Resources
Webinar #22: Industry4.0 Webinar – Silver Fern Farms
Discover Silver Fern Farms' award-winning Health & Safety transformation led by Andrew Mitchell in this webinar. They're reshaping the industry with data-driven solutions, live dashboard examples, and Q&A. Gain valuable insights that might just redefine Health & Safety for your business. Watch for a safer future!
Webinar #21: Independent Doors - A Smart Industry Success Story
The Independent Doors team recently completed their Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) assessment, focusing on KPIs that drive productivity, enhance quality, boost flexibility, and accelerate speed within their production processes. In this captivating webinar, Paul Harris will share their incredible journey and the pivotal role played by a Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
Webinar #20: Industry4.0 Webinar – Petone Engineering - Quick wins through Smart Technology
In this webinar, you will hear from Chris Molenaar, Managing Director at Petone Engineering, about the insights gained from the Smart Industry Readiness Index Assessment. Discover their challenges and successes in integrating Industry 4.0 technologies, including improving production processes, uniquely identifying beams, and achieving quick wins through smart technologies. Gain valuable insights into the iterative trial process and effective change management strategies.
Webinar #19: Industry4.0 Webinar – Gyro Plastics - Implementing a Manufacturing Execution System for Success
In this webinar you can follow the entire process from scoping and selecting Aspect's Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to implementing, functionality and benefits with Trudi Duncan, Managing Director at GYRO Plastics.
Along with advice for other small manufacturing businesses curious to learn about the opportunities and challenges they faced when integrating different systems.
Webinar #18: Industry 4.0 Webinar - What a difference 2 years can make
This webinar will focus on how businesses can make faster operational decisions. How do we use technology to allow more agility, and to reduce the time it takes from events, to insight, analysis, talking with the team about it and establishing countermeasures to resolve the issue? We are joined by Jonathan Lee, Quality & Operations Engineer at Oasis Engineering who will talk us through the challenges and improvements two years on from completing the SIRI assessment.
Webinar #17: Industry 4.0 Webinar - Bostock staying Globally Competitive with innovative Industry
This webinar provides the opportunity to see how Matt Stafford, Innovation and Sustainability Manager at Bostock New Zealand, explores prime examples of innovation through the uptake of Industry 4.0 technologies to stay Globally Competitive. You will also hear about the recent challenges Bostock faced with the devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle.
Find out more about Bostock in our case studies.
Webinar #16: Industry 4.0 Webinar - Implementing pragmatic solutions for incremental change
This webinar brings together Jan Polzer from Auckland University and Reza Hamzeh from Bremworth to share how successful manufacturers connect, analyse, automate and collaborate using integrated technologies, and uncover the power of using Internet of Things (IoT) to collect and implement insights.
Webinar #15: Industry 4.0 Webinar - The intersection between people and technology in a manufacturing environment
In this webinar Barry Williams – Operations Technology Manager, Douglas Pharmaceuticals and Pam Roa – Managing Director, Longveld, share their business approach on taking front line people on the technological journey.
Webinar #13: Industry 4.0 Webinar - United Machinists Begin their Journey
In this webinar Sarah Ramsay, CEO of United Machinists chats with Frank Phillips from LMAC about the reasons they embarked on their Industry 4.0 journey and shares some of the benefits they’ve experienced.
Find out more about United Machinists in our case studies.
Webinar #12: Industry 4.0 Webinar - Transforming NZ manufacturing with Industry 4.0 technologies
Discover how Industry 4.0 technologies are being adopted by manufacturers around New Zealand to transform and grow their businesses. This webinar brings together a panel of manufacturers from Fi Innovations, Nautech and Gallagher to share key learnings about their Industry 4.0 journey.
Find out more about Fi Innovations and Gallagher in our case studies.
Webinar #11: Industry 4.0 Webinar - Industry 4.0 in Action
This webinar provides the opportunity to learn how some manufacturers have used Industry 4.0 technology to aide business recovery. Lead by Frank Phillips, Senior Consultant LMAC NZ Ltd, in conversation with Kevin Flint, General Manager Oasis Engineering and Jim Marsh, Business Manager Pengelly Engineering. Hear how they are navigating COVID-19 and gain insights from them to apply to your own business to take the next step in your Industry 4.0 journey.
Find out more about Oasis Engineering in our case studies.
Industry 4.0 Maturity - Industry Survey Insights (Part 2)
Results from our second industry survey showed an increase in the uptake of Industry 4.0 solutions by New Zealand manufacturing/production companies. This survey also provided feedback on the current Industry 4.0 Demonstration Network and ideas for its future implementation. This report allows readers to broadly align the maturity of their own organisation against a spectrum and thus start to understand the activities needed to increase their maturity based on what is working for others.
