The Connected Manufacturing Experience - Automation

Date: Thursday, June 11th 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Webinar

This 4-part executive panel series, The Connected Manufacturing Experience, is designed to help manufacturers understand the practical path from Data → Analytics → Automation → AI.

Each session focuses on real operational challenges manufacturers are facing today and how organizations are solving them in practical, achievable ways across both the plant floor and business operations.

Panel 3 shifts the conversation into Automation — reducing friction throughout the entire business.

Manufacturers are losing enormous amounts of time to repetitive tasks, disconnected workflows, manual approvals, duplicate data entry, and operational bottlenecks.

This discussion will explore practical automation opportunities across manufacturing environments, including:

• Plant floor reporting and machine data capture
• Production scheduling and workflow automation
• ERP and administrative task automation
• Document handling and approval workflows
• Integrating automation into existing ERP, MES, and CRM systems
• Real-world ROI from operational process automation

The conversation will also address an important misconception around automation:

Automation is about reducing unnecessary operational burden so teams can focus on higher-value work. NOT reducing people. 

This session is designed for manufacturing leadership and operational roles including:

• Operations Managers / Plant Managers
• Manufacturing Engineers
• Continuous Improvement / Lean Leaders
• ERP / IT / Systems Leaders
• Business Operations Leaders
• Supply Chain & Procurement Leaders
• Quality & Process Improvement Leaders
• Owners / Presidents / Executive Leadership

Anyone responsible for improving efficiency, consistency, workflow coordination, or operational scalability across the organization will benefit from this discussion.