Practitioners Unplugged
With the help of AVEVA and Schneider Electric, this show explores the principles of Industry 4.0 through the insights of industry practitioners. Take an in-depth look at leveraging smart manufacturing technologies to drive industry innovation.
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Most Manufacturing Digital Maturity Models Are Theory. This One Runs 110 Plants (opens the original)
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Key Takeaways ofi’s manufacturing digital maturity model has three levels: digital, integrated, and autonomous. Level one is simply removing paper and Excel from the shop floor. The central team never arrives with a solution already chosen. It interviews plant leaders first. Four value pillars run in parallel, not in sequence, and each site weights them differently. A central digital catalogue turns one plant’s working solution into a repeatable deployment. Technology does not resolve problems.
Insurance Companies Are Engineering Firms First (opens the original)
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Key Takeaways HSB was founded in 1865 as an engineering and standards organization, not an insurer, and it still leads with inspection and engineering before underwriting today. Equipment risk reduction is driving a shift in insurance, moving the industry from backward-looking actuarial underwriting toward real-time, observable risk powered by connected equipment data. In HSB’s own performance guarantee assessments, proven, connected technology has reduced the risk profile on a single piece of e
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