The Smart Factory & Digital Supply Chain

The 3-day Smart Factory and Digital Supply Chain programme consists of three modules. Together they cover the most important strategic building blocks of your operations and supply chain: 

Module 1: The smart supply chain  

• Discover smart operations and understand why they’re so important 
• Explore the impact digital technologies will have on your supply chain 
• Know how digital technologies will transform your organisation – and impact competition 
• Assess and benchmark your company's digital maturity

Module 2: The Smart Factory: From operational excellence to industrial manufacturing platforms

• See the smart manufacturing big picture: Have we reached Industry 4.0 – or are we heading to 5.0?
• Discover how digital twin technology, industrial metaverse and new standards for connectivity lead to a new level of operational excellence
• Explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning and (Gen)AI can augment operational decision-making 
• Find out how digitisation supports localisation and operational resilience 
• Discover how platform-based business models can power new manufacturing models – and the threats and opportunities for established companies

Module 3: Leadership in digital transformation 

• Learn how to measure the return on investment digitally transforming your operations and supply chain - and how to build the business case for industry 4.0
• Explore roles in digital transformation – including your own 
• Learn about necessary experiments and making the right choices
• Discover how to manage the change of a digital transformation
• Utilise talent management to upskill and reskill your workforce to meet the demands of the future of work
• Visit Flanders Make Technology to experience first-hand some cutting-edge digital innovation projects

If you want to transform your operations with digital technologies, this programme is a great place to start. It gives you the knowledge, skills and insight to benchmark your digital strategy – and lead and manage your transformation.

Your immediate return on your investment in the programme will include:

• Understanding current and digitalisation trends, and their impact on your supply chain and production
• Learning how to move beyond operational excellence – and how digitisation should shape future business models, differentiation, and sustainability
• Discovering how to use and deploy technologies correctly
• Highlighting the digital initiatives you need to take now – and how to measure their impact to grow your business
• Developing the essential knowledge and skills required to measure, analyse and successfully implement digital initiatives
• Elevate your business by adopting digital leadership

• Operations and supply chain managers who want to draw up a plan to further digitalise their supply chain and factory
• Plant managers and production managers who want to motivate their team towards digitalisation
• Managers working in a manufacturing organisation who want to steer digital choices and set priorities
• Supply chain consultants who want to grow further to include more people in digital initiatives
• Logistic service providers, who want to develop a plan to digitalise their distribution centres and supply chain

In previous editions, we had the pleasure of welcoming participants from companies like: