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On 23-25 September 2019, the US edition of our NG Manufacturing Summit will bring together senior manufacturing decision-makers and business leaders from across North America at the fantastic The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, Florida to share their views on how to tackle the biggest challenges in smart manufacturing today.
Amongst others, the summit will look at key topics such as: Accelerating Digitisation in Manufacturing; Seamless connectivity and operational efficiency; and Automation driving a changing workforce.
From case studies that lift the lid on operations inside best-in-class organisations, to workshops and collaborative sessions that focus on real challenges and future technology innovations, to one-to-one meetings with industry peers offering practical advice tailored to your specific needs, the summit will provide you with everything you need to implement your key projects more effectively.
GDS asked for a narrative – they really wanted to understand what I’m working on. They took that information and put together a couple of days that were more valuable for me.
Aaron Duff - Director, EHS Standardization, Johnson & Johnson
Our Approach
Every GDS Summit has one stated aim: to help attending executives implement their key projects more effectively. We do this by developing an in-depth understanding of those executives' project needs, the business outcomes they want to achieve, and the challenges they face in terms of hitting those goals.
Who Attends
Our summits are designed for executives looking to take their business to the next level – from market-leading brands to disruptive new entrants. As such, we’ve worked with some of the world’s best-loved and most forward-thinking businesses.
Past Attendees
At previous events we've helped executives from some the world's most significant firms - as well as the most forward-thinking - to address their project challenges.
Mae Zyjewski
Sr. Director Global Advanced Manufacturing
Whirlpool
Silveira Roberto
Vice President Biomanufacturing Sciences
Pfizer
Mike Coubrough
Senior Vice President Global Operations
ABB
Daryll Bryant
Head of Brewery Operations
Samuel Adams
6 Challenges in Manufacturing
Our summit is focused on solving your strategic challenges
- How do we improve the life of our consumers? How do we do what we do as-a-service?
- How can we collect and use data to support real-time monitoring and develop predictive analytics?
- In what ways can we use the insights we get from that data to drive strategy?
- How can we incorporate more connected devices while maintaining robust IT and OT security
- What are the technologies required to create seamless connectivity and operational efficiency?
- How do we create, spread and embed a smarter manufacturing mindset?
Summit Schedule
3 Days - 3 Summit Themes - 1 Workshops
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Monday September 23, 2019
Summit registration
1:00pm - 6:00pm Solution provider briefing
2:00pm - 2:30pm Welcome remarks and delegate briefing
2:30pm - 2:45pm Keynote
2:45pm - 3:30pm The building blocks of Industry 4.0
Understanding the major disruptors in manufacturing and harnessing these to achieve operational excellence
Interview
3:30pm - 3:50pm Strategic Vision
Before an organization can truly benefit from the opportunities which lie within Industry 4.0 it is essential to form
a strategic game plan. This must include:
- Knowing where to start and where you want to end up
- How will you build a sustainable foundation which will allow you to adopt new technology
Roundtable
3:50pm - 5:00pm Getting Started
- Where are you on the Industry 4.0 roadmap and what does Industry 4.0 really mean for YOUR organisation
- How will you work with legacy systems?
- How do you justify investment, know where will you invest and how will you assure leadership
Roundtable
3:30pm - 5:00pm Culture and the workforce
- Getting savvy with your front line leadership to align your organisation from the top floor to the shop floor
- Optimising employee experience supporting and retaining your workforce is essential
- Closing the skills gap and maximising talent acquisition
Roundtable
3:50pm - 5:00pm Scaling industry 4.0
Many organisations are suffering from the pilot epidemic, how can you
escape the POC Purgatory and roll out pilot schemes into operation?
- Finding the right partners and bringing the supply chain up to speed
- Maintaining security and managing costs
Roundtable
3:50pm - 5:00pm Technology Tuckshop: IOT, Edge to cloud,automation, robotics, additive manufacturing
- Which technologies will benefit your institution the most?
