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IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. For more information about IBM visit: www.ibm.com.
Oden is a manufacturing analytics platform that helps manufacturers find the best actions to take and enables them to take those actions faster to improve operations. Oden leverages existing automation, quality, and business data to highlight areas for process improvement and recommends changes to process settings to improve performance and quality. Utilizing predictive analytics, Oden helps operations maintain ideal performance and avoid producing scrap. With a pre-built platform and machine learning models, Oden provides ROI to customers in under 60 days and can be scaled across a global enterprise in 12 months.
Performance Solutions by Milliken (PSbyM) brings a unique, Practitioner-based value proposition to its clients and has built an enviable record of helping companies achieve substantial and sustainable improvements in their operations and safety excellence efforts. This approach, built on the foundation of lessons learned while Milliken & Company created and implemented its own world-class performance system, helps client organizations engage and empower their associates by establishing a culture of continuous improvement and drive breakthrough operations impact. PSbyM currently serves companies in more than 100 operating locations in 28 countries across a wide range of industry sectors.
Plex Systems, Inc., a Rockwell Automation Company, is the leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, empowering the world’s manufacturers to make awesome products. Our platform gives manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business to drive transformation. The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform includes solutions for manufacturing execution (MES), ERP, quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance management, production monitoring, process automation and analytics to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility.
Even at operations considered to be world-class, there are significant opportunities to improve throughput, cost, and productivity. Continuous improvement through data visibility and business intelligence has largely plateaued. Machine learning offers an exciting path to a step change in performance and competitive advantage, but current ML solutions are not working for industrial operations.
Praemo offers a new approach that makes industrial machine learning a competitive advantage for industrial operations. The Praemo Razor™ engine ingests your data as-is from your automation, quality, historian, maintenance, and other manufacturing systems of record to deliver differentiating insights to drive next level continuous improvement. You don’t need a data science team to leverage Razor™ immediately for predictive maintenance, predictive quality, and continuous process optimization.
SAP’s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably and adapt continuously. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
Apana offers manufacturers Water Efficiency as a ServiceⓇ – a secure, affordable, vertically integrated system that provides simple, actionable insights to reduce the total cost of water across an industrial enterprise. Customers include Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing and food and beverage processing. In addition, the Apana solution has saved millions of gallons of water with our other customers in retail, hospitality, public institutions, agriculture, and building management. We provide a practical solution for smart water management so facility / plant operators and site managers can improve operational water-use efficiency, boost the bottom line, and help the environment by preserving Earth’s most precious resource – WATER. More information is available at www.apana.com.
Augmentir is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform. Augmentir is being used by manufacturing and service companies to digitize operations and empower frontline workers to perform at their best and deliver improvements in safety, quality, and productivity consistently, year-over-year.
Augmentir’s global customer base includes industrial companies across a range of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods manufacturing, as well as utilities, oil and gas, mining, and industrial equipment manufacturing and service. Combined with the Augmentir platform’s remote assist tool and digital workflow capabilities, companies can quickly create digital work instructions to help guide workers to independently complete jobs safely and correctly, and leverage AI to direct continuous improvement efforts.
Augury helps eliminate downtime, reduce maintenance costs and maximize productivity for critical machines in industrial and commercial applications ranging from bottling and food processing to paper products and pharmaceuticals. Our Machine Health solutions combine advanced sensors with powerful AI capabilities and collaboration tools to help teams understand when machines are at risk. And we provide the expertise so customers know what to do to prevent failures- long before those risks can threaten production or productivity. To learn more about Augury’s Machine Health solutions, visit augury.com.
BCI Global is a specialized consultancy and leader in developing comprehensive, practical manufacturing and supply chain footprint strategies as well as selecting sites worldwide for new operations in the US; in Europe, Middle East and Africa; and in the Asia Pacific region (including China and India). In the last 36+ years BCI has supported more than 1,000 clients. Our location strategy work combines proven frameworks with in-depth global knowledge of manufacturing hotspots, detailed labor analytics, cost factors, qualitative factors, incentives and risks. Supply chain advice ranges from transformation of supply chains, network design, COEs, Control Towers, procurement of logistics services, to location strategy for warehousing, go-to-market strategies into new markets, risk & resilience assessment. BCI Global is ISO-9001 certified, Llamasoft certified partner and recognized on Forbes Best Management Consultants list for the third year in a row.
