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A connected Manufacturing Value Chain on the ServiceNow Platform will enable full supply chain visibility, optimize the speed and efficiency of operations, and create great customer experiences for distributors, dealers, and end consumers.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing, and electronics design meet tomorrow. Xcelerator, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software, helps companies of
all sizes create and leverage a comprehensive digital twin that provides organizations with new insights, opportunities, and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit siemens.com/software or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. We deliver a cloud platform that integrates with your existing systems to make and execute business decisions in real time. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment. For more information, visit aeratechnology.com.
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.
EY is a global leader in Supply Chain and Operations consulting. We have successfully partnered with Procter & Gamble (P&G) for over 10 years to help our clients accelerate and de-risk their manufacturing transformation journeys.
The EY and P&G Alliance combines P&G’s proven manufacturing excellence know-how with EY’s execution capabilities and digital enablers. Together, we have helped our clients drive sustainable performance improvement in more than 450 factories.
We know what’s possible. Sustainable growth. Productivity improvement. Huge cost savings. Motivated employees. Consistent innovation to outperform the competition.
Our structured manufacturing program will help you make your ambitions a reality. Don’t settle for good when you can have excellence…Expect more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company established with a clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with accessible, reliable, and contextualized data to drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, deploy, and scale digital solutions to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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.
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
MaintainX is a mobile-first maintenance and asset management platform built for the new industrial workforce.
It empowers frontline teams to more efficiently manage work orders, assets, parts inventory, purchase orders and more, reducing unexpected downtime and boosting production capacity.
Today, MaintainX powers operational excellence for 4,000+ discrete and process manufacturers around the world, including ABInBev, Duracell, and Univar.
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, OpusWorks has helped organizations successfully scale their programs, standardize, and enhance knowledge transfer, and reduce training costs by transitioning from in-person classes to a flexible 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.
We look forward to meeting you while on the ground in Fort Worth.
Clients Include: Cargill, USAF, Kaman, CAT..
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.
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.
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.
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.
CTS provides custom, carrier-grade, in-building and campus connectivity solutions for enterprises and mobile network operators, solving and managing the most complex networking challenges. Leveraging our advanced design and network operations centers, CTS provides our customers with industry-leading customer service. Our ability to design, build, run and support connectivity solutions that power our customers’ mission-critical applications is unmatched. CTS only provides one solution: the one that’s right for the customer. CTS is vendor agnostic, allowing customer requirements to drive the right design, using the right equipment, to fit each customer’s specifications, anywhere across the country. From conception to construction to operations, CTS is the trusted connectivity partner.
Experlogix solutions simplify and humanize the most complex manufacturing products and processes to unlock workflow velocity and create a better customer experience. Experlogix CPQ makes configuration and other processes faster than you ever thought possible and simpler than you dared to imagine. Experlogix Document Automation simplifies and optimizes even the most complex document processes for companies worldwide, in any industry. Experlogix — simplifying the complex.
Experlogix is a global company headquartered in Salt Lake City, with European headquarters in Veenendaal, Netherlands. We’re online at www.experlogix.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Founded in 1990, Selerant is a leading global provider of process-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software and consulting services within three core process manufacturing segments: Food & Beverages, Cosmetics/Personal Care and Specialty Chemicals. With primary operating regions in New York, NY, Milan, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and offices around the world, Selerant has a large global presence to meet the needs of our customers.
Our Devex enterprise PLM software addresses new product development and compliance needs of leading manufacturers. The Devex PLM solution optimizes business processes and leverages an organization’s knowledge—leading to a significant competitive advantage for new product development and product management.
Selerant also has a world class Professional Services organization that takes complete ownership of our PLM projects and looks to best practices from our customers’ successful implementations to facilitate rapid deployment and technology adoption.
Selerant’s Compliance Cloud subscription solution offers the latest in food regulatory legislation and compliance information for over 100 countries throughout the world, as well as a comprehensive database of food law information.
Selerant provides business process analysis and re-engineering, system design, technical expertise, implementation, training and support services through our world-class professional services organization.
Anaplan is a transformative way to see, plan, and run your business. Connected planning from Anaplan helps manufacturing leaders in Finance and Supply Chain align goals, contextualize real-time performance, and forecast future outcomes for faster, confident decisions. Anaplan enables connected strategy and planning across your enterprise to move your business forward. Based in San Francisco, Anaplan has over 200 partners and more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including many global manufacturers.
To learn more, visit Anaplan.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.
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.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing, and electronics design meet tomorrow. Xcelerator, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software, helps companies of
all sizes create and leverage a comprehensive digital twin that provides organizations with new insights, opportunities, and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit siemens.com/software or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing, and electronics design meet tomorrow. Xcelerator, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software, helps companies of
all sizes create and leverage a comprehensive digital twin that provides organizations with new insights, opportunities, and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit siemens.com/software or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.