Plant-, Asset-, Workforce- & Industry 4.0 Management

September 28 – 30, 2025 | Maritim proArte Hotel, Berlin

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Multi-complex challenges & all-encompassing digitalization - What will manufacturing look like in the future?
The manufacturing industry is facing the greatest upheaval and change since the advent of mass production. The status quo will no longer suffice. While resilience has remained a key theme, innovations such as IIoT, advanced analytics and automation, and trends such as predictive maintenance, digital twins and intelligent automation are creating the megatrend of smart manufacturing.
Rethink! Smart Manufacturing is a 2-day, leadership focused conference designed to address these challenges and to bring global manufacturing, operations, engineering, quality and supply chain leaders together to discuss current trends, strategic insights and best practices in an ever-evolving manufacturing environment. Rethink! Smart Manufacturing serves as an annual platform to exchange ideas surrounding the impact of market dynamics and new technologies for current and future manufacturing leaders. Network with over 150 of your peers, connect with exhibitors and learn from the top industry influencers as we explore strategies to optimize, modernize, train and innovate across multiple manufacturing facilities. Discuss opportunities, optimize your resilience and strengthen your future. Because one thing is certain: change always means both challenge and opportunity.

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Shigeo Shingo

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KEY TOPICS

Descriptive and Generative AI in the Smart Factory: What is the role of descriptive AI in the horizontally integrated production system? How can data from the production network be used to train generative AI systems?

Interfaces & AI: Why the future of AI-supported automation lies in open, flexible and scalable interfaces and how the MCP standard as the key technology for industrial AI transformation is enabling companies to implement AI-supported processes efficiently, cost-effectively and future-proof.

Industrial IoT Meets Lean: How can we benefit from the combination of IIoT and lean manufacturing methods?

Shopfloor GPT & Modular AI-working environments: How can AI agents be seamlessly integrated on the basis of a plug-in approach for AI models?

Automation, MES & robotics: How can MES, big data and cloud computing meet the requirements of future networked manufacturing processes?

Networks & 5G: How do you make your factory 5G-capable? How do you secure your networks in a networked manufacturing environment?

Digital Twin in production processes: How to avoid data gaps for improved scenario planning and faster, leaner and safer operations?

SCM, resilience and networked production: How do you achieve a sustainable and resilient supply chain in the manufacturing industry?

Investments vs. operational excellence: How can the balancing act between rationalization, efficiency maximization and cost reduction on the one hand and constant new investments in new technologies on the other be achieved?

Performance improvement vs. cost reduction: How can productivity be increased even under high cost pressure?

Employer engagement, leadership and culture on the store floor: How can the entire workforce be taken along on the transformation journey?

Increase energy efficiency: How can energy efficiency be mapped and optimized across the entire value chain?

Use of AI in Manufacturing & Development towards a Co-Pilot for value creation: How can intelligent assistance systems integrate people, machines and systems in a manufacturing environment?

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