Braincube is a Smart IIoT platform enhanced by an advanced business intelligence app suite dedicated to manufacturers. Our user-friendly apps and unique Digital Twin empower everyone to discover instant and long-term value from real-time Edge data and historical data analytics. Continuously contextualized and structured data—whether on-prem or in the cloud—puts the right information in your hands to optimize processes, reduce risk, and increase margins. Braincube provides a one-stop solution to take control of your data and transform your operations.
With over 30 years of experience transforming businesses through effective leadership training, Competitive Solutions, Inc. is giving organizations the power to make decisions that are fact-driven and company-directed. We are providing meaningful ways to collect data that leads to the creation of a responsible business culture. We believe that by bringing transparency, unity, and stability to each company we work with, we help our clients drive success throughout their organizations.
Covalent enables Workforce Operations for complex manufacturers. Workforce Operations empowers manufacturing leaders to efficiently qualify, utilize, and plan workforce resources to maximize productivity and quality.
More specifically, the Covalent Platform facilitates on-the-floor on-the-job training (OJT) interactions. In doing so, the Platform captures unique qualification data and auto-generates skill matrices, audit trails and training plans. Our customers further operationalize this data to tactically measure and close skill coverage gaps, inform longer-term workforce planning, and gate unqualified workers from buying off on jobs. Our shared goal is to minimize direct labor costs and the cost of poor quality (COPQ). Customers include jet engine, automotive, and chemical manufacturers.
Tomorrow’s leaders are being determined today, largely based on digital competency and the ability to get value from data. With real-time data running their business, enterprises establish data leadership.
With DataStax, enterprises unleash the data that matters: the real-time data that powers their business. Only DataStax delivers an open stack for real-time data applications that unifies both data at rest and in motion, enabling enterprises and developers to mobilize, build, and scale. Unleash the power of real-time data with Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar, delivered via APIs and deployed on any cloud or Kubernetes.
At E2open, we’re creating a more connected, intelligent supply chain. It starts with sensing and responding to real-time demand, supply and delivery constraints. Bringing together data from customers, distribution channels, suppliers, contract manufacturers and logistics partners, our collaborative and agile supply chain platform enables companies to use data in real time, with artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive smarter decisions. All this complex information is delivered in a single view that encompasses your demand, supply, logistics and global trade ecosystems. E2open is changing everything. Demand. Supply. Delivered.™ Visit www.e2open.com
Emerson Electric Co. is a global technology and engineering company, which provides innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. It operates through the following business segments: Automation Solutions, Climate Technologies, and Tools and Home Products. The Automation Solutions segment offers products, integrated solutions, software and services which enable process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers to maximize production, protect personnel and the environment, reduce project costs, and optimize their energy efficiency and operating costs. Specifically, Emerson’s Real-Time Modeling System™ allows customers to visualize the facility constraints, accommodate variability, maximize production, and understand the implications of any change in the manufacturing process. By collecting data from across the organization, our Real-Time Modeling System can consolidate, analyze, and present an accurate model of the entire process. The model produces an optimal scheduling overview and debottlenecking and capacity analyses for process optimization.
Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.
Our technologies are shaping production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.
Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 22,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 4.3bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 4,000 employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world to challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com
MCA Connect is a manufacturing consultancy and technology integrator dedicated to helping clients succeed. With industry expertise and a passion for possibilities, we help companies improve business outcomes using world-class processes built on the Microsoft Cloud.
As an award-winning Microsoft partner, we develop customized strategies by combining Microsoft technology with our intellectual property. Our services include Manufacturing Strategy, Connected Applications, Manufacturing Intelligence, and Modern Platform Management. Through them, we help manufacturers maximize operational efficiencies, improve financial performance, gain a competitive advantage, and more.
