The Best of 2024 Decision Compass Calls
MLC’s member-exclusive virtual working groups offer a pathway to building M4.0 value.
The MLC’s Decision Compass groups are invaluable for discovering ways to level up your business. In 2024, these five groups explored a number of important M4.0 topics, including considerations for deploying generative AI; meeting the expectations of a multigenerational workforce; how operating data can predict equipment failure; managing supply variability with cloud technologies; and innovative ways to capture and reuse carbon emissions.
These are just a sampling of what was featured in 2024. A full docket of sessions from this year and past years is available in the member-exclusive MLC content library.
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Digital M4.0 Technologies
From Data to Insights: Generative AI as a Catalyst for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Topic Leaders: Srinivas Kuppa, Chief Product Officer, SymphonyAI Industrial; Rahul Shahani, Partner and Industry 4.0 Leader, McKinsey & Company
Where and how can manufacturers apply Generative AI to derive optimum value? What are the best ways to define and achieve ROI? And how does Generative AI factor into broader initiatives for digital transformation? This session dives into unlocking step-change in performance, moving past data silos, setting a strategy to scale, and more.
Next-Generation Leadership
Attracting Talent and Building Resilience in the Frontline Workforce: A Multi-Generational Approach to Employee Experience
Topic Leaders: Tyler Freeman, Associate Partner; Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi, Research Science Expert; McKinsey & Company
The current manufacturing workforce is comprised of four generations, each with their own desires and expectations within the workplace. Find out about the innovative strategies that manufacturers are using to reimagine the frontline worker experience to keep each generation engaged to boost productivity and employee retention.
Operational Excellence
Using Operating Data to Predict Equipment Failure
Topic Leaders: Tim O’Neal, Global Operations Director for Operational Excellence and Leveraged Services; Scott Lawson, Maintenance Technology Center Director; Dow
Learn more about the role of data on reliability through four different lenses: shop floor outside (from operators and maintenance teams); shop floor inside (utilizing alarm limits and operator trending); engineering analysis (key variables, inspection trends, and work order data); and AI/machine learning.
Supply Networks
Farm to Shelf: Producing, Packing and Delivering the Perfect Mandarin with IoT and Cloud Technologies
Topic Leader: Dhruba Misra, Information Technology Manager, The Wonderful Company
Meet the winner of the 2024 Manufacturing Leadership Award for Digital Supply Chains and find out how The Wonderful Company used cloud-based inventory and manufacturing systems to manage a high degree of supply variability in its production of Halos mandarins.
Sustainability and the Circular Economy
GHG Scope 1/2/3 + PCF/LCA and Carbon Capture Case Study
Topic Leader: Kevin Norfleet, Global Sustainability Director, Celanese
Many carbon capture processes capture carbon dioxide emissions and then store them to keep them out of the atmosphere. But what if those emissions could be reused for downstream production? Find out how Celanese is doing just that – and fostering circularity by using those emissions to create products that can reduce the need for fossil fuels.
About the author:
Penelope Brown is Senior Content Director for the NAM’s Manufacturing Leadership Council