Are YOU ready for Industry 4.0? The importance of having a Digital Transformation Roadmap.

Speaker:  Scott Turner (Emerson Process Solutions).

The manufacturing industry is focused on digital transformation, leveraging new technologies to boost operational performance. But there’s no consensus on how to get there – or what success looks like. With no industry standard, it’s hard for companies to know whether they are on the right track or when they’ve arrived. Operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) leaders are often siloed, not collaborating toward one central mission to achieve digital transformation.

In this presentation Emerson explores what you need to create a digital roadmap; a structured, yet flexible approach to help  focus on priority areas with a practical roadmap tailored to business needs and readiness. The goal is to use technology to reach Top Quartile performance, measured by optimized production, improved reliability, enhanced safety and minimized energy usage.

A Digital Transformation Roadmap has two focus areas: business drivers and business enablers. Business drivers look at capabilities and performance relative to industry benchmarks in key areas: production management, reliability and maintenance, safety and security, and/or energy and emissions. The business enabler focus looks at capabilities in organizational effectiveness and systems and data integration. For each, Emerson has identified detailed criteria to measure customer performance along the digital journey – from conventional to best-in-class to the highest level: digitally autonomous operations.

The talk will be preceded by a short InstMC (Herts) AGM.

Please contact ThomasPurcell@eaton.com