- Getting to grips with the technology ecosystem; how do different systems complement your each other to improve operational efficiency
Roundtable
3:50pm - 5:00pm Analytics: Big Data, AI, ML and advanced analytics
- Creating a resilient data collection strategy which is standardised and suitable for scaling across your facilities, in order to maximise visualisation and analytics
- Real time analytics to improve maintenance, safety and quality control
- Predictive analytics and closed loop control
Roundtable feedback
5:00pm - 5:30pm Networking drinks
6:00pm - 7:00pm Gala dinner
7:00pm - 10:00pm Keynote
8:00pm - 8:30pm Gala dinner keynote, Q&A: What does it take to transform a legacy industry?
- Aligning mind set and culture
- Creating an outcome based business model, are your products solution based, understanding the value of building software into the hardware
- Training and educating from the C suite to shop floor refining workforce skillset and composition
Tuesday September 24, 2019
Breakfast
7:00am - 7:50am Welcome Remarks
7:50am - 8:00am Keynote
8:00am - 8:30am The Industry 4.0 cross section: Four organisations at different stages of digitisation share their experience
1. Predigital
2. Pilot programs
3. Digital factories
4. Digitally integrated
5. Digital pure play
Keynote
8:30am - 9:00am Laying the foundations of the next industrial revolution
- Building industrial IOT
- Managing costs and building a sustainable foundation
- Integrating with legacy and MES systems
- Strategy, Security and Scalability from the offset
Keynote
9:00am - 9:30am How will we build the workforce of the future? Leading, training, recruiting
- Transparent and educated leadership
- Application of new technology for training and recruitment
- Organizational setup: The shift toward cross functional and team based work and an emphasis on agility
- Optimizing organizational structure with Smart Manufacturing mindset
- Modifying job Description to embed Smart Manufacturing expectations within them
Oxford Style Debate and Live Polling
9:30am - 10:10am The Robocalypseis here! What does that really mean for the American worker?
World Economic Forum predicted that although automation will displace 75 million jobs by 2022, 133 million new roles will
also be created ultimately a net gain of 58 million jobs globally.
- Is the human element on the shop floor still essential, and how long will it last?
- How will workers adapt and acquire new technological skills required to work in the smart factories of the future?
- What does this mean for inclusion in manufacturing?
- Exploring the collaboration between the worker and the machine. What does this really mean for jobs in America?
Coffee & Networking Break
10:10am - 10:35am Workshop
10:35am - 11:05am Augmented reality: Impact and possibilities
Details To Follow.
Case Study
11:10am - 11:40am Two Worlds Collide: IT and OT convergence in the new industrial age
With the adoption of IOT technology the line between IT and Operations is starting to blur
- Why do these silos need to work together more closely than ever before?
- How can this be achieved logistics and technology
Keynote
11:45am - 12:15pm New technology is transforming the supply chain: How to improve visibility and cut costs
- AI, analytics and IOT: applications and impact on the supply chain
- How to manage aversion from suppliers
- Benefit from an end to end, integrated solution which allows you to collaborate, connect and share solutions with others in the organization and across the supply chain
- Identifying, locating, and tracking the status of assets
- Revealing supply chain inefficiencies by eliminating blind spots from logistics processes
- Willingness or resistance to connecting to shopfloor data which may have proprietary processes or trade secrets manufacturing recipes
Panel Discussion
12:20pm - 12:50pm Separating the AI Hype from Reality
- AI is already an over hyped technology within business. It’s important manufacturers understand what it isn’t before coming to a decision about what it is and how it should be used in a manufacturing context.
- Examples of use and future opportunities
- Closed loop control
Networking Lunch
12:50pm - 1:50pm Roundtable
1:50pm - 2:40pm Drill Down Roundtables
1. Getting Started
2. Culture and the workforce
3. Scaling industry 4.0
4. Technology Tuckshop: IOT, Edge to cloud, automation, robotics, additive manufacturing
5. Analytics: Big Data, AI, ML and advanced analytics
Keynote
2:40pm - 3:10pm Creating a Continuous Improvement Culture to foster a sustainable and reliable workforce
- Workforce transformation through Operational Excellence.
