WS02: Smart Manufacturing Bootcamp
Tuesday, November 08, 2022: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Description
*This conference session requires registration and payment.
Introduction to Smart Manufacturing
Unsure of where to begin with a smart factory program? Having trouble filling positions? Desperately need upgrades? Have budget, but not sure how to decide the right projects? Trying to figure out which technology is ready for prime time? Or are you looking for the next value creating project? Join our top industry experts for a Smart Manufacturing Bootcamp! This half-day workshop includes: an introduction to smart manufacturing, setting a foundation, embracing cultural change, discovering new technologies, investing in technology for your people, developing smart processes and creating smart insights. We will cover real implementations of technologies like: automation, operator guidance, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, machine learning, mobile robotics, wearables and more. There will be first-hand, vendor-neutral case studies of real-world factories implementing smart manufacturing initiatives and will conclude with actionable concepts for how you can jumpstart your own business case in your plant and win decision maker approvals.
Will Healy III - Universal Robots
Building Your Smart Foundation
What are your goals? What is your strategy? What foundation do you need in place? what’s the implication if you do nothing?
Jonathan Kim - Amada America, Inc.
5 Key Steps: Putting People and Process First for Successful, Ongoing Digital Transformation
For competitive advantage from digital transformation, create a people, process and cultural environment that enables rapid, painless adoption of new technologies relevant to your business as they become available. With this presentation, learn: How to move beyond case-by-case technology implementation, How to ensure people, process and technology work together, How to achieve immediate, enthusiastic buy-in to change, Technology: The Last Thing You Need for Digital Transformation, and 5 Key Steps for successful, ongoing digital transformation.
Paul Vragel, LSSBB - 4aBetterBusiness, Inc.
Cyber Security Advice for Smart Manufacturing
Network and cloud technologies with a focus on secure architecture and proactive defense strategies.
Jason Miller - BitLyft Cybersecurity
Smart Tech: People Working with Robots, not Like Robots
People-centric technology investments are becoming an important tool for manufacturers to overcome workforce shortages and skilled labor challenges. With re-deployable collaborative robots and smart material handling robotics, manufacturers are extending the careers of the workers they have, increasing product quality and raising productivity in facilities large and small.
Will Healy III - Universal Robots
Smart Tech: The Value of CMMS Systems
A CMMS offers a range of benefits that aren't available when using simple spreadsheets or other manual maintenance tracking processes. The centralized nature of a CMMS and the automation it provides yield efficiencies in scheduling, record keeping, data collection and management, and overall productivity.
Jason Petri - Brightly (Formerly Dude Solutions)
Real Time Location Systems (RTLS): How to Get the Right Technology Fit
Asset tracking with RTLS revolutionizes the manufacturing process and eliminates lost work and dead time. How do you find the right asset tracking technology for your use case?
Mark Dirks, B.S. Mt.E., SSBB, Logan Maxwell, B.S. Ch.E. - WISER Systems
Smart Tech: AI Insights in Production
Automate complex data analysis to uncover root causes, understand key business drivers, compare cohorts, and identify meaningful segments in your data. Forecasting efficiency losses for better planning. Detecting quality defects to facilitate predictive maintenance.
Jerry Foster - Plex Systems
Developing Smart Processes
Machine connectivity. Working with Legacy ERP/MES systems. Machine connectivity, ethernet, data storage, OPCUA, MTCONNECT, ERP/MES How do we migrate legacy systems? How do we upgrade? How do we find a more open solution? Economic side?
Jonathan Kim - Amada America, Inc.
Building YOUR Smart Action Plan
Leave with a goal, strategy, plan of action, topics to address: questions to answer, # machines, IT investments, high level list of items needed, pitfalls, things to be careful about, basics of project management, getting buyin of decision makers, developing a business plan, developing a project charter that they could take back to the executive organization that they can say yes we need to investigate.
Will Healy III - Universal Robots
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