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As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. Our innovations enable approximately 300,000 customers worldwide to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. SAP Innovations empower manufacturers to manage information and processes simultaneously across their extended ecosystems – and become a live digital business. SAP newest innovation, Industry 4.Now, connects things with people and processes to help companies to innovate on business models, business processes and the way how people work. Our Design to Operate Digital Supply Chain solutions address all processes and solutions which are relevant for a Chief Operating Officer (COO) or Chief Supply Chain Officer and their teams in manufacturing, asset, and distribution intensive industries.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading global provider of software solutions to drive the digital transformation of industry, creating new opportunities for manufacturers to realize innovation. With headquarters in Plano, Texas, and over 140,000 customers worldwide, we work with companies of all sizes to transform the way ideas come to life, the way products are realized, and the way products and assets in operation are used and understood. For more information on Siemens Software products and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com.
Oden Technologies is a company finding new value for manufacturers by helping them make different, better and faster decisions through Machine Learning and Applied Analytics. Oden’s technology platform is pioneering the use of real-time predictive and prescriptive analytic tools that uncover untapped value to make more, waste less and innovate faster. They are working to transform the manufacturing industry by digitizing, analyzing and perfecting peak factory performance through automated insights, interactive dashboards and real-time alerts.
The Oracle Cloud delivers hundreds of SaaS applications and enterprise-class PaaS and IaaS services to customers in more than 195 countries while processing 55 billion transactions a day. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at cloud.oracle.com.
Milliken is a global innovation company and world class manufacturer that has developed proven systems that help companies improve their workplace safety, business performance, and sustainability. Performance Solutions by Milliken works alongside clients to help create gains and also sustain them long-term. Our approach is called MPS and is a proven system, founded on employee engagement, clear leadership direction, standardized methodology, and cross functional teamwork. It connects strategic efforts holistically compared to traditional singular implementation methods and works to deliver the best customer experience. Performance Solutions by Milliken offers services worldwide in a variety of industries and business segments.
Sight Machine drives rapid increases in manufacturing productivity. Our technology platform delivers real outcomes in efficiency, sustainability and quality—in weeks. Manufacturers that deploy Sight Machine empower teams to better collaborate, innovate and accelerate their journey of continuous productivity improvement. Founded by a team with deep manufacturing expertise, Sight Machine has offices in San Francisco and Ann Arbor, Mich.
General Electric is reimagining how industrials build, operate and maintain their assets, unlocking machine data to turn valuable insights into powerful business outcomes. General Electric’s Predix portfolio – including the leading Asset Performance Management, Automation and MES applications – helps customers manage the entire asset lifecycle. Underpinned by Predix, the leading application development platform for the IIoT, GE Digital enables industrial businesses to operate faster, smarter and more efficiently. www.ge.com/digital
At 1factory (www.1factory.com), we’ve built powerful yet easy-to-use software for manufacturing and supply chain quality control. 1factory makes it easy to collect and analyze feature-level or parameter-level data (dimensional measurements, test results etc) for thousands of parts and product-features, from within your factory and across your supply chain. With 1factory, manufacturers can improve both quality and productivity. Our customers have reported > 50% reductions in inspection and reporting cycle-times, and > 80% reductions in the number of defects.
Advanced Technology Services, Inc. (ATS) is a leading solutions provider with over 30 years of proven experience in reliability-centered industrial maintenance and MRO services. ATS’ technically skilled workforce, established processes and smart technologies provide manufacturers measurable results through optimized plant productivity. With a history rooted in continuous improvement and a future driven by technology, we have become a trusted partner to many mid-to-large sized discrete and process manufacturers across various key industries.
Augury is building a world where people can always rely on the machines that matter. Augury supports its partners by enabling digital transformation through superior insights into the health and performance of the machines they use to make products, deliver services and improve lives.
Competitive Solutions, Inc., (CSI) is an international consulting/software firm serving Fortune 500 companies around the globe since 1991. Our transformation platforms of Process Based Leadership® (PBL), Visuant® , and Leadership GPS®, have been the solutions of choice in Alcon, Edwards Life Sciences, Abbott, Rust-Oleum, Pfizer, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, Roche, Kroger, 3M, Kellogg’s and Gilead. CSI’s proven capabilities around Colleague Engagement, Robust and Sustainable Metrics that Matter, Visible and Personal Accountability Systems, and Communication Cadences that actually move the business forward, have made us the consulting partner of choice in the Manufacturing Industries. Our simple and sustainable turnkey solutions, leave nothing to chance and provide even the most advanced organization ideas and suggestions for simplification, continuous improvement and most importantly, bottom line impact.