- What are the Tools and Rules for engagement?
- Is Speed, Cost, and Quality a good thing? What is the appropriate balance?
Case Study
3:15pm - 3:45pm Additive Manufacturing: Impact and possibilities
3D printing has potential way beyond current use. The question is why? Why are some industries
hesitant or slow in adopting AM? And who is getting it right?
- How is Industrial 3D printing being implemented?
- How has 3D printing changed the production process?
- Best practices in adopting AM
- Issues with repeatability slowing progress
Panel Discussion
3:50pm - 4:20pm How will you manage the data!?
The how, what and where of data strategy It’s one thing to collect big data, but how do you select what’s relevant and put it to practical use?
- Connecting and standardising systems across organisational silos
- How to build a team and start harvesting your data
Coffee & Networking Break
4:20pm - 4:45pm Oxford Style Debate and Live Polling
4:45pm - 5:25pm ReshoringVs Offshoring –The Great Debate
Discussion about the benefits and disadvantages of bringing manufacturing back to America
- Is there greater value in reshoring than offshoring in the current climate
- What are the most efficient tactics to bring manufacturing back to America
Case Study
5:25pm - 5:55pm Value-Driven IIoTImplementations from Edge To Cloud
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is a leader in the design, manufacture, sale, and service of oil field
equipment, and has been providing services that utilize the industrial internet of things for numerous
years. Dr. Gilbert Meyer Gauen, NOV’s Director of Asset Management, will discuss IIoT implementations they provide to customers and their manufacturing facilities with the help of their own big data platform NOV Max, including challenges they faced from the edge to the cloud.
Attendee downtime
6:00pm - 7:00pm Networking drinks
7:00pm - 7:30pm Gala dinner, silent auction, quiz/trivia
7:30pm - 10:00pm Wednesday September 25, 2019
Breakfast
7:30 am - 8:20 am The most important meal of the day. Get yourself set for a productive day by joining us for coffee, croissants and more.
Welcome Remarks
8:20 am - 8:30 am Keynote
8:30 am - 9:00 am Its All In The Analytics
Advanced analytics is the accelerating force driving the industry 4.0 revolution
- Learn from practical applications maintenance, safety, product quality
- And what’s on the horizon for advanced data analytics
Keynote
9:00 am - 9:30 am Building a secure connected system: Where is your data and who owns the infrastructure?
- Data security issues are greatly increased by integrating and enabling access to new systems
- Blockchain – A new tool in the manufacturing space
- How to manage proprietary production knowledge
Roundtable
9:30 am - 10:10 am Drill Down Roundtables
1. Getting Started
2. Culture and the workforce
3. Scaling industry 4.0
4. Technology Tuckshop: IOT, Edge to cloud, automation, robotics, additive manufacturing
5. Analytics: Big Data, AI, ML and advanced analytics
Coffee & Networking Break
10:10 am - 10:35 am Keynote
10:35 am - 11:05 am Leveraging Sustainability
How can improving your environmental footprint improve productivity at your organisation.
- Understanding the driving force meeting investor and consumer demands and reaping the benefits
Keynote
11:10 am - 11:40 am The smart factory of the future is on your doorstep. Are you ready for it?
Details To Follow.
Fireside Chat: General Q&A with your top speakers
11:45 am - 12:05 pm Throughout the summit you will be invited to vote for your favourite speakers and the top 2 ranked speakers will host a fireside chat to answer any of questions and take the opportunity to dive further into any of the topics you just wanted more time to talk about.
Panel Discussion
12:05 pm - 1:00 pm Closing panel & wrap up: So, what’s next?
What’s on the horizon for the manufacturing industry
- A look towards the future of manufacturing, new applications of technology, a streamlined connected supply chain, the new meaning of LEAN and SIX SIGMA in the digital age
Buffet lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Summit Location
The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, Florida
Our events take place at some of the most prestigious venues in the world. Five-star accommodation, dining and amenities make attending one of our summits both business and pleasure. Being productive has never been so much fun.
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