IDC European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum

The future of manufacturing is 'Neural'. Inspired from biological neural systems, TCS defines 'Neural Manufacturing' as an intensely networked set of partners aligned to a common purpose, where the value chains are responsive, adaptive, and personalized, with intelligence built on the 'edge' of the networks.  

To step up in the 'New Manufacturing Order' that will arise when the equilibrium is regained after the pandemic’s impact, enterprises will have to focus on being agile, intelligent and insights driven.

In this keynote address by TCS’ Sreenivasa Chakravarti, he will explain why and how future enterprises would need to restructure themselves to build:

- Connected, collaborative and cognitive capabilities to drive new purpose driven ‘ecosystem’ centric business models

- Autonomous operations which help the organization to engage with ‘smart connected products & assets’ in real time by eliminating the ‘interface’ friction

- Adaptive capabilities that help manage the variability introduced by the move from mass to lean to personalized mass customization  

• Insight into the necessary key ingredients to transform your business with AI
• A proven methodology to get AI from a first lighthouse case to driving value at scale
• How to democratize AI throughout the entire organization – the people dimension
• Overview of AI use cases throughout the entire manufacturing value chain and the value they deliver

Conscious Factory in a Box (FiaB) is a Nokia Operations innovation program, launched in 2017, to prove that a complete SMD production line can be integrated in modular containers. Today, the program is also being leveraged to develop the Future X architecture of Nokia’s in-house conscious supply network. The current project operates in co-creation mode, which means that we established the showroom FiaB for industry 4.0 solutions together with our partner ecosystem. In this setting, Nokia assumes responsibility for orchestrating the incubation releases.

The new business ecosystems are based on open innovation, collaboration and joint risk taking and value creation.  In this environment, data is the most valuable asset an organization can share. Companies must rethink their approach to intellectual property. In this session, Gülsün Akhisaroglu, Global CIO of Hayat Holding A.S., will share insights and experiences of one ongoing industrial ecosystem between machine producer and production company, Hayat Kimya, on tissue production process.  The collaboration aims at providing collection of production data from the tissue machine, converting line and packaging and utilizing artificial intelligence-driven applications in the tissue production process to make it more efficient.

In this session, Theo Zuijdwijk will share insights about the challenges that have occurred during COVID-19 even in an industry that has been booming during the corona crisis.

He will share his thoughts on why it sometimes needs a crisis to fully leverage investments in digital/IT and he will share his lessons learned about the development of Digital/IT platforms in times were ‘real world’ dynamics are unpredictable and ask for swift action.

With the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacting global manufacturing demand and supply chains, companies changed at an unprecedented rate due to the scarcity of resources. As such, the need to innovate brought about a new awareness about sustainability.

The session will explore the business case for sustainability, which initiatives matter most,  and what is expected from the vendor community to support achieving sustainability goals.