Rethink! Smart Manufacturing 2024 | we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH | 22 June 2024 | Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin, Friedrichstraße 151 Dorotheenstraße 65 Navigationsadresse, 10117 Berlin, Germany

The manufacturing industry is facing major upheaval and change. The status quo will no longer suffice. While resiliency has remained a key theme, innovations such as advanced analytics and automation and trends such as predictive maintenance are creating the smart manufacturing megatrend. The transition from traditional automation to fully connected systems enables smart factories that transform the entire production chain. These innovations will create highly intelligent factories and new business models that can respond quickly to change and deliver customized intelligent products and services.
This event is specifically designed to help manufacturing leaders innovate, strengthen and re-imagine their organization for a new era. We will tackle today's biggest challenges - skills shortages, supply chain bottlenecks, automation, digitization.
Join up to 150 leaders to learn and discuss how intelligent manufacturing is impacting every aspect of business, the latest trends, emerging technologies, factory automation, the expansion of artificial intelligence and robotics, and operational excellence in manufacturing. Discuss opportunities for business, for your production, optimize your resilience and strengthen your future. Because one thing is certain: changes always mean challenges and opportunities at the same time.
Key Topics:
• How can one benefit from the combination of IIoT and lean manufacturing methods?
• SCM and networked production: how to achieve a sustainable and resilient supply chain in the manufacturing industry?
• Smart Factory: How does the fully networked production environment work? What does the intelligent and data-optimized factory mean?
• End-to-end value-added processes - How can the value of data be measured in networked manufacturing processes?
• Automation, MES & Robotics: How can MES, Big Data and Cloud Computing meet the requirements of future networked manufacturing processes?
• Employer commitment, leadership and culture on the shop floor: How can the entire workforce be taken on the transformation journey?
• Networks & 5G: How do you make your factory 5G-ready? How do you secure your networks in a connected manufacturing environment?
• Use of artificial intelligence: How does AI, predictive maintenance, etc. help us to further optimize OPS performance? How can process data mining algorithms for automated cause identification in engineering and manufacturing processes increase efficiency?
• Green tech and costs for sustainable production: What are the costs and strategies for more sustainable production?
• The digital twin in production processes: How do you avoid data gaps for improved scenario planning and faster, leaner and more secure processes?
• Additive manufacturing processes and the role of 3D printing - what are the possibilities for individualized, flexible manufacturing and greater customer orientation?

2023 Past Speakers

Andrea Comolli
Senior Account Manager, Infor

Marc Zenker
Head of Digital Innovation & Communication, Blu Beyond

Gunther Boehner
Assembly Manager Bmw Plant Dingolfing, Bmw

Christoph-Attila Kun
Manager Digital Data Chain Consortium, D-Basf

Andre Heskamp
Vice President - It Productline Connect, Schaeffler

Gerhard Schwarz
Vice President R&d, Swarovski

George Kastle
Cio & Cdo, Vollmer

Tobias Trunk
Factory Automation Lead, Smart Connected, John Deere

Dr Christian Bartsch
Vp Digital Solutions, Krauss Maffei

Lisa Hermes
Head of Corporate Development & Digital, Krauss Maffei