Commercial Partners

Discover the latest manufacturing solutions

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Commercial Partners 2023

Accesa

About Accesa​

Driving innovation with tech solutions that bring value.

Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea, Bucharest, Timisoara and Munich and 19 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth. ​

A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.​

With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.​”

www.accesa.eu

Accruent

Accruent is the market-leading provider of asset management solutions with a core focus on supporting the manufacturing industry. With over 25 years of experience, Accruent has been serving the needs of more than 10,000 customers worldwide, including some of the world's largest manufacturing corporations.

Accruent's solutions enable manufacturers to optimise their asset management processes, improve equipment uptime and reliability, and enhance overall operational performance. These solutions include software applications for maintenance management, reliability engineering, and capital planning. Our team of experts are dedicated to providing innovative solutions that deliver measurable results and enable our clients to make informed decisions, reduce costs, and increase productivity.

Join us at this year's EMS Summit to explore how Accruent’s solutions can help you achieve your business goals. Our team will be available to showcase our software applications, answer any questions, and provide live demonstrations.

www.accruent.com

Alfa Energy Group

Alfa Energy Group (an Edison Energy company) is an international energy, sustainability, and technology consultancy firm with 450+ team members serving more than 30 countries. For over 25 years, Alfa has been servicing its clients through energy and water management, sustainability, compliance consulting, and an intuitive ecosystem of user-driven energy, water, and carbon management software platforms.

With the recent integration of Edison Energy and Alfa Energy into one global company, it brings the strength of combined expertise across integrated energy and sustainability solutions to help large corporate, industrial, and institutional clients navigate the energy transition.

With coveted awards and an international industry-wide recognition, the global team partners with clients to establish and deliver pivotal net-zero strategies. Through smart energy management, transparent processes, and data management, we continue to lead through our recognized gold standard of service delivery.

www.alfaenergygroup.com

Augmentir

Augmentir is a leading provider of digital learning solutions for industrial companies. Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools helps industrial companies deliver effective skills management, training, collaboration, and on the job support for today’s more dynamic, more flexible industrial workforce. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s AI in conjunction with the platform’s digital workflow and remote collaboration capabilities to optimize their frontline operations and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of performance support, training, and workforce development. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

www.augmentir.com/

CTP

We are Parkmakers

As the largest integrated network of full-service high-tech business parks in Europe, spanning over 200 locations across 10 countries from the North Sea to the Black Sea, CTP creates dynamic ecosystems that supply pan-European markets. In these thriving environments, you'll discover global leaders in high-tech manufacturing, advanced R&D, logistics, e-commerce, and business support.

Our Parkmaker ethos takes industrial property to the next level. Our in-house teams oversee every facet of the client journey, from site selection and design to construction, fit-out, and long-term property management. We collaborate closely with local municipalities and universities, playing a pivotal role in fostering local economic growth. As your strategic partner, we go the extra mile to ensure you have the facilities and support you need, enabling you to stay laser-focused on your core activities.

CTP is also Europe's largest listed owner, developer, and manager of logistics and industrial real estate, boasting 11 million sqm of GLA across ten countries as of June 30, 2023. Our commitment to sustainability is unwavering, as evidenced by our BREEAM certification of all new buildings to 'Very Good' or better and our 'Low-Risk' ESG rating by Sustainalytics.

Join us on our journey to redefine the future of industrial and business spaces.

www.ctp.eu

DSS+

dss+ is a leading provider of operations management consulting services with a purpose of saving lives and creating a sustainable future. dss+ enables companies to build organisational and human capabilities, manage risk, improve operations, achieve sustainability goals and operate more responsibly.

www.consultdss.com

GE Digital

At GE Digital, we're putting industrial data to work helping manufacturers become more efficient, reliable and prepared for a circular economy. We help today’s digital plant and its mobile, connected workforce accelerate and sustain continuous improvement to drive greater productivity and efficiency, lower total cost of ownership, and increase profitability.

With 30 years delivering software for industry and 21,000 customers worldwide across manufacturing, food & beverage, consumer packaged goods, automotive, water/wastewater, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond, GE Digital can help you solve your industrial challenges.

www.ge.com

Invest Lithuania

Invest Lithuania is a dedicated government agency committed to fostering Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by assisting international companies in establishing their presence in Lithuania. Our primary mission revolves around driving economic growth and job creation, with a focus on attracting export-oriented companies, particularly in sectors such as manufacturing, IT, business services, and R&D.

