How Endress+Hauser helps customers to improve their products and manufacture them even more efficiently.
Global supply chains are under mounting pressure from geopolitical tensions, complex regulatory landscapes, resource shortages and production bottlenecks. Endress+Hauser counters these challenges with end-to-end transparency to deliver efficiency and stability – for customers and in its own operations.
Crises, wars, pandemics: The challenges facing supply chains are enormous. We need to be bold in preparing for them, says Robert Friedmann, chairman of the Central Management Board of the Würth Group. With Matthias Altendorf, Endress+Hauser’s Supervisory Board president, he discusses the advantages of family businesses and why it ultimately all comes down to people.
American meteorologist Edward Lorenz brought chaos theory into the public consciousness with his notion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas. That same concept applies equally to supply chains, where even seemingly insignificant glitches can have major repercussions.
AI doesn’t always have to be the answer. A multi-sensor system such as the QWX43 fermentation monitor supplies data to conventional, cloud-based algorithms – another way for users to benefit from digitalization. Microbrewer Armin Pillmeier uses real-time analysis for precise control of fermentation processes.
In an increasingly complex world, Endress+Hauser is taking steps to open up to people and organizations outside the company in a collaborative search for innovations. The approach has already made it possible to quickly gain ground in the field of AI.
Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how people work and how companies do business – in a good way. Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, is convinced of that. In a joint interview with Endress+Hauser Supervisory Board president Matthias Altendorf, he talks about the transformation required to exploit its potential.
Wernsing turns potatoes into french fries and hash browns – as well as into heat and electricity. Precisely tailored solutions ensure that every process is optimized.
Greenhouse gas emissions cannot be avoided in the cement industry. Is that a bad thing? Not for Holcim Germany. The building materials manufacturer sees it as a great opportunity for the future.
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