Mindtree is a global technology consulting and services company that enables enterprises across industries to drive superior competitive advantage, customer experiences, and business outcomes by harnessing digital and cloud technologies. A digital transformation partner to more than 260 of the world’s most pioneering enterprises, Mindtree brings extensive domain, technology, and consulting expertise to help reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth. As a socially and environmentally responsible business, Mindtree is focused on growth as well as sustainability in building long-term stakeholder value. Powered by more than 31,900 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across 24 countries, Mindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — is consistently recognized among the best places to work.
The Panasonic Logiscend System is a material flow management solution for complex, discrete manufacturers seeking more flexibility and lower costs. The Logiscend system replaces paper-based processes with a digital based solution – creating “smart materials”. The solution utilizes a unique combination of software and wireless RFID/e-paper Panasonic VIEW tags that help manufacturers get the right parts to the right place at the right time, cost effectively and efficiently. Panasonic has over 100 years of experience as a global leader in manufacturing and industrial IoT solutions with a diverse range of products for factory automation.
Poka is a connected worker app that gives factory workers the knowledge and tools they need to contribute to manufacturing excellence. The comprehensive platform combines digital content, collaboration, e-forms and skills management capabilities, enabling workers to learn, solve problems and share knowledge in real-time, on the factory floor. Poka was the recipient of the 2020 Open Bosch Award in recognition of outstanding innovation and was distinguished as one of 10 Connected Worker vendors in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, 2021 Report.
UCBOS, Inc. is a USA-based business composable technology firm with the mission to augment the supply chain through semantics. Its vision is to let enterprises self-learn, adapt and glorify dynamic logical business data models for interoperability to fast track solutions, and embrace new technologies including AI, ML, and IoT in days or weeks to achieve supply chain clarity, customer promise reliability, and business agility.
UCBOS is 100% semantics, 100% metadata, 100% supply chain, 100% composable, 100% No-Code and 100% NoSQL.
Verusen is a Supply Chain Intelligence company focused on materials management that uses AI to provide complex global supply chains material truth for data, inventory optimization, and procurement intelligence. The company’s platform harmonizes disparate material data across many ERP instances/systems while providing trusted data across the enterprise to reduce inventory costs and build trust in production uptime. The result is a data foundation organizations can trust to fuel digital transformation and support related Industry 4.0 initiatives. Based in Atlanta at the ATDC, Verusen has been named one of Georgia’s Top 10 Innovative Technology Companies. Visit verusen.com for more information, or follow us on Twitter at@Verusen_AI and LinkedIn.
Visual Components is a leading developer of 3D manufacturing simulation software and solutions. Founded in 1999 by a team of simulation experts, we started with a humble goal – to make manufacturing design and simulation technology easy to use and accessible to manufacturing organizations of all sizes.
Today, Visual Components is recognized as a global leader in the manufacturing simulation industry and trusted technology partner to many leading brands. We offer machine builders, system integrators, and manufacturers a simple, quick, and cost-effective solution to design and simulate production lines. With solutions for manufacturing design, sales, and application development, Visual Components software is trusted by hundreds of organizations worldwide to support critical planning and decision-making processes.
Webalo is the Platform for Frontline Workforce Enablement. Webalo optimizes frontline operations for industrial companies by digitally empowering their frontline workforce through process management. Webalo enables real-time response to events to effectively capture critical information that will further empower the operational teams to utilize asset and operations data. Together with critical workforce data, Webalo helps maximize the impact of the workforce and drive operational efficiency across industrial organizations.
Benchmark ESG™ (the next generation of Gensuite®) enables companies to implement robust cross-functional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Solutions – locally, globally and across diverse operating profiles. Our comprehensive cloud-based software suite features intuitive, best-practice process functionality, flexible configurations and powerful extensions. For over two decades, our digital platform has helped companies manage safe & sustainable operations worldwide, with a focus on fast return on investment (ROI), service excellence and continuous innovation. Join over 1,500,000 users that trust Benchmark ESG™ with their software system needs for operational risk and compliance, EHS, sustainability, product stewardship; responsible sourcing; and ESG disclosure reporting and management.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
For 29 years AFMS has helped over 3,000 companies reduce their shipping costs by 15-25%. Specializing in transportation benchmarking, carrier contract negotiations, full RFP and RFQ support for carrier optimization & invoice auditing, for all modes of transportation. Our expert team of former carrier pricing executives and strategists from UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Hyundai, US lines, Panalpina, Topocean and the major LTL carriers has over 500 years of combined industry experience. AFMS will provide a NO Charge full shipping analysis and profile of where you stand in the market today.
