Nikhil Chaturvedi, Chief IT and Digitalisation Officer at RAK Ceramics Group
Intelligence is the new industrial advantage
Nikhil Chaturvedi, Chief IT and Digitalisation Officer at RAK Ceramics Group, explains why manufacturing competitiveness is increasingly defined by intelligent operations rather than production capacity and how integrating IT, OT, AI and data is helping the company build more agile, efficient and sustainable manufacturing operations. or decades, manufacturing
F success has been measured in tonnage, throughput and plant capacity. The scale has been of paramount importance. The more we could produce, and the cheaper we could produce it, the stronger would have been our position. However, the industrial landscape is shifting in ways that make sheer scale inadequate. In today’ s environment – marked by geopolitical dynamics, extreme supply chain volatility, energy cost pressures, and accelerating sustainability regulations – the manufacturers who will lead are those who turn data into intelligent decisions faster than anyone else.
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