Find out more about Industry Survey Insights here.
Webinar #10 - Bremworth: Industrial Platforms and New Processes
In this webinar we learn how Bremworth recently explored the opportunity to use new platform capabilities that link historic machines, to help transition to new production processes and increase production capacity. Overall, this led to implementing the latest data collection and management software, and a move towards Industry 4.0 via systems and structure/enterprise architecture.
Find out more about Bremworth in our case studies.
Webinar #9 - Agile Supply Chain and Digital Strategy with Comvita
This webinar will focus on how technology is playing an increasingly important role in the way we organise our supply chain and the importance of having a digital strategy to support this. We are joined by Tim Honeyfield and Lee O’Grady from Comvita who talk us through the way they are transforming their supply chain and why having a digital strategy is so important.
Find out more about Comvita in our case studies.
Webinar #8 - Agile design and Minimum Viable Product
This webinar will focus on product design agility and the rapid creation of MVPs (Minimal Viable Products) using onsite 3D printing. We are joined by Vitor Castro, Engineering Manager from Longveld to discuss how 3D printing is revolutionising the way the company prototypes new products and creates bespoke parts and shares examples of how it has leveraged technology to improve operational efficiencies as well as develop and commercialise bespoke parts in a highly flexible way.
Find out more about Longveld in our case studies.
Webinar #7 - Enterprise Intelligence & Horizontal Integration
In this webinar Wayne Carson, Managing Director, Mike Thompson, IT & CAD Manager, and Gareth, Smart IT Support at D&H Steel Construction, share their cross-business approach, reduced enterprise administration, and improved data accuracy and timeliness.
Find out more about D&H Steel Construction in our case studies.
Webinar #6 - How does Industry 4.0 in New Zealand Stack up?
Hear from Dr Andreas Hauser and Jackie Tan of TUV SUD, original contributors to the Smart Industry Readiness Index Assessment. Along with Frank Phillips from LMAC, we will be reviewing the trends we have seen from companies who have been through the Industry 4.0 programme, look at some of the approaches we have recommended and compare them to global trends.
Webinar #5 - Convex & Plazmax
This webinar explores how both customers and suppliers gain extra value from embedded technology in their products. Owen Embling, Managing Director at Convex Plastics, and Brad Johnson, Product Development at Plazmax tell us more about providing equipment that has remote access support, and the benefits they have gained from this equipment.
Webinar #4 - Maximising your Value Add
Shop floor Intelligence assesses the maturity of a company’s ability to collect and analyse data to provide actionable insights in real time to the shop floor, enabling Griffin's to get better visibility of the issues arising during production. Vaibhav Tanksale, Head of Capital Investments and Continuous Improvement and Peter Richardson, Director of Operations and Supply Chain from Griffin's will take you through the journey they undertook to get real time critical data to the people who need it.
Find out more about Griffin’s Food Company in our case studies.
Webinar #3 - Enterprise Automation and the Power of Zero Admin
This webinar gives you some valuable insights from Martin Vogel, Managing Director at Hansa Products Ltd, about the value of challenging the way systems operate and making them more efficient for the benefit of all. If you missed the session on the day or would like to revisit the recording to get a better idea of how Industry 4.0 technologies can be incorporated into your business, please see the video above.
Find out more about Hansa Products in our case studies.
Webinar #2 - Connecting your Shop Floor
This is the second Industry 4.0 in Action webinar with Oasis Engineering as part of the Network Site Visits programme in the Industry 4.0 Demonstration Network. If you didn't manage to tune in to this session or would like to revisit the recording to get a better idea of how Industry 4.0 technologies can be incorporated into your business, please see the video above.
Find out more about Oasis Engineering in our case studies.
Industry 4.0 Maturity - Industry Survey Insights
Results from a survey undertaken to understand the current uptake of Industry 4.0 (digital / emerging technology) solutions by New Zealand manufacturing/production companies. In addition to informing the Mobile Showcase design, this analysis seeks to provide sufficient information to allow people to broadly align the maturity of their own organisation against a spectrum and thus start to understand the activities needed to increase their maturity based on what is working for others.
Find out more about Industry Survey Insights here.
Webinar #1 - Progressing from Industry 3.0 to 4.0
In this webinar, Southern Spars is a world leader in the manufacture of composite masts, booms and spreaders - used on everything from super yachts to America’s Cup racing yachts. They underwent Industry 4.0 assessment in October 2020 and they discovered how a ‘learning first’ approach could take them from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0.
Find out more about Southern Spars in our case studies.