QAD is a leading global provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions for manufacturing companies. With over 40 years of experience, QAD has helped thousands of customers optimize their operations, reduce costs, and increase efficiency.

QAD’s comprehensive solutions cover financials, supply chain management, manufacturing, and customer management, providing a seamlessly integrated system to manage entire businesses. Its advanced manufacturing capabilities are designed to reduce waste and increase product quality, while the supply chain management module streamlines procurement, inventory management, and shipping for improved efficiency

With a global presence in over 100 countries, QAD provides local support and expertise to customers wherever they are located. Its strong focus on customer service and support has earned QAD a reputation as a trusted partner to manufacturing companies worldwide.

Website: www.qad.com

Solvace – everything you need for operational excellence in one platform

Whether you manage 5 sites in one country or 100 production sites across the globe, Solvace offers you everything you need to manage your operational excellence in one platform.

Get a complete overview of your operations – the control tower allows you to identify your top performing plants in your personalised dashboard in real time.  Which site has the best safety, best conversion costs, or the highest improvement results? What do they do differently and how can other sites quickly and efficient access this knowledge?

With Solvace, all your sites are connected, and all workers instantly have access to this knowledge. With continuous improvement application like kaizen ideas, one-point lessons, checklists and assessments, Solvace automatically suggests and shares ideas, driven by AI learning algorithms.

Benchmark at top level and zoom in to the finest detail what drives the top performers and compare for example the skills matrix of the operators of your different plants. Knowledge sharing and training programmes will bring the entire organisation to a higher level. 

How does this work? By connecting your frontline workers you create a strong improvement community and involvement on the shopfloor. Empowered workers will learn faster and stay longer.

By connecting People, Processes and Data, you create one single view of the truth to boost your operational excellence.

Further information can be found at https://solvace.com/

We are : Business performance experts

As a global consultancy with over 35 years of expertise in grants, R&D tax credit and tax, Ayming develops innovative solutions to optimize performance. 1400 consultants and experts in 15 countries go the extra mile for you.

For Ayming, the R&D tax credit and innovation landscape is nothing new. With our experience and worldwide expertise with this specific funding instrument and by focusing on innovation, Ayming engineers and funding specialists with high technical understanding and wealth of experience regularly generate high added value for clients.

In the area of research and development project funding alone, more than 20,000 customer projects have been successfully completed. These years of expertise provide a trained definition of which activities are eligible for funding under national and international regulations and stand up to the necessary appraisal and scrutiny.

www.ayming.com

www.ayming.de

Senseye, headquartered in the UK with regional offices in Germany, France, USA, and Japan is a leading industrial solution company for AI driven Machine Health Management. Senseye helps global industrial organizations unlock savings through machine health optimization in key industries such as Automotive, Manufacturing, Heavy Industry and CPG / FMCG. www.senseye.io

VMware is driving the world’s digital infrastructure with its market leading solution portfolio in the areas of cloud, mobility, network and security, providing more than 500,000 corporate customers worldwide with a dynamic and efficient digital basis for their business success. VMware Edge brings together products from VMware that enable organizations to run, manage, and better secure edge-native applications across multiple clouds in both near and far edge locations. VMware Edge solutions are specifically designed for edge-native applications and their unique performance and latency requirements, placing manufacturers in a unique position to drive IT and OT convergence, implement Industry 4.0 technologies at scale, and Increase intelligence and reliability in operation. As a trusted foundation for accelerating innovation, VMware software gives organizations the flexibility and choice they need in the future. Our customers are supported by the global VMware partner network, consisting of around 75,000 partners. Based in Palo Alto, California, the company has used its technological innovations for both corporate and social purposes for over 20 years.
The German office of VMware is located in Munich.

Further information can be found at https://www.vmware.com/de.html.

Vanti provides a no-code, adaptive AI platform purpose-built for manufacturers to accelerate their smart factory transformation by automating machine learning training and deployment using built-in applications for process optimization, fault prediction, fault detection, and more.

Connectware is the leading factory data hub for the manufacturing industry. The centralized platform enables a seamless and standardized data flow in real-time between your production, your business applications and IT systems.
Profit from a single source of truth for all your production data: Easily grant access to your business cases to real-time insights into the production processes without effort, new investments or security risks. Factories that run Connectware reduce overall costs significantly, optimize their production processes and lower the risk of digitalization investments.
If you know your production processes and operational performance, you can drive decisions and measures quickly and accurately. This helps you and your whole company to identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency gains, even across teams.

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence.
SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.With SAS, companies develop and implement strategies, measure their own success, shape their customer and supplier relationships profitably, manage the entire organization in real time and meet regulatory requirements.The headquarters of the US parent company is in Cary, North Carolina. SAS Germany has its headquarters in Heidelberg. The headquarters in Switzerland is in Wallisellen near Zurich — in Austria, SAS is based in Vienna.

Further information is available at www.sas.de

The world is seeing major global shifts to what it means to safely and productively conduct business. As a result, it’s more important than ever to reduce operational costs, maximize revenue growth, and increase efficiency in streamlined and effective ways.

At PTC, we have more than 30 years of experience helping our customers solve key business challenges to achieve their goals with digital solutions in real-world applications. Find your path to faster success.

