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LogoAutomotive Agile PEP Europe|June 30 – July 02, 2021, Berlin, Maritim proArte Hotel

Plant-, Asset-, Maintenance-, Worksforce- and Post-pandemic

Manufacturing Management

July 1 – 2, 2021 | Maritim proArte Hotel, Berlin, Germany

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Strategies for Future Manufacturing

The Rethink! Smart Manufacturing 2021 is the strategy event for production executives and plant managers to discuss current projects, latest developments, emerging technologies and trends in the area of Smart Manufacturing, Lean Management, and Operational Excellence. It is the networking platform for top-level decision makers to exchange experiences and to find new ideas and solutions for tomorrow's digital factory strategy.
Networking & Benchmarking - Meet 100+ cross-industry European plant managers and production decision makers.
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First Highlights in 2021

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The Smart Manufacturing Summit in Numbers

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What to expect in 2 ½ days in Berlin?

30+ high level Speakers and Moderators, 20+ Best Practices, 15+ Round-Tables & 100+ Top Level Executives

  • 100+ Manufacturing Leaders from top noth European manufacturers
  • 2 ½ Days of Interactive Networking & Benchmarking Opportunities
  • 20+ Keynotes, Case Studies and 15 Interactive Sessions
  • Highlights: Interactive World Cafés, Challenge Your Vendor and Challenge Your Peers Sessions, Panel Discussion, Icebreaker and Networking Dinner
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Plant-, Asset-, Maintenance-, Worksforce- and Post-pandemic Management
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we.HAVE PARTNERS.

Not sponsors… Rethink! Smart Manufacturing Europe is a unique event in the business & technology world because of our relationship with our partners. Our aim is to support our partners to reach their targets and inspire innovation. This vision is shared by a select group of partners at our highest quality events with the most elite audience.

Position your business as a thought leader at Rethink! Smart Manufacturing Europe. Join our 2021 partners today!

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“Inspiring and fruitful”
David Gredal
Novo Nordisk A/S
“The event gave a great overview of IIOT and brought also practical aspects of application and implementation.”
Jürgen Großhauser
Nestlé
Great discussions and take aways!
Ralf Neubert
Schneider Electric
Very good opportunity and investment of time dedicated to in depth insights into latest trends and demonstrations of the most important changes
Johann Prenninger
BMW
Perfectly organized, good fundamental overview of the major topics. Perfect atmosphere and a place where you can do a lot of networking
Eberhard Langer
Wacker Chemie AG
Once again the opportunity has been incredible and we will stay in touch for other future events
Francisco Lumbreras Arcos
Jaguar Land Rover

Key Topics in 2021:

  1. Plant Asset & Maintenance Management: How does the pandemic change the way plants are being operated? Flexibly, time-oriented, increased production?
  2. After the lock down: How to shorten ramp up times and get daily operations back up and running most efficiently?
  3. Field Service and Remote Service: What is the value added and ROI overcoming the pandemic obstacles?
  4. Stress-tests for Smart, Digital, Industry 4.0: Are our factories truly as intelligent, networked and data-optimized as we need them to be? Are we able to benefit from mobile plant management technologies?
  5. Post-Pandemic Manufacturing Management: How does the lock-down affect your internal resources and staffing in terms of production optimization & production efficiency?
  6. Agile Engineering, Digital Transformation and Workforce Development: Last year, we wanted to become more agile. Which goals do we (need to) have today for our workforce?
  7. HSE, workforce, and precaution matters: Are we prepared for another wave?
  8. Networks and 5G: How to get your factory 5G-ready? How do you secure your networks in a connected manufacturing environment?
  9. Automation, MES & Robotics: How can MES, Big Data and Cloud Computing meet the requirements of future connected manufacturing processes?
  10. Managing security risks and compliance: How do you guarantee safe and compliant IT Infrastructure and Operations within the IoT landscape? What are efficient methods to manage cyber risks and data security?
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The i.CONECT 360° Multi-touchpoint Networking Concept

The most effective and most informal networking hub to reach a maximum of ROI ‒ personal dialogue, direct exchange and numerous opportunities to get meetings with top executives!

Keynote

Keynotes

Top speakers, trendsetters, evangelists and experts in the field share their personal experience.

World-Cafe

World Café Session

Be part of several thematic conversation rounds with changing topics and team constellations.

Challenge-your-Peers

Challenge your Peers

Parallel round table discussions offer the delegates the possibility to talk about their own challenges

Case-Studies

Case Study

Selected brand new case studies from the industry offering insights into strategic approaches, project planning and operative realization. Learn from the most successful practices and use these real business results for benchmarking with the competition.

100 Minutes

Pre-qualified One2One Meetings with matched partners and from delegate to delegate. Use the Business Maatchmaking function in your Event App “hubs101” in advance to arrange your meetings.

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Meet! Rethink Smart Manufacturing Europe

Discover who else is participating at the Rethink! Smart Manufacturing Europe. Our unique Polaroid Picture Wall will help you identify who you want to meet at the conference.

Say-hello

Say Hello

Get the show on the road. Discover who is joining the conference and why. To warm you up for the conference we invite you to get to know your conference peers. Have your business cards ready.

Icebreaker

Icebreaker

Round tables on the evening before the first conference day. The Icebreaker is a first informal networking.

Dinner

Networking Dinner

Wind down, enjoy great food and drink in a relaxed atmosphere to absorb all the new stimulations from the day.

Tech-Take

Tech Takes

In a live session, suppliers of systems and solutions present their tools, innovative systems and applications in order to demonstrate future technologies, applications and their functions.

Startup-Lounge

Start-Up Lounge

we.CONECT gives you the opportunity to showcase your work and ideas and provides an excellent opportunity for start-up level companies to showcase their best technologies, software and manufacturing excellence concepts.

Pre-Event-Workshop

Pre-Conference Manufacturing Excellence Workshop

In this session you can get a feeling of how to develop the right manufacturing excellence strategy  for your shop floor. In small groups we will help each other to identify unmet needs and hidden possibilities for innovation and excellence. We will work with early prototyping to discover lots of ideas on how to develop and improve the right use cases.

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