Manufacturing Business Digitalization Briefing
Tipping Point
The manufacturing industry is at a tipping point with manufacturing digitalization creating exciting opportunities to improve sales & profits, competitiveness, sustainability, and energy efficiency.
Digital Transformation
This transformation is a way for manufacturers to overcome labor shortages driven by demographics, achieve environmental & sustainability goals and increase responsiveness to changing customer requirements.
Virtual Briefing
I provide private virtual briefings for companies and organizations that have become popular to benefit from an informed perspective. I provide perspectives and insights from outside of your company that increase your understanding of opportunities valuable. There is great benefit to gaining insights from someone that is not directly immersed in your organization’s day-to-day operations. I have years of industrial automation, process control, and building automation experience with technology and business experience ranging from system design, corporate experience, co-founder & president of a start-up company, author, and consultant providing insight, ideas, strategic insights, and coaching.
The briefing is a Zoom meeting with my analysis and views of the changing dynamics that I term the shift to Closed Loop Realtime Digital Manufacturing Business. Participants may send me key issues & questions of interest in advance that are of particular interest to customize the briefing to best serve your needs. This is an interactive session including:
- Issues Driving Change
- Traditional Manufacturing Business Architecture
- New Digital Manufacturing Business Architecture
- Impactful New Technologies
- New industrial automation decision maker shifts
- New Players – Industry Structural Changes
- Organizational Impacts & Evolution
“I mean it as the ability to see the world as it is, not as you want it to be.” Peter Drucker
My goal is to help you generate ideas, strategies, and action plans to increase performance.
- Provide insights on new technologies.
- Develop analysis of business issues & formulate questions that need to be answered.
- Develop analysis based on my experience, knowhow, & market research where necessary.
- Provide recommendations & rationale for recommendations.
Investment: $2,900 USD Contact me if interested: bill@automationfocus.com or LinkedIn
These are some recommendations about my work that are also on LinkedIn:
Bill worked with me to help a client exploring diversification strategies to understand the market for automation systems. He’s a compelling expert in that field whose knowledge is broad and current. He made a very positive impression on the client both for the efficiency of his delivery as well as his personable style. I’m very pleased to recommend him to others. Steven Grundman, A business strategist and public policy analyst to the aerospace and defense sector.
I’ve known Bill for many years and always enjoyed his insight and into the Automation Industry and the economy as a whole. Bill has always been able to distill many moving parts into a succinct and clear message that folks at many levels in our industry can understand and apply. His ability to identify trends early has helped me many times in my career in developing strategies to pursue new markets. Thanks Bill!! Dean Ford, CAP, PE Co-Founder, Managing Principal Engineer at Luminary Automation and Engineering, LLC
I have worked with Bill as an industry analyst for almost 10 years. He has deep subject matter knowledge of the industrial manufacturing and automation industries. Most valuable is Bill’s ability to quickly assess the landscape of technologies and vendors and then quickly get to the most important aspects to be considered. He has a great strategic outlook and is a must have advisor on many subjects. I highly recommend Bill. Steven Garbrecht, VP of Product Marketing
I have had the opportunity to work with Bill for a number of years and have been exceptionally impressed with his technical expertise, professionalism and business-savvy which is a significant benefit to the whole industrial community. Bill has a no-nonsense mentality that allows him to size up a situation and arrive at the best solution for a given instance. With his extensive experience in Industrial Automation and Building Automation, Bill is highly relied on for his great leadership and visionary instinct. Thomas Burke, Global Strategic Advisor for CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA)
Regarding my 2021 Annual Trends Report, Another set of really insightful predictions from Bill Lydon” Christine Boles VP, Internet of Things Group, General Manager, Industrial Solutions Division at Intel Corporation