Commercial Partners
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Commercial Partners 2019
ATS Applied Tech Systems Ltd
ATS Global B.V. is the independent solution provider for Smart Digital Transformation worldwide. We provide products and services for all three levels of the automation pyramid; control, execution and information. ATS is an innovative, strategic knowledge partner offering following areas of expertise: Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES/MOM), Automation & IT, Quality Management, Lean & Six Sigma, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Application Packaging & Virtualisation. Since our foundation in 1986, we have developed business activities specifically designed to support the full lifecycle of automation, quality and IT systems: ATS Support Services, ATS Consulting, ATS Projects, ATS Partners & Products, ATS Software Development, ATS Training & Workshops. Our experience, your success.
Buck Consultants International
Buck Consultants International is one of the global leaders in developing comprehensive manufacturing and supply chain footprint/location strategies and selecting sites for new operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, the US and the Asia Pacific region (including China and India). BCI has offices in Europe in Nijmegen, The Hague (both the Netherlands), London, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris, in APAC in Shanghai and Singapore (for the whole region, including India) and in the US in Atlanta, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. In the last 33 years we worked for more than 900 clients including companies like Baxter Healthcare, Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson, Coloplast, Medline, Carefusion, Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences, St Jude, Abbott, Biotronik, Novocure, ExxonMobil, BP, Cytec, Basell, Shell, Novartis, Amgen, Celgene, AstraZeneca, Michael Kors, VF Corporation, Cisco, Columbia Sportswear, Danone, Donaldson, Emerson, ABB, Gentherm, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Mitutoyo, Mondelez, NCR, Nestle, Novartis, Novocure, O’Neill, Philips, Pitney Bowes, Roche, SAP, Sandvik, Urban Outfitters and Yamaha. Our dedicated professionals have the experience and expertise to assist you with realigning your company’s footprint to accommodate geographic growth, geopolitical uncertainties and to improve the bottom line. More information: Patrick Haex, Managing Partner, +31 6 22422988, patrick.haex@bciglobal.com.
Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, serves 220,000 users across 140 countries, providing virtual universes for sustainable innovation.
DELMIA is a Dassault Systèmes brand that delivers Digital Continuity across the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing to engineer, operate, and optimize your global industrial processes.
DELMIA Engineering applications drive manufacturing innovation by virtually defining, planning, creating, monitoring, and controlling all production processes.
DELMIA Operations solutions help global manufacturers transform their global operations to achieve and sustain operational excellence.
DELMIA Optimization capabilities enable finite capacity planning, scheduling, synchronization and optimization for complex and batch business processes across all planning horizons.
As part of Dassault Systèmes, it’s Quintiq’s mission to solve the world’s planning puzzles using a single platform.
Quintiq supply chain planning and optimization solution increases visibility, prevents data silos and facilitates better collaboration both internally and with supply chain partners. It covers the entire supply chain from end to end across all planning horizons from strategic, via tactical to operational planning.
Quintiq’s integrated planning empowers your business processes to drive performance, beat the competition and maximize profits. At the click of a button, Quintiq optimizes hundreds of thousands of operations. Applied locally it optimizes sourcing, distribution, production and inventory. Applied globally it optimizes the entire supply chain, insulates it against risk and prepares for any eventualities.
Elisa
Elisa Smart Factory Management brings clarity into complexity of plant management and automation. The solution enables intelligent optimization and productivity improvement from a single process to the whole factory. With real-time data, advanced analytics and 3D visualization into every part of the production, you can spot deviations in real-time, simulate changes, optimize processes and establish ‘golden operation’ benchmarks. This helps manufacturers increase the productivity, quality and uptime of their operations.
Elisa has a proven track record with several large industrial customers, helping them reach concrete and significant results. Elisa is also participating in the European 4.0 Transformation Center in Aachen, which focuses on helping manufacturers realize agile digital transformation in their operations.
Gallup
Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organisations solve their most pressing problems. Combining more than 80 years of experience with its global reach, Gallup knows more about the attitudes and behaviours of employees, customers, students and citizens than any other organisation in the world.
Gallup believes that every company has enormous – but largely untapped – potential for breakthrough improvements in employee productivity, customer retention and profitability. Our 2,000 professionals – amongst whom are noted scientists, renowned subject matter experts and bestselling authors – help business leaders understand and leverage human nature to drive sustainable growth.
GE Digital
GE Digital is the leading software company for the Industrial Internet, reimagining how industrials build, operate and service their assets, unlocking machine data to turn valuable insights into powerful business outcomes.
Innovation + Domain Expertise + Proven Technologies
GE Digital’s Predix portfolio – including the leading Asset Performance Management (Predix APM) and Field Service Management (Predix ServiceMax) applications – helps its customers manage the entire asset lifecycle.
Underpinned by Predix, the leading application development platform for the Industrial Internet, GE Digital enables industrial businesses to operate faster, smarter and more efficiently, bringing together the Digital Industrial world.
