25 leaders transforming manufacturing

The need for leadership in smart manufacturing cannot be overstated: Making revolutionary changes can be arduous. But the leaders who have emerged in this industry show us it can also be exhilarating. To assemble this group of luminaries, Smart Manufacturing took into account the fact that big change is happening inside large corporations, startups, public-private partnerships, and standards organizations. An example of each, respectively: Hitachi. Smart manufacturing begins in-house at Hitachi group. “Most of Hitachi Astemo’s plants had ‘IoT connectivity’ before the term was coined,” said Sudhanshu Gaur. Because the company experienced a lot of growth recently, it conducted a study “to re-evaluate our smart manufacturing operations,” he said. “Now our emphasis is on scaling our repository of solutions to all plants with minimal customization.”