The Future Factory® is an executive education and training company for senior professionals. We provide strategic insights across the core business functions including Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Supply Chain, Innovation and Digital Business Transformation for Fortune Global 500 companies.
Ben Hicks, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Bristol looks at the origins of the digital twin and explores its true purpose in digital transformation.
Electronic automation company Celec describes how it is driving its IOT transformation across the organisation.
Dr. Jorge Calvo, Deputy Dean and Professor at Globis University discusses the critical steps towards digital supply chain transformation.
Tim Baines, Professor of Operations Strategy & Executive Director of the Advanced Services Group at Aston University explores the virtues of servitization as the future of manufacturing.
Chance Professor of Engineering Duc Pham examines the phenomenon that could be attributed to today’s renewed intense interest in AI.
The key to achieving the massive potentials of the marriage of Industry 4.0 and 5G is collaboration between stakeholders from the manufacturing and mobile industry “ecosystems.”
Lean often achieves incredible results but sometimes the transformation is almost set up to fail from the start. This article shares some ways you can fail with lean and what you can do about it.
Daniel Arias Aranda, Professor of Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Granada looks at the practicalities surrounding Blockchain in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
In this first article for The Future Factory from Deborah Sherry, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at GE Digital Europe, Russia & CIS, a unique insight into Europe’s leading manufacturing events is provided.
Olivier Bruyndonckx, Vice President of Business Development and Sales Enablement for the Nokia Software Business Group provides an insight into AI implementation at Nokia
