and services to date, plus, what the future holds for AI + Digital Twins.
Start with the basics: what is the difference between a Digital Twin and a simulation? And how have IoT and data enabled the power of the Twin? What are the common errors to avoid that slow the Digital Twin process down, and how do you avoid them? How do you go from initial design to accurate replicas?
Also, do you recognize the advantages of using Digital Twins as a larger smart manufacturing platform or to virtually test other new technologies? Engage to answer all your questions, and don’t be left behind.
Nick Hughes, Digital Experience Designer, Amsted Rail (SC)
Advantages of a Lean Supply Chain Strategy: Resilience, Efficiency & Cost Savings
Bob Daymon, Head of TM Operations, Uber Freight
Digitizing Enterprise Workflows: How to Improve Experience & Drive Action Across the Entire Manufacturing Value
Allen Hackman, Area Vice President/General Manager Manufacturing Industry, ServiceNow
In this session, Bob will delve into the advantages of a lean supply chain strategy and best practices for improving supply chain resilience and transportation stabilization to optimize overall operations. He’ll discuss examples of companies that have successfully implemented lean principles within the supply chain to increase productivity and reduce costs. He’ll also cover the importance of improving stability in transportation planning and execution, and how technology can unlock greater access to capacity, flexibility, and efficiency.
Audience Takeaways:
• How to adopt lean principles to drive greater supply chain efficiency and resilience.
• How technology enables greater visibility into supply chain operations as well as broader market conditions.
• How companies can improve supply chain stability and better navigate market disruptions.
Bob Daymon, Head of TM Operations, Uber Freight
Reimagine how work gets done by leveraging a single digital workflow platform to improve experience and action across the entire manufacturing value chain. Learn how having a single digital thread weaving disparate people, processes and technologies together can improve productivity, reduce risk, and increase revenue.
During this session, attendees will gain insight into:
• How organizations can reduce time to market for new products
• Improve supplier collaboration and reduce supply chain risk
• Secure your enterprise technology assets (including operational technology) and prevent downtime from cyberattacks
• Digitize factory-floor processes to lower costs, survive labor shortages and transition to smart factories
• Improve customer experience and reduce the cost to serve
Allen Hackman, Area Vice President/General Manager Manufacturing Industry, ServiceNow
The AI Gamechanger: How to Apply AI to Data Analysis to Future-proof Production & Processes
Moderator: Suzanne Dickerson, Director of SC Fraunhofer USA Alliance, SC Council of Competitiveness (SC)
- Matthew Hill, Industry 4.0 Transformation Manager, Michelin North America (SC)
- Phil Hunt, Chief Architect, Orange Bees
- Dr. Marcel Schaefer, Senior Research Scientist, Fraunhofer USA (SC)
Gain a 101 in AI. Define what AI looks like in manufacturing with those working with it on the factory floor, and hear:
• Real life case studies of how AI has improved manufacturing production with financial benefits.
• The AI solutions available and how to assess them based on your business needs.
• Essential steps to take during AI implementation, and common mistakes to avoid, to ensure ROI
• How to prepare your people and data to guarantee AI’s effectiveness.
Moderator: Suzanne Dickerson, Director of SC Fraunhofer USA Alliance, SC Council of Competitiveness
- Matthew Hill, Industry 4.0 Transformation Manager, Michelin North America (SC)
- Phil Hunt, Chief Architect, Orange Bees
- Dr. Marcel Schaefer, Senior Research Scientist, Fraunhofer USA (SC)
Jeff Winter, Director, Smart Manufacturing Division, International Society of Automation (ISA)
- Brandon Rudnicki, Enterprise Account Executive - Automotive North America, NavVis
- Tim Felbinger, Founder & CEO, StartProto
- Devin Bhushan, Founder & CEO, Squint, Inc
This ‘shark tank’ session will consist of 3 x 10-minute pitch-style presentations showcasing the latest vendor innovations on the market!
Hear 10-minute presentations on hot solutions, then listen to the presenter answer the judging board’s questions for five minutes, before voting for the product you find to be the most impressive, via the Event App.
4:30 pm: Judges’ Intro
Bryan Bauw, Professor, University of North Alabama & Investor
Erin Chase, Director, Operations Excellence & Digital Manufacturing, Johnson Controls (NC)
Daniel Gambrell, Investment Associate, South Carolina Research Authority
4:35 pm: Pitch 1 + Q&A- Bridge the Gap Between the Physical and Digital World
Brandon Rudnicki, Enterprise Account Executive - Automotive North America, NavVis
4:50 pm: Pitch 2 + Q&A - Fixing Communication Barriers in Manufacturing
Tim Felbinger, Founder & CEO, StartProto
5:05 pm: Pitch 3 + Q&A - Create Impact Today: How Squint Revolutionizes Manufacturing Operations, Maintenance & Training
Devin Bhushan, Founder & CEO, Squint, Inc
The Future Digital Manufacturer: How to Rethink & Retrain to Mitigate the Challenges Caused by
Skills Gaps, Varying Levels of Employee Experience & Different Learning Needs
Moderator: Ramy Harik, Professor, University of South Carolina (SC)
- Scott Burkey, Technology Fellow, XR, WestRockCompany (GA)
- Andy Carr, President/ CEO, South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SC)
- Manuele D’Aversa, CEO & General Manager, Linde+Wiemann US Inc (SC)
- Hao Dinh, Vice President of Technology, Enpro & First Movers Fellow, Aspen Institute (NC)
- Rebecca Short, Director of Operations, Center for Workforce Development, Clemson University (SC)
Technology is changing manufacturing systems and tools rapidly but, at present, humans are still very much central to technology’s success. Today, the fluctuating levels of skills and experience, and gaps in the labor market, present a strong roadblock to manufacturers looking to get the most out of their technology investment. From education systems, to approaches to internal training, there are few who don’t agree change is needed.
Join this panel of experts to learn how you can play your part in leading change and bring future financial benefits to your industry.
Key Discussion Points:
• How can commercial, education, state, and government bodies improve collaboration to standardize the skillsets needed by manufacturing companies, and advance productivity and effectiveness?
• What steps can education programs take to enhance engineers’ employability, and what can those working within the manufacturing industry do to support the development of future talent?
• What can be done to innovate workforce training alongside your systems to ensure that decade-old practices are not being used to teach modern-day techniques?
• How to rethink your technology implementation strategy and training approaches to overcome hesitancy, and even fear, of new digital technologies.
• How can you use immersive technologies to support and teach Gen Z employees?
Moderator: Ramy Harik, Professor, University of South Carolina (SC)
- Scott Burkey, Technology Fellow, XR, WestRockCompany (GA)
- Andy Carr, President/ CEO, South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SC)
- Manuele D’Aversa, CEO &General Manager, Linde+Wiemann US Inc (SC)
- Hao Dinh, Vice President of Technology, Enpro & First Movers Fellow, Aspen Institute (NC)
- Rebecca Short, Director of Operations, Center for Workforce Development, Clemson University (SC)
Jeff Winter, Director, Smart Manufacturing Division, International Society of Automation (ISA)
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