(5) Business Agility Café: Requirement for modern corporate governance in securing the future viability

Session

Requirement for modern corporate governance in securing the future viability

(5) Business Agility Café

Tuesday, March 14

11:00 AM - 03:00 PM

Live in Berlin

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With regard to their future viability, companies should aim to use innovative technologies holistically, for example, to ensure the principles of sustainable production or circular economy. In view of profound technical, economic and social changes, the manufacturing industry must question the organizational structure, project characteristics as well as its current portfolio of products, services and adapt its business models. To do this, it should continue and accelerate the transformation process that may already have begun. Topics are the expansion of the technological basis, the expansion of competence and awareness in dealing with sustainable or circular business. It is therefore no longer a question of if – it is more a question of how- by identifying the right approach, taking into account the maturity of my organizational structures.

In the age of advancing digitization and hyper-automation, many transformation projects still suffer from the fact that, as an example, the physical integration of production modules takes place much faster than the “logical” automation technology adaptation or complete integration into continuously networked, sometimes spatially distributed constructs of production capacities and the associated planning and control systems. Efforts in which the production resources work autonomously, knowledge-based, “intelligently” and can control or configure themselves situationally and exchange information with each other are made more difficult.

In the planned World Café we want to discuss lessons learned in the circle of involved and curious discussion partners and provide food for thought in the safer handling of the matter.

How to identify the maturity of the socio-technological environment?
How to manage the risk of implementing future oriented organization / technological fundament
What are the requirement for modern corporate governance
Which strategy is the right one: Following an incremental approach or rather a radical one?
Speed and structure. What is the level of maturity?
Which stumbling blocks have you already encountered?

MES & Data & AI

Smart Factory/Industry 4.0

Workshop

Speaker

Harald Kirsch

Head of Automation and Industrial IT, ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH

Harald Kirsch can be described as dynamic, entrepreneurial business strategist with over 30 years of professional experience in organizational and business development. His professional career, to date, has mainly been defined by the topics - Securing the Future Viability of Companies, Developing New Business Models, Digital Transformation, IIoT, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Automation of Enterprise respectively Production Processes, Product Management for innovative SW Solutions and Services, Portfolio Management, Strategy Consulting as well as Business Transformation, Change Management, Employee Development and Coaching

His current area of responsibility includes in particular the topics:
- Establishment and further development of a Modern Organizational Structure
- Implementation of Agile Methods
- Management of the Automation and Industrial IT division
- Continuous further development of the company's digital strategy
- Structuring and advancing the Industrie 4.0/ IIoT platform strategy
- Optimization, digitalization and further development of manufacturing and production processes

The Pop in your Job:

Creating a future-oriented, start-up-like organisation in a traditional industrial environment is both a special task and an opportunity for me. My biggest motivator is to get young people to create something extraordinary; to inspire them to work together in a way that makes each individual count with their own unique talents and perspectives.

My passion is to work with the young generation on the future prospects of digitalisation and to support sustainable action. I think that is the highest good for shaping the future.

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Company

ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH

ALD Vacuum Technologies is a subsidiary of AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. and the world's leading manufacturer of vacuum technology systems in the field of metallurgy and heat treatment. The company's focus areas currently also include solar and battery technology, future and high-tech topics. In this structure, Harald Kirsch is responsible for the digitalisation strategy and future viability in the area of plant manufacturing and maintenance. The company currently has to deal with the two poles of old plants and new plant production. Where new plants already have the necessary digital components and interfaces, the older plants are still tied to special knowledge, possibly even requiring a retrofit. Regardless of age and condition, however, there is a service offer to the customer that must be covered by Field Service. At ALD Vacuum Technologies, the after-sales department operates the field service for the customer. Here, the field service organisation benefits from the integration platform ALD Expert, a self-contained, autonomous, self-optimising system that includes a variety of intelligent solutions. ALD Expert not only makes it possible to supply the field service with information by means of digital twins or intelligent assistants for maintenance technicians. Rather, the platform can be used as a control tool to optimise maintenance cycles, to better design detailed scheduling and ultimately to create added value for the company and the customer.

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