FACTORY OF THE FUTURE
“ This enhances workforce productivity and improves safety , reliability , quality and security . The cloud-enabled technology even enables remote and cross-site teams to securely share real-time data and analytics together , in context , on a single digital platform . Through efficiency gains and reduced waste , AI is also creating an overall greener environment with enhanced sustainability .”
AVEVA ’ s culture of innovation and adaptation AVEVA creates multiple patents each year . McGreevy says the company ’ s culture of innovation is behind its innovation drive .
“ All teams are encouraged to challenge the ‘ normal ’ approach with new ideas , which can deliver improvements and challenge the status quo . We build time into our development processes to specifically allow for ideation , to research technologies inline and sometimes adjunct , to our work and we host many hackathons across our teams to invite innovation .”
Since this outlook is cultural , McGreevy sees that this tends to drive itself and it makes for a stimulating and more enjoyable environment for the teams .
“ We have a keen eye for novel ideas and a healthy programme for acquiring new patents ,” he says .
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