Featured sessions
Standardization: How assessment frameworks like APQC offer A&D manufacturers that key first step
Supporting an aerospace & defense manufacturer’s mandate requires strict adherence to vital engineering-to-order processes. This session investigates the benefits of assessment frameworks like APQC to enable IT benchmarking and take that first step to standards-based manufacturing and servitization.
Digitalization in 2020: The New Innovation Boost for Manufacturing Industries
Matthias Goebel, General Manager South Europe at Bosch Rexroth describes how they operated during the pandemic and provides an overview of their key lessons learned. Digitalization has been an important trend for manufacturing industries, but it will face a new innovation boost in the upcoming future.
Panel Insights: How to keep pace in the dynamic, highly competitive defense market
Strategic defense programs have been immune to the global pandemic. Equipment modernization, capabilities revitalization and increased investment in new technologies remain the orders of the day. Learn what steps defense manufacturers must take to stay competitive and at the forefront of innovation
Money Talks: Delivering Global Growth and Cash Flow
Will Covid-19 act as a catalyst for a new delivery method for corporate growth or will we go back to how we were before the lockdowns? Will we de-risk and re-structure balance sheets and operations to be more reserved, or will global debt fuelled growth, which peaked at a record 322% in 2019, continue?
Customer Perspective: Building a Resilient Supply Chain and Operating Methodology
Aiman Al Maimani from Oman Munition Production Company explains how their business benefited from a strong supply chain, established before lockdown as a result of volatility in the region. And he answers the million-dollar question; what should businesses do differently after the pandemic?
Customer Perspective: Optimizing and Protecting the Defense Industrial Base Supply Chains
Defense industrial base supply chains are becoming more innovative to protect against targeted threats and manufacturing vulnerabilities. Hear what Amentum, a premier technical and engineering service provider for the U.S. DoD and allied nations, says about proven practices in supply chain optimization, asset management, predictive maintenance, and procurement.
How to: Identify value, evolve your defense operations
Maintaining digital readiness requires continuous change. The challenge is identifying where, when and what value that change can bring to your organization. In this session, discover techniques for evolving your defense operations with proven digital methods and industry best practices.
Digital mission readiness: proven practices to fostering a safer, more secure world
Jamie Wylly, Microsoft senior director of worldwide defense and intelligence, shares his views on how digital transformation in the Cloud is re-shaping the way defense and military organizations are advancing their missions to promote stability and security for citizens and nations worldwide.
3-D Printing: Where Next for Additive Manufacturing in Defense?
Additive manufacturing promises to optimize defense supply chain operations. In this session, Evan Butler-Jones, Director of Applications Engineering at Equispheres, explores the benefits at hand with this new technology, as well as proven practices to overcoming hurdles to wider industry adoption.
2020 and Beyond: Transformation in the Global Defense Market
Defense organizations today must stay agile to capitalize on new technologies, shift priorities, and react to major market or regulatory changes. This session will detail the current and future defense landscape, and the proven practices required to facilitate business and mission transformation.
Viewpoint: How New Technologies Will Impact Safety Stock and Material Planning
Hear from PTC’s service supply chain expert Ed Wodarski as he explores how new technologies such as predictive maintenance, IoT, machine learning and 3-D printing can improve the responsiveness of defense supply chains…possibly even preclude the need for safety stock and material planning.
