Day One – Tuesday 4th April 2017

10:00    

Industry 4.0 As Usual: Case study of B&R’s smart factory demonstrating Industry 4.0 networked production

Alan Conn, UK&I Managing Director, B&R AUTOMATION

10:30    

Vision Industry 4.0 and real working test beds with MITSUBISHI’s e-F@ctory

Thomas Lantermann, Senior Solutions Consultant, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC EUROPE

11:00    

Industrial Control Systems – Improve Productivity, Profitability & Security?

Mike Loughran, Field Business Leader for Architecture & Software, ROCKWELL AUTOMATION

11:30    

4IR – Obligations to UK Automation

Simon Goodwin, Managing Director, WEIDMULLER

12:00    

Map Your IIoT Journey

Andrew Shaw, UK&I Territory Account Manager, Industrial Automation, PANDUIT

12:30    

Playing Catch-up: How industry 4.0 technologies can enable SMEs to bring their Manufacturing Operations Management up to speed

Steve Wilkinson, Chief Technology Officer, CIMLOGIC


13:00

Exhibition & Lunch


14:00

Tool Lifecycle Management 4.0: in line with Industry 4.0 using integrated tool data management solutions

Robert Auer, Global Director Partner Sales, TDM Systems

14:30
Diagnostic the new way for the future!
Wolfgang Wiedemann, Head of Application & Sales Support for Automation, MURRELEKTRONIK

15:00

Moving past the dashboards – Visualising data in context, best practice and applications

Dan Riley, Managing Direcor, Spearhead Interactive

15:30

Innovation support: ‘Funding & connecting’

Ben Peace, Sustainability Lead, THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER NETWORK

16:00

Managing Operational Big Data. Collect, Clarify and Close the Loop

Andy Graham, Wonderware UK and Ireland Product Manager, SOLUTIONS PT


17:00

Networking Reception

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 Day Two – Wednesday 5th April 2017

10:00

Best practices for deploying an Industry 4.0 Solution

Andrew Steele, Managing Director, FORCAM

10:30

Leveraging Value from Technology

Cathie Hall, Chief Business Officer, K3 SYSPRO

11:00

Implementing Safe Systems & machines whilst leveraging the benefits of Industry 4.0

Mike Loughran, Field Business Leader for Architecture & Software, ROCKWELL AUTOMATION

11:30

If you can’t measure it – you can’t manage it

Matti Tiano, CEO, VISUAL FACTORIES

12:00

Introducing ActiveCockpit, the interactive communication platform for the shop floor

Andy Minturn, Business Development Manager, BOSCH REXROTH

12:30

How Can We Start Implementing I 4.0 NOW?

Russell Smith, Product Marketing Manager, Industrial Networking, BALLUFF


13:00

Exhibition & Lunch


14:00

Innovation support: ‘Funding & connecting’

Ben Peace, Sustainability Lead, THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER NETWORK

14:30 – 15:20

Digital Catapult ‘Hack & Pitch’ – Judging and Awards Ceremony

15:20

BACK TO THE SUMMIT – Panel Discussion and Q&A

INDUSTRY 4.0 OPEN DEBATE – WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FROM HERE?

Chaired by Colin Shaw, Partner, McKinsey & Co and UK and Ireland lead for the operations practice, with extensive knowledge in both operations and industry 4.0.

Colin will be joined by senior panellists including:

Ian Funnell, Managing Director, ABB UK

Professor Dr Egbert-Jan Sol, Programme Director, Smart Industry (The Netherlands)

Michael Wiesmuller, Head of Department, Ministry for Transport, Innovation & Technology (Austria)

 

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