An integral part of the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® platform is the connection between the virtual and real worlds. DELMIA enables global industrial operations to design and test the manufacturability of products in a simulated, virtual environment; optimize the supply chain and factories to meet objectives; and to operate the factories, warehouses and distribution to manage and fulfill customer demand.
DELMIA disciplines:
• Collaborative Operations – provides a holistic, model-based, and data-driven backbone that breaks down silos between diverse functional users from engineering, operations and supply chain.
• Industrial Engineering – enables innovation and efficiency by planning, simulating, and modeling global operations.
• Planning & Optimization – powers reality-based planning, scheduling and optimization for complex business processes within manufacturing, logistics, transit and workforce operations – across all planning horizons.
• Manufacturing & Operations – delivers a shared digital landscape connecting all stakeholders to improve visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing operations and supply chain processes on a global scale.
Eliminating volatility in your supply chain is impossible, but managing it is not. Trusted by top brands, Kinaxis gives people the confidence to know they are making the best supply chain planning decisions to maximize business performance.
We solve complex business problems in easy-to-understand ways by combining human and machine intelligence to plan for any future, monitor risks and opportunities and respond at the pace of change. With the support of our community of supply chain experts and using our unique concurrent planning technique and single integrated planning platform, customers can realize higher revenue, lower costs and fewer risks.
Kronos® is a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos for Manufacturing provides solutions which help manufacturers attract, retain, and develop fully engaged employees who deliver better business outcomes. More than 4,000 manufacturing organizations of all types and sizes leverage Kronos to drive productivity improvements and enable on-time delivery of high-quality goods and services.
OpusWorks offers a one-of-a-kind blended e-Learning and Project Tracking technology that provides organizations with an integrated virtual-blend approach to their Process Improvement deployments.
Since 1992, we’ve helped organizations successfully scale their programs, standardize and enhance knowledge transfer, and reduce training costs by transitioning from in-person classes to an online blended-approach. With OpusWorks, organizations can seamlessly train, track, and encourage participants as they utilize new skills to transform processes and achieve organizational goals.
Prepare: Rapidly scale your training initiative while building confident team participants that can immediately apply their knowledge, achieving measurable results.
Propel: Increase project velocity, value, and visibility across your organization while keeping teams on track and mentors connected to the work.
Praise: Recognize the human need for affirmation. Celebrating success increases participation, evolves culture, and creates a new norm.
“OpusWorks gives you the Best chance for Success with your Training Transformation”.
We look forward to meeting you.
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms paper-based procedures into mobile, interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. Its customers include top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries.
Praemo fills the critical gap in industrial productivity by leveraging analytics to transform under-utilized data into operation-critical insights. Analyzing a company’s disparate IoT and operational data, Praemo’s Razor™ software alerts to any anomaly with the potential to harm performance – providing insights to prevent it.
We are a knowledge-based company, delivering outcomes that create outstanding value for our customers.
Industries around the world are at a turning point. Global megatrends such as population growth, urbanization, food, water, and energy scarcity, labor and skills shortages, and climate change are forcing companies to approach their business strategies in new ways. Meeting these growing resource challenges demands more than just sustainable solutions. It demands practical answers forged from deep experience, nimble application, and creative ingenuity that constantly reimagine the possibilities.
At Sealed Air, we partner with our customers to solve their most pressing resource challenges by delivering new solutions derived from our unmatched industry knowledge and expertise. These solutions create a more efficient, secure and less wasteful global food supply chain and enhance commerce through fulfillment and packaging solutions to protect the worldwide movement of goods.
Covalent is an enterprise SaaS application that enables end-to-end workforce qualification processes on-the-floor and in-the-field. In doing so, we capture unique qualification data that can be operationalized to drive cross-training, accelerate time-to-productivity, inform manpower planning, and enable process control (e.g., qualification-based badging / work order sign-off). Customers include Fortune 500 aerospace and automotive OEMs.