Elementary delivers a full-stack, AI-driven visual inspection solution for a wide variety of global manufacturers in Food Processing, CPG and Automotive such as Toyota and Milwaukee Tool.
Leveraging machine vision, edge computing, and cloud-based machine learning models, Elementary’s proprietary vision platform is leading the way for massive change in automated manufacturing. We’ve performed over 100 million inspections in 2021 alone! Our mission is to make manufacturing more efficient and less wasteful through scalable, automated, data-driven vision systems that support strained quality inspection teams who continue to experience massive labor shortages due to the ever-expanding demand for manufactured goods.
Our goal is to close the loop on your quality process by inspecting 100% of products coming off of production lines, reducing manufacturing defects and eliminating costly and dangerous recalls of products that ultimately wind up in consumers hands.
Procter and Gamble’s (P&G’s) manufacturing and supply chain operations know-how is leading-class. EY is a recognized global leader in providing detailed transformation programs. Together, we can help any organization unlock its potential to become an industry leader.
We know what’s possible. Sustainable growth. Productivity improvement. Huge cost savings. Motivated employees. Consistent innovation to outperform the competition.
You can make these ambitions a reality with structured know-how developed and proven in the real world by P&G and provided through a purpose-built digital transformation platform from EY. Transform your operations and supply chain into a highly efficient, resilient, and future-ready system that keeps getting better and delivers long-term value.
Don’t settle for good when you can have excellence…Expect more!
Indeavor’s solution offers clients end-to-end, cloud-based employee scheduling and absence management optimization. By integrating with your human capital management, learning management, and enterprise resource planning systems, you can leverage a robust platform with real-time employee data. Relieve your supervisors of manual tasks and the constant mental fatigue brought upon by scheduling changes by automating the entire process, connecting the data existing corporate systems, and ensuring you always have the right qualified employee in each position. Learn more and schedule a demo at www.indeavor.com.
Launchpad makes new hardware manufacturing easy. Whether you build through outsourcing or in-house, we have the ability to make your operations more efficient and flexible. Using our technology, a customer simply uploads a product design file and receives design recommendations that reduce the cost of manufacturing, a quote to outsource the complete production of the desired product volume, or can use Launchpad self-programming assembly robots to manufacture in-house. To do this Launchpad has developed a suite of advanced AI and digital twin software technologies that autonomously learn a new product design and execute tasks that have until now always required a human in the loop.
Litmus is the only Industrial IoT platform that connects to all OT assets and puts machine data to work at the edge. With industry leading capabilities – pre-built drivers to connect to 250+ devices, one-click data integration to over 20 enterprise and cloud systems, and an edge computing platform to run analytics, applications and machine learning models at the data source – Litmus is the edge solution trusted by Google Cloud, Dell Technologies, HPE and other global Fortune 500 companies.
MachineMetrics is a single platform to collect, manage, and analyze manufacturing equipment data. Transform machine data-driven insights into action with plug and play machine connectivity, easy-to-use applications, and powerful integrations that empower frontline workers and other factory systems to operate efficiently and effectively.
Today, hundreds of manufacturers around the globe have connected thousands of machines to MachineMetrics to monitor productivity, identify bottlenecks, predict machine failures, and automate workflows around the operation of manufacturing.
Mariner is an Intel Gold IoT partner and Microsoft’s 2020 Partner of the Year for IoT – and that’s because our Deep Learning AI-powered Spyglass Visual Inspection (SVI) solution transforms defect detection and elimination, and helps manufacturers truly reduce their cost of quality.
