Future-Proofing Global Value Chains: Country Preparedness and Beyond

Case studies

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299

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59

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Ericsson’s greenfield 5G factory is powered 100% by renewable electricity from on-site solar and green-e® certified renewable electricity from the utility grid. The smart factory integrates sustainable technologies such as thermal ice storage tanks with the industrial internet of things (IIoT) stack to proactively monitor energy usage and is designed to utilize 24% less energy and 75% less indoor water usage, avoiding 97% operational carbon emissions* than comparable buildings. This year it became Ericsson’s first factory globally to achieve LEED Gold® certification.*
USA | Technology
Ericsson - Lewisville - Sustainability
In an effort to improve visibility of factory consumption to drive better decision making, Henkel deployed utility meters on machines integrated in a digital twin that connects and benchmarks 30 factories and prescribes real-time sustainability actions that has led to 38% less energy (kWh/ton) used and has reduced water consumption 28% (m3/ton) and waste 20% (kg/ton) across factory baselines set in 2010.
Germany | Technology
Henkel - Düsseldorf - Sustainability
To pursue growing e-commerce, small business channel & overseas market share, Midea adopted digital procurement, flexible automation, digital quality, smart logistics and digital sales breakthroughs to reduce product cost, shorten order lead time and improve end user response agility
People's Republic of China | Other
Midea - Guangdong
To reach stringent annual productivity goals the site had to go beyond classical operational excellence initiatives and implement a new Lean Digital Factory approach, deploying 10x scalable solutions of advanced automation, adaptive and predictive process control and workflow digitalization, ultimately achieving 140% of factory output with same resources 
Germany | Technology
Siemens - Amberg
A greenfield refinery started up in a geographical area where many others have discontinued operations, designed to fully integrate on a 100k+ data point IIoT stack, advanced automation and predictive analytics solutions, that through process optimization have delivered $35m of profit uplift in the first 9 months of serviceA
Türkiye | Oil & Gas
STAR Rafineri - Izmir
Facing operational KPI stagnation and impending loss of captive raw material advantage, Tata Steel Jamshedpur 110+ year old plant with deep rooted cultural & tech legacies deployed more than 200 4IR use cases across procurement and manufacturing to drive a step improvement in operational KPIs. These use cases are being scaled across their India production networkF
India | Mining & Metals
Tata Steel - Jamshedpur
Facing upgraded consumer needs for personalized, differentiated and diverse beer, Tsingtao Brewery has rethought how to utilize smart digital technologies across value chains to empower 110+ year history traditional company to meet consumer needs
People's Republic of China | Food & Retail
Tsingtao Brewery - Shandong
In response to high-mix and low-volume business challenges, Wistron leveraged artificial intelligence, IoT and flexible automation technologies to improve labor, asset and energy productivity, not only in production and logistics, but also via supplier management
People's Republic of China | Technology
WIstron - Jiangsu
57-year-old plant with a demonstrated ability to transform its operations to remain competitive, Amiens embraced 4IR technologies end-to-end to cope with consistent volume increase while driving process optimization and cost reduction 
France | Chemicals
Procter & Gamble - Amiens
Facing exponential asset growth and rising competitiveness from new entrants, ReNew Power, India’s largest renewables company, invested in 4th industrial revolution technologies to increase output & improve operational efficiency of their wind & solar assets, without incurring any additional capex, in turn increasing profitability of the company by 29%
India | Energy & utilities
ReNew Power - Karnataka
Despite a growing business in the sector, Lima Plant was experiencing lack of growth and reduction in savings and service level. From 2017 the site shifted strategy deploying 4th industrial revolution technologies at scale resulting in a more competitive, flexible and responsive production across the entire value chain
USA | Chemicals
Procter & Gamble - Lima, Ohio
As the role model of operation excellence manufacturing plant among group, Bosch Suzhou pioneered digital transformation at production, logistics, order/inventory management domains and achieved extra value added impact
People's Republic of China | Automotive
Bosch Automotive - Suzhou
In order to service local customers for 5G radios sustainably, Ericsson built a greenfield 5G enabled, digital native factory in USA in a record time; leveraging agile ways of working and a robust IIoT architecture and data foundation, the team was able to deploy 25 use cases at scale in less than 24 months
USA | Other
Ericsson - Lewisville
Confronted with fast growing market demand, scarce skillful labor force, and increasing product complexity, Chengdu extensively leveraged cutting-edge artificial intelligence & IoT technologies to enable worry-free production and drive operational improvements
People's Republic of China | Technology
Foxconn - Chengdu
Henkel is building on its digital backbone infrastructure to scale-up 4IR use cases and interconnect production systems across its Laundry and Home Care business. In highly competitive environment, the Montornès site is leveraging 4IR to boost profitability and augment consumer benefits
Spain | Chemicals
Henkel - Montornès
Increased product complexity and labor shortages have led to quality and cost challenges at the Singapore Printhead manufacturing factory. At the same time, the country’s manufacturing focus has been moving toward higher-value work. Given these factors, it was imperative to transform our factory from being manual, labor-intensive, and reactive to a highly digitized, automated, and AI-driven one
Singapore | Technology
HP Inc. - Singapore
Operating with same fast-changing customer needs cost challenges of FMCG but subject to similar regulations of pharmaceutical environment, Helsingborg plant is leveraging 4IR technologies to increase its supply chain agility, improve gross profit and set new standards on environmental sustainability
Sweden | Health
Kenvue - Helsingborg
Micron innovated to maintain its cost competitive edge, reduce its Capex needs, ramp-up faster new products and improve quality by implementing multiple 4IR use cases across automation, machine learning and advanced analytics with an impact of 100mln USD
Taiwan, China | Technology
Micron - Taichung
In face of fierce industry competition and e-commerce rising complexity & speed, Midea Guangzhou leaped forward the intelligent technologies based transformation from pure automation to intelligence, from pure digital factory to E2E connectivity with suppliers, distributors centers, retail stores and massive customers, the company achieved 14% cost per unit, 56% order lead time reduction, and management efficiency improvement in past of 2 years 
People's Republic of China | Other
Midea - Guangzhou
Facing the challenge to reduce its product cost by 50% and absorb a volume growth of 160% with a product mix increasing by a factor 5, Novo Nordisk smartly invested in digitalization, automation and advanced analytics, building a robust company-wide IIOT operating system which is now being deployed across all other sites
Denmark | Health
Novo Nordisk - Hillerod

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