Dozuki provides software that leverages visual formatting, data collection, and automated approval processes to help companies get more from their work instructions. They have helped hundreds of companies reduce the cost of mistakes by 40%, reduce training time by 90%, and achieve and maintain ISO compliance.
With Dozuki, standardizing and creating instructions is easy, with built-in support for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. Deploying new versions is quick and allows you to train employees the right way every time. Gathering operational data directly from instructions and processes gives you access to valuable business insights. This data is visible in real-time in interactive dashboards, allowing you to identify areas for improvement and reduce waste.
To learn more about how Dozuki can help your business, visit dozuki.com.
Lantek Sheet Metal Solutions integrates the most advanced nesting software in the industry with the highest standards in manufacturing management solutions. Lantek provides CAD/CAM/MES/ERP software solutions for companies fabricating sheet metal, tubes, and beams with any cutting (laser, plasma, oxy-cut, water jet, shear) and punching technology.
With over 22,000 customers in more than 100 countries and offices in 14 countries, Lantek serves as a pioneer of Industry 4.0 solutions for the Sheet Metal Fabrication industry. Having 30+ years in the industry, Lantek has fostered partnerships with Machine Tool Builders and other large manufacturers to ensure our solutions improve your systems seamlessly no matter the size of your shop.
Visit our website at www.lantek.com or call our office at (877) 805-1028 for more information.
OTTO Motors is making material handling in industrial settings safer, easier, and more efficient through development of hardware and software that automates movement of goods in busy factories and warehouses. The company’s industry-leading self driving technology provides automated and on-demand material handling in the most demanding industrial environments, spanning automotive, medical device, aerospace, logistics, and more. Customers trusting their mission-critical material handling needs to OTTO Motors include Fortune 100 brands GE, Toyota, and Caterpillar. For more information visit www.ottomotors.com.
At Rever we are passionate about empowering the frontline to achieve their full potential. Rever is a SaaS platform (accessed via a smartphone, tablet, or PC) that empowers anyone to identify new ideas and issues, activate a virtual team to implement a solution, and track the impact of that solution. Managers use Rever’s SaaS platform to align efforts around specific objectives, track real-time activity, analyze performance impact, and drive participation with gamification. Our customers, companies such as Mars, Phillip Morris, Mitsubishi, Grupo Bimbo, and Faurecia have seen increased impact from their frontline in the form of costs savings, safety, quality, and productivity.
Translation and localization are an essential investment for ambitious brands, hungry for global expansion. Growing international market share in an increasingly competitive and digital environment, means that your time-to-market has to outpace the rest. So, getting your translation right the first time is commercially critical.
Rubric is an innovative, lean and agile translation partner, fluent in technology. We provide services for companies across the technology, manufacturing and wellness industries. We help our global clients keep their brand promises by delivering high-quality content in multiple languages. We build localization into clients’ international product development and continually improve integration of tools and digital technology.
We help you design and implement a comprehensive global content strategy, optimizing marketing and product content for all your target international markets. Working to your corporate objectives, we advise global brands on strategic content planning, content workflow, process analysis, engineering tools, and systems architecture.
Rubric – smart enough to scale, small enough to care…
At SAI Global we understand the complexities and challenges in building and maintaining the trust and confidence of stakeholders with vastly conflicting demands. Our assurance services provide companies with confidence they are working to globally recognized standards while embedding critical risk-based thinking and a continual improvement ethos.
We partner with companies across their supply chains, ensuring end user expectations for safety, sustainability, performance, integrity and desirability are met in virtually any market, and every industry worldwide.
SAI Global supports more than 60,000 clients across 130 countries, delivering more than 125,000 audits annually. More than 10,000 people participate in our Assurance training courses each year.
Founded in 1982, Softtek is a global company and the largest provider of IT services from Latin America. With a broad portfolio of business-transforming products and solutions, Softtek helps Global 2000 organizations evolve their digital capabilities constantly and seamlessly, from ideation and development to execution.
The Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shapes and influences the practice of supply chain management by serving as the preeminent global hub for leading practitioners, academics, and students to learn, network, and connect. With over 1,200 SCM students, supply chain management was the No. 1 major at UT based on number of degrees granted in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Our faculty and programs are also consistently ranked among the top in the nation. Our engagement with industry fuels our research and colors the curriculum we teach. By partnering with industry leaders, GSCI ensures our students have access to the best resources, and that our teaching and research focus on critical real-world issues.