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Aditya Birla Group is building a unified data engine for 200 factories
“So we are focusing a lot this year to say, and we have 200 factories. How can we create a data quality engine where all the factories can have data available of the right quality and, you know, then the models can run.”
Devillieres: Proprietary data shows only 5% of factories operate like tech companies
“OSS was created four and a half years ago, and we physically visited 860 factories. I probably visited 200 myself. We have that big database where we put everything, and according to the database, about five percent of factories are what we call doer visionari…”
Loeffler: The US lost 70,000 factories and 5M manufacturing jobs over 30 years
“Over the last three decades, where we lost something like 70,000 factories. Five million jobs in our manufacturing heartlands are gone.”
Farid: There are 250,000 factories in the United States
“We do have 250,000 factories in America that are making all kinds of products, so they exist.”
Petersen: Factory plans paused as machine costs rise 20-50% under tariffs
“Having talked to a bunch of companies that are in active, active planning mode on building factories, they've actually paused that right now because all of a sudden the machines that they have to buy are going to cost 20 to 50% more depending on where they're …”
Dubois: Gen Z and millennials will not spend a decade mastering factory equipment
“So Gen Z, millennials, these are folks who really are not interested in spending the next 10 years of their life learning how to run this equipment or maintain this equipment in these factories.”
Apparel manufacturing factory contacts are closely guarded industry secrets
“And we also learned that those are often well-kept secrets. People don't want to always share that information either.”
Petersen: The average importer of goods onboards 18 factories
“The average importer of goods is onboarding, 18 factories.”
Naam: Mass-produced factory cleantech will maintain rapid learning rates for decades
“I do think there's lots of reasons, not in every single cleantech, but in those, the ones we make in factories, mass-produced in high volumes, that those will have a very, very rapid learning rate for decades to come.”
Renan de Villa: 80% of factories lack software for Lean problem-solving
“Today, you go to a factory, 80% of the time, this kind of process is put in place. There is no software to collect it. There is no software to scale it. There is no software to get smart about it. And so it gets lost, even if the process is done.”