Atos
Atos
on smart manufacturing for competitive advantage
and implementation of intelligence-led integrated solutions that transform the performance of manufacturing . And this is done by connecting business strategy , people , processes and , of course , technology .
“ That for me is it in a nutshell . It ’ s a holistic approach to using technology to improve the end-to-end business of manufacturing . To really drive change , you have to look at the culture of the business and the way in which people operate within it ,” says Culshaw .
He provides an example of one of the company ' s customers , a major food and beverage manufacturer , that Atos helped to increase production line efficiency by more than 20 %. What wasn ’ t expected from the deployment was the culture changes that came about as a result .
“ One of the plant managers told me that there was a change in culture among staff working different shifts as they became more competitive . It ’ s that kind of culture you want to create , a sense of pride in the fact you have an operation which is running very efficiently and you ’ re making the best of the technology to increase productivity . I think that ’ s a big part of industry 4.0 .”
The technologies driving the movement Culshaw speaks about the cloud . It took time to implement it across the manufacturing side of the business , but we are seeing our people adapt to the new methods . He mentions that Atos employs edge devices
30 October 2021