Jens Starke

Product Manager MES/IT Factory Control
Volkswagen

Jens sits within the IT division of the business where he is Functional Chief Designer, responsible for the design, planning and development of the overall Manufacturing Execution System (MES) across the VW Group (Internationally). His biggest career successes are designing and implementing a new logistics system and designing a production system for the Lotus car manufacturer in UK. He sees the biggest opportunity across manufacturing as the smart manufacturing as it gives companies the tools to producing innovatively (e.g. using 3D printing in the plant) and become fully automated.

2:30 PM ALL STAR PANEL Smart Automation: How can you best use MES software with an IIoT initiative to better handle the data extracted from machines and optimise efficiency in your manufacturing processes?

· How can you utilise machine to machine technology?

· How is the information being treated/used?

· How can people learn from the data?

· Where can MES software be used?

12:10 PM DRILL DOWN ROUNDTABLES

1. Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing - Ilker Kalali, Head of Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing System, Pirelli

2. Cyber Security – Elke Schweizer, Manager BoschSecure , Robert Bosch

3. Data Analytics - Jens Starke, Product Manager MES/IT Factory Control, Volkswagen

4. MES – Josef Kriegmair, Representative Production, MTUAeroEngines

5. Systems Integration – Gedo Kuiper, Project Lead Steel 4.0, Tata Steel

6. Connectivity – Olaf Sauer, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute

7. Smart Sensors Stefan Hornung, Product Manager Object Detection, Balluff

8. Semi-Conductors

9. Cloud Technology – Kalman Tiboldi, Chief Business Innovation Officer, TVH

10. Predictive Maintenance – Nick Miesen, Global Manager Operational Technology, Heineken

11. Starting your Industry 4.0 Journey – Stefan Zippel Industry 4.0 Architect, Georg Fischer

12. Organisational Collaboration & Agility- Sama Mbang Head of Industry 4.0 – Smart Operations, Daimler

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