Lighthouse Systems
Lighthouse Systems is a world-leading vendor of MES/MOM systems. We think that Smart Manufacturing should be made easy not difficult. Shopfloor-OnlineTM , our manufacturing execution software provides the foundation of smart manufacturing operations by creating the connectivity and visibility previously missing throughout the factory. The MES software helps your people work smarter and assets work harder, so you can deliver superior quality to your customers more efficiently. With 26 modules addressing all aspects of plant operations and offering flexible hosting options, including Cloud, Shopfloor-Online is the cornerstone of your smart manufacturing journey. More information? Visit
Markforged
At Markforged, we are on a mission to unlock the next 10x innovation in design and manufacturing. We build an Industrial 3D Printing Platform to liberate designers and engineers from decades-old, slow part creation processes. NASA, Google, Ford, Amazon, Siemens and thousands of companies in 50 countries use Markforged to print same-day prototypes and produce stronger end-use parts than they did before. With Markforged, customers are able to ship 50X faster, spend 20X less, and build products that are 23X stronger. The Markforged platform includes a full ecosystem of 3D printers for metal, composite, and plastic parts; purpose-built metal & carbon-reinforced materials for strength and beautiful finishes; and cloud software for turning drawings into high-strength printing. For more information visit us at www.markforged.com
Orbsen consulting
Our focus is the delivery of premium consultancy in the areas of
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations Management
- Strategy development
- Systems deployment
- Pharmaceutical
- Medical Devices and other Healthcare
- Technology
- Food
Parsable
Parsable helps the world’s largest industrial firms get jobs done right – every time. Parsable’s Connected Worker Platform enables deskless industrial employees to collaboratively execute their work using dynamic digital work instructions on mobile devices, measure every step and action, and raise issues in real time to accelerate continuous improvement.Its customers include Corteva Agriscience, Green Chef, Procter & Gamble, Schlumberger, Scientific Drilling, Shell, Silgan, Zume and other category leaders in energy, industrial manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods. Parsable is headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America and Europe.
Performance Solutions by Milliken
Operational Excellence & Safety Consulting
Performance Solutions by Milliken brings a unique, Practitioner-based value proposition to its clients and has built an enviable record of helping companies achieve substantial and sustainable improvements in their operations and safety excellence efforts. This approach, built on the foundation of lessons learned while Milliken & Company created and implemented its own world-class performance system, helps client organizations engage and empower their associates by working side-by-side to establish a culture of continuous improvement and drive breakthrough operations impact. Performance Solutions currently serve companies in more than 100 operating locations in 28 countries across a wide range of industry sectors.
Resco
Resco founded in 1999, is a business mobility expert providing companies with mobile solutions that are cross-platform, 100% offline and fully customizable. Today, Resco is utilized by 2,500+ corporate customers with more than 200,000 licensed users around the world. Its newest flagship product, Resco Inspections, offers powerful mobile questionnaires that help companies conduct field inspections and gather valuable business insights.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, supports customers in their digital transformation journey, to create a Connected Enterprise. This impacts the entire value chain, from components to systems and from suppliers to customers. This transformation is the key to hidden value and can make a significant contribution to the productivity, quality, compliance, and profitability of your enterprise.
Recently Rockwell Automation entered into a strategic partnership with PTC, to support how companies around the world transform their physical operations with digital technology. This will provide the industry with the broadest integrated suite of best-in-class technology, backed by PTC, the leader in IoT and augmented reality, and Rockwell Automation , the leader in industrial automation and information.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs about 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.
Tamturbo
Tamturbo was started in 2010 around the founding idea that the world needs a more environmentally friendly alternative to producing compressed air – we cannot continue wasting our most valuable resources, energy and environment. Our Unique technological advances combined with ingenious engineering work has brought to life a range of compressors that far surpasses the legacy technologies both in performance and in significantly lower life cycle cost. Our Touch-Free™ technology enables reliable and fully Oil-Free design and eliminates risks of compressed air contamination. In the end, we provide exactly what is needed – Just Air.
Born in one of the compressor capitals of the world, Tampere Finland, Tamturbo is expanding its footprint globally through distributors and partners. The compressor product family is complemented by a range of value adding products and services for efficient management of the compressed air production. From mobile container-based compressor rooms to multi-compressor control systems to 24/7 remote monitoring and service so that our partners and customers can feel Care-Free knowing that we have their compressed air production secured!
Valcon
Valcon were established in Scandinavia in 2000. Today we operate in more than 40 countries worldwide and we are the premium operations consulting firm in Europe. We create value in increasingly complex markets in constant change.
Zaptic
Zaptic is the paperless operations platform solving the Industry 4.0 blindspot for a growing number of the world’s leading consumer and industrial manufacturers. Quickly and easily replace spreadsheets and paper based procedures with a single point of digital guidance and data entry for frontline teams. Digitise daily performance management and transform process traceability on the shop floor with a single, user friendly application which will actually be adopted and embedded into the workflows of frontline teams, from changeovers and issue escalation to autonomous maintenance and skill management.