We offer a comprehensive range of services to support you at every stage of your investment journey. Our expertise spans from providing assistance in decision-making, offering critical market insights, labor information, and details on the legal framework, to guiding you in site selection to find the ideal location for your operations.

As you progress through the business establishment phase, we actively facilitate key connections with local stakeholders and government bodies, ensuring a seamless setup process. Moreover, we possess in-depth knowledge of securing governmental financial support to help you maximize your resources.

"Invest Lithuania" is your trusted partner, offering expertise, connections, and unwavering support to help you realize your business. ambitions in our country. Start your success story with us today!

www.investlithuania.com

IPercept

IPercept offers the Fitness Tracker For Industrial Machines and introduces a new level of machine efficiency powered by experience-driven AI. The global demand for efficiency improvement of industrial machines is rising, and traditional one-size-fits-all approaches have fallen short.

We understand that each industrial machine is unique, requiring configured solutions. Through years of intensive research in collaboration with renowned manufacturers and KTH University, IPercept has developed patented technology and finely-tuned algorithms, delivering highly-specific insights. These insights enable precise actions to be taken at precisely the right times, setting the standard for industrial optimization that is trusted by leading manufacturers across Europe!

www.ipercept.io

KaizApp

KaizApp is the AI-supported Operating System for Continuous Improvement.  Using generative AI to accelerate problem solving at scale, KaizApp helps transform improvements leading to stronger financial benefits

For those who lead operations, KaizApp provides visibility and the connective tissue between Operational KPIs, projects, business cases and resources.   Making sure that the initiatives with the most impact are prioritised and supported and high levels of workforce participation result in a sustained culture of continuous improvement.

For Continuous Improvement professionals, KaizApp is the answer to finding 10 x capacity to solve problems.  AI supported tools and an easy user interface increase collaboration across shifts, sites, functions, and levels in any enterprise.   This is a single application to store, search and share learning which means less time spent on managing disconnected applications and more time delivering a step change in performance.

For teams in the operations, KaizApp has made it easy to capture problems, solve them and create action plans from any device and then be able to present the problem from the application instantly. Avoiding wasted time on PowerPoint, Excel and whiteboards, plus everything can be translated automatically in over 100 languages.

KaizApp is the only solution on the market that combines generative AI with human coaching to enable accelerated problem solving at enterprise scale.

www.kaizapp.com

Nanotronics

Nanotronics is an advanced machines and intelligence company that helps customers across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors solve for the unique inspection and process control challenges of precision manufacturing.

A leading developer of optical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, Nanotronics uses hardware and software to provide industrial-scale, high-throughput, super imaging systems. Deployed across fifteen countries and industry agnostic, Nanotronics works across Capital Intensive Industries, from aerospace, to electronics, to healthcare, to drive up yield, reduce footprint and waste, lower costs, and speed up design iteration, while eliminating laborious manual inspections.

Nanotronics’ sophisticated AI system correlates data points into actionable insights for manufacturers to correct for flaws in the production process while also predicting future errors. This results in an autonomous factory that is operating on autopilot to drive-up yields, decrease waste, and encourage implementation of ESG standards.

Nanotronics helps customers bring lab experimentation and R&D innovation to scalable business solutions.

www.nanotronics.co

Orbsen Consulting

Our focus is the delivery of premium consultancy in the areas of 

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Operations Management
  • Strategy development
  • Systems deployment
to clients in key sectors 
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical Devices and other Healthcare
  • Technology
  • Food
in both Europe and the US.

www.orbsenconsulting.com

Performance Solutions by Milliken

Operational Excellence & Safety Consulting
Performance Solutions by Milliken brings a unique, Practitioner-based value proposition to its clients and has built an enviable record of helping companies achieve substantial and sustainable improvements in their operations and safety excellence efforts. This approach, built on the foundation of lessons learned while Milliken & Company created and implemented its own world-class performance system, helps client organizations engage and empower their associates by working side-by-side to establish a culture of continuous improvement and drive breakthrough operations impact. Performance Solutions currently serve companies in more than 100 operating locations in 28 countries across a wide range of industry sectors.

www.performancesolutionsbymilliken.com

Quentin

Do you struggle to identify the root cause of your plant's problems and act on them? Are repetitive tasks in your daily operations costing you time and money? Does the road towards process optimization and digitalization often feel like a bumpy one?

Well, someone is here to help – Quentin. Quentin’s vision of the world is one in which you can daily improve the performance of your manufacturing operations thanks to fully transparent and actionable processes.

To achieve this, Quentin assesses your most compelling manufacturing challenges and the current digitalization stage of your plant and then leverages data collection and analysis from the machines on the production floor to deliver a tailored solution that meets your business needs and that each worker in the plant can handle daily with confidence.

