Operations Strategies

*spaces are limited; first-come, first-served*  Tours include: Lagunitas Brewing Company, Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) and TRUMPF Smart Factory.

It’s often said that company culture eats strategy for breakfast. And when it comes to strategy intended to advance an organization’s digital transformation, industrial companies have not historically embraced the seismic... Read More

IoT is taking us from an era of Information scarcity to an age of Information abundance. The streaming data collected from a sensor can provide real-time feedback concerning almost anything... Read More

Air Liquide, the $25 billion global leader in small-molecule gases and associated technologies, serves a uniquely broad range of customers—from hospitals and home healthcare patients to semiconductor fabs and oil... Read More

The road to digital transformation for AGCO began long before industry latched onto the term to categorize the advances in computing and communications that are fast changing the world around... Read More

This is a fun and easy way to forge new connections at the event. Through short, 3-minute sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to introduce yourself and get to know other... Read More

For manufacturing enterprises, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers huge potential to solve the heightened complexity of industrial computing as the landscape becomes more digitized. As IIoT gains momentum,... Read More

There seems little doubt that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will transform manufacturing operations. But what’s less fully appreciated is how the IIoT will transform how humans work, operate... Read More

The discipline of brewing beer has long required generous doses of both science and art, in no small part because of batch-to-batch variations in organic raw materials as well as... Read More

Staring down a shortage of approximately 85 million high-skilled and medium-skilled workers globally by 2020, coupled with the workforce transformation stemming from new digital technologies collectively known as Industry 4.0,... Read More

Asset Management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The is rooted in a risk-based... Read More

You’ll have an opportunity to participate in (3) 20-minute moderated discussion groups.  At the end of 20 minutes a bell will ring to choose another roundtable.  Be sure to bring... Read More

Seco Tools, one of the world’s largest providers of metal cutting solutions, is part of Sandvik Machining Solutions, the tooling business area of Sweden’s Sandvik Group. For more than 80... Read More

As the U.S. energy boom continues to grow, existing midstream infrastructure isn’t keeping pace.  Oftentimes, natural gas is the primary constraint, either due to transportation or emissions challenges.  Modular, on-site... Read More

This case study presentation will outline the next-generation maintenance approach that Eli Lilly is using to transition from time-based preventative maintenance to a machine learning proactive maintenance strategy, and how... Read More

As networks continue to integrate the physical and digital worlds, what worked in the past to drive growth is less likely to work now or in the future. In the... Read More

In 2018, Putman Media launched Influential Women in Manufacturing (IWiM), a new recognition program honoring women who are effecting change in the manufacturing space. Join us as we celebrate the... Read More

Yes: the digitization of industries is out of the gate. But no, it’s not where it could be, yet. Many companies are still stuck with “phase one” – digitizing operations... Read More

University campuses have many challenges in common with large industrial facilities such as aging infrastructure, far-flung assets, limited resources and continuous uptime expectations. Sound familiar? At Penn State University (PSU),... Read More

At Teel Plastics, a custom manufacturer of extruded plastic tubing and plastic profiles, multiple lines—each with a dozen subsystems or more—are reconfigured on a daily basis. Into this environment Teel is... Read More

The ability for enterprise employees to create a small replacement part, tool, prototype or usable product with a 3D printer directly at their desk has historically been viewed as a... Read More

Over the past decade several manufacturing companies have implemented Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs and moved from a more reactive maintenance program to a reliability centered approach to maintenance where... Read More

While the vision of digital technology enabling new revenue streams and new business models is certainly compelling, the majority of industrial companies who have embarked on their journeys of digital... Read More

In June 2016, the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), a national nonprofit focused on transforming U.S. manufacturing by democratizing access to real-time data, was selected to lead the Clean Energy... Read More