FOREWORD

MANUFACTURING DIGITAL TEAM

EDITOR JASMIN JESSEN

DEPUTY EDITOR ADAM POND

LEAD DESIGNER ETHAN SALMON

MEDIA DIRECTORS DAN WHITE KIERAN DELANEY

PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID

MARKETING LEAD LOTTIE TAYLOR

GROUP CONTENT DIRECTOR STEVEN DOWNES

PRODUCTION DIRECTORS DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ JANE ARNETA

MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS

JAMES CALLEN

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN

CEO GLEN WHITE

Do you see your products, or do you see through them? Visibility through supply chains, factory floors, data and people sets businesses apart and makes space to compete. Rather than optimising individual parts of the business, leaders are connecting them.

This month, leaders from Zebra Technologies challenge the traditional supplier model and Hitachi Digital Services’ Ganesh Bukka talks data and IIoT. L’ Oréal’ s Waterloop programme shows what integrated thinking looks like when it reaches the factory floor. Lenovo’ s head of ESG makes the case for why regulation, embraced rather than resisted, becomes a competitive edge.

The future belongs to businesses that connect the dots and I hope this edition will show you how.

JASMIN JESSEN

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