Pre-Conference Workshop Day | Tuesday, March 18 2025

Digital transformation is about extracting value from data to drive operational improvements. However, the benefits and reasons for digitalization are often unclear. This workshop aims to help manufacturing leaders and digital advocates integrate digitalization into their manufacturing strategy by:

·       Identifying Key Goals: Pinpoint manufacturing and business objectives and value drivers.

·       Assessing Current State: Evaluate each value driver on a digital maturity index and determine what is needed to reach the desired future state.

·       Laying the Groundwork: Assess technical and cultural readiness for a digital program.

·       Prioritizing Projects: Align projects with business criteria and prioritize accordingly.

·       Developing a Roadmap: Create a multi-year roadmap that outlines a pragmatic sequence of initiatives and projects.

·       Supporting Digitalization: Communicate and support digitalization as a key enabler for manufacturing.

Join us to learn how to effectively align your connected worker strategy with your business objectives and drive meaningful improvements in your operations.

Mike McFarlane

Member Board of Trustees
AI Applied Consortium

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In today’s fast-paced world, organizations with field operations are seeking ways to enhance efficiency and productivity. This workshop will delve into how connected worker solutions, powered by 5G connectivity, can transform your operations. Join us to explore how these solutions can drive collaboration and add value to your operations, including:

·       Modernizing Field Operations: Accelerate digitalization with 5G private networks to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

·       Ensuring Worker Safety: Utilize wearable solutions to keep frontline workers safe, connect them to external expertise, and enable hands-free maintenance.

·       Boosting Productivity: Discover innovative smart devices combined with 5G connectivity that enhance field productivity.

·       Enabling Predictive Maintenance: Connect your workforce and infrastructure to facilitate autonomous operations, predictive maintenance, and better decision-making.

·       Accessing Critical Resources: Provide workers with essential resources and training materials to improve job performance. 

Industrial operators are always looking to maximize production, extend asset life, and achieve better business outcomes. Digital Twins and asset management solutions provide real-time data to monitor asset performance, enable predictive analytics, and prevent incidents. This workshop will cover how to enhance decision-making and asset visibility through:

·       Building a Digital Twin: Maintain data integrity, select appropriate data sources, and ensure interoperability between technologies.

·       Integrating Data: Combine real-time operational data, historical information, and advanced algorithms into a comprehensive digital model.

·       Enhancing Capabilities: Leverage AI, IoT, and machine learning to boost digital twin capabilities.

·       Improving Predictive Maintenance: Use digital twins to enhance predictive maintenance capabilities.

·       Boosting Efficiency and Sustainability: Enhance asset efficiency, reduce waste, and address carbon emissions through digital twins.

Join us to discover how these solutions can optimize your operations for enhanced performance, safety, and sustainability.

Real-time tracking systems for energy operations, refineries, and wind farms can significantly reduce workplace safety risks and enhance emergency management. This workshop will explore how RTLS can provide powerful location intelligence to ensure safe and compliant operations. Join us to discover how these solutions can optimize your operations for enhanced performance, safety, and sustainability. Key benefits include:

·       Optimizing Asset Tracking: Enhance worker safety and streamline workflows with RTLS.

·       Ensuring Safety Compliance: Track personnel in hazardous environments to ensure safety compliance and improve emergency response management.

·       Boosting Operational Efficiency: Utilize real-time tracking to manage valuable assets more efficiently.

·       Improving Inventory Management: Track the movement of goods, materials, and equipment for better inventory management and supply chain visibility.

·       Proactive Hazard Monitoring: Continuously monitor hazardous areas with environmental sensors to prevent accidents and threats to life.

High turnover and the need for rapid onboarding of less experienced workers demands agile learning solutions. Digital work instructions can streamline training, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity. Join us to discover how digital work instructions can simplify tasks and increase productivity in your operations. This workshop will cover:

·       Efficient Task Completion: Provide digital guidance to help your workforce solve complex tasks more efficiently.

·       Informed Decision Making: Automate data collection to improve processes and support decision making.

·       Enhanced Traceability: Create workflows that capture data from workers and their connected devices.

·       Real-Time Monitoring: Monitor job completions in real time to identify and address workflow bottlenecks.

·       Consistent Processes: Ensure a consistent process execution format across the enterprise.

Robotics for asset inspection, monitoring, and maintenance are revolutionizing high-risk industries. By gathering high-quality data, automating routine tasks, and minimizing human exposure to dangerous conditions, robots are transforming asset management. Join us to learn how robotics can enhance industrial process efficiency, streamline workflows, and cut costs including:

·       Focusing on High-Value Tasks: Free up your workforce to concentrate on more critical tasks.

·       Transforming Asset Monitoring: Explore how autonomous inspection robots can enhance asset monitoring and reduce costs.

·       Mitigating Safety Risks: Use autonomous inspection robots to collect more detailed data and improve safety.

·       Real-Time Hazard Monitoring: Monitor and localize flammable and toxic gases in real time to enable early operator action.

Adapting to Different Environments: Consider the specific needs of various applications to ensure optimal performance.

Real-time data analytics can transform your connected factory, offering insights for process improvements, predictive maintenance, and empowering your workforce with critical information. This workshop will guide you through developing an effective data strategy and the necessary digital infrastructure, including:

·       Creating a Unified Data Platform: Implement a data platform that serves as a single source of truth and standardizes data availability.

·       Engaging Domain Experts: Involve your domain experts to ensure a deep understanding of key manufacturing processes.

·       Gaining Buy-In: Secure support from all levels, from the C-suite to the shop floor, to ensure successful adoption of data analytics.

·       Overcoming Integration Challenges: Deploy a platform that resolves integration and interoperability issues, enabling quick data access and analysis.

Join us to learn how to effectively implement data analytics and unlock optimization opportunities in your manufacturing operations.

Oil & Gas and industrial organizations are increasingly using wearable technologies to ensure worker safety, provide training, and connect remote teams with offsite experts. This workshop will explore safety-certified smart wearables that offer hands-free training, enhance visual inspections, and provide remote assistance without compromising safety. Join us to discover how these wearable solutions can enhance safety and onsite learning in your operations, including:

·       On-the-Job Training: Provide real-time information and work instructions to support workforce training.

·       Real-Time Guidance: Connect onshore and offshore teams with experienced engineers for immediate guidance.

·       Emergency Response: Deliver emergency response guidelines and safety protocols directly to frontline workers.

·       Preventative Maintenance: Utilize AI-powered wearables to suggest maintenance actions and predict equipment failures.

·       Safe Operation in Hazardous Environments: Examine intrinsically safe devices designed to operate effectively in hazardous conditions