VISIT THE WEB SITE:

https://www.ptc.com/

Poka is a connected worker app that gives factory workers the knowledge and tools they need to contribute to manufacturing excellence. The comprehensive platform combines digital content, collaboration, e-forms and skills management capabilities, enabling workers to learn, solve problems and share knowledge in real-time, on the factory floor. It combines the power of worker-centric development and building the best daily management practices to drive open communications, efficiency and healthy business outcomes. Poka was the recipient of the 2020 Open Bosch Award in recognition of outstanding innovation and was distinguished as one of 10 Connected Worker vendors in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, from 2019-2022. Poka is trusted by digital manufacturing leaders including Bosch, Nestle, Kraft Heinz, Danone, Mars, and Schneider Electric.

For more information, visit www.poka.io

Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with more than 4,200 people working in more than 40 countries. We work with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as with the most influential governmental and nonprofit organizations.
We’ve been operations and performance specialists since the origins of management consultancy and are intimately familiar with the workings of most industries. If you’ve got a problem to solve or mandate to improve results, chances are we’ve done something similar before. We take the time to understand your needs and use our experience to collaboratively develop solutions that generate tangible results. That’s why more than 80 percent of our clients work with us more than once.

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability.

Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata

GE Digital’s mission is to bring simplicity, speed and scale to our customers’ digital transformation with software that helps them to better operate, analyze and optimize their business.We help today’s digital plant and its mobile, connected workforce accelerate and sustain continuous improvement to drive greater productivity and efficiency, lower total cost of ownership, and increase profitability.Our mission-critical software accelerates digitization by supporting:
·        Digital worker – a critical part of your infrastructure modernization
·        Enterprise visibility and scalability
·        Continuous improvement programs such as LeanWith 30 years delivering software for industry and 21,000 customers worldwide across manufacturing, food & beverage, consumer packaged goods, automotive, water/wastewater, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond, GE Digital can help you solve your industrial challenges.

https://www.ge.com/digital/

In a digital-first world, customers want their every need anticipated, employees want better tools to do their jobs, and enterprises know that sweeping digital transformation is the key to survival and success. Mendix, a Siemens business, is quickly becoming the engine of the enterprise digital landscape. Its industry-leading low-code platform and comprehensive ecosystem integrates the most advanced technology to support solutions that boost engagement, streamline operations, and relieve IT logjams. Built on the pillars of abstraction, automation, cloud, and collaboration, Mendix dramatically increases developer productivity and empowers a legion of not-so-technical, ‘citizen’ developers to create apps guided by their particular domain expertise, facilitated by Mendix’s engineered-in collaborative capabilities and intuitive visual interface. Recognized as a leader and visionary by leading industry analysts, the platform is cloud-native, open, extensible, agile, and proven. From artificial intelligence and augmented reality to intelligent automation and native mobile, Mendix is the backbone of digital-first enterprises. The Mendix enterprise low-code platform has been adopted by more than 4,000 leading companies around the world.

VISIT THE WEBSITE:

https://research.mendix.com/smart-manufacturing

Buck Consultants International (BCI) is a leading specialized supply chain management consulting and implementation firm. BCI services across the globe include: go-to-market strategy; supply chain strategy; network /footprint design, supply chain analytics, control towers, transport network and carrier mix optimization, S&OP, insourcing / outsourcing of logistics and manufacturing and location/site selection. Clients include more than half of the Gartner top 25 list including a.o. Amazon, Hasbro, Crocs, L’Oréal, H&M, Unilever, Abbott, Cisco, Bose, Samsung, Mondelez, Pfizer, Medtronic to name a few. Forbes Magazine has recognized BCI as one of the best management consulting firms.

More info can be found at www.bciglobal.com

Involvation is a consultancy and implementation firm that is focused on improving the supply chain and its management. In doing so, we are driven by possibilities. Our case studies show how we have helped organisations, both large and small, to take the decisive step: the step from the challenge to the result, inspired by the surprising possibilities we identified. Because that is what characterises us: we firmly believe that your supply chain offers potential for improvement. Especially if you are willing to join us in pinpointing the essence of the situation – without becoming distracted by details, symptoms and day-to-day operations.

VISIT THE WEBSITE: https://www.involvation.com/

As the #1 connected workforce solution in manufacturing, QAD Redzone enables frontline teams to contribute their full potential, elevating the frontline with new technology to achieve company goals around productivity and throughput. Today, hundreds of thousands of frontline workers are valued, celebrated, and working with purpose; creating stronger communities inside and outside their plants. With customers both big and small, QAD Redzone is helping more than 1,000 plants worldwide achieve remarkable productivity gains in just 90 days. QAD Redzone is a privately held company, headquartered in Miami, Florida with operations around the world.

For more information visit www.rzsoftware.com.

Solentim is the trusted global leader for solutions to create, isolate, and characterize the highest value cells for the development of new biological medicines, including cell and gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines and stem cells. For our customers, which include most of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotherapeutics companies, we are the partner of choice for facilitating the highest level of assurance in cell line development for therapeutic protein and viral vector production.

Our customers develop cell and antibody based therapies for a wide range of conditions including lymphomas, cancers, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol and asthma.

Our portfolio of proven and innovative instruments (including VIPS™, Cell Metric^®, Cell Metric^® CLD, ICON™ and STUDIUS™) are designed for single cell cloning and assurance of monoclonality. Combined with enabling reagents  and our unparalleled domain expertise, we transform the speed and efficiency of clonally-derived Master Cell Bank development. Our customers trust in our technology to ensure they are confidently prepared for regulatory review.

Solentim continues to define modern assurance driven workflows for cell based and antibody based biotherapeutics including stem cells, gene therapy and immunotherapy.

VISIT THE WEBSITE: https://www.solentim.com/