Met 35 productiesites wereldwijd botste Unilin op de grenzen van een historisch gegroeid IT/OT-landschap: point-to-point koppelingen, grote verschillen tussen plants en geen gedeelde referentiearchitectuur. In deze sessie vertellen Unilin en Coretecs samen hoe ze dat hebben aangepakt. Van een gestructureerd selectietraject dat leidde tot een...
Hoe voorkom je dat fouten in composietproductie pas aan het einde van het proces zichtbaar worden, wanneer herstel niet meer mogelijk is en kostbare onderdelen verloren gaan? In deze case tonen we hoe Sabca deze uitdaging aanpakt met een innovatieve Digital Twin voor composietproductie. Door machinedata, automatische visuele inspectie en...
Deploying an MES is one thing. Doing it in an efficient and scalable way is another. Not many companies succeed. A lot of them get trapped in point-to-point connections and monolithic applications that keep deployments hard and new development slow. Wilms chose a different path. One where no direct API calls run between systems, while still...
Intelligence of Things has consistently evolved toward a fully interconnected world, yet organizations are now tackling the next frontier: bridging the operational gap between raw device telemetry and immediate action. Fortunately, bridging this gap has become significantly easier thanks to a new wave of highly capable, intelligent AI solutions...
Als recente Factory of the Future wil Chocdecor kwaliteitscontrole slimmer, dynamischer en klantgerichter maken. Vandaag hanteren verschillende klantensegmenten vaak dezelfde kwaliteitsaanpak, terwijl hun verwachtingen sterk verschillen. Met Virtual Quality Assistance combineren we AI, cameravisie en procesdata om kwaliteitscontroles realtime af...
For forty years, time series forecasting has meant a whole project: hire data scientists, engineer features, train, tune, retrain. Half the use cases your teams could imagine never made the cut - the business case was too thin. Time series foundation models break that equation. They deliver accurate forecasts out of the box - no training, no...
Het oplossen van verstoringen op het Belgische spoor is een bijzonder complex probleem. Lineas stelde de vraag of het mogelijk is om binnen een kort tijdsbestek (minder dan 1 minuut) conflictvrije routeringsvoorstellen te berekenen. In deze sessie tonen we de proof-of-concept die daaruit voortkwam, gebouwd rond een quantum-inspired...
Robotics is undergoing a fundamental shift from rigid, single-purpose automation to adaptive, AI-driven Physical AI. This executive session maps the technological and economic forces reshaping the robotics industry over the next decade. We analyse three key waves: immediate ROI from autonomous mobile robots and collaborative systems, mid-term...
Industrial systems generate vast amounts of heterogeneous data — but turning that data into actionable knowledge remains a hard problem. This session explores how agentic AI systems, powered by knowledge graphs and large language models, can reason over complex industrial environments to support decision-making, predictive maintenance, and process...
How can European Industry and Engineering keep up in an accelerating world, not only with China, but also the new 'Reindustrialize' movement in the US?
Margins in the chemical industry are under increasing pressure, and the cheapest new capacity is often the plant you already own, provided it can be operated safely closer to its limits. This talk illustrates how BASF Antwerp addresses the challenge of operating industrial distillation processes closer to their limits through the deployment of...
How OT and IT Leaders Can Build Scalable, Value-Driven Industrial Cybersecurity We’re almost a month past 9/11, and we’re already heading towards the next deadlines. How can we prevent IT/OT teams from lying awake at night over vulnerabilities, compliance, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), NIS2 and the new requirements still to come? This...