FACTORY OF THE FUTURE
“ MANUFACTURING
COMMITMENTS TO ZERO CARBON ARE A POWERFUL
DRIVER IN RECRUITING THE
NEXT GENERATION , WHERE THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ”
RON BECK SENIOR DIRECTOR ,
ASPENTECH minimising plastic waste and putting cloud data to effective use – one level of which is automation .
“ Data is expensive – so how do you make intelligent use of it ? AI helps us do that ,” says Beck . “ We have a long-term vision , a selfoptimising plant roadmap of how to use the least energy possible and save money .”
The company was founded in 1981 in Bedford , Massachusetts . Beck joined the company in 2007 as a Product Marketing Director . “ We have very strong leadership in our company ,” he says proudly .
Beck also volunteers with the Water Resources Advisory Committee . As Chairman , he works to protect groundwater and correctly manage stormwater and wastewater .
Moving manufacturing to Mexico Many of AspenTech ’ s major customers have been struggling for the past two years with various types of supply chain disruptions . This has led companies to seek more agility and flexibility to adjust supply chains as economic and geopolitical factors change . A strategic component of this is much more pervasive digitalisation to provide such agility across the value chain .
“ We are seeing the opportunity to help these global companies adopt digital solutions at a much more sophisticated and pervasive level , so they can support and achieve this agility ,” says Beck . “ Some of this is enabled simply by broader adoption of existing technologies . Some of this will happen through companies taking advantage of the integration and work flows we have built into the technology , but companies have been slow to adopt .
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