Imagine this situation. A concrete-producing truck, equipped with GPS tracking is on its way to a site to make a delivery. The delivery window is, say, 2 p.m. and the GPS tracking pinpoints the current location at 11 30 a.m. Now, there is information from the site that there is a delay and that the supply is needed only after two days. Here is where the distinction between location tracking and operational intelligence matters. The latter will confirm if the truck can be re-routed to another site for its requirement, thus saving transportation cost.
It is no secret that globally, cement and concrete manufacture is responsible for about 7% of CO2 emissions. Six years ago, the member organisations of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) joined hands to commit themselves to bringing in carbon-neutral concrete by 2050, and to accelerate CO2 reductions. According to the Association, the roadmap actions that it has set out should prevent close to 5 bn tonnes of CO2 emissions will from entering the atmosphere by 2030.
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Manufacturers have spent years connecting plants, modernizing ERP environments, deploying sensors, and building analytics capabilities as part of their smart manufacturing journey. Yet many organizations still struggle with a more fundamental problem: getting the right operational data into one usable, trusted view.
Manufacturing has spent the last decade becoming more connected, more data-driven, and more efficient. The next shift is even more significant: moving from smart manufacturing, where systems can sense and analyze, to autonomous manufacturing, where systems can reason, decide, and act with increasing independencethrough Agentic AI in manufacturing. Agentic AI is at the center of this transformation, and it is quickly becoming one of the most important themes shaping the future of industrial operations.
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Hear from semiconductor industry experts on which technology solutions can make the biggest impact on Sales and Front Office ops.
At the foundation of the high-tech manufacturing industry are semiconductors. At about 60 years of age, the semiconductor industry is now at a very interesting crossroads. Many organizations are looking to implement new technologies, but there are some unique challenges to consider. Recently I sat down with two industry experts on the MST team – Chief Operating Officer, Ken Costello, and Praveen Rapeti, Practice Lead for the High Tech and Manufacturing sectors – to talk about those challenges.
