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Industry 4.0

Strategies to Enhance the Smart Factory Ecosystem
MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

Strategies to Enhance the Smart Factory Ecosystem

April 21, 2025

Lee has 25+ years of experience across manufacturing (Boeing/Corning), software technology (GE VERNOVA), and consulting (EY) that enables him to craft digital strategies that optimize manufacturing operations. A trusted advisor for manufacturing transformation, Lee works with clients to develop strategic roadmaps, navigate technology selection, and ensure financial viability for their smart factory initiatives.

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GE Vernova, Proficy® Software & Services – Proficy® software empowers teams, illuminating the path to a greener, more profitable future. GE Vernova’s industrial software accelerates innovation, enables connected workers, and operationalizes Sustainability to drive measurable progress for over 20,000 diverse customers with cloud-based and on-premise HMI/SCADA, MES, historian, and analytics.

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Predictive, Proactive Maintenance and Asset Management for Food Manufacturers — A Conversation with Steven Pamensky of Industrial Matrix
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Predictive, Proactive Maintenance and Asset Management for Food Manufacturers — A Conversation with Steven Pamensky of Industrial Matrix

November 8, 2024

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Steven Pamensky, the founder and CEO of Industrial Matrix, to talk about the next generation of proactive and predictive maintenance and asset management tools and technologies now available to food manufacturers. There is a tidal wave of features and options on offer, and of course all of them need to interact with existing systems within facilities. Improvement cannot come at the price of disruption. When it comes to Food Manufacturing especially, the ongoing monitoring of what happens in a plant or factory is something that can always be improved upon but must never be interrupted. So how should food manufacturing leaders make informed choices about what is the best fit for their operations, their products, and their existing mix of maintenance and asset management tools? Give this episode a listen to learn more!

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Modern Data Architecture: The 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Game Changer for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
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Modern Data Architecture: The 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Game Changer for Mid-Sized Manufacturers

April 22, 2024

Lee has 25+ years of experience across manufacturing (Boeing/Corning), software technology (GE VERNOVA), and consulting (EY) that enables him to craft digital strategies that optimize manufacturing operations. As trusted advisor for manufacturing transformation, Lee works with clients to develop strategic roadmaps, navigate technology selection, and ensure financial viability for their smart factory initiatives.

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Why Your Digital Strategy May Be Incomplete: How Legacy Models Prevent End-To-End Digital Manufacturing
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Why Your Digital Strategy May Be Incomplete: How Legacy Models Prevent End-To-End Digital Manufacturing

May 25, 2023

As the senior vice president of go-to-market strategy, Marty Smyth is responsible market intelligence, product strategy, and bringing MasterControl quality and manufacturing products to market globally. He brings 20 years of technology strategy, marketing, sales, and support experience across high-growth private SaaS companies as well as Fortune 500 companies.

In previous roles, Marty has driven strategic planning, customer experience, and go-to-market for technology leaders like Cisco, Panasonic, Verizon, and AT&T. He is a University of Notre Dame alumnus.

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Rapidly Create Value: Driving Impact Across the Enterprise
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Rapidly Create Value: Driving Impact Across the Enterprise

May 11, 2023

Craig Melrose is the Executive Vice President of Digital Transformation Solutions at PTC. In this role, Craig works to build customer-facing, (operationally transformative) solutions that incorporate PTC’s industry-leading CAD, PLM, IoT, and AR technologies. His responsibilities include interacting directly with the customers to develop, scale, and roll out tailored industry 4.0 programs based on their unique operational excellence goals and needs.

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Modern Data Architecture: The 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Game Changer for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
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Modern Data Architecture: The 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Game Changer for Mid-Sized Manufacturers

May 8, 2023

As the Chief Technology Officer NA, Kausik “KD” Dasgupta brings 25+ years of experience in technical architecture, evangelism and professional services in the tech industry to FactoryEye by Magic Software. He joined the company in 2015 after serving as the Senior Director of Engineering for Cloud and Datacenter Automation at BMC Software. Previously, KD served in other engineering leadership roles at BMC and CMC.

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Changing the Narrative: From Technology to Value Creation
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Changing the Narrative: From Technology to Value Creation

May 10, 2022

Global disruptions have accelerated the adoption of digital technologies in manufacturing and supply chains. Companies are developing strategies to prepare for the new normal leveraging technology but focusing on bottom line performance. In this session, hear IBM speak about systemic approaches to value creation in manufacturing and how companies are doing this successfully today. Specifically, IBM will discuss the need for: Strategy: Co-creating roadmap and practices to solve operational issues and improve metrics that matter Data: Connecting, capturing and analyzing the right data to drive innovation and optimization Scale: Looking beyond proof of concepts and implementing scalable solutions to drive manufacturing excellence and…

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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning
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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning

