Despite all these efforts, it has proven difficult to keep up with rapidly changing demand.

Digital transformation in the supply chain has to be about more than just cost-effectiveness. The ability to continue operating and fulfilling customer and partner obligations even under the most unexpected and challenging market conditions is equally important in an age where agility and resilience are paramount.

According to McKinsey, digital manufacturing technologies will transform every link in the manufacturing value chain, from research and development, supply chain, and factory operations to marketing, sales, and service, and “advances in virtual and augmented reality, next-level interfaces, advanced robotics, and additive manufacturing are all opening the gates to digital disruption.”

Many industrial manufacturing companies have started their transformation journey with plant and machine automation and the gains of productivity and process repeatability that brings. Plant equipment automation minimizes the amount of manual operations and maximizes the physical throughput. To further improve the utilization of equipment, plant operations have matured into using information technology (IT) and software applications as the basis for improve

Senior product marketing manager at AVEVA Group Plc, which provides innovative industrial software to transform complex industries

ment strategies such as replacing paper-based work instructions and data collection.

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