March 13, 2025
12:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM CT / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 hour
Sponsors: Nokia & Intel
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Summary
Missing equipment, inefficient material flows and production bottlenecks – lack of operational visibility poses a significant drain on manufacturers’ time, money and productivity. Real-time insight into the location and movement of materials, tools, workers and other critical assets is essential to remove waste from processes and reduce potential safety risks.
In this webinar, we will look at how the real-time tracking and positioning of workers and assets, powered by flexible edge computing and pervasive wireless connectivity, equips manufacturers with deep situational awareness to reduce unplanned downtime, create a safer working environment and improve operational efficiency and profitability.
Join our webinar to learn about:
- Use cases such as inventory management, collision avoidance, quality control, AI-powered safety monitoring, and asset usage optimization
- Business impact on efficiency, safety and profitability
- Real-life deployments of real-time asset tracking solutions
- Enabling technologies including intelligent edge and 5G private wireless
- Seamless integration of new technologies with existing systems
Speakers
André Franciss | Head of Portfolio – Positioning, Enterprise Campus Edge | Nokia
André Franciss leads the Tracking and Positioning Solutions area for the Enterprise Campus Edge business, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia. He drives the creation of asset tracking solutions crafted for Industry 4.0 needs across asset-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, transport and mining. He is passionate about connecting technology and business to solve relevant problems.
André is a truly global player who combines strong technical and business expertise. Fluent in five languages and a graduate from a top Brazilian university, he has extensive experience across the automotive, consulting and telecommunications sectors in several continents.
Ricky Watts | Senior Director – Industrial Solutions | Intel
As Senior Director of Industrial Solutions for the Federal and Industrial Business at Intel, Ricky has been passionately driving innovation enabling changes for a better world for more than 30 years. In his role, he leads product marketing & strategy and business developments for manufacturing and energy. He previously worked in telecommunications, and multiple embedded businesses such as control automation, medical, energy, and transportation.
Ricky’s Industrial and Telecom experience brings a unique perspective on how compute and connectivity at the on-premise edge enables the data-driven outcomes that drive increased efficiency, quality, performance and innovative & sustainable manufacturing.
Ricky has wide international experience spending half of his career living and working in Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Motorola, Aircom International, British Telecom, and as Vice President of Industrial for Wind River Systems.
Kishor Balakrishnan | Global Practice Head – Enterprise Connectivity | Wipro
Bala is a Global Leader and heads the Enterprise connectivity practice at Wipro. He focuses on enabling enterprise clients across numerous industry verticals to advance their 5G and connectivity-enabled digital transformation journey.
