Intelligent Manufacturing CoE Panel – Why We Are Not Seeing Full Scale Rollouts of Industry 4.0 Solutions?
Session Abstract:
According to a research project commissioned by SoftServe where over 400 manufacturers were interviewed, the top manufacturing priority was physically upgrading manufacturing technology to connect with IT infrastructure – this is the ultimate OT/IT convergence challenge. The data also cites the drivers for change are to focus on improving cost and resource efficiencies, optimizing energy management and optimizing equipment performance. The benefits are clearly seen but we as an industry are struggling to fully breakthrough to achieve the promised results of Industry 4.0. This panel will discuss those challenges in more detail along with suggestions on how to move forward so we may be able to leverage Industrial IoT so Industry 4.0 solutions can help our collective manufacturing segments.
Speakers:
Guy Merritt is an experienced C-suite executive, Guy has 35 years engineering leadership advising and developing IoT solutions, native cloud-based systems, products and engineering & manufacturing test solutions for a wide variety of industries. He is an author of the award-winning book “Proactive Risk Management: Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development.”
Bobby Shkolnikov is an energetic and open leader. He combines the rigor of a process centered approach derived from management consulting with the entrepreneurial vigor to consistently deliver high quality solutions, establish actionable strategy, and deliver strategic initiatives from concept to delivery in the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, Digital Supply Networks (DSN), and Digital Transformation spaces. He has helped organizations in the High Tech, Manufacturing, and Med Device sectors with the following: engineer their go to market strategies in IoT, deliver Smart Factory strategy, build business cases for transformative alliances, communicate value and ROI for IoT/DSN investments, deploy IoT solutions in live productions environments, and has run solutions development with cross functional teams.
Paul Venditti is an experienced Leader (29+ years) and strategist with a passion for leveraging technology and customer relationships to create solutions that solve tough problems and excite people. Constantly looking for new ways to gain and embed desired customer insights into new innovative software solutions across a number of different industry-application areas.
As an accomplished innovation and technology executive, Jonathan Weiss specializes in partnering with leading manufacturers to drive cost reduction, improve operational efficiencies, and enhance supply chain resilience through the implementation of advanced technologies such as IoT, IIoT, AI, and ML. Jonathan has a strong track record of success, having spent the past decade working with some of the world’s largest industrial companies, including P&G, GE, Pfizer, PepsiCo, Intel, HPE, and Foxconn, to execute digital transformations in manufacturing facilities, supply chain initiatives, and enterprise applications.
Harry Grewal is the Director of Partnerships at Litmus Automation, an industrial IoT startup building an industrial edge data platform that unifies device connectivity, data intelligence and data integration in a complete Industry 4.0 solution. As an experienced supply chain and manufacturing software professional, Harry has 13 years of experience working on building and implementing information systems across global enterprises, leading pre-sales engineering and partnerships with companies of all sizes. Harry is a passionate technologist and strives to solve complex problems with the application of modern software. When his 5 year old daughter allows for some downtime, he likes to build small software apps and ride his motorcycle out in the country.
Harbi Pordal, Solving clients’ most challenging problems has been the hallmark of my career. Bringing the certainty of physics-based engineering expertise – across many disciplines – to bear in new industries and emerging problems is what makes me tick. Today I am a strategic member of leadership at SES (Stress Engineering Services) in Cincinnati, Ohio. For SES, I drive thought leadership, insight into emerging industry trends and needs, and shaping SES research and development agenda. I also play a role in shaping SES growth strategies, as well as leading SES investments in people, quality management, and our own operational efficiencies.
Shivkumar Sankaranarayanan, works for SoftServe as an IoT Solutions Architect. He brings over 20 years of Instrumentation, Networking and Cloud Engineering experience in helping devices, applications, services and people talk to each other. In a previous life, he performed in a variety of Architecture, Leadership, Engineering and whatever-it-takes roles in XS/M/XL sized organizations across Electrical Relay Testing, Telecommunications and Life Sciences. He currently works with Industry 4.0 transitioning customers to develop integrated IoT solutions and facilitate detailed architectural dialogues on their IIoT journeys so far.