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RoboBusiness Direct is an ongoing series of digital events delivered by brightest minds from the leading robotics and automation companies from around the world. The series complements continuing coverage and analysis in Robotics Business Review and sister site The Robot Report. RoboBusiness Direct is designed to impart to business and engineering professionals the information they need to identify market opportunities, successfully develop and deploy the next generation of commercial robotics systems, and accelerate their businesses.
Radical Transparency: Digital Manufacturing Ecosystems Deliver Traceability, Compliance & Quality
Traditional manufacturing is akin to assembling furniture in a dark room – lots of fumbling, a high chance of injury, and a low probability of a successful outcome. Limited visibility into supply chain partners and components managed remotely via emails, spreadsheets, and late night overseas phone calls lead to time and cost overruns with lesser quality products. COVID-19 has only amplified this pain by preventing travel and boots-on-the-ground oversight.
Common efforts to improve transparency – hiring more supply chain managers, building out digitization teams, investing in robust SaaS platforms – continue to prove enormously expensive and unreliable. This is why McKinsey reports 70% of digital transformation plans fail. Yet, Fictiv’s 2020 State of Manufacturing Report found 96% of executives consider digital transformation a top priority because it can deliver cost reduction, virtual adaptability, and supply chain visibility.
In this session, manufacturing expert Jean Olivieri, Fictiv’s COO, will explore how new Digital Manufacturing Ecosystems can help deliver digital transformation without the high price tag and greater accountability. She will show how ecosystems can offer radical transparency through new tools that offer quality, traceability, and visibility to product development teams of all sizes without additional costs.
Using case studies and detailed examples, this session will examine real-time production status tools, including digital inspection photos and documentation, access to historical DFM, shipment tracking, invoicing, and customs information. Jean will show how new ecosystems empower teams to manage supply chain issues remotely with complete confidence but without the bloated team or investment normally required.
You can find a listing of RoboBusiness Direct speakers and session topics, along with the dates and times of RoboBusiness Direct programs, HERE.
There is no charge to register for RoboBusiness Direct programs.
Jean Olivieri
Chief Operating Officer | Fictiv
Jean Olivieri, Chief Operating Officer, Fictiv
From blue chip brands to innovative startups, Jean Olivieri has spent the last three decades in a range of senior positions overseeing product design, supply chain, production, and operations duties. She is currently Chief Operating Officer at Fictiv, which offers a manufacturing platform that enables users to design, develop, and deliver fabricate parts. Prior to Fictiv, she held a number of procurement roles at Motorola over her seventeen years with the company, including Director, Global New Product Sourcing. Olivieri also managed products and operations with Apple, SpaceX, Otto, Lively, and Ernst & Young. Olivieri received a PMP certification from George Washington University, and holds a MS in Industrial Engineering; Management of Technology from Arizona State University and a BS industrial engineering from the University of Arizona.
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