Hello Steemains,
Today IT teams are at the heart of finding ways to exploit new technologies in our internal ways of working, especially in our core business activities like product development, manufacturing, supply chain and customer management. Currently we are evaluating and industrializing technologies that range from increasing automation through robots/cobots in manufacturing or warehouse management, using artificial intelligence in visual inspection to integrating machine learning via sensors on production equipment to reduce scrap.
Throughout my career, I have seen that the real benefit of technology lies in getting people to communicate and collaborate better together. What is exciting today is that my role as CIO and Digital Transformer involves driving our Group vision forward. That means ensuring all the technology-related services we provide across Faurecia – from our unique global infrastructure to the different software, services and communications tools used daily – enable our teams in over 300 locations to work more efficiently and effectively.
Virtually, every change in industry, in the workplace, in our daily lives is driven directly or indirectly by technology. And the last five years have brought us a number of game-changing technologies – from big data, cloud services to artificial intelligence. At Faurecia, we are looking to harness the potential of all of these, and more, as part of our digital transformation.
Agility and speed will be the critical success factors in tomorrow’s digital workplace. By combining our collective intelligence with the potential of new technologies to get people working more effectively together, we will be able to create bigger and better solutions for the benefit of all.