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“ WE ’ VE MADE SUBSTANTIAL COMMITMENTS TO THE MARKET IN TERMS OF OUR OWN CARBON FOOTPRINT AND SOME OF THE INITIATIVES WE WORK ON IN SMART MANUFACTURING PLAY INTO HOW WE CAN HELP WITH THIS MORE BROADLY BY REDUCING WASTE , IMPROVING ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND INCREASING EFFICIENCY ”
SIMON CULSHAW VP MANUFACTURING STRATEGY & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT NORTHERN EUROPE , ATOS systems ( MES ). One of their biggest partners is Siemens , with which , Culshaw says , Atos has a major strategic partnership . In regards to manufacturing , they have been working together since the start of the Industry 4.0 initiative . The partnership revolves around investing in the production of a number of solutions to meet specific use cases within the manufacturing industry .
“ For example ,” he says . “ It could be around preventative maintenance and the creation of solutions involving IoT products , such as MindSphere . Our chief executives have made a commitment to ongoing partnerships over the next five years . We are involved in a number of initiatives alongside Siemens . We would like to improve the competitiveness of UK manufacturing .”
However , Culshaw is keen to add that Atos also partners with smaller operators and runs a scheme called the Horizons Programme that supports small technology companies to bring their innovations to market . Atos helps these companies by introducing their innovations to larger corporate manufacturing companies , including Atos customers . This helps to grow these businesses and brings value to Atos customers to introduce innovation early in the lifecycle .
Culshaw concludes : “ There ’ s no one size fits all , there are a lot of different partners and a wide partner ecosystem we work with in terms of technologies .”
How does he think Atos ’ relationships with their partners , large and small , are changing ? “ What is starting to change is our thinking about how we use technologies like MES from an enterprise perspective . Traditionally , manufacturing companies haven ’ t tended to use this technology on an enterprising scale and things like scalability and licensing
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