Digital technology is transforming the built environment sector. Specifically, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is enabling collaboration throughout the supply chain like never before.
A panel of directors and executives took to the main stage to discuss the key digitalisation challenges manufacturers face and offered advice around effective strategies to overcome them.
Competitiveness and continuously increasing production rates fuel the need for aerospace and defence manufacturers to transform towards digital factories, utilising automation, augmented reality, IoT and analytics.
Innovators like Amazon are rapidly and aggressively moving into B2B commerce and posing a huge challenge to traditional players across the supply chain.
Manufacturers have seen great advances in data sharing capabilities, but IoT hasn’t realised its potential for collaboration. Could data ownership be the sticking point? Audi Lucas explored the issue in his keynote.
Domino is a global supplier of inkjet printing technologies and in 2017, and thanks to its highly effective management of a complex, international network of suppliers it won The Manufacturer MX Award for Supply Chain Excellence.
The success of large organisations is increasingly down to the ability of employees to leverage communication and productivity-enhancing tools to work collaboratively, regardless of distance or time.
