Industrial Transformation Forum

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Sustainability and climate action Demystifying ESG for Manufacturing

Keynote 1 - Reality Check on Sustainability and ROI: Does sustainability affect profitability?

As the topic continues to become more significant for consumers, businesses must embrace sustainability. This will only become more important as new challenges, and disruptions are expected. The exhaustion of essential commodities, or the threat of compliance costs, such as carbon or landfill taxes, are just some of the issues businesses must be prepared for. Companies must be prepared for future sustainability challenges; those making the right decisions will ultimately see a return on investment.

The big question is - 

• Reality check - Although the C-suites for most manufacturing companies understand the need to focus on sustainability, there’s a considerable gap in putting strategies into practice. Why so?
• How and where are you currently with the sustainability agenda for your organisation? What’s the industry benchmark? Regional comparison
• Is profitability the main reason for this gap?
• How can businesses stay profitable while they invest to achieve their net-zero targets?
• How can companies proactively respond to increased stakeholder demands while delivering quality products and services and maintaining financial performance?
• Can manufacturers generate substantial financial and environmental benefits from sustainable manufacturing?

Panel Discussion

Technology Trends that will drive energy efficiency in achieving carbon neutrality

As our world is changing rapidly, recent challenges in energy security, energy prices and living cost have intersected with the climate crisis. This makes energy efficiency more indispensable than ever. Without early action on efficiency, the energy transition to net zero emissions will be more expensive and much more challenging to achieve.

The manufacturing sector is moving away from traditional norms and adopting innovative best practices to transform digitally. Energy-efficient production means more than simply reducing energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, or costs – it also involves linking energy and production data to analyse and optimise energy consumption and the energy productivity of machines, plants, and processes. These measures provide the opportunity to achieve all-round improvements in process productivity and efficiency.

When it comes to bringing energy efficiency to your business, where should you begin? And how can you implement quick and easy changes without affecting your long-term strategy?

Green Sustainable Journey: Road to Net Zero

Companies have decided to make their plants sustainable. Achieving net zero is a journey. Reaching this target requires a broad spectrum of additional automation solutions, not just analytics, wireless sensors, and advanced control, but also regulators and even proximity switches for emissions monitoring and control as well as efficiency monitoring and optimization. Learn how other plants use automation to become more sustainable.

FIRE SIDE CHAT

THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN SMART MANUFACTURING

How to manage new manufacturing challenges with AI and Industrial Metaverse?

AI is a game changer for manufacturing industry, but most people do not know where to start or which opportunity or process to focus on.  This session talks about how AI is used to address manufacturers’ concerns such as in dynamic energy management, product development and productivity.

This fire-side session brings together the experts in Accenture and VIRNECT as they share their experience in helping manufacturing customers with AI and GenAI, real-time visualization, virtual and augmented reality.

Networking Lunch

Helping the World Run Better With Risk-Resilient and Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain

In the face of uncertainties, efficient and connected operations and supply chains enable resilience and agility to respond to disruptions and provide competitive advantage to organisations through faster time-to-market, increased quality, and improved customer service.

Technology-driven supply chain transparency and accountability

Innovative technology will also impact the supply chain, as interest in reliability, transparency, and flexibility is at an all-time high following the disruption of the past few years. Technology such as AI, vendor management software and blockchain will all play a role in the face of the supply chain - no longer an intractable monolithic function but one that allows for more accountability and freedom of choice.

Panel Discussion

Digital Supply Chain Ecosystem: How digitalisation makes the supply chain more reliable, resilient, agile and customer-focused

Today’s global supply chains are designed to operate with high reliability, at the lowest possible cost, in a steady-state environment. Unfortunately, supply chains have lately been unreliable. At the heart of all this activity sits the digital supply chain, and it is key to the operations of every company that manufactures or distributes anything. Indeed, for many companies, the supply chain is the business. It extends the vertical integration of all corporate functions to the horizontal dimension, knitting together relevant players — the suppliers of raw materials and parts, the production process itself, warehousers and distributors of finished products, and finally, the customer. This session will discuss how these elements enable the digital supply chain and, more importantly, how they work together.

Procurement 4.0: How does procurement digitalisation boost supply chain integration?

Digitising procurement will radically change the tools and talents required, add new categories to be sourced, and transform the value proposition of the procurement function.
Efficient integration and management of raw materials and parts suppliers is a critical building block in the digital supply chain ecosystem. This session will dive deeply into some of the benefits and use case studies on digital procurement.

Break

Panel Discussion

The Road to the 2030 manufacturing workplace: What Industry 4.0 Means for digital talent strategies

As digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution continue to redefine manufacturing jobs of the future, leaders and workers alike need to embrace a work environment that is expected to blend advanced technology and digital skills with uniquely human skills, to yield the highest level of productivity. Understanding how work might change can help the industry prepare for a future that promises to be transformative. This session will discuss how digitisation will affect the workforce and what companies need to do to drive this change.

• How can the manufacturing industry prepare for this future workplace and ready its workforce to work beside robots and advanced technologies?
• What skills will become “must-haves” in the future workplace?
• What are the pathways for training and education to enable these skills?
• Possible future jobs in manufacturing.
• Call to action for wide-scale digital upskilling through cooperation between Government, Industry and Academic Sector

Fire Side Chat

BOOST YOUR MANUFACTURING & WORKFORCE EFFICIENCY WITH AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are gaining tremendous traction in the enterprise world.

This session will discuss the different roles of robotics in manufacturing, its impact, and its future. Are robots too expensive for your business? Or is your business too small to make use of robots? Are robots in manufacturing industry challenging to program and operate? Will it eliminate human workers from their jobs?

Closing Remarks

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