May 6, 2022

Learn how industrial companies are avoiding the roadblocks to quickly deploying successful AI/machine learning and finding valuable new insights from their existing systems and data, as-is, with no prep required Hear how continuous improvement is supercharged with the power of machine learning to constantly monitor for new opportunities and ensure sustainable benefits Find out about a low touch, low risk way to quickly discover the available business value from industrial machine learning for your operations — Paul Boris President and COO Praemo Starting his career in operations and engineering at companies including GM, Paul recognized the opportunities to drive performance…

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Sanofi Manufacturing Transformation: Turning Science into Reality for Patients
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Sanofi Manufacturing Transformation: Turning Science into Reality for Patients

April 8, 2022

Our new purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives Our race to make available breakthrough treatments & vaccines for patients supported by diverse modalities: accelerate product launches and optimize our asset performance Our ambition to develop a network of Factories of the Future Our response to COVID: Operating with a global Supply Chain in a changing environment impacted by COVID and leveraging our assets to fight against the pandemic — Brendan O’Callaghan EVP, Global Industrial Affairs Sanofi Brendan O’Callaghan leads an international network of manufacturing and distribution sites. His ambition is to enable successful commercialization of…

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Is Your Electronic Batch Record Truly Complete?
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Is Your Electronic Batch Record Truly Complete?

April 8, 2022

Explaining the difference between a partial and complete electronic batch record (EBR) Demonstrating that partially digital but disconnected batch record management is as inefficient as paper for managing production data Showcasing how fully digitized batch records enable smarter, faster manufacturing, so manufacturers can make immediate performance gains at every step Illustrating how today’s technology is configurable to a variety of manufacturing scenarios to create a complete, beginning-to-end EBR that other solutions do not — Brian Curran SVP of Strategic Growth MasterControl Brian Curran joined MasterControl in 2002 to direct and expand MasterControl’s product development efforts. He has more than 25…

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Quality 4.0: Where Do I Start?
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Quality 4.0: Where Do I Start?

November 29, 2021

 Discussing the current Quality 4.0 environment and addressing the most common challenge of how to get started Applying what we’ve learned to help companies begin their quality and compliance digital initiatives by leveraging behavioral and predictive analytics Ensuring quick results and getting the most value out of your investments in Quality 4.0 initiatives Jaime Velez Co-founder Operations & Quality Systems Improvement Experts (OQSIE) For the last 15 years Jaime has supported more than one hundred consulting engagements with Life Science companies delivering significant productivity improvements in supply chain and quality systems. He started his consulting career at McKinsey &…

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Digital Transformation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry – A Conversation with Randy Erwin of Cloudleaf
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Digital Transformation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry – A Conversation with Randy Erwin of Cloudleaf

February 24, 2020

 At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series last November in San Diego we spoke with Randy Erwin of Cloudleaf about how biopharmaceutical manfuacturers are embracing Industry 4.0 solutions to their unique challenges. Randy Erwin VP Sales Cloudleaf Cloudleaf’s mission is to create significant value across the end-to-end supply chain network by dramatically increasing visibility of product flow and condition. Customers increase revenues, reduce operational material losses, and enhance the reliability of operations. Our supply chain Visibility Platform delivers complete, real-time views and insights across the ecosystem from suppliers through production and distribution to customers. Using IoT,…

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Digital Transformation for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturers – A Conversation with Amos Dor of Applied Materials
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Digital Transformation for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturers – A Conversation with Amos Dor of Applied Materials

November 27, 2019

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series earlier this month in San Diego we spoke with Amos Dor, Applied Materials’ Pharma General Manager & CTO. Industry 4.0 solutions are transforming the way biopharmaceutical manufacturers do business, and Amos offered his insights into some of the challenges they are facing and the decisions they need to make as they bring these powerful new tools into existing operations. — Applied Materials provides pharma manufacturers an opportunity to leverage decades of experience in increasing productivity. SmartFactory Rx™ is a suite of advanced manufacturing software which enables pharma companies to achieve…

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Digital Transformation and the Smart Factory – A Conversation with Laks Pernenkil of Deloitte Consulting LLP
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Digital Transformation and the Smart Factory – A Conversation with Laks Pernenkil of Deloitte Consulting LLP

November 26, 2019

 At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series earlier this month in San Diego we spoke with Laks Pernenkil, Principal | Life Sciences Operations with Deloitte Consulting LLP. Laks shared his insights into digital transformation in general, and specifically how the ‘Smart Factory’ will change the way biopharmaceutical companies operate. — Deloitte Life Sciences Innovation starts with insight and seeing challenges in a new way. Amid unprecedented uncertainty and change, life sciences stakeholders are looking for new ways to transform their organizations using digital innovation and technologies. Deloitte’s team of thinkers and doers can help you imagine,…

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