Minitab has spent the past 50 years helping organizations drive cost containment, enhance product and service quality and boost customer satisfaction with our comprehensive, market-leading, best-in-class suite of analytics and process improvement solutions. Minitab® Statistical Software, Minitab Engage®, Minitab Workspace®, Minitab Connect®, and Real-Time SPC Powered by Minitab® empower Continuous improvement and Operations Excellence teams in thousands of organizations every day. Minitab Solutions Analytics™ is Minitab’s proprietary integrated approach to providing software and services that enable organizations to make better decisions that drive business excellence.
Perry Johnson Registrars Food Safety Inc.” (PJRFSI) is a Global Assurance Certification Body who provides audit, training and risk management services to virtually every industry. PJRFSI services clients around the world managing risk within their organization and that of their supply chain. We are a fully accredited body, offering services for globally recognized accredited 3rd party standards such as GFSI & ISO as well as 2nd party programs including GMP, GDP, Cannabis. With over 11,000 clients globally across 50 countries, we are well suited to meet your needs.
Our unique portfolio of CAD, PLM, IoT, and AR technologies—delivered on-prem, hybrid, and SaaS—creates a closed loop between the digital and physical worlds to transform how everything around us is engineered, manufactured, and serviced. This digital thread enables continuity of data across departments and fosters collaboration across functions, empowering the people who are involved at every step.
PTC’s best-in-class technology enables industrial customers, from industrial equipment, high-tech, automotive, aerospace and defense, and medical devices, to improve efficiency, maximize revenue growth, and reduce operational costs.
ReposiTrak, Park City Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCYG), provides retailers, suppliers and wholesalers with a robust solution suite to help reduce risk and remain in compliance with regulatory requirements; enhance operational controls; source and discover new vendors; and increase sales with unrivaled brand protection. Consisting of four product families—food traceability, compliance and risk management, supply chain solutions and MarketPlace sourcing—ReposiTrak’s cloud-based platform’s integrated applications are mutually reinforcing and work synergistically to create value and positive impact. For more information, please visit repositrak.com.
Senseye, headquartered in the UK with regional offices in Germany, France, the USA, and Japan, is the leading global company for automated machine health management.
By enabling Predictive Maintenance at global scale and with zero financial risk, Senseye helps Fortune Global 500 organizations to save millions of dollars in unplanned downtime and maintenance efficiencies every week in key industries such as Automotive, Manufacturing, Heavy Industry and FMCG/CPG.
Trusted globally, Senseye PdM is the leading AI-powered Predictive Maintenance solution, delivering a:
Simple way to apply PdM to thousands of machines across multiple sites at scale
Worldwide alliance network for supporting projects of all sizes
Guaranteed return on investment via Senseye ROI Lock®
Pathway to accelerating digital transformation throughout your organization.
Reach new heights with secure, visible, and real-time cloud-based Smart Factory Software.
Shoplogix is re-defining the manufacturing industry by making the Smart Factory platform the cornerstone of production performance digital transformation. By empowering manufacturers with one platform to visualize, integrate, and act on production performance in real-time, Shoplogix helps to uncover hidden shop floor potential and drive rapid time to value.
The Shoplogix Smart Factory platform can connect to ANY equipment or device on the plant floor to automate data collection and exchange data with other manufacturing technologies helping companies transform the way they see, analyze and interpret data. The Shoplogix solution can automatically monitor, report and analyze machine states and track real-time production to establish more efficient processes and reduce downtime. Insights gained with the Shoplogix reporting and analytics platform will help manufacturers reduce operating costs and increase profitability. Accelerate and sustain continuous improvement with a proven methodology for manufacturing success today!
Emerson Electric Co. is a global technology and engineering company, which provides innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. It operates through the following business segments: Automation Solutions, Climate Technologies, and Tools and Home Products. The Automation Solutions segment offers products, integrated solutions, software and services which enable process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers to maximize production, protect personnel and the environment, reduce project costs, and optimize their energy efficiency and operating costs. Specifically, Emerson’s Real-Time Modeling System™ allows customers to visualize the facility constraints, accommodate variability, maximize production, and understand the implications of any change in the manufacturing process. By collecting data from across the organization, our Real-Time Modeling System can consolidate, analyze, and present an accurate model of the entire process. The model produces an optimal scheduling overview and debottlenecking and capacity analyses for process optimization.