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The Top 4 Challenges for Executives in 2025

April 21, 2025

Shawn Smith has been with Milliken & Company in roles of increasing seniority and responsibility in production, supply chain, business development, and business improvement for twenty years. He is a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in Industrial Engineering.

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Performance Solutions by Milliken (PSbyM) brings a unique, Practitioner-based value proposition to its clients and has built an enviable record of helping companies achieve substantial and sustainable improvements in their operations and safety excellence efforts. This approach, built on the foundation of lessons learned while Milliken & Company created and implemented its own world-class performance system, helps client organizations engage and empower their associates by establishing a culture of continuous improvement and drive breakthrough operations impact. PSbyM currently serves companies in more than 100 operating locations in 28 countries across a wide range of industry sectors.

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Moments That Matter: How to Create the Right Ecosystem for a Thriving Manufacturing Workforce and Provide a Frictionless Employee Experience

April 21, 2025

Adam Cooper

Partner, Digital Manufacturing Capability Leader

Ernst & Young LLP

Adam is EY’s Digital Manufacturing Capability leader within the Americas where he is responsible for asset development, resourcing and team stewardship, go-to-market strategy, alliance partnerships and revenue growth. He has deep experience applying digital and operations technology to enable connected industrial workers, manufacturing analytics, production optimization and intelligent asset management, from strategy to proof-of-concept to scale. Adam has 25+years of professional services / consulting experience working across strategy, sustainability, supply chain, and operations.

Amy Rardin

Global Senior Director, SC Digitization & External Partnerships

Procter and Gamble

Amy is a results-oriented leader with over 25 years of experience in supply chain management at a world-class consumer goods company. Amy excels in driving exceptional Product Supply results and inspiring organizations to embrace change. She prioritizes work using data insights, enabling teams to execute business strategies effectively. Her strengths include relationship building, persuasive selling, and innovation management. Amy holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from The University of Texas at Austin and leads the Texas Channel P&G Recruiting Team. Outside of work, she enjoys home improvement, golfing, and traveling. Amy lives in Cincinnati, OH, with her husband, two children, and two dogs.

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Overcome Uncertain Times: AI Enabled Transformation to Drive Business and Workforce Success

April 21, 2025

Chris Dobbrow is a passionate advocate for lifelong learning and innovation, dedicated to partnering with industry leaders in digital manufacturing to drive transformative growth. With over 25 years of experience in technology and media, he has spent the past decade focused on AI-driven Industrial IoT, including more than five years at Augury. Chris has a proven track record of growing top-line revenue and EBITDA, leading full P&L operations exceeding $200 million. His expertise spans strategic enterprise sales, high-performing team development, and organizational transformation. He excels in forging strategic partnerships and executing forward-thinking strategies that drive sustainable success.

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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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Beyond the Single Site: How Novolex Optimized Manufacturing Resiliency & Costs at Scale

April 21, 2025

Through partnership with Redaptive, Novolex has utilized EaaS to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and create consistent maintenance costs in facilities across their entire portfolio rather than looking at individual sites.

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Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive?s proprietary Data Solutions metering platform. Redaptive was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

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The Top 4 Challenges for Executives in 2025

Moments That Matter: How to Create the Right Ecosystem for a Thriving Manufacturing Workforce and Provide a Frictionless Employee Experience

Overcome Uncertain Times: AI Enabled Transformation to Drive Business and Workforce Success

Strategies to Enhance the Smart Factory Ecosystem

Beyond the Single Site: How Novolex Optimized Manufacturing Resiliency & Costs at Scale

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