With Quentin at your side, you and your staff can finally make sense of and extract value out of the data from the plant to identify and solve production issues that burden you the most.

Choose to see results, choose Quentin.

www.quentin.swiss

Shell Energy

Shell is an international energy company with expertise in the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. We also invest in power, including from low-carbon sources such as wind and solar; and new fuels for transport, such as advanced biofuels and hydrogen. Shell's purpose is to power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions. We believe that rising standards of living for a growing global population are likely to continue to drive demand for energy, including oil and gas, for years to come. At the same time, the need to tackle climate change means there is a global transition under way to a low-carbon energy system.

www.shell.com

Shyftplan

shyftplan is the AI-supported solution for shift scheduling. The cloud-native software optimizes workforce management, is scalable for thousands of employees and thus also suitable for complex planning. Thanks to state-of-the-art interfaces, shyftplan integrates seamlessly into your working environment and works together with applications such as SAP SuccessFactors or Personio. 

Thanks to the shyftplan AI, our customers benefit from enormous time savings in administrative work in shift planning, more employee satisfaction thanks to the modern app solution, all the way to reduced risk by ensuring that all legal requirements are met during planning. 

Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, shyftplan GmbH was founded in 2013 and today employs more than 60 people. The international team develops and operates the software solution to meet the highest customer and security requirements. Thus, the company was certified ISO 27001 as well as SOC 2 in 2022.

www.shyftplan.com

Solvace

Solvace is a fast-growing All-in-One Digital Operational Excellence platform allowing manufacturers to digitize their OpExc processes, break silos while integrating all functions and empower people across industrial sites.

We integrate with your ERP/MES and connect your data, processes and people (from front-line workers to management levels) leading to better decision making, boosted results, improvement local/global communities and highly motivated people. 

Our dedication to innovation, using AI and AR, and our DNA coming from the industrial world / shopfloors, make Solvace the ideal partners to accelerate the digitalization of your day-to-day operations.

www.solvace.com

The Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center

The Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center is a globally active management consultancy for the digital transformation of manufacturing companies. It is a spin-off of the internationally recognized acatech study “Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index”. We support manufacturing companies in their most important change – the digital transformation. We bundle our specific industry understanding with methodical excellence in strategy development, the guidance of transformation programs, the application of the Industry 4.0 Maturity Index and the qualification of employees. Our goal is to significantly improve the performance of our customers and to create an exceptional professional environment for exceptional people.

Visit us at our booth and discuss the following questions with us:

How good is your digitization strategy?

What does your company want to achieve with digital transformation?

Who is responsible for digital transformation in your company?

What is the digital maturity level of your factories?

How do you involve your factories in the digital transformation?

www.i40mc.de

Ubisense

Ubisense gives software systems intelligence about what’s actually happening in the real world by tracking the real-time location, movement and interaction of people, devices and products through its SmartSpace® software platform and Dimension4 Ultra-Wideband sensors. Through an open architecture platform, business users can easily configure the planning, monitoring and control of physical process flows.

Headquartered in Cambridge UK, Ubisense operates globally with more than 1000 customers, transforming their physical space into SmartSpace®.

For more information visit: Ubisense – Ultra-Wideband Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

www.ubisense.com

Vernaio

At Vernaio, we're revolutionizing manufacturing with next-generation AI. Based in Munich and founded in 2012, our solutions are the result of more than 20 years of AI research and development. Specializing in industries such as paper, steel, food & beverage, and chemicals, we've successfully completed more than 30 IoT projects with a 94% success rate. Our unique technology effortlessly processes unlabeled shop floor data, simplifying complex tasks and saving you valuable time. With our end-to-end Process Booster, process engineers can maximize the OEE and productivity of their manufacturing processes.

www.vernaio.com

Zaptic

Zaptic provides a connected worker platform for job instruction and collaboration for frontline teams, and a no-code toolkit designed to accelerate digital transformation of daily operations. 

Our mission is to improve the lives of frontline workers, by supporting safety, autonomy, productivity and continuous learning in frontline jobs. 

Using Zaptic, global manufacturing and service organisations are closing an industry 4.0 blindspot by moving daily operations out of spreadsheets, paper and tribal knowledge. 

Companies such as Carlsberg, Hovis, Celgard, Solenis and Monster are using zaptic to not only unlock measurable improvements in productivity, quality and safety, but also enable a smooth transfer of knowledge between the retiring and new generation of workers to improve market resiliency.

www.zaptic.com