The journey to Industry 4.0 accelerated over the past year as industrial organizations recognized the need to do more with less. Despite residual challenges, including disrupted supply chains and worker shortages, factory digitization presents a massive opportunity for manufacturers to optimize efficiency and even surpass previous years’ KPIs. Technologies like artificial intelligence, real-time data analytics and the Industrial Internet of Things open a vast number of application opportunities to lower maintenance costs, reduce disruptions, improve quality control and more. When these solutions are based upon standards with open architectures, it further lowers the barrier to entry for small and mid-sized organizations, while making it easier for large organizations to scale across many facilities. Finally, as the promise of on-premise 5G networks becomes a reality, manufactures are presented with even more paths on the journey to Industry 4.0.

In this discussion, Intel and partners, John Deere and EXOR International, will discuss the current industry landscape, key considerations and best practices for digitization efforts and the anticipated impact 5G will have on the industry.

Exor

Blog: EXOR 5G Smart Factory
Peering into the future, a stable 5G network in 2025 will also aid widespread adoption of Industrie 5.0 whereby a complementary balance between human and machine contributions is achieved. Today, industrial stakeholders must make do with the 16th release of 5G, which still delivers lower latency, high bandwidth, and deterministic Wi-Fi to its end users. The features it currently delivers can be used to implement predictive maintenance strategies, plant optimization plans, and other data-driven strategies within the average factory floor.

EXOR Industrial Automation - Hardware and Software solutions
Exor International provides products and services that support the growing need for intelligence in industrial automation markets during the rapid, ongoing digital transformation and streamlining of nearly every industrial process in nearly every factory on the planet.
These systems must meet the needs of the individual customer and respect "man and the environment", our slogan is "Technology for life".
Disseminating the culture of quality, environmental aspects and safety obligations within the company through appropriate training actions, safeguarding the work environment and worker safety.

Intel

Solution Brief: Cyclone V SoC-Based EXOR eXware 707 Series Gateway
Industy 4.0 and Smart Factories are driven by data. Intel® FPGA based Industrial IoT Gateways from EXOR provide the device and cloud connectivity, data consolidation, and edge analytics required to realize data and drive the evolution of industy. This solution can be used to reduce energy consumption with equipment monitoring, increase uptime through predictive maintenance, and improve productivity with insight-driven decisions, among many other applications. Read this solution brief to learn more about EXOR's Industrial IoT Gateways.

Blog: How EXOR Forged an Industry 4.0 Edge and Cloud Infrastructure Out of More than 200 Industrial Automation Protocols
Exor International provides products and services that support the growing need for intelligence in industrial automation markets during the rapid, ongoing digital transformation and streamlining of nearly every industrial process in nearly every factory on the planet.

Paving the Way for Smart Factories
Intel, EXOR Int’l and Telecom Italia collaborate to demonstrate benefits of on-premise 5G private network alongside AI.

John Deere

John Deere US 
We run to create new ways of thinking and develop new ways of doing. Not to disrupt the status quo, but to evolve customer-focused solutions that move their jobs forward in ways that are easier and more profitable

Speakers

Claudio Ambra

CTO, Exor International SpA

From the beginning of the eighties when EXOR International was still a small innovative startup, Claudio Ambra worked in the Research and Development Department. His role was to carry out several projects of microprocessor and FPGA systems as a developer for Industrial controllers and Embedded Systems. More than 20 years' experience in Hardware, Firmware development as Team Project Leader for Industrial Control systems and products.

In 2009 he became the CTO of Exor International, and from 2015 he joined the Board of Directors of Exor International.

His remit is to lead the R&D teams in the design of innovative Exor International's Digital Automation platform for Industry 4.0.

Christine Boles

Vice President, Internet of Things Group and General Manager, Intel’s Industrial Solutions Division

Christine Boles is a vice president in the Internet of Things Group (IOTG) and general manager of Intel’s Industrial Solutions Division. Her organization is responsible for Intel’s Industrial IOT business within the manufacturing, energy, logistics and commercial building segments, including the product and ecosystem strategies for this rapidly evolving space. Boles joined Intel in 1992 as an application engineer for 16-bit microcontrollers. For over 25 years, she has led development, delivery and the enabling of customers and ecosystems for Intel based solutions in multiple leadership roles. These solutions span a broad range of embedded and internet of things applications across many industries, including communications, storage, retail, imaging, and commercial buildings.

Kiel Ronning

Industry 4.0 Lead, John Deere

Kiel Ronning is the Manager of Manufacturing Controls & Analytics at John Deere. Holding the role as the Industry 4.0 Lead for John Deere within the Enterprise Manufacturing Technology group. In this role, Kiel is focused on establishing the organization’s factory of the future vision and developing the strategy on how to realize this vision. Kiel has held numerous roles within John Deere within manufacturing engineering, engineering leadership and operational technology leadership.

Moderator

Guy Daniels

Director of Content, TelecomTV