Compete & Win - 5 Tips for Smart Factories

To Compete and Win in an increasingly global marketplace, manufacturers lead innovation, not follow it.

AI is moving from hype to results on the factory floor, unlocking gains across productivity, quality, and customer value. Yet most organisations struggle to turn initial pilots into plant-wide results, with a scary 80% of projects failing. Success depends not just on technology, but on upskilled engineers and operators applying it.

Drawing on 25 years’ experience advising real-world factories, this livestream shares 5 practical tips for building smarter factories, combining AI within proven disciplines like Lean and Six Sigma to guarantee measurable results.

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"We replaced dangerous manual corrosion inspections and critical maintenance checks in hard-to-reach, high-risk areas with fully automated drone inspections, generating prioritised maintenance to-do lists based on real need."

– Rig Manager – a global oil and gas exploration and production company

"You helped us to set strategic alignment between business goals and our GenAI deployment. We moved from being reactive to serving the business, to a clearly defined path to AI adoption”

– Chief Data Officer – a Fortune 500 Company

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Compete and Win!

"We replaced dangerous manual corrosion inspections and critical maintenance checks in hard-to-reach, high-risk areas with fully automated drone inspections, generating prioritised maintenance to-do lists based on real need."

"You helped us to set strategic alignment between business goals and our GenAI deployment. We moved from being reactive to serving the business, to a clearly defined path to AI adoption”