Global Lighthouse Network

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Lighthouses are manufacturers showing leadership in applying 4IR technologies at scale to drive step-change financial, operational and sustainability improvements by transforming factories, value chains and business models.

The Global Lighthouse Network is comprised of 238 Lighthouses

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Explore the organizations who are a part of the Global Lighthouse Network below. Learn how these organizations are contributing to the initiative.

Driven by consumer expectations in sustainability and quality, and necessity to improve cost competitiveness in a high labor cost market, Henkel has developed a unique scalable data platform connecting in real time 30+ sites and 10+ distribution centers
Germany | Chemicals
Henkel - Düsseldorf
Deployment of a digital thread across the value chain that optimizes the overall operations, synchronizes the market dynamics and ultimately enabling the mass customization model
Japan | Technology
Hitachi Ltd - Hitachi
From the brink of operations closure to a leading smart manufacturing site Infineon has leveraged data, advanced analytics and automation to create a significant impact across the site but also integrating with its supply chain network
Singapore | Technology
Infineon - Singapore
Example of lighthouse network extension: standardizing and expanding best practice of the existing lighthouse to roll out and establish a network of lighthouse sites, to drive a broad-based impact and unleash 4IR potential at scale within the organization
People's Republic of China | Health
Johnson & Johnson MedTec - Suzhou
Example of end-to-end connected value chain from suppliers to consumers in vision care to achieve 24% sales growth and 33% cost reduction. In addition, introduced flexible modular platform to introduce new products in record time. 
USA | Health
Johnson & Johnson MedTec - Jacksonville
Operating in a highly mature industry sector Micron felt the pressure to innovate to maintain its competitive edge; implementing multiple 4IR use cases across automation and advanced analytics with an impact of 100mln USD, that have now scaled across the Micron network globally
Singapore | Technology
Micron - Singapore
First example in Oil & Gas (O&G), a traditionally slow to innovate industry with deep seeded orthodoxies, of multiple, scaled 4IR use-cases connecting in real-time to 9 offshore vessels. As result MODEC turned into a distant market leader in offshore Operations & Maintenance and doubled their market share, transforming the way new clients are won and digital talent is cultivated in industry
Brazil | Oil & Gas
MODEC - Rio de Janeiro
New product introduction (NPI) factory has to deliver:▪Increased number of new product ramp ups (1/month, +50%)▪Faster transfer of new products and technologies to manufacturing network worldwide (3 months → <1 month)▪Doubled production volumes with the same resources
Finland | Technology
Nokia Electronics - Oulu
Petkim, a pioneer global petrochemical industry, has become an industry and geography leader not only in business terms but in digital and analytics space, that focused on throughput and quality improvement, total digitization of asset management, and a major change story to transform a state-owned asset into digital power house
Türkiye | Chemicals
Petkim - Izmir
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Indonesia | Mining & Metals
Petrosea - Tabang
This plant leverages artificial intelligence to drive productivity and quality improvements in the steel industry. It is building its own smart-factory platform through a collaboration with a local ecosystem of academia, SMEs and start-ups.
Republic of Korea | Mining & Metals
POSCO - Pohang
▪Slow growth at automotive industry in China recent years, SAIC makes C2B (Customer to Business) as strategy in order to increase product competitiveness▪To realize C2B, E2E connected value chain carried out: online order, intelligent engineering, digital twin production, digital supply chain & digital quality managementDi
People's Republic of China | Automotive
SAIC Maxus - Nanjing
Young yet passionate greenfield team fully embraced 4IR technologies to tackle business challenges from its booming e-commerce via E2E, step-growing value chain competence
People's Republic of China | Chemicals
Procter & Gamble - Taicang
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India | Mining & Metals
Tata Steel - Kalinganagar
Aspiring to become the provider of global best-in-class products, Weichai ignited digital transformation across its E2E value chain from production design, procurement, production, supply chain to aftersales service  
People's Republic of China | Other
WEICHAI - Weifang
Company founded with the idea to bring 4IR into an industry dominated by decades of old methodologies. To create value that would otherwise be impossible to achieve
USA | Health
Zymergen - Emeryville
sAGCO is an example of how to leverage 4IR technologies to manufacture high complexity low volume products. Implementing digital solutions, they found the recipe to manufacture 9 different product families on one single assembly line with a batch size of one, leading to significant gains in flexibility and productivityto manufacture high complexity low volume products. Implementing digitalsolutions, they found the recipe to manufacture 9 different product families on one single assembly line with a batch size of one, leading tosignificant gains in flexibility and productivity
Germany | Other
AGCO - Marktoberdorf
As a 40-year-old steel factory, Baosteel Shanghai was an early bird of digitization (early adaptor MES), and extensively implemented 4IR use cases (especially Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Analytics) to meet growing customer expectations on product quality and customization and to regenerate its industrial competitiveness in the digital era
People's Republic of China | Mining & Metals
Baosteel - Shanghai
Renault Curitiba is an example of how approaching 4IR technologies focusing on employee’s accountability and E2E connectivity, engaging workforce and developing an ecosystem across players, can support growth and lead to successful results without requiring major capital deployment
Brazil | Automotive
Groupe Renault - Curitiba
Preparing for the future made of sharp volume increase and cost reduction requirements, GSK set up a digital factory team who implemented a wide range of 4IR technologies (e.g., AI, VR, advanced analytics, smart automation) to tackle successfully the business challenges
United Kingdom | Health
GSK - Ware

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